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42 illustrations for sermon preparation
In 2014, a twenty-six-year-old physician named Elena Garza finished her residency at Johns Hopkins and volunteered with Doctors Without Borders. Her attending physician, a woman...
When Marcus Chen graduated from medical school in 2019, his father handed him a sealed envelope. Inside was a letter dated twelve years earlier —...
In 2019, before Zion Williamson played his first official NBA game for the New Orleans Pelicans, cameras caught something in the crowd at the Smoothie...
When Marcus Davis was fourteen, after six years in the foster care system, a couple in Memphis named Robert and Elaine finally signed the adoption...
In 1940s South Africa, a young boy named Desmond Tutu walked with his mother through the streets of Johannesburg. She was a domestic worker, a...
In 1986, Henri Nouwen walked away from a tenured position at Harvard Divinity School. He was one of the most sought-after spiritual writers in the...
In 1940s South Africa, a nine-year-old boy walked beside his mother down a dusty Johannesburg street. Under apartheid, Black South Africans were treated as invisible...
In 1985, Henri Nouwen held prestigious teaching positions at both Harvard and Yale. Students packed his lectures. Publishers sought his manuscripts. Yet he confessed to...
In January 2019, David Hernandez got the call at eleven p.m. His daughter Sofia, a first-year teacher in Anchorage, had been rushed into emergency surgery....
On October 13, 2010, Florencio Avalos stepped into a narrow steel capsule called the Phoenix, 2,300 feet below the Atacama Desert. For sixty-nine days, he...
In 2018, ultramarathon runner Courtney Dauwalter won the Moab 240 — a 238-mile race across the Utah desert. But what struck people wasn't the finish...
On the morning of June 1, 1843, a woman named Isabella Baumfree packed a pillowcase with a few belongings, tucked twenty-five cents into her pocket,...
Dr. Amara Osei still had confetti in her hair from the Emory University School of Medicine graduation ceremony when her phone buzzed at 4:47 a.m....
In 1813, Adoniram Judson knelt on the deck of a ship bound for Burma, freshly ordained and burning with purpose. He had heard the voice...
On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old English girl named Florence Nightingale sat in the garden at Embley Park and heard what she described as the...
In April 1521, Martin Luther stood before Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms and declared, "Here I stand. I can do no other....
In 2019, Keisha Morgan graduated top of her class from Howard University's school of education. Her professors praised her. Her family celebrated. She had the...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood on the deck of a steamship crossing the Atlantic, heading back toward everything he had just escaped. Friends in...
Every November, courtrooms across America host National Adoption Day. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, families line up in their Sunday best while children clutch stuffed animals...
On the evening of May 24, 1738, a discouraged Anglican clergyman walked reluctantly to a small Moravian meeting on Aldersgate Street in London. John Wesley...
In 2019, Keisha Dawson stood on the stage at Howard University's School of Divinity, diploma in hand, her mother weeping in the third row. Three...
On February 7, 1837, a seventeen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in the garden at Embley Park and recorded four words in her diary: "God spoke to...
In 1944, Corrie ten Boom was arrested for hiding Jewish families in her Haarlem home. Within weeks, she was transported to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi...
On the night of April 24, 387 AD, in the great basilica of Milan, a forty-two-year-old rhetoric professor named Aurelius Augustinus stepped down into the...
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