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428 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a man with a doctorate in Greek from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary — did something his colleagues found baffling. Instead...
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Sundar Singh was fifteen years old in 1904 when he tore a Bible apart and burned it page by page in his village courtyard in...
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 the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before seventeen people in a small chapel in Loughor, Wales, and...
In 2019, apple grower Maria Gonzalez stood in her family's orchard outside Yakima, Washington, and made a decision that horrified her neighbors. She ordered every...
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 2009, during the worst of the Great Recession, Howard Schultz made a decision that baffled his executive team. The Starbucks CEO walked into a...
In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton arrived in Prague and found something that shattered his plans. Hundreds of Jewish families, desperate and hunted, were begging...
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...
In 2010, a young doctor named Paul Kalanithi was finishing his neurosurgery residency at Stanford — years of grueling work nearly behind him, a brilliant...
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 1787, William Wilberforce sat in his garden at Holwood House in Kent, wrestling with a decision that would define his life. Just two years...
On Easter morning 1945, Corrie ten Boom sat in a displaced persons camp near the German border, recently freed from Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her sister...
In September 1940, German bombs struck Buckingham Palace while King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were inside. Advisors urged the royal family to evacuate to...
In 2014, a young fisherman named David Ochieng worked the pre-dawn waters of Lake Victoria near Kisumu, Kenya. Fishing was all he knew — his...
In December 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton canceled his skiing holiday and traveled to Prague instead. What he found in the refugee...
In 2018, a high school in San Antonio made national news — not for winning a championship, but for what happened during a basketball game...
In 155 AD, the Roman proconsul in Smyrna gave the aged bishop Polycarp one simple way to save his life: curse Christ and swear by...
In the late summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel locked himself in his London apartment on Brook Street and barely ate for twenty-four days. Friends...
On October 6, 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake outside Brussels. His crime: translating the Bible into English so that common plowboys could...
In 1850, a young enslaved mother named Harriet Tubman made a desperate choice. Word had reached her that she was about to be sold further...
In 2018, a photograph surfaced of a former bodyguard testifying against the very person he had sworn to protect. Reporters noted how he avoided eye...
In June 2019, a group of climbers spent eleven days on Denali, the highest peak in North America, waiting out storms at base camp. Fog...
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...