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9 illustrations for sermon preparation
His counsel to leave the apostles unmolested was not born from sympathy with Christian truth, but from a shrewd political calculus: the Pharisees and Sadducees were locked in bitter theological combat over the resurrection, and these Galileans preaching *anastasis* (resurrection)...
The Sanhedrin spoke solemnly of 'putting down error' and maintaining doctrinal purity, yet their true motive was *zelos*—jealousy, not genuine zeal.
In the spring of 1924, Eric Liddell was the fastest man in Scotland and favored for Olympic gold in the 100 meters. But when the...
The schedule for the 1924 Paris Olympics arrived weeks before the Games, and Eric Liddell studied it carefully. The 100-meter heats were set for Sunday,...
On August 9, 1943, Franz Jägerstätter knelt in Brandenburg-Görden Prison outside Berlin and was executed by guillotine. His crime was simple: he refused to swear...
On February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl climbed the marble staircase of the University of Munich's main hall carrying a suitcase full of leaflets. She was...
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,...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor with a lifeline in his hands. Friends at Union Theological Seminary had...
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...
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