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92 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In April 1916, Ernest Shackleton left twenty-two men stranded on Elephant Island, a barren spit of rock off the Antarctic coast. He promised he would...
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In 2019, a family in Birmingham, Alabama, nearly threw out their grandmother's oak kitchen table. It was scratched, stained with decades of Thanksgiving gravy, and...
In January 2024, a search-and-rescue crew in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado set out to recover the body of 34-year-old hiker Daniel Ostrander. He...
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — mathematician, physicist, one of the sharpest minds in France — sat alone in his room....
In March 1974, Japanese intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda finally emerged from the Philippine jungle on Lubang Island, where he had been hiding for twenty-nine years....
On January 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers pushed through the gates of Auschwitz. They expected to find the dead. Instead, they found seven thousand survivors —...
In July 1924, Eric Liddell stood on the Olympic podium in Paris, a gold medal around his neck for the 400 meters. All of Scotland...
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 January 1956, Martin Luther King Jr. sat alone at his kitchen table in Montgomery, Alabama. It was midnight. He was twenty-seven years old, and...
On April 15, 1945, British soldiers rolled open the gates of Bergen-Belsen. Sixty thousand prisoners stood on the other side. The soldiers expected cheering, embraces,...
On the evening of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris. He was already famous across Europe — a mathematical...
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...
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 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...
In the spring of 1883, Captain Wilhelm Lindemann of the Dutch merchant vessel Elisabeth noticed something peculiar as he sailed through the Sunda Strait near...
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...
On February 6, 2023, residents of Hatay Province in southern Turkey woke to devastation. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake had leveled entire neighborhoods overnight. Rescue worker Elif...
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...
In March 2019, Maria Gutierrez drove to First National Bank in Tulsa with a folder of documents and a lump in her throat. She had...
In a Dallas County courtroom in 2019, three-year-old Marcus sat on his foster mother Angela's lap, wearing a tiny bow tie he'd picked out himself....
For thirty-one years, Maria Gonzalez set an extra place at her kitchen table in San Antonio. Every Sunday after church, she cooked enough rice, beans,...
When Marcus Powell graduated from the Denver Fire Academy in March 2019, his mother pinned the badge to his chest while his whole family cheered...