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49 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
He marks authentic ministry by three essential characteristics, each a renunciation of corrupted practice.
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The Apostle envisions perfection operating at two inseparable levels.
The world has perpetually revolted against two great truths of Elohim's government.
The gospel ministry operates as God's appointed means for reconciling sinners to Him.
we may be accepted of Him" (2 Corinthians 4:9), he did not mean he laboured to atone for sin—that would be treason against Him who "by one offering hath for ever perfected them that are sanctified" (Hebrews 10:14).
Being "in Christ" involves three dimensions of spiritual reality.
First, Christians are objects of *special Divine regard*.
First, the *sources* of our vulnerability: the human heart harbors dormant moral propensities until outward circumstance awakens them.
When a friend visits, we do not merely exchange outward gifts; we desire the overflow of his life into our own.
Life is not blind accident but the deliberate operation of the great Workman, and perceiving Elohim's purpose becomes our shield against sorrow, doubt, despondency, and fear.
There is no tribulation—in kind or degree—that Elohim cannot comfort.
Five fortresses stand against Him: indifference ("What shall we eat?" matters more than salvation), false doctrine inherited from childhood, self-sufficiency ("I can find Him without His help"), spiritual pride ("the gospel is outworn"), and despair ("I can never know Him").
On July 4, 1939, sixty-one thousand fans packed Yankee Stadium to honor a man who could barely hold a baseball. Lou Gehrig, the "Iron Horse"...
In 1873, Phoebe Knapp sat at her piano in Brooklyn and played a new melody for her friend Fanny Crosby. "What does this tune say?"...
On December 22, 1849, twenty-eight-year-old Fyodor Dostoevsky stood in a white execution shroud on the Semyonovsky Parade Ground in St. Petersburg, waiting to die. He...
In 1764, John Newton was ordained as an Anglican curate and assigned to the small parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Olney,...
On the evening of May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood before a packed audience at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, his arms sweeping...
On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday sat in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London, wrapping copper wire around opposite sides of an...
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.
If only we possessed unbounded wealth, we imagine, how generously we would serve mankind.
The way of genuine beneficence unfolds in three movements: first, we give bountifully, not grudgingly.
The first fault—measuring oneself by oneself—springs from three sources.
Consider three profound lessons from "in journeyings often" (2 Corinthians 11:26).
In the parlor of a modest New York City apartment in 1875, Fanny Crosby sat at a small writing desk, her sightless eyes turned toward...