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17 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
The promise "My God shall supply all your need" (Philippians 4:19) stretches across Old Testament pledges: "They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing" and "No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly." Yet...
First, Christ in us is the foundation of our hope, elected before the creation of the world (Ephesians 1:3–4; 1 Timothy 1:9).
Two essential requirements emerge for realizing this ideal.
The work of Christ in us and for us does not exempt us from work.
The vast region of human sorrow appears to most a dark and dreary desert.
First, he is a *hagios* (saint)—a separated one, taken out of the world and set apart for God's purposes.
Punishment Threatened To masters who wrong their servants: (1) By defrauding them of clothing, food, or wages; (2) By imposing labours beyond their strength; (3) By afflicting them with reproaches and unjust stripes.
Exell (1887) distinguishes three dimensions of this mystery.
The term *mysterion* (mystery), used twice in this passage and repeatedly throughout the epistle, does not describe what is essentially incomprehensible, but rather what was once hidden and is now revealed.
In the late 1740s, Johann Sebastian Bach labored in his Leipzig study, his eyesight steadily failing, assembling the final sections of what would become the...
On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday sat in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution on Albemarle Street in London, hunched over a simple iron...
In the summer of 1665, plague swept through London and shuttered the University of Cambridge. A twenty-three-year-old Isaac Newton retreated to his family's farm at...
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...
On October 31, 1512, Pope Julius II unveiled the completed ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City — over twelve thousand square feet of...
In February 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev, a chemistry professor at St. Petersburg University, spread dozens of handwritten cards across his desk, one for each of the...
In May 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins stood on the grounds of St. Beuno's College in North Wales and watched a kestrel ride the morning wind....
In late August 1741, George Frideric Handel received a libretto from Charles Jennens — a carefully assembled text drawn entirely from the King James Bible...
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