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12 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
This summons extends to bodily powers first: the tongue, "glory of our frame," must be tuned like David's harp of old.
All three appeared equally earnest, equally resolved to return to the land of covenant and grace.
why tarry the wheels of his chariots?" This cry of Sisera's mother—hoping yet half-despairing—echoes through the hearts of multitudes in the stern fight of existence and the moral campaign of consecrated life.
Exell observes that God deliberately extended this campaign for Israel's spiritual formation.
In the higher regions dwell principles of innocence, hope, love, justice, trust, kindness, purity, and tenderness—the kingdom of heaven itself.
Joshua, the great military commander who had led the tribes to countless victories, now felt mortality approaching.
Removing thirty years for Joshua, thirty for Samuel, and forty for Saul's reign (Acts 13:21)—totaling 100 years—leaves 140–160 years for the events recorded in Judges.
Yet this humble labouring man, armed only with an ox-goad, slew them all.
His death illustrates three severe truths about human mortality.
On June 12, 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor, having accepted a teaching position at Union Theological Seminary arranged by...
On August 5, 1942, German soldiers arrived at the Jewish orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto with orders to deport its nearly two hundred children. Janusz...
After some great perplexity, some dark hour, or some mysterious visitation, when there seemed to be no clue to an event and not a spark of illumination about it, it is a blessed relief to mind and soul when we...
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