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13 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In October 1987, a lightning strike burned Harold Keim's dairy barn to the ground in Holmes County, Ohio. Forty-two Amish families showed up before dawn...
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In 2018, the small town of Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, was still reeling from Hurricane Maria. Power lines dangled like broken promises. Rooftops gaped open to...
In 2015, the American Bible Society completed a translation of Scripture into Bibleless languages for a small community of Kimyal people in Papua, Indonesia. When...
In January 1907, fifteen hundred Korean Christians packed into the Central Presbyterian Church in Pyongyang for a week of Bible study. The city had suffered...
In the autumn of 1526, bales of cloth arrived at the London docks from Antwerp. Tucked inside the fabric were copies of William Tyndale's English...
In 2022, Bible translators with Wycliffe completed the New Testament in Kakchiquel, a Mayan language spoken by nearly half a million people in the highlands...
In 1539, when the Great Bible was placed in St. Paul's Cathedral in London, something remarkable happened. For the first time, common English men and...
In 1900, a hurricane flattened Galveston, Texas, killing over 6,000 people and leaving the survivors standing in a graveyard of splintered wood and salt-crusted rubble....
In 1954, a young Brazilian architect named Oscar Niemeyer unrolled his blueprints across a dusty table in the middle of nowhere — literally. The Brazilian...
In 1800, a fifteen-year-old Welsh girl named Mary Jones set out barefoot from her village of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, walking twenty-five miles across rugged mountain terrain to...
In 1943, a small congregation in Birmingham, Alabama gathered in a borrowed basement to plan their first church building. They had no architect, no contractor,...
In 1883, when the Brooklyn Bridge finally opened after fourteen years of construction, few remembered that its chief engineer, Washington Roebling, had been bedridden for...
In 2019, a tornado carved a quarter-mile scar through Millbrook, Alabama, peeling roofs off homes and snapping a century-old oak across the entrance of Millbrook...