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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
Two forms exist: assertory oaths affirm or deny past and present facts; promissory oaths pledge future action, becoming vows when made directly to Elohim, or covenants when between persons.
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On May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss crouched alone atop the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a sheer rock face his fellow soldiers...
The Greek word *kapeleuo* (to peddle or retail for profit) originally described tavern keepers who adulterated wine—blending inferior stock, falsifying measures, deceiving customers for gain.
In February 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev, a chemistry professor at St. Petersburg University, spread dozens of handwritten cards across his desk, one for each of the...
In the summer of 1665, plague swept through London and shuttered the University of Cambridge. A twenty-three-year-old Isaac Newton retreated to his family's farm at...
By the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a man the London music world had written off. His Italian operas no longer drew audiences....
In December 1785, William Wilberforce sat across from John Newton in a London parlor. Wilberforce — a wealthy young Member of Parliament — had recently...
Thomson, D.D., witnessed in nineteenth-century Sidon diggers consumed by frenzy at the discovery of a single coin.
On December 10, 1945, three scientists stood together in Stockholm's Concert Hall to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Each had done what...
In August 1881, Robert Koch began the loneliest work of his career. Tuberculosis was devouring Europe — one in every seven deaths across the continent...
As a boy in Arbois, France, Louis Pasteur watched a man bitten by a rabid wolf being dragged to the local blacksmith. The only known...
In the summer of 1665, twenty-two-year-old Isaac Newton retreated to his family's farm at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, fleeing the Great Plague that had closed...
The ablest theologians have settled that good intention cannot sanctify an immoral act; yet an evil intention will certainly corrupt even the best performances.
The prophet's rhetorical question—"Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?"—exposes the folly of the Assyrian king, who attributed his conquests entirely to his own skill and military might, ignorant that Yahweh wielded him as an instrument.
Joseph Exell's Victorian commentary illuminates a profound spiritual reality: the human mind possesses a moral obtuseness toward divine obligation that no natural intellect can overcome.
The crucified hung in absolute nakedness—a practice of Roman crucifixion that exposed the condemned to maximum shame and degradation.
The Jews could boast of their national lineage.
On February 21, 1945, Eric Liddell died in the Weihsien internment camp in Shandong Province, China. He was forty-three years old. Twenty-one years earlier, the...
The Phoenician city distributed crowns to her colonies like a cupboard dispensing royal insignia—a satire on false authority.
In August 1945, Branch Rickey sat across from twenty-six-year-old Jackie Robinson in the Brooklyn Dodgers' office at 215 Montague Street in Brooklyn and made an...
His death illustrates three severe truths about human mortality.
First, *philostorgos* (kindly affection)—genuine concern born from love of God, not mere worldly sympathy.
Years before, at Paphos, Paul had departed with Barnabas and John Mark, an unknown missionary embarking upon his calling.
The wise *thirsty ground* drinks in rain; likewise, the wise in heart long for and live upon God's Word.