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80 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
The apostle synthesizes two classes of temperament: the men of fire, who soar heavenward in ecstatic rapture, and the men of calculation, who remain tethered to practical reason.
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Lyth, D.D., observed in *The Biblical Illustrator* (1887), this love possessed three essential marks.
True religion teaches us to refer all questions to the highest tribunal, asking not merely what is agreeable and expedient, but what is the will of God.
The wisest philosophers of antiquity constructed elaborate systems to reach God by understanding the thought underlying universal order.
First, the *inevitably* natural: our bodies decay from birth.
This interpretation reveals three essential truths about the Church's nature.
Within yourself, the old nature wars against the new life Elohim has implanted.
When a telescope is directed towards a distant landscape, it enables us to see what we could not otherwise perceive; yet it does not create what has no real existence in the prospect before us.
Yet he strikes a decisive balance between head and heart.
When asked the meaning of *cherubim* (knowledge) and *seraphim* (flame), the boy recognized a hierarchy of grace: the cherubim excel in knowledge, the seraphim in loving God.
Exell's Victorian exposition identifies three critical marks of this union: First, the *kaine ktisis*—the new creature (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Born in Tarsus to respectable tentmakers, circumcised on the eighth day and named Saul after Israel's first king, the apostle emerged from intensely Jewish household worship.
Even the righteous tend toward this instinct, often fixing their praise upon unworthy objects.
Paul was emphatically a man of one idea.
In 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach took up his post as Thomaskantor at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany. The position was grueling — he was...
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,...
This contradicts the hollow modern notion of "the rest of faith" as mere inaction.
The Apostle Paul warns against a dangerous illusion: the believer who imagines himself beyond the reach of temptation.
First, we must preserve childlike simplicity of character—the freshness and moral innocence the gospel restores.
On December 10, 1945, three very different scientists stood together in Stockholm's Concert Hall to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Alexander Fleming,...
The Apostle Paul speaks of a fundamental constraint upon human perception.
A Christian's duty, while dwelling as a citizen of this world, is to engage its concerns actively.
Elohim the Holy Ghost, as a sanctifying Spirit, dwells within human beings who possess partial sin; were He to do otherwise, He could not inhabit mankind at all.
In the autumn of 1772, eighteen of Boston's most prominent men — including Governor Thomas Hutchinson and John Hancock — gathered to examine a young...