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19 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
He that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done (Philippians 4:25). I. Punishment Threatened. To Masters: Imperious masters wrong their servants by defrauding them of clothing, food, or wages; by imposing labours beyond their strength; by...
Yet if we saw truly, we should find many streams of refreshment, many sunny spots, and on all sides evidences of the Divine tenderness.
The term *mysterion* (mystery), used twice in this passage and frequently throughout Philippians, does not denote what is essentially incomprehensible to human understanding.
Exell observed that all genuine religion involves mystery in relation to the infinite and Divine; false mystery belongs only to superstition.
Nor does the Holy Spirit's operation supersede human effort; rather, it excites it.
On July 4, 1939, sixty-one thousand fans packed Yankee Stadium for Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day. The man they called the Iron Horse — who had...
On November 22, 1873, the French steamship *Ville du Havre* collided with the iron-hulled *Loch Earn* in the cold waters of the mid-Atlantic. The ship...
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell walked across the stage at Geneva Medical College in upstate New York and received her Doctor of Medicine degree...
In May 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Father Damien de Veuster stepped off a boat onto the Kalaupapa peninsula of Molokai, Hawaii. He had...
By the autumn of 1914, Marie Curie had already won two Nobel Prizes. She could have remained safely in her Paris laboratory, celebrated and comfortable....
On February 21, 1945, Eric Liddell died in the Weihsien internment camp in Shandong Province, China. He was forty-three years old. Twenty-one years earlier, the...
In November 1660, authorities arrested John Bunyan, a tinker-turned-preacher from Elstow, Bedfordshire, for conducting worship services without a license from the Church of England. The...
In early April 1945, Allied forces were closing in on Germany from every direction. The war would end in weeks. At Flossenburg concentration camp in...
On April 16, 1913, Albert Schweitzer and his wife Hélène arrived by river steamer at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa, present-day Gabon. Schweitzer was thirty-eight,...
In 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was thirty-one years old and already one of Germany's most brilliant theologians. He held a doctorate and a habilitation from the...
In December 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie announced to the French Academy of Sciences that they had discovered a new element — radium. But the...
On February 3, 1943, a German torpedo from U-223 struck the USAT Dorchester in the frigid North Atlantic, 150 miles from Greenland. Nine hundred and...
On June 12, 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor, escaping a Germany that was tightening its grip on every conscience...
On the gray dawn of April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt on the wooden floor of Flossenbürg concentration camp and prayed. The thirty-nine-year-old German pastor...
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