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251 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
Margaret Chen never sat her children down for formal devotions. She tried once, in 1987, with a flannel board and a lesson plan she'd photocopied...
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In our modern world, the call for Environmental Justice resonates deeply, presenting both challenges and opportunities for people of faith. Imagine a small community in the heart of a bustling city, where an old park, once vibrant and full of...
On May 20, 2013, an EF5 tornado carved a seventeen-mile path through Moore, Oklahoma, flattening entire neighborhoods in minutes. Wind speeds exceeded two hundred miles...
Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in Paris in 1924, his story later immortalized in *Chariots of Fire*. But the race that most revealed his faith...
Margaret Thornton was eight years old the first time the air raid sirens wailed over Birmingham in November 1940. She remembers the sound cutting through...
In the bustling heart of our city, there’s a tiny café that has become a sanctuary for weary souls. It’s run by a woman named Maria, who embodies the spirit of hospitality. Each morning, before the sun breaks through the...
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras, Louisiana, with 175-mile-per-hour winds and a storm surge that swallowed entire neighborhoods. In the Lower...
In May 1521, Martin Luther was the most wanted man in Europe. Declared a heretic by the Diet of Worms, stripped of all legal protection,...
In 2019, master woodworker Jimmy DiResta nearly walked away from his craft. After twenty years building custom furniture in his New York workshop, a warehouse...
In 1785, a young British parliamentarian named William Wilberforce sat in a carriage rolling through the French countryside, reading Philip Doddridge's *The Rise and Progress...
In 1836, English scientist Michael Faraday climbed inside a wire mesh cage and invited his colleagues to blast it with enormous electrical discharges. Sparks crackled...
During the Nazi occupation of Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family hid Jewish refugees in a secret room behind a false wall in their...
Every morning at 4 a.m., Rosa Gutierrez pushes through the back door of Rosario's Bakery on Elm Street in San Antonio. Before she touches a...
In our rapidly changing world, the call to Missions often feels like navigating a vast ocean—sometimes calm and other times tempestuous. Think of the story of a young woman named Maria, who decided to spend a year serving in a...
When Eric Liddell arrived at the 1924 Paris Olympics, his plans fell apart. The devout Scottish sprinter had trained for years for the 100-meter dash,...
In 1836, Michael Faraday stepped inside a wire mesh enclosure at the Royal Institution in London and invited his colleagues to blast it with thousands...
Margaret Chen had thrown clay for thirty-seven years in her small studio on Mulberry Street in Portland. Every morning before her hands touched the wheel,...
On a moonless night in 1862, missionary John G. Paton crouched inside his small mission house on the island of Tanna in the New Hebrides....
On May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss lay flat on the edge of a thirty-five-foot cliff on Okinawa — a jagged escarpment the...
In the midst of our bustling lives, we often find ourselves caught in the stormy seas of anxiety and uncertainty. Picture a young mother, Sarah, who juggles the demands of work, home, and her children’s ever-changing needs. One evening, after...
In 1964, two Bell Labs engineers in Holmdel, New Jersey — Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson — couldn't figure out why their radio antenna kept...
In a small town, nestled between rolling hills and flowing streams, a church community found itself grappling with the weight of a pressing moral crisis: the climate emergency that threatens not only their environment but the very fabric of their...
In a small town not too far from here, a young woman named Sarah found herself wrestling with the complex intersection of her faith and the urgent calls for social justice echoing through her community. Sarah was raised in a...