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186 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
The Jews could boast of their national lineage.
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When Christ spoke these words to His disciples, the primary reference addressed the apostles themselves.
On a cold Sunday in March 1841, Dorothea Dix stepped into the East Cambridge jail to teach a Sunday school class. What she found changed...
So too, a godly man will not gain—nor desire to gain—so much as a shoe-string through profaning the Sabbath with merchants, through fraud or deceit, through oppression or extortion, through usury (the devil's brokery), or through any unlawful or indirect...
This is not arbitrary cruelty but the operation of a law that has governed history from its beginning.
The scene required protection from popular commotion that would have hindered the gradual development of the Redeemer's ministry and its attendant evidences.
The Greek word here *kleio* means not merely to close, but to lock—to shut in a way that cannot be reopened.
Barnes and William Ellery Channing, articulates the multifaceted obligations each demands.
First, consider who bestows it: Yahweh Himself, the Giver of all good gifts.
Perseverance is the badge of the saint—marked in Scripture, confirmed by analogy, and vindicated by common sense.
In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton canceled a skiing holiday to visit Prague. What he found in the refugee camps changed everything. Jewish...
On October 3, 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune opened the door of a small rented cottage on Oak Street in Daytona Beach, Florida, and welcomed five...
When a neighbor warned eighty-four-year-old Casper ten Boom that harboring Jews could mean his death, the Haarlem watchmaker did not hesitate. "It would be an...
In the winter of 1940, a Jewish woman knocked on the door of a stone parsonage in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains...
On April 16, 1913, Albert Schweitzer stepped off a river steamer onto the banks of the Ogooué River in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa. He was...
On May 10, 1873, a small boat deposited a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest onto the rocky shore of the Kalaupapa peninsula on Molokai, Hawaii. Father Damien...
The Divine nature could not be separated from the human; He remained eternally God.
First, the power to raise humanity must come from without—from the Divine.