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85 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
Instead, this apostle, who had seen Christ Himself on the Damascus road, gathered three companions: Timothy, Silas, and Luke.
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Luke's nautical precision—unlike the landlubber's account in Jonah—captures a Mediterranean reality: the gentle southerly breeze that promised safe passage became a death trap. The ship lay in an inadequate harbor. A mild wind rose. The captain and centurion, with Paul's...
Maclaren observes that these two apostles, 'principal members of the quartet which stood first among the Apostles,' needed each other precisely because they were unlike.
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...
Maclaren observes that this seemingly absurd response actually reveals something profound: the miracle, far from being motiveless decoration in Luke's narrative, became the essential fuse that explains everything that follows—the deification, the priests, the stones.
Yet Exell extends the image to Christianity itself as the *helios* (sun) of our moral age.
Years before, at Paphos, Paul had departed with Barnabas and John Mark, an unknown missionary embarking upon his calling.
The Apostle himself later questioned whether the Spirit had truly guided this defense.
Melancthon mourned in his day the divisions among Protestants, and sought to bring them together by the parable of wolves and dogs.
Peter's gaze was no casual glance—it was a reciprocal examination.
Yet Maclaren perceives a profound paradox: both the flatterer and the oppressed knew in their hearts what those honeyed words *ought* to have described.
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,...
He wrote of what Jesus 'began' to do and teach; the natural inference is that Acts records what Jesus 'continued' to do and teach after His ascension.