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58 illustrations for sermon preparation
In the starvation bunker of Auschwitz, Block 11, a Franciscan priest named Maximilian Kolbe spent his final days doing something the guards had never witnessed....
Six hundred feet below the streets of Detroit lies a salt mine stretching across 1,500 acres. Since 1910, workers have descended into those depths to...
A lighthouse keeper lived alone on a rocky island, maintaining a beacon that guided ships safely to harbor. Every night for thirty years, he climbed the narrow stairs to light the great lamp. Ships wo...
In Barracks 28 of Ravensbrück concentration camp, Betsie ten Boom knelt on a filthy straw mattress and thanked God for fleas. Her sister Corrie thought...
In 1989, a woman named Margaret Chen ran a free tutoring center out of her garage in East Oakland, California. Every weekday after school, eight...
In 1935, Dietrich Bonhoeffer opened an illegal seminary in Finkenwalde, a small town on the Baltic coast of Germany. The Reich church had already capitulated,...
In 1569, Dutch Anabaptist Dirk Willems was fleeing authorities who would execute him for his faith. He crossed a frozen pond; the ice held his slight frame. His pursuer, heavier, broke through and began drowning. Willems turned back and saved the man's life.
When Desmond Doss enlisted in the United States Army in 1942, his commanding officers wanted him gone. A Seventh-day Adventist from Lynchburg, Virginia, Doss refused...
In 1817, Elizabeth Fry walked through the iron gates of Newgate Prison in London, a place so wretched that even the guards warned her not...
In 2019, a high school in Birmingham, Alabama invited two commencement speakers. The first was a hedge fund manager who flew in on a private...
In 2019, a beloved barbecue joint in Memphis called Central BBQ faced an unexpected crisis. A new kitchen manager, trying to cut costs, quietly reduced...
For twenty-three years, James Macon has opened the doors of his shop on 47th Street in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood at seven in the morning. He...
In 1787, William Wilberforce sat in his garden at Holwood House in Kent, turning over a decision that would define his life. He had recently...
In 1787, William Wilberforce sat in his garden at Holwood House in Kent, wrestling with a decision that would define his life. Just two years...
In 2018, a high school in San Antonio made national news — not for winning a championship, but for what happened during a basketball game...
For eleven years, Maria Gutierrez left her porch light on at 4319 Garfield Avenue in Kansas City. Not because she forgot. Because she remembered. Her...
Eric Liddell could have stayed famous. After winning gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Olympics — a story later immortalized in *Chariots...
In 1787, a young British parliamentarian named William Wilberforce sat at his desk in Old Palace Yard, London, and scratched five words into his journal:...
For twenty-three years, Maria Gonzalez ran a small panaderia on East Cesar Chavez Street in Austin, Texas. When a massive commercial development went up across...
In 2019, a retired schoolteacher named Dorothy Henderson started leaving homemade soup on the porches of her neighbors in a struggling block of East Nashville....
In 2018, a Finnish documentary crew followed Heikki Nousiainen, a retired bus driver in Helsinki, as part of a study on contentment. Finland had just...
In 1856, Biddy Mason walked out of a Los Angeles courtroom a free woman. She had been enslaved for thirty-two years, carried across the country...
In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a man with a doctorate in Greek from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary — did something his colleagues found baffling. Instead...
In 1836, George Müller opened an orphanage on Wilson Street in Bristol, England, with exactly one shilling in his pocket and no wealthy donors on...
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