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Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers pulled into the driveway of his home on Guynes Street in Jackson, Mississippi. The NAACP field...
Maclaren observes that while the young king commanded Judah to 'seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law,' he could not actually make them obey.
As Joseph Exell clarifies in *The Biblical Illustrator* (1887), the proverb means: "Unsteady as the sparrow, as the flight of the swallow, is a causeless curse; it cometh not to pass." Exell identifies two categories of causeless imprecations.
Spurgeon's commentary, drawing from Thomas Playfere, presents a penetrating image: shame becomes as inseparable from the wicked as the very clothes a man wears wherever he journeys.
Yet this humble labouring man, armed only with an ox-goad, slew them all.
The prophet's central image is devastating: Samaria itself is a sparkling coronet, a flowery wreath twined upon the brow of its fertile hill, where revellers twist garlands in their hair during their orgies.
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 dim light of Charleston's African Church, Denmark Vesey opened his Bible to the Book of Exodus. It was the spring of 1822, and...
In 1799, an enslaved man named Denmark Vesey won $1,500 in a Charleston, South Carolina lottery and purchased his freedom for $600. He built a...
In the autumn of 1850, the United States Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, making it a federal crime to aid escaped slaves even in...
First, these afflictions possess antiquity—they reach back to youth itself, even to infancy and conception.
Surrounded in open field by six hundred Philistine desperadoes bent on plunder and death—not cornered at Thermopylae where numbers meant nothing—he wielded only an oxgoad against overwhelming odds.
This poetical vision describes not mere longevity, but a transformation of human capacity itself.
When Elohim commands, "Prepare war, wake up the mighty men," He invites evil to marshal its complete arsenal, knowing this concentration only ensures its more thorough destruction.
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus on Cleveland Avenue in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day working as...
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....
On the morning of May 4, 1961, thirteen volunteers gathered at a Greyhound terminal in Washington, D.C. Before boarding two interstate buses bound for New...
When a tree is merely cut down, its stump remains; sprouts may yet emerge.
In August 1945, Branch Rickey sat across from twenty-six-year-old Jackie Robinson in the Brooklyn Dodgers' office at 215 Montague Street in Brooklyn and made an...
In 1944, Medgar Evers landed at Normandy as a nineteen-year-old soldier, fighting for the freedom of people he had never met. He came home to...
In May of 1543, a dying Nicolaus Copernicus lay in his bed at the cathedral chapter house in Frombork, Poland. He had served as a...
Notice that David does not merely pose the question once; he takes up his soul "very short," demanding accountability: "Why art thou so cast down, O my soul?
Maclaren seizes on this universal truth: "Half-way is just the critical time in all protracted work.
Silence can manifest cowardice or stupidity; speech can be more precious than gold, triumphant over error.