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78 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
Some suppose we must love our neighbour with the same *selfish* affection we naturally direct toward ourselves, yet such self-love is sinful and cannot be our model.
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By 1905, Albert Schweitzer held doctorates in both theology and philosophy. His landmark work *The Quest of the Historical Jesus* was reshaping New Testament scholarship...
Under Tiberius, as in the Victorian era, three religious postures competed.
Mark's Gospel reveals something crucial through a single Greek word: *kline* (bed), specifically a *grabatus*—the pallet or camp-bed of the poor, not the soft couch of the wealthy.
The Baptist rebuked Herod without provoking his anger, which reveals he spoke with gravity, temperance, sincerity, and genuine goodwill toward the king.
A paradox haunts this tetrarch: he reverenced God's faithful minister while remaining enslaved to his own appetites.