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23 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In 2012, researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, made a remarkable discovery about superb fairy-wrens. These tiny, iridescent birds sing a unique melody to...
In her memoir *The Hiding Place*, Corrie ten Boom recalls a childhood ritual that shaped her understanding of God. Every night in their narrow Haarlem...
Elena's son had colic for the first three months. Every night around 2 AM, she'd lift him from the crib, settle into the oak rocking...
In 1665, Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens noticed something peculiar. Two pendulum clocks mounted on the same wall, started at different times, would gradually synchronize their...
Margaret Ellison was seventy-three when she told me about the night she almost gave up. It was August 1968 in rural Kentucky, three weeks after...
Every evening at 7:15, Frank Hensley pulled his chair to the edge of his wife's hospital bed at Meadowbrook Memory Care in Tulsa. Margaret hadn't...
In February 1945, Eric Liddell lay dying in a Japanese internment camp in Weifang, China. The Olympic champion who had stunned the world at the...
In 2019, a nurse at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville noticed something remarkable. A premature baby girl named Eliana, born at just twenty-six weeks, was...
When Marcus and Elena Torres brought their twin daughters home from Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Marcus couldn't stop humming. For forty-seven days in the...
Maria Gonzalez never sang in front of people. Not once in seventy-three years. But her granddaughter Sofia, age four, knew a different woman. Every Saturday...
When journalist Sarah Bessey's daughter was born premature at a hospital in Abbotsford, British Columbia, the NICU nurses told her something she never forgot. They...
Martin Luther knew darkness intimately. The great Reformer suffered crushing bouts of what he called *Anfechtung* — spiritual despair so heavy he could barely rise...
On the evening of June 6, 1882, Scottish minister George Matheson sat alone in the manse at Innellan while his sister's wedding celebration carried on...
In 2017, marine biologists from Aarhus University in Denmark attached tiny acoustic tags to humpback whale mothers and their newborn calves off the coast of...
Every parent knows the moment. For David Meyers, it happened at the Boone County Fair on a humid July evening in 2019. His four-year-old daughter,...
On March 20, 1980, a 4.2-magnitude earthquake shook Mount St. Helens in Washington State. Over the next two months, the north face of the mountain...
On May 22, 2011, the tornado sirens in Joplin, Missouri, began wailing at 5:11 p.m. Most residents barely looked up. The sirens had sounded twice...
In 1994, a tornado swept through Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama, during Palm Sunday worship. Twenty people died. In the wreckage that followed,...
In 2004, a pediatric nurse named Grace Okafor worked the overnight shift at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville. One evening, a three-year-old boy named Elijah...
On March 11, 2011, the residents of Rikuzentakata, a small fishing city on Japan's northeastern coast, heard the tsunami warning sirens wail across the harbor....
In 2019, a NICU nurse named Mary Beth Harrell at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville started an unusual practice. Each evening during her shift, she...
In neonatal intensive care units, nurses have long observed a phenomenon they call kangaroo care. When a premature infant — tiny, struggling, hooked to monitors...
Every night in the ten Boom home in Haarlem, Holland, the same ritual unfolded. After prayers were said and the blankets pulled tight, old Casper...
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