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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
Archbishop John Tillotson (D.D.) identifies two pillars supporting this claim.
In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton canceled his ski holiday and traveled to Prague. Jewish families were desperate, their children in grave danger...
In 2018, third-grade teacher Maria Hernandez in East Los Angeles asked her principal for a small raised bed so her students could grow radishes for...
In 1917, George Ellery Hale stood beneath the newly completed 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in California. For years, he had battled skeptics...
On December 21, 2015, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster descended from space and landed upright at Cape Canaveral — the first time in history...
In 1619, the German astronomer Johannes Kepler published his masterwork and wept. After twenty years of painstaking calculations, he had finally discovered the mathematical laws...
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Corrie ten Boom and her family built a secret room behind a false wall in their Haarlem home....
Every cell in your body sustains somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 DNA damage events each day. Ultraviolet light, free radicals from metabolism, even the ordinary...
Every month for eleven years, Maria Gonzalez of San Antonio mailed a $50 check to the hospital where her daughter was born — chipping away...
In 1935, a Texas industrialist named R.G. LeTourneau made a decision that baffled his accountants. Already giving generously to churches and missions, he restructured his...
In 1947, Margaret Hutchins sat on a wooden bench outside the county courthouse in Boone, North Carolina, signing papers that would finalize the sale of...
The pattern repeats throughout Scripture: Saul bribed assassins to hunt David (1 Samuel 22:6–19); the Jewish leaders later bribed Judas to betray the Son of David into their hands.
First, by way of excellency: wisdom itself surpasses the fairest woman in the world in beauty and worth.
Picture the scene: the cold, moonlit night envelops the dense forests of Maryland, a cloak of darkness hiding the fervent heart of a woman named Harriet Tubman. Like an eagle soaring above treetops, Harriet navigates the shadowy landscape with a...
For fourteen centuries, Egyptian hieroglyphics remained an impenetrable mystery. Scholars stared at temple walls covered in elaborate symbols and understood nothing. The meaning was there,...
Exell's Victorian commentary unpacks the deceptive nature of rebellion: "Treason and rebellion are such horrid and loathsome crimes that if they should appear in their native visage and genuine deformity they could never form a party." Instead, they insinuate themselves...
In 1977, the Catholic bishops of El Salvador chose Oscar Romero as archbishop, expecting a quiet, bookish man who would not make trouble. The powerful...
In 1843, a woman named Isabella Baumfree walked out of New York City with nothing but a pillowcase of belongings and a fierce conviction that...
On June 15, 2022, residents of Christchurch, New Zealand felt the earth tremble beneath their feet — again. Over a decade after the devastating 2011...
Not long ago, I found myself entranced by a small patch of wildflowers in my backyard, illuminated by the golden morning sun. As I watched, a tiny line of ants marched diligently across the ground, each with a purpose, seemingly...
Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old, after a careless doctor applied a mustard poultice to her infected eyes. She would never see...
Jacob's blessing gave pre-eminence to Judah and Joseph's son Ephraim, yet structural inequality festered.
The first fault—measuring oneself by oneself—springs from three sources.
Actions are judged solely by present utility, not by righteousness.