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186 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
Unbelief seals them shut, preventing the water of life from filling them, however abundantly Elohim pours grace around us.
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God adorns the lilies and tulips with gorgeous apparel for a single day's duration, spun by divine providence, surpassing the tracery of the most splendid court—such magnificence that Solomon himself, with all his wisdom and wealth, could not match them.
Faith trusts Elohim's providence within His natural and moral laws; presumption demands divine intervention outside them.
THE PREPARATORY PRIVILEGE Christians enjoy the extraordinary consciousness that Christ Himself converses with them directly.
What does it mean to make light of Christ's gospel?
The word *purse* (*zone*) referred to the hollow girdles Jews wore to carry money—yet the disciples were sent out stripped of such security.
By 1944, Eric Liddell — the Scottish sprinter who electrified the world by winning gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Olympics —...
In the autumn of 1914, as the Western Front devoured young men by the thousands, Marie Curie — already the only person to hold Nobel...
In the spring of 1940, Japanese forces were closing in on Yangcheng in China's Shanxi Province. Gladys Aylward — a former London parlour maid turned...
On the morning of March 12, 1930, a sixty-year-old man in a simple white dhoti stepped out of the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, carrying...
On the morning of July 6, 1924, the fastest sprinter in Scotland was nowhere near the starting blocks. Eric Liddell, the flying Scotsman favored to...
On February 21, 1945, Eric Liddell died on a thin mattress in Weihsien internment camp in Weifang, China. He was forty-three years old. A brain...
In 1988, Grete Winton was rummaging through her attic in Maidenhead, England, when she discovered a worn scrapbook. Inside were lists of children's names, photographs,...
On August 28, 1945, Jackie Robinson sat across from Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey in a office at 215 Montague Street in Brooklyn. Robinson, a...
In the autumn of 1943, a slim Polish social worker named Irena Sendler walked through the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto carrying a carpenter's toolbox....
When Father Damien de Veuster arrived at the Kalaupapa settlement on Molokai in May 1873, he found over eight hundred men, women, and children abandoned...
In 1937, a thirty-one-year-old German pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer published a book that opened with one of the most arresting lines in Christian literature: "Cheap...
On July 1, 1899, Ethel Gordon Fenwick stood before delegates at the International Congress of Women in London and proposed something unprecedented: a global alliance...
They studied the law with meticulous precision, yet remained practical strangers to its transformative power.
In December 1937, when Japanese forces captured Nanjing, China, American missionary Minnie Vautrin faced an impossible choice. As acting head of Ginling Women's Arts and...
Exell's Victorian analysis unfolds the nature of Messiah's government in three essential movements.
In the winter of 1942, when the Vichy government began deporting Jews from France to Nazi death camps, Pastor André Trocmé stood before his Huguenot...
On July 6, 1885, a desperate mother arrived at Louis Pasteur's laboratory in Paris, clutching the hand of her nine-year-old son, Joseph Meister. Two days...
Yet something is required to lift the cover, to unveil reality, to expose the things we do and the persons we truly are.