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23 illustrations for sermon preparation
In the arid landscape of Joshua Tree National Park, botanists have long marveled at how desert willows survive. These trees send their roots downward through...
When marine biologist Sylvia Earle descended to the ocean floor off the coast of the Galápagos Islands in the 1970s, she didn't drift down passively...
George Müller sat at the head of a long breakfast table in his Bristol orphanage in 1842, three hundred hungry children waiting in silence. The...
In 2014, Jennifer Doudna's phone rang at 2 a.m. A colleague in Sweden had a question about CRISPR gene-editing technology — a breakthrough she had...
In 1844, George Müller of Bristol, England, faced an impossible morning. Five orphan houses sheltered over two thousand children, and the pantry held nothing —...
For thirty years, Monica of Tagaste wept and prayed for her wayward son. Augustine was brilliant, restless, and determined to live on his own terms....
Margaret Chen had driven the same stretch of Highway 9 for forty years, but the evening her daughter called from a broken-down car somewhere outside...
For seventeen years, Monica of Hippo refused to stop knocking. Her son Augustine was brilliant, restless, and utterly lost. He chased philosophy in Carthage, took...
Deep in the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest, the pileated woodpecker practices a three-part ritual that mirrors Jesus's invitation in Matthew 7. First, the...
In the 1880s, Australian settlers in the parched Queensland outback faced a brutal irony. Their cattle were dying. Their wells had gone dry. The red...
In 2019, Maria Gonzalez walked into the Houston Public Library with a single question: how do you start a business when you have nothing? No...
In 1836, George Müller of Bristol, England, began praying for the conversion of five personal friends. He prayed daily, by name, with quiet certainty that...
In 1844, George Müller began praying for five specific friends to come to faith in Christ. He prayed every day without exception — not vague,...
In the spring of 1943, a young mother named Clara Simmons stood outside the offices of the War Department in Washington, D.C. Her husband had...
In 1882, settlers in South Dakota's James River Valley were desperate for water. The surface creeks ran dry each summer, and shallow wells produced only...
In the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, the mesquite tree appears unremarkable — a twisted trunk, sparse leaves, standing in soil so dry it cracks like...
Clara Gutierrez was eleven years old when her father took a job that kept him behind a closed office door most evenings. She would stand...
Margaret Chen knocked on her neighbor Ruth's kitchen door every Tuesday morning for three years. The first time, she came asking to borrow a cup...
James Whitfield spent three days on his hands and knees in the backyard, sifting through mulch and overturning stepping stones. His wedding band had slipped...
In 1947, a farmer named Harlan Briggs stood on forty acres of cracked Oklahoma dust. Three wells he had dug that summer — three wells...
Marcus Webb had been sober for eleven days when he drove to his father's house at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday. He sat in the...
Catholic teaching sees the sacraments as channels of grace that cultivate the Spirit's fruit. Baptism plants the seed; confirmation strengthens the young plant; Eucharist provides ongoing nourishment; confession prunes away diseased branches; anointing heals. The Christian life is a garden tended by grace through sacraments.
Baptist preaching often emphasizes: fruit proves faith. Not that we're saved BY fruit but that genuine conversion PRODUCES fruit. Charles Spurgeon said: "If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you." Strong words, but the point is...
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