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The orthodox, historical consensus of biblical interpretation.
Key question: “What is the most widely accepted and historically grounded understanding of this text?”
25,889 sermon illustrations through the Traditional lens
On the morning of February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans carried a suitcase through the corridors of the University of Munich. Inside...
On April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali stood inside the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston, Texas, and did the most costly thing a...
When Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston in August 2017, Jessica Lozano was eight months pregnant and trapped on the second floor of her home in Dickinson,...
In the summer of 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as Britain's fastest man. He was the gold medal favorite in...
In 1998, Pixar nearly lost *Toy Story 2*. Someone accidentally triggered a command on the studio's servers that began systematically deleting the film's files —...
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a law that still bears his name. Wolff's Law states that bone, when broken, does not simply return...
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...
In the fall of 1979, coach Herb Brooks faced a decision that puzzled every hockey expert in America. Selecting the U.S. Olympic roster, he passed...
In 1927, Professor Thomas Parnell at the University of Queensland poured heated pitch — a derivative of tar — into a sealed glass funnel and...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Silver Chair*, Prince Rilian has been held captive underground for ten years by a witch who enchants his mind. For twenty-three...
Beneath the streets of Rome, in the cool darkness of the catacombs, early Christians carved messages on the tombs of their dead. What they wrote...
When Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old due to a doctor's mistake, no one imagined she would become the most prolific hymn...
Scientists who study the Nubian ibex — the wild mountain goat of the Sinai Peninsula — have spent years puzzling over how the animal navigates...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues thought was foolish — maybe even reckless. As director of the Space...
On April 12, 1963 — Good Friday — Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for leading nonviolent protests against segregation. Placed in...
Imagine the dimly lit cabin deep in the woods, a sanctuary that echoed with the haunting melodies of freedom. This was where Harriet Tubman, with her unwavering spirit, would gather her fellow travelers on the Underground Railroad. As the night...
In 1939, physicist Hans Bethe published the paper that would eventually earn him a Nobel Prize. He described how stars produce their light. Deep in...
On June 12, 1942, a thirteen-year-old girl in Amsterdam received a red-and-white checkered autograph book for her birthday. Within weeks, Anne Frank and her family...
In the spring of 1737, George Frideric Handel suffered a devastating stroke that paralyzed his right side. Doctors in London declared his career finished. The...
On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. almost did not return to Memphis. His first visit in late March had ended in violence —...
In September 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley stood in a Chicago funeral home and made a decision that would change a nation. Her fourteen-year-old son, Emmett, had...
In 2002, a drunk driver named Eric Smallridge killed two young women — one of them was Meagan Napier. Her mother, Renée, was shattered. The...
In the final act of *The Shawshank Redemption*, Red is released from prison after forty years. He finds a letter from his friend Andy Dufresne,...
In the winter of 1944, Eric Liddell — the Scottish sprinter who had stunned the world by refusing to run on Sunday at the 1924...