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84 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
Similarly, Adonai possesses many treasuries and secrets shut from carnal minds, yet he who walks in fellowship with Jesus holds the master-key admitting him to all covenant blessings—even to the very heart of God.
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This dual calling reveals three critical truths about ministerial office.
First, the objective reality: Christ's sacrifice demonstrates that Yahweh is a God against whom no sinner can rebel without incurring death.
"Justification" (*dikaiōsis*), literally acquittal, denotes vindication before a court of divine justice.
Romans 9:13 presents a paradox that troubled even Paul himself: "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." The writer acknowledges this appears to contradict God's righteousness, yet immediately restrains such questioning (v. 14). Consider the biographical contrast. Esau...
First, evangelical faith differs radically from mere intellectual assent.
Consider the ivy clinging to wall and tree: it extends innumerable tendrils, each seeking adhesion, each striving to become one with its support.
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....
On September 3, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a summer holiday to his cluttered laboratory on the second floor of St. Mary's Hospital in London....
On June 12, 1942, a thirteen-year-old girl in Amsterdam received a red-and-white checkered autograph book for her birthday. Within weeks, Anne Frank and her family...
In 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach arrived in Leipzig, Germany, to take up his post as Thomaskantor — director of music at St. Thomas Church. He...
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 the evening of May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood on the stage of Vienna's Theater am Kärntnertor, his back to a packed house....
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London and found a mess. A petri dish of...
In 1869, Leo Tolstoy published the final installment of *War and Peace* from his estate at Yasnaya Polyana, south of Moscow. The novel had consumed...
In 1845, Victor Hugo began writing a novel about a convict named Jean Valjean — a man imprisoned nineteen years for stealing a loaf of...
In June of 1752, Benjamin Franklin walked into a gathering thunderstorm outside Philadelphia with a silk kite, a hemp string, an iron key, and a...
Sin is a tyrant usurping dominion where it was never meant to rule.
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London and found a petri dish he had left...
In January 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution denied Marian Anderson permission to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., solely because she was...
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 August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday bent over a simple iron ring in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London. He had wound...
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 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins walked the hills above the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales, where he was completing his theological...