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23 illustrations for sermon preparation
In medieval Europe, there's a legend of a king who fell in love with a peasant girl. He could have commanded her to marry him—she couldn't refuse a king. But he wanted her love, not her compliance.
In 2001, when Enron collapsed, 20,000 employees lost their jobs. Thousands more watched retirement accounts — some worth hundreds of thousands of dollars — evaporate...
In July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. The Nazi commandant, Karl Fritzsch, selected ten men from Block 14 to die by starvation as punishment....
In 2018, firefighter Marcus Torres fell through a burning floor in a Houston warehouse, shattering both legs. Doctors told him he might never walk again....
In the fall of 1949, Louis Zamperini was a man at war with himself. The former Olympic runner and World War II hero — who...
In the summer of 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. The SS guards selected ten men to die by starvation as punishment. When Franciszek Gajowniczek...
On March 12, 2018, firefighter Chris Hanley of Ladder Company 9 in Worcester, Massachusetts, responded to a three-alarm blaze in a condemned apartment building. The...
Father Damien de Veuster arrived on the Hawaiian island of Molokai in May 1873, stepping onto a shore most people fled from. The settlement at...
In 2008, a single mortgage broker in a Southern California office falsified income documents on a subprime loan application. He never met the families who...
In 2018, a group of hikers in the Swiss Alps got caught in a sudden whiteout near the Aletsch Glacier. Visibility dropped to nothing. The...
In 2018, Des Linden crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon in a freezing downpour, becoming the first American woman to win in thirty-three...
In 1918, Tokichi Ishii sat in a Tokyo prison cell awaiting execution. He had committed multiple murders, attacked guards, and earned a reputation as one...
In the winter of 1569, a young Anabaptist named Dirk Willems escaped from a prison tower in Asperen, Holland. He had been locked away for...
In 2018, a stranger in Memphis walked into a kidney donation center and offered one of her kidneys to anyone who needed it. No specific...
In 2018, a man named Ron Derry sat in a hospital waiting room in Cleveland, preparing to give away his kidney. The recipient was his...
1 Corinthians 13 describes covenant love—love that binds despite circumstances.
In 1943, Japanese soldiers marched Eric Liddell through the gates of the Weihsien internment camp in Shandong, China. The Scottish Olympic champion who had electrified...
In 2018, a young paramedic named Marcus Cole responded to a stabbing in Memphis. The victim was a teenager named Darius, bleeding out on the...
In 1944, Corrie ten Boom stood shivering in the delousing shower at Ravensbrück concentration camp, stripped of everything — her home in Haarlem, her watchmaking...
In 1906, health inspector George Soper traced a mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever across several wealthy New York households to a single source: their cook,...
In 1569, a Dutch Anabaptist named Dirk Willems sat locked in a prison tower in Asperen, Holland, awaiting execution for the crime of being rebaptized...
In 2018, a stranger in Pittsburgh named Angela Clark walked into a hospital and donated a kidney to a man she had never met. The...
When Marcus and Denise Thompson walked into the group home in Louisville, Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jayda had already been through seven foster placements. She had learned...
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