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108 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In 356 AD, imperial soldiers stormed a church in Alexandria, Egypt, with orders to arrest Bishop Athanasius. The Arian heresy — which denied the full...
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In 155 AD, the Roman proconsul in Smyrna — one of the very churches John addressed in Revelation — dragged an elderly bishop named Polycarp...
In 1686, after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, thousands of French Huguenots were arrested for refusing to abandon their Protestant faith. Hundreds were...
In January 1945, Soviet soldiers entering Warsaw found a graveyard of rubble. The Nazis had systematically demolished eighty-five percent of the city, block by block,...
On Easter morning, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer led a small worship service for fellow prisoners at Schönberg concentration camp. The men gathered represented a startling diversity...
For eleven years, Dorothy Ainsworth bathed her husband, tied his shoes, and answered the same question — "Do I know you?" — sometimes forty times...
In 2015, a video went viral from a packed church in Beirut, Lebanon. Syrian refugees, Iraqi Christians, Lebanese believers, and a handful of Filipino migrant...
In the spring of 203 AD, two women sat in a Carthage prison cell waiting to die. Vibia Perpetua was twenty-two, educated, from a respected...
In 2019, a nonprofit called SBP — founded after Hurricane Katrina — finished rebuilding its ten thousandth home for disaster survivors across the United States....
In 1730, French authorities locked nineteen-year-old Marie Durand inside the Tower of Constance in Aigues-Mortes, a circular stone fortress rising from the marshlands of southern...
Beneath the Via Appia in Rome, the Catacomb of Callixtus stretches through miles of narrow tunnels carved into volcanic rock. Beginning in the second century,...
Every September at Fenway Park in Boston, something remarkable happens. During a single naturalization ceremony, hundreds of people from over fifty nations rise from their...