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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
The events of human life are mixed and conflicting, yet all remain under the direction of the Great Father.
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In the late summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel sat at his desk at 25 Brook Street in London, a man whose best years seemed...
Israel shall be borne away from her land suddenly and violently, as by the winds of heaven.
On July 6, 1885, a desperate mother arrived at Louis Pasteur's laboratory in Paris, clutching the hand of her nine-year-old son, Joseph Meister. Two days...
Spurgeon identifies six sequential conditions that precede the comfort we desperately seek.
In the spring of 1905, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland, sat at his desk evaluating inventions by day and scribbling equations by night....
During seasons of great scarcity, poor farmers parted with every precious measure of seed—like taking bread from their children's mouths.
Consider first the dissolution of the human frame—that wonderful machine bearing the mark of Divine wisdom and skill.
On January 31, 1865, the United States House of Representatives voted on the Thirteenth Amendment for the second time. The measure had failed the previous...
Jewish beds were merely mattresses laid upon the floor, covered by a sheet or carpet in which the weary person wrapped himself seeking rest.
The Apostle Paul warns against a dangerous illusion: the believer who imagines himself beyond the reach of temptation.
The Divine response cut through panic: "Wherefore criest thou unto Me?
Psalm 38:5 speaks of wounds that stink and are corrupt because of our foolishness. What folly marks the sinner's path? Consider the cascading stupidity of sin's progression. First, *dallying* with sin—toying with temptation as though it were harmless sport. The...
On the evening of March 24, 1882, Robert Koch stood before the Berlin Physiological Society and changed the course of medicine forever. Tuberculosis had ravaged...
At the bottom of nearly every manuscript he composed, Johann Sebastian Bach inscribed three Latin letters: S.D.G. — *Soli Deo Gloria*. To God alone be...
But when praise flows from a heart refined by obedience to God's commandments, it becomes the noblest utterance of the human soul.
On the evening of December 31, 1862, thousands of Black Americans gathered in churches, contraband camps, and meeting halls across the nation, waiting for midnight....
On September 3, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a summer holiday to his cluttered laboratory on the second floor of St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington,...
The river appears broad and deep enough for navigation—possessing all the physical requirements for commerce and transport.
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, a Dutch pastor visited the ten Boom watchmaker's shop in Haarlem. Seeing a Jewish infant the family had...
The three instruments of capture—fear, pit, and snare—represent distinct methods of trapping wild beasts that Isaiah applies to human judgment.
This is the exact location where King Ahaz had rejected Jehovah's help centuries before, preferring Assyrian alliance instead (Isaiah 7:3).
Yahweh commanded His people to bind blue thread upon the borders of their garments—not for ornament, but as a *zikaron* (remembrance).
On the evening of July 31, 1834, thousands of enslaved men, women, and children gathered in churches and chapels across the British Caribbean. In Jamaica,...