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428 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
On July 2, 2018, British diver John Volanthen surfaced inside a flooded chamber deep within Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. For nine days, the...
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In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a Greek scholar with a doctorate in New Testament — did something his colleagues found baffling. He left a promising...
In 2018, a courtroom in Dallas became the setting for something no parent should endure. Botham Jean had been shot and killed in his own...
In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before a small gathering in Loughor, Wales, and issued a blunt...
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 1604, Johannes Kepler observed a brilliant conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn from his observatory in Prague. The imperial mathematician — the man who would...
In February 1944, an eighty-four-year-old watchmaker in Haarlem, Holland, faced a choice that would cost him everything. Caspar ten Boom had been hiding Jewish families...
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 1787, a young British parliamentarian named William Wilberforce sat at his desk in Old Palace Yard, London, and scratched five words into his journal:...
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 the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, the mesquite tree appears unremarkable — a twisted trunk, sparse leaves, standing in soil so dry it cracks like...
In 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in Tegel military prison outside Berlin, arrested for his role in the resistance against Hitler. This was a man who...
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 2018, a journalism student named Marcus Chen sat in a Chicago diner across from his grandfather, a man who had survived China's Cultural Revolution...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood on the deck of a ship bound for New York, watching the German coastline disappear. Friends had arranged a...
In August 1732, two young Moravian men — Johann Leonhard Dober, a potter, and David Nitschmann, a carpenter — stood on a dock in Copenhagen,...
In 1732, two young men from a tiny Christian community in Herrnhut, Germany, did something the established church considered insane. Johann Leonhard Dober and David...
For thirty-seven years, Gerald Howell climbed the spiral stairs of the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse in Newfoundland every evening at dusk. Even after the Canadian government...
Every autumn, the ruby-throated hummingbird — a creature weighing barely three grams — launches itself from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and flies five hundred...
In adoption finalization hearings across the country, there comes a moment when everything else falls silent. The social worker reports have been filed. The home...
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...
In April 1935, Dietrich Bonhoeffer received a letter that would change his life. He had been safely lecturing in London, building a promising academic career,...
In 2019, a nurse named Marcus and his wife Elaine in Memphis, Tennessee, were finishing a quiet dinner when a social worker called. A newborn...