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43 illustrations for sermon preparation
On September 14, 2019, paramedic Sarah Chen pressed the paddles against a construction worker's chest in a parking lot off Interstate 5 near Tacoma, Washington....
There is a quaint little community garden at the edge of our town, a patch of earth where neighbors gather, not just to grow vegetables but to grow relationships. One spring day, I watched as a group of children, armed...
Martin Luther spent years terrified of God. He fasted, confessed for hours, punished his body—trying to earn divine favor. Nothing worked; he only felt more condemned. Then, studying Romans in the tower of the Wittenberg monastery, it struck him: righteousness is GIVEN, not achieved.
On a stormy evening, I stood by the window, watching the dark clouds roll in like a thick, woolen blanket. The wind howled, bending the trees and sending leaves swirling like dancers caught in a tempest. In that moment, I...
In October 1536, William Tyndale was led from his prison cell in Vilvoorde Castle near Brussels to a stake surrounded by bundled sticks. His crime...
Dr. Elena Vasquez had every reason to keep quiet. At the 2014 medical conference in Vienna, surrounded by Europe's most prestigious neurosurgeons, she was the...
In downtown Detroit, along a stretch of abandoned sidewalk near Michigan Avenue, a single maple seed once lodged itself in a hairline crack in the...
In 2019, sixteen-year-old Marcus Freeman Jr. sat in his father's office at Purdue, watching game film he didn't fully understand. His dad pointed at the...
Marcus DeLeon was seventeen years old when his heart stopped during the third quarter of a Friday night basketball game in Waco, Texas. He crumpled...
In 1725, a young German nobleman named Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf stood before a painting of the crucified Christ in an art gallery in Düsseldorf....
In 1883, Pandita Ramabai was the most celebrated Hindu woman in India. Scholars had given her the title "Pandita" — learned one — an honor...
In 1535, William Tyndale sat in a cold Belgian prison cell, awaiting execution for a single crime: translating the Bible into English. Church authorities had...
Margaret Chen was fifty-three years old and dying of pancreatic cancer when she started singing hymns in Ward Seven of St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas...
Marcus had worked at the distribution warehouse in Memphis for eleven years. He was known for his quiet reliability — first one clocked in, last...
In 2019, a young woman named Sarah walked into a Walmart in Hartsville, South Carolina, and started singing "Way Maker" in the middle of the...
Rosa Gutierrez walked three blocks to the bus stop every morning with her Bible tucked under her arm — not in a bag, not covered...
Carlos Gutierrez runs a small auto repair shop on Riverside Drive in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He's known for two things: honest brake jobs and telling...
Walk down any sidewalk in Chicago or Charlotte, and eventually you will spot it — a thin green shoot splitting through inches of concrete. A...
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London and found a petri dish he'd accidentally left...
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