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491 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
Tokichi Ishii was known as the most brutal criminal in early twentieth-century Japan. Convicted of multiple murders, he sat in a Tokyo prison cell awaiting...
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In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce was a twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament — wealthy, witty, and restless. He had everything London's high society could...
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...
In 2019, a diner in New Hampshire called Joey's Pancake House started something unexpected. A regular customer left forty dollars on the counter and told...
In 44 BC, a teenage boy named Gaius Octavius received staggering news. Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in the known world, had named him...
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, a young woman named Sarah walked into a Walmart in Hartsville, South Carolina, and started singing "Way Maker" in the middle of the...
On a warm Friday morning in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, forty-seven people from twenty-three countries stood together and raised their right hands. Among them...
In 45 BC, a sickly eighteen-year-old named Gaius Octavius received staggering news: Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in the world, had named him son...
In December 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled, conductor Daniel Barenboim gathered musicians from East and West Berlin to perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. For twenty-eight...
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 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...
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...
A paramedic in Nashville named David Chen once explained to a group of students why CPR works. "People think breathing is one action," he said,...
In 1883, Pandita Ramabai was the most celebrated Hindu woman in India. Scholars had given her the title "Pandita" — learned one — an honor...
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....
Walk down any sidewalk in Chicago or Charlotte, and eventually you will spot it — a thin green shoot splitting through inches of concrete. A...
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 1535, William Tyndale sat in a cold Belgian prison cell, awaiting execution for a single crime: translating the Bible into English. Church authorities had...
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...
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...
Tozer wrote: "The reason why many still live defeated lives is that they have never really surrendered." Baptist preaching often emphasizes total surrender—not just believing but yielding. Romans 12:1 calls for the offering of bodies, not just souls.
The Civil Rights Movement was bodily sacrifice: bodies in bus seats, bodies at lunch counters, bodies crossing bridges, bodies in jail cells. "Present your bodies as a living sacrifice." Activists literally put their flesh on the line.