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75 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
Justification means being brought into right relation with Elohim and all law-keeping beings.
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This transformation reveals three profound truths about conversion's power.
The apostle distinguishes between four categories of observance: natural (the sun and moon's course), civil (harvests and commerce), ecclesiastical (thanksgiving and humiliation), and superstitious (both Jewish legalism and heathen astrology).
Zeal itself is morally neutral—the heat or fervour of the mind prompting vehemence against evil and desire toward good.
On the evening of February 23, 1807, the House of Commons erupted in something rarely heard within those walls — a standing ovation. Members of...
For eighteen years, Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, a city perched on the northern bank of the Ohio River with slaveholding Kentucky just...
In October 1772, a young enslaved woman named Phillis Wheatley stood before a panel of eighteen of Boston's most prominent men — including Governor Thomas...
On Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson stepped to a microphone on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Weeks earlier, the Daughters of the...
In September 1849, Harriet Tubman fled Dorchester County, Maryland, traveling nearly ninety miles on foot through swamps and forests to reach Pennsylvania. She was free...
In the summer of 1899, nurses from Great Britain, the United States, and Germany gathered at the International Congress of Women in London with a...
In the winter of 1906, sanitary engineer George Soper was hired to investigate a puzzling typhoid outbreak at a rented summer home in Oyster Bay,...
Scholars suggest an eye affliction made writing painful for the apostle, yet he seized the pen himself.
When Paul recounts his visit to Jerusalem in Galatians 1:19, he distinguishes James from the other apostles, yet acknowledges his singular influence.
For eight years, from 1856 to 1863, an Augustinian friar named Gregor Johann Mendel knelt in the experimental garden of St. Thomas's Abbey in Brno,...
In 1799, an enslaved man named Denmark Vesey won $1,500 in a Charleston, South Carolina lottery and purchased his freedom for $600. He built a...
The Apostle deliberately couples seemingly opposing statements—'Bear ye one another's burdens' alongside 'every man shall bear his own burden'—to awaken our attention and compel deeper apprehension of truth.
It is not a momentary sentiment but the sustained interpretive principle by which Adonai's commandments achieve their ultimate purpose.
On August 4, 1936, inside Berlin's Olympic Stadium, 110,000 spectators watched Jesse Owens line up for the long jump final. The Nazi regime had designed...
In the summer of 1936, Jesse Owens stood at the edge of elimination. The African American sprinter had fouled twice in the long jump qualifying...
On August 1, 1834, church bells rang across the British Caribbean as the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 took effect. In Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, and...
This rule is no external constraint imposed upon the believer; rather, it emerges from the new creature itself, the regenerate inner man transformed by the Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman made thirteen rescue missions from St. Catharines, Ontario, back into the slave-holding territory of Maryland's Eastern Shore. She had...
Sengbe Pieh was born free. A rice farmer from Mende country in Sierra Leone, he was seized by slave traders in early 1839, shipped across...
In May 1851, several ministers at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, argued that women were too delicate and intellectually inferior to deserve equal...