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His gaze pierced beyond mere physical suffering to discern spiritual disease—the scattered, fainting condition of sheep without a shepherd.
Leprosy was not mere sickness—it was Palestine's defining plague, a disease that ravaged the body and severed the sufferer from community entirely.
The striking truth Maclaren unveils is this: Jesus Christ performed a resurrection not to authenticate His divinity, but simply to comfort a desolate woman.
As the sun sometimes shines in full strength and sometimes clouds over—yet remains the same fountain of light—so our Sun of Righteousness *emits* dual natures on the day of resurrection.
This remarkable scene illustrates a profound truth: the miracles of Christ and His apostles were chiefly miracles of healing.
First, its nature: mercy operates as a *diatheke* (covenant disposition)—a temper of the soul independent of written law, wherein the merciful person grieves not for injuries received but for the corrupted heart of the injurer.
The preciousness of Christ's sympathy with our infirmities lies in His actual and personal union with our nature.
When we announce doom without tears, we harden rather than convict.
On March 20, 1852, a small Boston publishing house, John P. Jewett and Company, released a two-volume novel by a minister's daughter from Connecticut. Harriet...
On July 4, 1885, nine-year-old Joseph Meister was attacked by a rabid dog near his village in Alsace, suffering fourteen bite wounds on his hands,...
When Father Damien de Veuster arrived at the Kalaupapa settlement on Molokai in May 1873, he found over eight hundred men, women, and children abandoned...
On March 20, 1852, the Boston firm of John P. Jewett published a two-volume novel by a minister's daughter from Connecticut. Harriet Beecher Stowe's *Uncle...
In the autumn of 1943, a slim Polish social worker named Irena Sendler walked through the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto carrying a carpenter's toolbox....
In the spring of 1940, Gladys Aylward — a former parlour maid from Edmonton, London, barely five feet tall — faced an impossible task. With...
On May 10, 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Jozef De Veuster — known as Father Damien — stepped off a boat onto the Kalaupapa...
On March 30, 1842, in the small town of Jefferson, Georgia, a young physician named Crawford Long asked his patient James Venable to inhale deeply...
In the spring of 1940, as Japanese forces closed in on the city of Yangcheng in Shanxi Province, a small British missionary named Gladys Aylward...
In the spring of 1940, Japanese forces were closing in on Yangcheng in China's Shanxi Province. Gladys Aylward — a former London parlour maid turned...
In 1988, Grete Winton was rummaging through her attic in Maidenhead, England, when she discovered a worn scrapbook. Inside were lists of children's names, photographs,...
On March 30, 1842, in the small town of Jefferson, Georgia, Dr. Crawford Williamson Long did something no surgeon had ever done. He soaked a...
For eighteen years, Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, a city perched on the northern bank of the Ohio River with slaveholding Kentucky just...
On May 5, 1945, Japanese machine gun fire swept across the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a jagged thirty-five-foot cliff face the Americans had nicknamed...
In the summer of 1940, hundreds of Jewish refugees crowded outside the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, desperate for transit visas that could carry them...
In the summer of 1940, Japanese Vice-Consul Chiune Sugihara looked out the window of his consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, and saw hundreds of Jewish refugees...