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108 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
Margaret Chen had worked the night shift in the neonatal ICU for twenty-three years, but the night three-year-old Elias died from leukemia was the night...
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In October 1943, the Nazi regime prepared to round up every Jewish citizen in Denmark — over seven thousand men, women, and children marked for...
When Elise Thornton went into labor at just twenty-four weeks, the doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville already had a plan. Before her...
In the longleaf pine forests of the American Southeast, something remarkable happens after a prescribed burn. Park rangers at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida...
Imagine a scientist in a high-tech lab, surrounded by screens displaying a sea of data points. She is analyzing information to solve a critical problem—how to predict and mitigate climate change. Each data point tells a story, a whisper of...
On the rugged coast of Cornwall, England, the Lizard Lighthouse has burned without interruption since 1752. Keepers came and went. Wars raged across Europe. Empires...
In September 1939, before a single German bomb had fallen on London, the British government launched Operation Pied Piper — the largest mass evacuation in...
On June 21, 2015, worshippers packed the TD Arena in Charleston, South Carolina — just four days after a gunman murdered nine people during a...
In the heart of California, nestled among vibrant vineyards and the whispering winds of the Pacific, there lies a church that is not just a sanctuary of worship but a beacon of hope in the face of climate change. This...
In December 1944, Betsie ten Boom lay dying on a thin mattress in Ravensbrück concentration camp, her body wasted by malnutrition and forced labor. Her...
Imagine a small village nestled by a thirsty desert, where the sun blazes relentlessly upon the earth, turning the landscape into a sea of shimmering heat. In the center of this village stood an ancient well, a stone structure worn...
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 earthquake leveled much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the chaotic aftermath, medical teams set up field hospitals in parking lots...
A gardener once discovered a tiny seed nestled in the soil, forgotten yet full of potential. With a heart full of hope, he planted the seed in rich earth, watered it, and surrounded it with care. Day after day, he...
On the night of November 9, 1989, East Berliners gathered at the checkpoints that had imprisoned them for twenty-eight years. When the gates finally opened,...
In April 1906, a one-eyed son of former slaves named William Seymour stood in a crumbling former stable on Azusa Street in Los Angeles and...
In the summer of 1988, wildfires consumed nearly 800,000 acres of Yellowstone National Park. Visitors wept at the blackened ridgelines, the skeletal lodgepole pines, the...
On a cold February day in 155 AD, the Roman proconsul gave the elderly bishop Polycarp one final chance. "Swear by the genius of Caesar,"...
In 2019, a video from a Korean Air flight went viral. Somewhere over the Pacific, a passenger began having a severe allergic reaction. Within seconds,...
On February 15, 2015, twenty-one men knelt on a beach near Sirte, Libya, wearing orange jumpsuits, facing the Mediterranean Sea. They were Coptic Christians —...
On August 13, 1727, a fractured community of Moravian refugees gathered for communion in the small village of Herrnhut, Germany. They had been quarreling for...
In the late summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel locked himself in his London apartment on Brook Street for twenty-four days. He barely ate. His...
On April 9, 1945, at Flossenburg concentration camp, Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt in prayer before his executioners led him to the gallows. Allied forces were days...
On a sweltering July evening in 2019, sixty thousand people packed Busan Asiad Main Stadium in South Korea for the closing worship of the World...
On June 2, 2022, over a million people gathered along the Mall in London for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee concert. Camera crews captured something...