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On March 9, 1841, the marble halls of the United States Supreme Court fell silent as Justice Joseph Story delivered a verdict that would echo...
The psalmist had known confinement—threading narrow mountain paths, hiding in cavern cracks and corners while fleeing Saul's persecution.
Yet Elohim uses these very obstacles to stimulate human strength and ingenuity.
This Hebrew rebuke strikes at a weakness of human nature: we minimize the commonplace and exalt the distant.
Their humility is mere theater, a calculated mask worn to deceive the vulnerable.
On the morning of September 19, 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki stood on a Warsaw street and waited for the Germans to take him....
Rather, we should echo back our thankfulness at the first intimation of His coming blessing.
On November 24, 1859, John Murray's publishing house in London released 1,250 copies of Charles Darwin's *On the Origin of Species*. Every copy was spoken...
We must not hate others because they hate us (Matthew 5:44), nor curse them for their curses (2 Samuel 16:10).
On the evening of October 28, 1787, William Wilberforce sat at his oak desk in his home at Old Palace Yard, Westminster, and scratched a...
In the higher regions dwell principles of innocence, hope, love, justice, trust, kindness, purity, and tenderness—the angels of the soul.
Ministerial obstacles arise from three directions: prejudice against the messenger himself, skepticism toward the truth proclaimed, and spiritual lethargy regarding the divine mission.
In 1905, a twenty-six-year-old clerk at the Swiss Federal Patent Office in Bern submitted a paper to the journal *Annalen der Physik* that would reshape...
In the early months of 1822, Denmark Vesey gathered followers at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, opened the Book of Exodus,...
The psalmist writes of one who 'shall surely come'—a repetition using both infinitive and finite tense (*halok yelechu*, going they shall go) to hammer home divine certainty.
He had crushed Ahab's dynasty with the speed and severity of lightning, gaining the support of Jehonadab the Rechabite, clearly a Yahweh worshipper.
In the skies above Nazi-occupied Europe, the pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group — known as the Red Tails for the distinctive crimson paint on...
Along the windswept shore of Lyme Regis, Dorset, twelve-year-old Mary Anning gripped her hammer against the cold limestone cliffs in 1811. Her brother Joseph had...
In the higher regions dwell principles of innocence, hope, love, justice, trust, kindness, purity, and tenderness—the kingdom of heaven itself.
Maclaren seizes on this universal truth: "Half-way is just the critical time in all protracted work.
Silence can manifest cowardice or stupidity; speech can be more precious than gold, triumphant over error.
Actions are judged solely by present utility, not by righteousness.
In the spring of 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins walked the hills above the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales, where he was completing his theological...
First, consider who bestows it: Yahweh Himself, the Giver of all good gifts.