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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
On April 16, 1913, Albert Schweitzer and his wife Hélène arrived by river steamer at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa, present-day Gabon. Schweitzer was thirty-eight,...
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Judgment operates on three levels: discerning right from wrong, understanding the law and its manner, and executing consequences with authority.
He wrote of what Jesus 'began' to do and teach; the natural inference is that Acts records what Jesus 'continued' to do and teach after His ascension.
In August 1936, Jesse Owens stood on the verge of elimination at the Berlin Olympics. The African American sprinter from Alabama had fouled twice in...
In the summer of 1936, Jesse Owens stood at the edge of elimination. The African American sprinter had fouled twice in the long jump qualifying...
As William Thomson notes in *The Land and the Book*, the true force of this comparison emerges only after the harvest concludes and the keeper abandons the lodge.
On May 12, 1789, William Wilberforce rose in the British House of Commons and delivered a lengthy speech calling for the end of the slave...
The genuinely wise person possesses three defining characteristics: he pursues rational ends with deliberate purpose; he recognizes that true wisdom and moral goodness are inseparable; and he submits his pursuits to Divine direction rather than personal preference.
In 1939, Oskar Schindler arrived in Kraków, Poland, as a card-carrying Nazi Party member looking to get rich off the war. He acquired an enamelware...
The Israelites faced temptation: the fruit of fields, the fascination of byways, the sparkling water of wells.
Thus recovered, it draws with power once more.
Tow—the coarse, broken refuse of flax or hemp—becomes the metaphor for those whom sin has hollowed from within.
When the prophet reveals that Ben-hadad will recover—dashing Hazael's expectation of immediate succession—disappointment crystallizes into murderous resolve.
In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton cancelled a skiing holiday in Switzerland. His friend Martin Blake had invited him to Prague instead, where...
In February 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev sat at his desk in St. Petersburg, surrounded by handwritten cards. Each card bore the name and atomic weight of...
This unfamiliar intruder had sought prominence in Jerusalem by hewing himself a grand sepulcher—a monument to his own ambition.
For eight years, from 1856 to 1863, Gregor Mendel knelt in the garden of St. Thomas's Abbey in Brno, Moravia, cross-pollinating nearly twenty-eight thousand pea...
The Victorian scholar John Devotion, M.A., observed that genuine, unfeigned praise—bestowed for commendable conduct useful to the community—serves as a precise measure of moral and religious character.
In 1525, William Tyndale hunched over a printing press in Cologne, Germany, racing to finish what no one in England would let him attempt —...
In 1761, a seven-year-old girl arrived in Boston Harbor aboard a slave ship called the Phillis. She was given the ship's name as her own,...
This blessing represents a profound debt owed to godly parenthood.
In the winter of 1811, twelve-year-old Mary Anning knelt on the rain-slicked cliffs of Lyme Regis, Dorset, carefully chipping limestone away from an enormous skeleton...
In the summer of 1906, six members of the Charles Henry Warren family fell ill with typhoid fever in their rented home in Oyster Bay,...
Consider Nature itself: the earth was complete before Adonai created man in His own image.