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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
Finn, observing harvest customs in the Holy Land in 1866, illuminated this ancient practice: the grain was not cut with a sickle but rather pulled from the earth by hand.
In 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was thirty-one years old and already one of Germany's most brilliant theologians. He held a doctorate and a habilitation from the...
Transgression may appear productive of happiness, yet the wicked possess no reasonable expectation of contentment—neither now nor in the eternal world.
Every Sunday morning, First Community Church in Decatur, Georgia held a prayer vigil for their struggling neighborhood. They sang. They fasted. They wept at the...
On August 1, 1834, church bells rang across the British Caribbean as the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 took effect. In Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, and...
In the spring of 2016, Kobe Bryant turned his final NBA season into a nationwide celebration. Every arena gave him a standing ovation. ESPN ran...
In the summer of 1940, Japanese Vice-Consul Chiune Sugihara looked out the window of his consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, and saw hundreds of Jewish refugees...
What does it mean to trust one's heart?
In the final act of *The Return of the King*, Aragorn has just been crowned King of Gondor. The kingdom is restored, the war is...
At the bottom of nearly every manuscript he composed, Johann Sebastian Bach inscribed three Latin letters: S.D.G. — *Soli Deo Gloria*. To God alone be...
On the evening of March 24, 1882, Robert Koch stood before the Berlin Physiological Society and changed the course of medicine forever. Tuberculosis had ravaged...
Melancthon mourned in his day the divisions among Protestants, and sought to bring them together by the parable of wolves and dogs.
In 2018, a federal investigation in rural Mississippi uncovered that two juvenile court judges had been routinely sentencing Black teenagers to months in detention facilities...
In the early 1990s, Rich Mullins was one of the most commercially successful artists in Christian music. His anthem *Awesome God* filled arenas and sold...
In the winter of 1942, when the Vichy government began deporting Jews from France to Nazi death camps, Pastor André Trocmé stood before his Huguenot...
In 1945, Branch Rickey sat across from Jackie Robinson in a Brooklyn office and asked a question that would change American history. But it wasn't...
For eight patient years, Gregor Mendel knelt in the monastery garden at St. Thomas's Abbey in Brno, Moravia, cross-pollinating pea plants by hand. Between 1856...
In December 1785, William Wilberforce sat across from John Newton in a London parlor. Wilberforce — a wealthy young Member of Parliament — had recently...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto the grass at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, wearing the number 42 on his Dodgers jersey....
In 2001, psychophysiologist Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet at Hope College conducted a study that changed how scientists understand forgiveness. She asked participants to think about...
When NASA began designing the James Webb Space Telescope in 1996, engineers estimated a 2007 launch. What followed was twenty-five years of setbacks, redesigns, and...
In transplant medicine, when a living donor gives one of their kidneys to save another person's life, something remarkable happens to the kidney that remains....
In 2016, Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his groundbreaking work on autophagy — a process whose...
In 1959, Pedro Bach-y-Rita suffered a devastating stroke that left him paralyzed and unable to speak. Doctors told his family there was nothing more to...