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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
In *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*, there is a moment that has stayed with audiences for decades. Indiana Jones stands at the edge of...
In August 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood on the deck of the Chilean steamer *Yelcho*, scanning the frozen horizon of Elephant Island through binoculars. This was...
Imagine a vibrant jungle, alive with the sounds of rustling leaves and distant bird calls. Among these lush greens and browns, a small village of Guaraní people thrives, fighting the encroaching shadows of poverty. In the heart of this village,...
In 1836, George Müller opened an orphanage in Bristol, England, with almost nothing — two shillings in his pocket and a conviction that God alone...
Corrie ten Boom was fifty-three years old when the Nazis arrested her family for hiding Jews in their Haarlem watchshop. She lost her father. She...
In February 2019, a polar vortex drove temperatures across the Midwest to forty below zero. Most ranchers in western Nebraska hunkered down and waited it...
In the summer of 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a cramped cell in Berlin's Tegel Prison, awaiting trial for his role in the conspiracy against...
In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina scattered thousands of displaced families across Louisiana, a small congregation in Shreveport called Greater St. Mary Baptist Church faced a...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood on the docks of New York City with every reason to stay. Friends at Union Theological Seminary had arranged...
In May 1862, Robert Smalls stood at the wheel of the CSS Planter in Charleston Harbor, his heart pounding as Confederate fortifications loomed in the...
In 2019, a young couple in Houston fell in love with a house on Briar Creek Lane. Fresh paint, gorgeous hardwood floors, a kitchen that...
A congregation in Memphis decided to observe a week-long fast during Lent. They posted about it on social media, shared recipes for bone broth, and...
In the lightless depths of the ocean, where sunlight never penetrates and pressure would crush an unprotected human being, something remarkable happens: most creatures glow....
In the winter of 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a concrete cell in Tegel Prison, Berlin, and wrote the poem that would outlast his captors....
In 1514, a Spanish priest named Bartolomé de las Casas stood in his church on the island of Hispaniola and read the words of Ecclesiasticus:...
In December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope launched from French Guiana on a million-mile journey into deep space. Months later, NASA released its first...
In 1864, night riders kidnapped an infant and his mother from Moses Carver's farm in Diamond, Missouri. The mother was never found. The baby, sick...
In the winter of 1844, George Müller sat at the head of a long table in his Bristol orphanage, surrounded by three hundred children and...
Apostolic dictation scene of Paul's prayer for the Ephesians
In 1844, George Müller sat at the head of a long table in Bristol, England, surrounded by three hundred orphans. The plates were set. The...
A few years back, I found myself on a small boat, navigating the turbulent waters of a lake during an unexpected storm. The wind howled like a wild animal, and the waves thrashed against the hull, threatening to pull us...
In 2019, a thirteen-year-old girl named Daysha stood in a Michigan courtroom wearing a white dress her foster mother had bought her the day before....
When Marcus Rivera got the call from his oncologist in March 2023, the first thing he did was phone his mother. Not because she could...
In the summer of 1259, King Louis IX of France did something no European monarch was expected to do. He walked out of his palace...