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In the spring of 1940, as Japanese forces closed in on the city of Yangcheng in Shanxi Province, a small British missionary named Gladys Aylward...
In the spring of 1940, Gladys Aylward — a former parlour maid from Edmonton, London, barely five feet tall — faced an impossible task. With...
When Jesus declares, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (*John 14:6*), He reveals not just a path to follow but a profound source of courage for our daily lives. This statement invites us to place our trust...
There’s a story about a young woman named Tasha, who grew up in a neighborhood where dreams often felt just out of reach. Despite the odds stacked against her, she had a fire in her heart fueled by a faith...
Orthopedic surgeons have long observed a remarkable phenomenon known as Wolff's Law, first described by German anatomist Julius Wolff in 1892. When a bone fractures...
On the morning of February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans carried a suitcase through the corridors of the University of Munich. Inside...
In the spring of 1940, Japanese forces were closing in on Yangcheng in China's Shanxi Province. Gladys Aylward — a former London parlour maid turned...
In June of 1752, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, a forty-six-year-old printer named Benjamin Franklin walked into a gathering thunderstorm carrying a silk kite, a...
In May 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from the Arizona Cardinals and a $3.6 million contract to enlist in the United States Army. Eight months...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman made thirteen trips from freedom back into the slave-holding South — back into the very darkness she had escaped....
A few years ago, I visited a small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains. There, I met an elderly woman named Clara. With a warm smile that seemed to light up the dim room, she recounted her life during the...
On the night of June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed out and...
In September 1950, Oliver Brown took his seven-year-old daughter Linda by the hand and walked seven blocks from their home in Topeka, Kansas, to Sumner...
On March 21, 1965, approximately 3,200 marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, walking toward the state capitol in Montgomery. They...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed a telescope he had built himself toward Jupiter from Padua, Italy. What he saw puzzled...
In 2011, Netflix engineers built a program called Chaos Monkey. Its sole purpose was terrifying: it randomly shut down the company's own servers during business...
As dawn breaks and the first rays of sunlight spill into our homes, we are reminded of the gift of another day—a fresh canvas full of potential, painted with the brushstrokes of God’s promises. Think of John 3:16: “For God...
A few years ago, a dear friend of mine, Sarah, faced what seemed like an insurmountable challenge. She had been a vibrant presence in our church community, always eager to serve and share her faith. But when her husband lost...
Courage is not the absence of fear but the presence of faith. As Paul writes to Timothy in 2 Timothy 1:7, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a...
In Charles Dickens' *A Tale of Two Cities*, Sydney Carton is a man who has squandered every gift he was given. Brilliant but dissolute, he...
Jeremiah 29:11 offers us a profound assurance: “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” This promise, emerging from...
In 1947, Jackie Robinson walked onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn as the first Black man to play Major League Baseball in the modern era. Branch...
In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes modern medicine. He found that human bone is not static. It actively remodels...
In 1947, Branch Rickey sat across from Jackie Robinson and asked him a question that would change American history. Rickey, the general manager of the...