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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 September 1849, Harriet Tubman fled Dorchester County, Maryland, traveling nearly ninety miles on foot through swamps and forests to reach Pennsylvania. She was free...
On June 17, 2015, Chris Singleton was a freshman baseball player at Charleston Southern University with dreams of the major leagues. That evening, a gunman...
In July 2016, Tim Duncan retired from the NBA after nineteen seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. He had won five championships, two league MVP...
For fifty years, Nicholas Winton said nothing. In the winter of 1938-1939, the young British stockbroker had traveled to Prague and organized the rescue of...
On September 10, 1960, Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia lined up for the Olympic marathon in Rome with no shoes on his feet. The other runners...
The Acts of the Apostles overflows with language of "disputation," "conference," and "reasoning." The apostles "came together to consider the matter"; "It pleased the apostles and elders and the whole Church"; they assembled "with one accord." This pattern reveals how...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano needed help just to reach the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach — the...
In 1865, nearly half of all amputation patients at Glasgow Royal Infirmary died from infection. Surgeons operated with unwashed hands, wearing blood-crusted coats they considered...
For decades, the Global Positioning System circling overhead carried two signals — one razor-sharp for the military, and one deliberately scrambled for everyone else. The...
With the remaining timber, he carves a god and falls before it in worship.
In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes orthopedic medicine today. Wolff's Law states that bone adapts to the stress placed...
In 1971, David Vetter was born at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston with severe combined immunodeficiency, a condition that left him without a functioning immune...
In 1882, Russian zoologist Élie Metchnikoff made a discovery that would eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. Studying starfish larvae under a microscope, he observed...
In 1962, British biologist John Gurdon made a discovery that would eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. He demonstrated that every cell in a frog's...
On March 23, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero stood in the Cathedral of San Salvador and did something that would cost him his life. He spoke...
Naomi's question to Ruth—"Where hast thou gleaned to-day?"—invites us into three vital truths about our stewardship before Yahweh. First, the *sphere* of life's opportunities. Labour is the law of life itself. The Lord has "set before thee an open door"...
"Then shall ye return," the prophet declares, speaking of a conversion to full recognition of neglected duty and past transgressions.
For eleven months, Marcus Thompson's front door stayed locked from the outside. His wife Denise kept it that way — not out of superstition, but...
When Marcus Chen accepted the teaching position at a small university in Edinburgh, something shifted before he ever packed a box. He was still showing...
In 1977, geologist Jack Corliss and his team descended nearly 8,000 feet into the Pacific Ocean aboard the research submersible Alvin. They expected to find...
On the morning of February 1, 1587, Queen Elizabeth I signed the death warrant for Mary, Queen of Scots. But what history often forgets is...
In 1882, Antoni Gaudí began work on the Basilica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain. He knew from the start that he would never...
On the evening of December 31, 1862, thousands of Black Americans gathered in churches, contraband camps, and meeting halls across the nation, waiting for midnight....
On September 3, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a summer holiday to his cluttered laboratory on the second floor of St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington,...