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All contingencies rest under the direction of God's providence.
First, in Creation, Christ's operations display order, regularity, and perfect adaptation.
Our confidence in missionary labor rests entirely upon the prophecies of God's Word declaring it His will.
The people of Israel, mowed down and removed from their native soil, lay upon the threshing floor of captivity under tyrannical rule.
Stephen presents the portrait of a dying saint: he was filled with the Holy Ghost, lifted above earthly consciousness of his enemies' gnashing teeth, granted a full vision of heavenly glory and his glorified Redeemer, and embodied the spirit of...
The Biblical Illustrator (1887) expounds two crucial truths: First, God's greatness manifests in His constant governance of the world He made.
Higher counsels than ours govern the issues of human conduct.
The narrative refuses naturalistic explanation; it is supernatural or nothing.
Christ teaches that "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"—Matthew 6:34—grounding our freedom from anxiety in three essential truths.
First, confidence in human means stands opposed to this truth.
The apostle Paul supposes the concurrence of two or more events, all verging towards the good of him to whom they have befallen.
The Hebrew word *shalom* here carries the force of a military commander marshaling his forces according to a predetermined strategy, assigning each soldier his proper station in the execution of a grand enterprise.
Their waiting hours—like languid summer days when aspen leaves refuse to quiver and shadows barely move on the dial—mirrored the anguish of deferred hope.
Consider God's presidency over all things in four dimensions.
First, some contend that Elohim created all things solely for His pleasure, without external motive.
God's plan encompasses society comprehensively—threading millennia from earth's earliest dust to the emergence of new heavens and earth.
To think and to purpose are attributes of all rational beings—created or uncreated.
For six years, Leo Tolstoy sat at his desk in the estate house at Yasnaya Polyana, a hundred and twenty miles south of Moscow, writing...
On September 3, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a summer holiday to his cluttered laboratory on the second floor of St. Mary's Hospital in London....
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London and found a mess. A petri dish of...
In 1940, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at Oxford University proved that Alexander Fleming's overlooked mold could cure deadly bacterial infections. But they hit...
In 1869, Leo Tolstoy published the final installment of *War and Peace* from his estate at Yasnaya Polyana, south of Moscow. The novel had consumed...
In the early 1860s, Leo Tolstoy began writing a novel about the Decembrists — Russian nobles returning from Siberian exile after their failed revolt against...
On September 3, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a summer holiday to his cluttered laboratory on the second floor of St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington,...