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31 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In 1698, the first Eddystone Lighthouse was built on a jagged reef fourteen miles off Plymouth, England. A wooden tower, it lasted five years before...
In 1903, farmers near the small town of Artesia, New Mexico, discovered something remarkable beneath the dry desert floor. When they drilled down and opened...
In the spring of 1934, outside Broken Bow, Nebraska, Raymond Holt stood in his barn holding a burlap sack — the last forty pounds of...
Margaret Chen sat at her kitchen table in Raleigh, North Carolina, sorting the month's bills into two stacks — due now and past due. Her...
Marcus and Elena Rivera had been married three years when Marcus lost his warehouse job in Memphis. They were already stretched thin — rent, a...
In 1983, a tobacco farmer named Earl Sutton outside Danville, Virginia, faced the driest August anyone could remember. His wells were low. His neighbors had...
In 1987, a drought pressed hard against the farmland outside Macon, Georgia. Wells ran low. Fields cracked. Most farmers held tight to whatever water they...
In 2012, Marcus and Denise Holloway ran a small produce farm outside Tulsa, Oklahoma. When a brutal drought scorched the region, most neighboring farms held...
In the spring of 1988, outside Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Dale Hendricks stood at the edge of his wheat field and watched the dust lift off cracked...
In 1947, a cotton farmer named Earl Thibodeaux stood at the edge of his sixty acres outside Opelousas, Louisiana, staring at frozen ground. His wife,...
In rural Appalachia, old hand-pumped wells still dot the hillsides. Anyone who has used one knows the rule: before you can draw water out, you...
In rural Appalachia, old homesteads still have cast-iron hand pumps standing over deep wells. Anyone who has used one knows the frustrating secret: you cannot...
In 1946, chemist Vincent Schaefer stood inside a General Electric laboratory in Schenectady, New York, and dropped a handful of dry ice pellets into a...
In 1935, a Texas earthmoving contractor named R.G. LeTourneau made a decision that his accountant called reckless. Already tithing ten percent of his income, LeTourneau...
Margaret Chen had farmed forty acres outside Salinas, California, for nineteen years. She knew the math of survival — every bushel counted, every dollar stretched...
In 1935, Robert Gilmour LeTourneau stood in his Peoria, Illinois factory surrounded by earthmoving machines of his own design. He had nearly lost everything during...
In downtown Taxco, Mexico, a third-generation silversmith named Eduardo Pineda sits before a crucible of molten metal, his eyes fixed on the glowing surface. The...
In Philadelphia's historic Jewelers' Row, master silversmith David Huang sits hunched over a crucible no bigger than a coffee mug. Inside, a lump of tarnished...
In 2004, Dr. Sylvia Martínez worked the overnight shift at the burn unit of Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Her patients — soldiers...
When sixteen-year-old William Colgate left his family's farm in Maryland and set out for New York City in 1801, he had almost nothing. Along the...
In 1853, a seventeen-year-old girl named Abbie Burgess took over the twin lighthouses on Matinicus Rock, a barren granite outcrop twenty-five miles off the coast...
Margaret Chen had kept the windows of her small bakery shut tight for three winters. Business was slow, flour prices climbed, and she calculated every...
In March of 1987, dairy farmer Ellen Holbrook of Addison County, Vermont, opened the barn doors after five months of bitter winter. Her twelve Holstein...
In 1856, Henry Bessemer stood before a crowd of skeptical ironworkers in Sheffield, England, and demonstrated something they had never seen. He poured molten pig...
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