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Romans Stories & Illustrations

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Set Apart Before the First Whistle

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...

Romans 1:1-7Universal

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The Surgeon Who Wouldn't Hide Her Hands

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...

Romans 1:16Universal

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The Moment Augustine Put On the Light

In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping in a garden in Milan. Augustine of Hippo had spent years chasing ambition,...

Romans 13:11-14Universal

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George Müller and Ten Thousand Empty Plates

In 1836, George Müller opened an orphanage in Bristol, England, with exactly two shillings in his pocket. He had no wealthy donors, no fundraising committee,...

Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22Universal

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One Carrier, One Cure

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,...

Romans 5:12-19Universal

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The Great Change of William Wilberforce

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...

Romans 8:6-11Universal

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Eighty-Six Years of One Confession

In the year 155 AD, the Roman proconsul in Smyrna dragged an elderly bishop named Polycarp into a packed arena. The crowd howled for blood....

Romans 10:9Universal

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The Christ Hymn in Aisle Seven

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...

Romans 1:16Universal

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The Oath That Changed Everything

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...

Romans 10:9Universal

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Thirty Seconds on the Gymnasium Floor

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...

Romans 1:16Universal

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The Crack in the Sidewalk

Walk down any sidewalk in Chicago or Charlotte, and eventually you will spot it — a thin green shoot splitting through inches of concrete. A...

Romans 1:16Universal

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The Bible She Never Hid

Rosa Gutierrez walked three blocks to the bus stop every morning with her Bible tucked under her arm — not in a bag, not covered...

Romans 1:16Universal

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The Christ-Follower in the Break Room

Marcus had worked at the distribution warehouse in Memphis for eleven years. He was known for his quiet reliability — first one clocked in, last...

Romans 1:16Universal

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The Mold That Saved Two Hundred Million Lives

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...

Romans 1:16Universal

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The Letter That Changed a Life

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....

Romans 1:1-7Universal

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Chosen Before She Believed It

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...

Romans 5:5-11Universal

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Pandita Ramabai and the Courage of a Convert

In 1883, Pandita Ramabai was the most celebrated Hindu woman in India. Scholars had given her the title "Pandita" — learned one — an honor...

Romans 1:16Universal

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William Tyndale and the Power of a Forbidden Book

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...

Romans 1:16Universal

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The Mechanic Who Wouldn't Stop Talking About the Cure

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...

Romans 1:16Universal

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The Song in Ward Seven

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...

Romans 1:16Universal

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The Heir of Caesar

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...

Romans 8:14-17Universal

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The Choir That Shouldn't Have Sung Together

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...

Romans 15:4-13Universal

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The Rhythm of Every Breath

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,...

Romans 10:9Universal

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The Lawyer Who Never Lost

In 1963, a sharecropper's daughter named Fannie Lou Hamer stood before the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention. She had been beaten in a...

Romans 8:31Universal