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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
In late July 1940, Chiune Sugihara, Japan's Vice-Consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, found hundreds of Jewish refugees outside his consulate. They had fled Nazi-occupied Poland and...
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On August 4, 1936, inside Berlin's Olympic Stadium, 110,000 spectators watched Jesse Owens line up for the long jump final. The Nazi regime had designed...
In the summer of 1899, nurses from Great Britain, the United States, and Germany gathered at the International Congress of Women in London with a...
Spurgeon's commentary, drawing from Thomas Playfere, presents a penetrating image: shame becomes as inseparable from the wicked as the very clothes a man wears wherever he journeys.
In the summer of 1940, Japanese Vice-Consul Chiune Sugihara looked out the window of his consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, and saw hundreds of Jewish refugees...
In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton canceled a skiing holiday to visit Prague. What he found in the refugee camps changed everything. Jewish...
In 1929, astronomer Edwin Hubble analyzed the light from dozens of distant galaxies using the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, perched above Pasadena,...
In the summer of 1944, Raoul Wallenberg had every reason to stay home. At thirty-one, he was heir to one of Sweden's most prominent banking...
In 1526, small volumes began appearing in English ports, hidden inside bales of cloth and sacks of grain. William Tyndale's English New Testament — translated...
In July 1944, a thirty-one-year-old Swedish diplomat named Raoul Wallenberg stepped off a train in Budapest carrying little more than a knapsack and a list...
First, pride of station: the man in authority becomes "puffed up" with distinction, considering himself a being of higher order than his fellow sinners, looking with disdain upon those below him in society's scale.
On September 19, 1940, a Polish cavalry officer named Witold Pilecki stood on a Warsaw street and waited to be arrested. A German roundup was...
Paul (Galatians 3:19) and Stephen (Acts 7:53) explicitly affirm angelic agency in law-giving, yet the Pentateuch itself remains ambiguous.
Soldiers and hunters would excavate deep holes, carefully cover them with branches and earth, and disguise them so completely that approaching enemies or wild beasts would plunge unsuspectingly to their doom.
Yet even these legendary forests prove inadequate before Adonai's majesty.
The Hebrew verb *rapah* encompasses the complete restoration of a person's circumstances—the removal of distress, the return of health, and the establishment of safety and prosperity.
Maclaren penetrates their strategy: the mingled people—descendants of ancient northern kingdom remnants and successive waves of Assyrian and Babylonian colonists—recognized that the Jews, though numerically smaller, possessed legitimate claim to the land under Cyrus's decree.
Surrounded in open field by six hundred Philistine desperadoes bent on plunder and death—not cornered at Thermopylae where numbers meant nothing—he wielded only an oxgoad against overwhelming odds.
Yet this humble labouring man, armed only with an ox-goad, slew them all.
The Wisdom writer distinguishes between antagonism as an inherent principle—designed by Elohim to position us against evil and the enemies of God—and antagonism as mere destructive habit.
We entrust our fellows with sums large and small, yet human confidence repeatedly fails.
"Then shall ye return," the prophet declares, speaking of a conversion to full recognition of neglected duty and past transgressions.
The prophet reveals a profound truth: the created order itself stands as evidence against human transgression.
For eight patient years, Gregor Mendel knelt in the monastery garden at St. Thomas's Abbey in Brno, Moravia, cross-pollinating pea plants by hand. Between 1856...