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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
Imagine, if you will, the scene on March 7, 1965, as a diverse group of men and women stood at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The sun broke through the morning haze, casting a golden...
In September 1838, a twenty-year-old man stepped off a train in New York City wearing a borrowed sailor's uniform and carrying forged papers. Frederick Bailey...
Robert Chambers spread the bills across the kitchen table at eleven on a Tuesday in March. The envelope from the bank sat unopened at the...
In 2015, the American Bible Society completed a translation of Scripture into Bibleless languages for a small community of Kimyal people in Papua, Indonesia. When...
Every computer user knows the cold panic of accidentally deleting something irreplaceable — a year's worth of photos, a dissertation, a project built over months....
When Maria Sandoval's youngest son came down with croup in the middle of February, she did what parents have always done — she stopped sleeping....
Every Saturday morning, Rosa Gutierrez set up her stand at the Maple Street farmers' market in Topeka, Kansas. She sold tamales — handmade, wrapped in...
Every spring, in the stone-walled courtyard gardens of Provence, old roses that have climbed the same walls for generations are tended by patient hands. They...
In the film *A Serious Man*, we meet Larry Gopnik, a man caught in the crosshairs of life’s bewildering mysteries. Picture him—a middle-aged physics professor in the cold, stark landscape of 1960s Minnesota—standing in his modest home, the weight of...
On April 19, 1956, Grace Kelly stood aboard the SS Constitution as it pulled into the harbor of Monaco. Behind her lay everything she had...
In 1577, Spanish friar John of the Cross was seized by his own religious brothers and dragged to a windowless cell in Toledo. For nine...
In the hill country of Tuscany, outside the village of Montalcino, there is a tradition that dates back centuries. When a family celebrates a wedding,...
For years, Grace Community Church in Dalton, Georgia, held a January prayer-and-fasting week. Members skipped meals, filled the sanctuary for midday devotions, and posted scripture...
In rural Appalachia, old hand-pumped wells still dot the hillsides. Anyone who has used one knows the rule: before you can draw water out, you...
Margaret Chen had driven the same stretch of Highway 9 for forty years, but the evening her daughter called from a broken-down car somewhere outside...
In June 2018, twelve boys from the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach vanished into the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. Monsoon rains...
Dr. James Chen had fasted every Friday for fifteen years. No food from sundown Thursday to sundown Friday — just water, prayer, and Scripture. He...
Cinematic retelling of Jesus' death and its cosmic effects
In 1843, a former slave named Isabella Baumfree walked away from New York City carrying little more than a pillowcase of belongings and a name...
In 2019, a high school cross-country coach in rural Oregon named Dave Turnbow was loading his team onto the bus after a meet in Bend...
In the winter of 1944, Betsie ten Boom lay dying on a thin mattress in Ravensbruck concentration camp. Her body was skeletal, ravaged by forced...
In 2019, mountaineer Sarah Maguire spent three days climbing through dense fog on the trail to Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal. The clouds hung so...
In 1927, American journalist and committed atheist H.L. Mencken traveled to Dayton, Tennessee, to cover the Scopes Trial. He arrived with pen dipped in acid,...
In 1974, Swedish biochemist Tomas Lindahl made an unsettling discovery: human DNA is chemically unstable. Every cell in your body experiences tens of thousands of...