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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 the summer of 1936, Jesse Owens stood at the edge of elimination. The African American sprinter had fouled twice in the long jump qualifying...
Cinematic retelling of Jesus high priestly prayer
In the 1940s, psychoanalyst Dr. René Spitz studied infants in two very different settings. One group lived in a well-funded orphanage with impeccable hygiene, proper...
In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militia swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina faced an impossible situation with nothing but a hotel at his disposal....
In 1939, Oskar Schindler arrived in Kraków, Poland, as a card-carrying Nazi Party member looking to get rich off the war. He acquired an enamelware...
On September 10, 1946, a thirty-six-year-old Albanian nun boarded a train in Calcutta bound for Darjeeling. Sister Teresa had taught at St. Mary's High School...
Yet Exell extends the image to Christianity itself as the *helios* (sun) of our moral age.
In June 1984, at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia, Dr. Barry Marshall stood in his laboratory holding a murky broth that would either vindicate...
The wealthy preserved winter ice and snow in cisterns to cool summer beverages.
At 9:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer, a thirty-two-year-old account manager from Cranbury, New Jersey, learned the terrible truth aboard United Flight 93....
In 1909, a young Japanese seminary student named Toyohiko Kagawa did something his professors could not understand. He left his comfortable dormitory in Kobe and...
The soul is punished for informing; the body for performing.
In 1787, a young British parliamentarian named William Wilberforce sat at his desk in a London study, reading testimony from the holds of slave ships....
In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton canceled a skiing holiday to visit Prague. What he found in the refugee camps changed everything. Jewish...
The companion of Yahweh rejects the fruits of oppression.
Isaiah's indictment of Judah's rulers cuts to the heart of institutional decay: "Thy princes are rebellious . . . every one loveth gifts." The prophetic diagnosis identifies two fatal disorders. First, *mercenary ambition* replaces duty. These magistrates pursued salaries, fees,...
On December 9, 1952, Thurgood Marshall stood before the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., and spoke on behalf of...
In 1619, Johannes Kepler published a book with a remarkable claim: the planets were singing. The German astronomer had spent years charting the orbits of...
In 2015, NASA scientist Lucianne Walkowicz stood before a TED audience and said something that stopped the room cold: the most important discoveries happen when...
Cinematic retelling of the two beasts
In 1525, William Tyndale hunched over a printing press in Cologne, Germany, racing to finish what no one in England would let him attempt —...
Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* (1887) distinguishes these opposing spirits: the proud man esteems himself better than others; the humble man esteems others better than himself.
In 1248, workers laid the foundation stone for the Cologne Cathedral in Germany. They would never see it finished. Neither would their children, nor their...
On December 5, 1955, over 40,000 Black residents of Montgomery, Alabama, refused to ride the city buses. What began as a one-day protest after Rosa...