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Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* offers three principles for this conquest.
They possessed nothing—no influence, no numbers, no world support.
This seems counterintuitive until we understand what Spurgeon observed: the subjects of God's people's joy extend far beyond comfort and blessing.
Yet Scripture is unambiguous: the heart (*leb* in Hebrew, the seat of will and intention) cannot be good while its practice remains evil.
Spurgeon identifies four critical matters that constitute our main concern in prayer.
Our relation to Christ determines our relation to the entire universe.
The Victorian expositor understood this command as operating on five essential dimensions.
The human mind naturally divides into two warring camps.
In Contact, Dr. Ellie Arroway dedicates her life to SETI—searching for extraterrestrial intelligence with no evidence it exists. Her colleagues mock her faith in what cannot be seen. Yet she keeps listening. When contact finally comes, she travels to meet...
Yet this appeal reveals something profound: the preacher refers always back to Christ as the source of all authority and influence.
Little sins are peculiarly offensive to God precisely because they are little—we risk offending Him for what we ourselves care very little about and expect insignificant return from.
The apostle Paul, when dissuading from impurity, eschewed mere physical or social arguments.
Our Lord exhorts His disciples to cultivate strength of character—but never at the expense of brotherly love.
"He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth" (Psalm 50:4).
First, God's kindness (*chesed*) embodies tenderness toward the God-fearing.
In American History X, Derek Vinyard is a neo-Nazi whose hatred landed him in prison. There, a Black inmate named Lamont befriends him, slowly dissolving Derek's ideology through ordinary kindness—folding laundry, sharing jokes, treating him as human. Derek emerges transformed.
This image reveals two dimensions of His fastening hold upon humanity.
He receives Nathanael's confession—'Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel!'—along with the magnificent titles bestowed by others: John's 'Lamb of God,' the disciples' 'Messias, which is the Christ.' These crowns, placed upon His head by...
Yet understand: there is no opposition between Christ and His people requiring conquest.
The accumulation of light things becomes overwhelmingly ponderous.
The Greeks and Romans witnessed friendships that shaped both statecraft and individual virtue—Scipio and Laelius, Cicero and Atticus, Achilles and Patroclus.
The universality of Christianity proves its Divine origin, for it alone adapts itself to the condition and wants of all humanity, coming from Him who sustains, preserves, feeds, and blesses all.
Paul renounced the "wisdom of words" because human eloquence veils the gospel's truth.
One seasoned traveler, having witnessed wonders across distant lands, told his friends: "There is something more wonderful than anything I have yet known, which I still have to experience." When pressed, he replied, "It is the first five minutes after...