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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
A few years ago, I stood in a small observatory with a group of eager young students, their faces illuminated by the glow of screens displaying distant galaxies. As the astrophysicist pointed his telescope toward the night sky, he spoke...
For thirty-three years after her release from Ravensbruck concentration camp, Corrie ten Boom traveled the world telling one story: God had done something that defied...
In the summer of 2012, farmers across southwest Kansas watched their fields turn to powder. Daryl Hestand, a third-generation wheat grower outside of Sublette, walked...
Dr. James Chen had fasted every Friday for fifteen years. No food from sundown Thursday to sundown Friday — just water, prayer, and Scripture. He...
In June 2018, twelve boys from the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach became trapped deep inside the Tham Luang cave system in northern...
In 2010, a border collie named Keno worked with Montana Search and Rescue, covering terrain no human team could manage alone. When a twelve-year-old boy...
When Hurricane Helene tore through Asheville, North Carolina in September 2024, Marcus Jennings drove fourteen hours from Indianapolis with a truck full of chainsaws, tarps,...
In 1912, Sadhu Sundar Singh arrived in a remote Tibetan village to preach the gospel. The village lama was furious. He ordered Sundar Singh arrested...
Imagine a bustling, sunlit café on a Saturday morning, filled with the rich aroma of freshly brewed coffee and the soft murmur of conversations. In one corner, a young boy named Trevor sits at a table, his mind racing with...
In 2009, a high school counselor in Baltimore told Howard Schultz's story to a room of discouraged seniors. Schultz grew up in the Bayview Housing...
In 2018, a family in Sacramento gathered for Thanksgiving dinner when the smoke detector began shrieking from the hallway ceiling. The turkey was fine. The...
In *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*, the fellowship is fleeing through the Mines of Moria when a Balrog — an...
In the 1990s, Rich Mullins wrote some of the most beloved songs in Christian music, including Awesome God, an anthem sung in churches around the...
Bill Withers grew up in Slab Fork, West Virginia, a coal mining town so small it barely appeared on maps. He was the youngest of...
In Peter Weir's *The Truman Show*, Truman Burbank has spent his entire life inside a manufactured world. Every sunrise is staged. Every relationship is scripted....
Rich Mullins wrote *Awesome God* in 1988, and within a few years it became one of the most recognized worship songs in American churches. The...
In 1947, Corrie ten Boom stood in a church basement in Munich, having just spoken about God's forgiveness to a crowd of defeated, hollow-eyed Germans....
In 1722, a twenty-two-year-old German nobleman named Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf offered a corner of his family estate in Saxony as refuge for a small...
In 2015, Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mapping how cells repair damaged DNA. Their discovery revealed...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, there is a moment that still takes my breath away. Jean Valjean — a former convict who has rebuilt his...
In 2019, NASA released the first-ever image of a black hole — a glowing ring of superheated gas surrounding the shadow of M87, fifty-five million...
On Christmas Eve, 1914, the Western Front was a nightmare of mud, barbed wire, and artillery. British and German soldiers crouched in trenches barely a...
When you delete a file from your computer, it feels final. The icon vanishes. The folder looks clean. But digital forensics experts know the truth...
On October 3, 1996, the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Wisława Szymborska of Kraków, Poland, praising her poetry's "ironic precision." What...