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In 2003, the Human Genome Project revealed that every cell in your body carries the same complete DNA — roughly twenty thousand genes containing the...
In February 1874, English hymn writer Frances Ridley Havergal visited a house where ten people were staying — some unconverted, others spiritually cold. Before she...
In 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach accepted the position of cantor at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. The job came with a staggering requirement: compose a...
Every driver who has used Google Maps knows the experience. You type in a destination — say, a restaurant across town you have never visited...
In 1921, Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin at the University of Toronto, transforming Type 1 diabetes from a death sentence into a manageable...
In 1886, Daniel B. Towner was leading music at a Dwight L. Moody revival meeting when a young man stood to share his testimony. He...
In 1508, Michelangelo Buonarroti received a commission he did not want. Pope Julius II ordered him to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo...
In the Orthodox tradition of icon painting, the artist does not begin with a blank canvas and a free imagination. The iconographer begins with prayer,...
In 1880, Charles Darwin and his son Francis published a remarkable discovery in *The Power of Movement in Plants*. They found that plant roots always...
When Pope Julius II summoned Michelangelo to Rome in 1508, the artist resisted. He was a sculptor, not a painter. He had spent years perfecting...
In his 1945 Nobel Prize lecture, Alexander Fleming issued a prophetic warning about the miracle drug he had discovered. Penicillin, he cautioned, could become useless...
In 1886, musician Daniel B. Towner was leading worship at a D.L. Moody evangelistic meeting when something unexpected happened during the testimony time. A young...
In Caravaggio's masterpiece *The Calling of Saint Matthew*, painted around 1600 for a chapel in Rome, a shaft of light cuts across a dim room...
Every driver knows that moment. The GPS says turn left, but you can see the highway straight ahead, and it looks faster. So you ignore...
In 1508, Pope Julius II summoned Michelangelo to Rome with an assignment the artist did not want. The Pope ordered him to paint the ceiling...
If you have ever used Waze, the popular navigation app, you know it does something remarkable when you ignore its directions. You miss the exit,...
In 1887, during a D.L. Moody evangelistic campaign in Brockton, Massachusetts, a young man stood during the testimony service. He was not eloquent. He had...
In 1975, after nearly forty years of searching, scientist Fred Urquhart finally discovered where the Monarch butterflies go. Each autumn, millions of Monarchs leave eastern...
Right now, as you sit in this pew, something extraordinary is happening inside your body. Approximately fifty billion of your cells are dying — on...
When builders began work on Chartres Cathedral in 1194, they committed to a project that would outlast every one of them. The master builder drew...
At a D.L. Moody revival meeting in 1887, the evangelist invited people to share what God was doing in their lives. One by one, seasoned...
In 2002, scientists Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John Sulston received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for a startling discovery about how life works....
In 1886, musician Daniel B. Towner was leading worship at a D.L. Moody evangelistic crusade when a young man rose during the testimony time. He...
In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that changed how we understand the human skeleton. He found that bone is not static. It...