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84 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
We must not hate others because they hate us (Matthew 5:44), nor curse them for their curses (2 Samuel 16:10).
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He writes, "It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth." The apostle appeals not to legal requirement but to honour, conscience, and brotherly feeling—which ought to bind the Christian conscience more...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto the grass at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, wearing the number 42 on his Dodgers jersey....
First, *philostorgos* (kindly affection)—genuine concern born from love of God, not mere worldly sympathy.
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...
In the spring of 1905, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland, sat at his desk evaluating inventions by day and scribbling equations by night....
Exell's exposition from *The Biblical Illustrator* (1887) distinguishes two interpretations: first, discharge all existing debts faithfully; second, avoid contracting debt altogether.
On November 24, 1859, John Murray published Charles Darwin's *On the Origin of Species* in London, and the entire first printing of 1,250 copies was...
On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens crouched into the starting blocks at Berlin's Olympiastadion before one hundred thousand spectators. Adolf Hitler had designed these Games...
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 —...
In late July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. Deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch retaliated by selecting ten men from Block...
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...