History
William Wilberforce introduced his first bill against the British slave trade in 1789. It failed. So did the next, and the next. He…
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Wilberforce · Galatians 6 · Hebrews 12
History
Working the problem
Apollo 13, April 1970
When an oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13 in April 1970, the moon landing was over. What remained was getting three men home with failing power, rising carbon dioxide, and a square filter that would not fit a round hole. On the ground, engineers built a workaround from cardboard, plastic bags, and tape — only what the crew actually had on board. Flight director Gene Kranz’s culture was blunt: work the problem. Panic was a luxury. The mission is remembered as a successful failure: they did not land, and they lived.
How you’d preach it
Use for churches in crisis, or for discipleship that starts with what is actually in the room. Faith is not pretending the tank did not explode. It is refusing to waste the hours you still have.
- Suffering
- Hope
- Community
2 Corinthians 4:8–9