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On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano needed help just to reach the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach — the...
He placed his confidence in King Saul—and Saul hunted him like a beast through the wilderness.
On the morning of October 31, 2003, thirteen-year-old Bethany Hamilton paddled out at Tunnels Beach on the North Shore of Kauai, Hawaii, alongside her best...
In the spring of 2002, the Arizona Cardinals offered their starting safety Pat Tillman a three-year, $3.6 million contract. By every measure of the world,...
On the morning of April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali stood inside the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston, Texas. He was twenty-five years...
On March 12, 1930, Mohandas Gandhi stepped out of Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, and began walking. His destination was the coastal village of Dandi,...
Ecclesiastes 3:5 speaks of "a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together." The primary meaning emerges from Eastern husbandry: vineyards cultivated on steep valley sides required backbreaking labor. A husbandman must first cast away stones...
The *defilement* (*tum'ah*) he feared was twofold: the flesh had been offered to idols in Babylon's pagan temples, and the wine mingled with heathen libations.
When Joshua's leadership (30 years), Samuel's judgeship (30 years), and Saul's reign (40 years, Acts 13:21) are subtracted from the broader 240–260 year span between Israel's entrance into Canaan and David's coronation, this interval remains.
In May 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from the Arizona Cardinals and a $3.6 million contract to enlist in the United States Army. Eight months...
On March 2, 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus after classes at Booker T. Washington High School. When the driver ordered...
On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford stepped off a city bus in Little Rock, Arkansas, wearing a crisp black-and-white dress her...
Exell's Victorian exposition distinguishes between two essential dimensions of this strength, each indispensable to true manhood.
When your interest, your feelings, your wants, nay, even your future independence are on one side, and the plain dictates of duty and religion on the other, then it is that you must "be very courageous" and not turn aside...
The Hebrew word for "upright" means a person *good throughout, though not thoroughly*—one who genuinely pursues holiness, not one who merely personates religion.
On September 25, 1957, nine Black teenagers walked into Little Rock's Central High School under the protection of twelve hundred soldiers from the 101st Airborne...
Luke's nautical precision—unlike the landlubber's account in Jonah—captures a Mediterranean reality: the gentle southerly breeze that promised safe passage became a death trap. The ship lay in an inadequate harbor. A mild wind rose. The captain and centurion, with Paul's...
On the night of September 30, 1962, the University of Mississippi campus erupted into violence. Thousands of rioters hurled bricks, fired guns, and overturned cars...
Isaiah condemns the absurdity of idolatry through the image of a *pesel* (graven image) crafted to not topple over. A wooden idol, planed smooth beneath and weighted above to prevent tipping at the slightest push, was deemed worthy of worship—yet...
When Rabshakeh addressed Hezekiah's officials in this diplomatic tongue, his words carried the smooth insinuation of a seasoned negotiator.
Years before, at Paphos, Paul had departed with Barnabas and John Mark, an unknown missionary embarking upon his calling.
In September 1849, Harriet Tubman fled Dorchester County, Maryland, traveling nearly ninety miles on foot through swamps and forests to reach Pennsylvania. She was free...
When Joshua heard God say "Be strong and courageous," he was not being told to maintain the status quo. He stood at the edge of...
When Christ spoke these words to His disciples, the primary reference addressed the apostles themselves.