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11 illustrations for sermon preparation
The gifts are not separate from grace; they are its direct offspring, its cognates.
Critics who say 'Give me his ethics, keep his dogmas' commit a fatal severance that destroys both.
The juxtaposition reveals the animating principle of New Testament morality itself: devotion to God is the indispensable basis of all practical helpfulness to man, and conversely, practical helpfulness to man is the expression and manifestation of devotion to God.
The natural instinct binds us: enmity answers enmity, kindness answers kindness. A dog stretches its neck to be patted and snaps at a raised stick. We are creatures of reciprocal reaction. Yet Christian morality requires us to master this instinct...
On March 12, 1930, a sixty-year-old man in a simple white dhoti walked out of Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, with seventy-eight followers behind him....
In August 1936, Jesse Owens stood on the verge of elimination in the long jump qualifying rounds at the Berlin Olympics. He had already fouled...
On September 19, 1940, a Polish cavalry officer named Witold Pilecki stood on a Warsaw street and waited to be arrested. A German roundup was...
In the spring of 1945, Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr. led the 332nd Fighter Group on bomber escort missions across Nazi-occupied Europe from Ramitelli Airfield...
On May 5, 1945, American soldiers scrambled to retreat down the four-hundred-foot Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa as Japanese forces overwhelmed their position. Dozens of wounded...
On April 10, 1938, the residents of St. Radegund, a small village in Upper Austria, cast their ballots in Hitler's plebiscite on the Anschluss —...
On August 28, 1945, in the Brooklyn Dodgers' office at 215 Montague Street, Branch Rickey sat across from twenty-six-year-old Jackie Robinson and made an extraordinary...
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