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19 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
Nothing gives the believer such joy as fellowship with Christ.
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The Church is compared to a dove through ten striking parallels.
Yet understand: there is no opposition between Christ and His people requiring conquest.
1887, when the printing press has become the mightiest agency for good or evil ever unleashed upon civilization.
Exell, in *The Biblical Illustrator* (1887), grounded this doctrine in Scripture itself—Jude 14, Job 19:26, Psalm 9:7–8, Daniel 7:9–10, Matthew 25:31–46, and Revelation 20:11–13 all testify to a Day of Judgment.
The Preacher warns against an obsession with others' opinions that fragments the soul.
Human nature is marred, life is gnarled and twisted—a realm of broken columns, snapped friendships, and strained relationships.
This original uprightness required five distinct faculties working in harmony: an understanding perfectly acquainted with God's law; a memory retaining all its precepts faithfully; a conscience applying it without compromise; a heart loving that law completely; and a will obedient...
She had rhapsodized, calling for her beloved's return—yet when he came at an inconvenient hour, she could not rise from her bed to meet him.
Exell, the Victorian biblical expositor, unpacks with precision: the greatest gifts carry corresponding sorrows.
Ecclesiastes 1:26 declares that God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to those who find favour in His sight. But what constitutes genuine goodness before Elohim? A man may esteem himself righteous, yet remain spiritually hollow. Society may celebrate him as...
This text diagnoses humanity's universal condition: all are liable to sin and under its dominion.
For six years, Leo Tolstoy sat at his desk in the estate house at Yasnaya Polyana, a hundred and twenty miles south of Moscow, writing...
In 1940, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at Oxford University proved that Alexander Fleming's overlooked mold could cure deadly bacterial infections. But they hit...
On December 10, 1945, three scientists stood together in Stockholm's Concert Hall to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Each had done what...
Ecclesiastes 3:5 speaks of "a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together." The primary meaning emerges from Eastern husbandry: vineyards cultivated on steep valley sides required backbreaking labor. A husbandman must first cast away stones...
Silence can manifest cowardice or stupidity; speech can be more precious than gold, triumphant over error.
--- The Nurses Who Refused to Stand Alone On the first of July, 1899, Ethel Gordon Fenwick rose to address a gathering of nurses from...
The Preacher calls this the Epicurean gospel, named after the Greek philosopher Epicurus, though the impulse predates him as old as human nature itself.