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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
The way of genuine beneficence unfolds in three movements: first, we give bountifully, not grudgingly.
Paul addresses the Corinthian church in 1 Corinthians 8:2, warning those who placed high estimate upon philosophical comprehension of religious truth: "If any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know." Pride injures...
On March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. flew his OH-23 Raven helicopter low over the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. What he saw...
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 1787, a twenty-seven-year-old member of Parliament sat at his desk in Old Palace Yard, London, and scratched two sentences into his journal: "God Almighty...
The Wise Teacher presents three critical warnings about approaching places of moral danger.
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...
In 2016, Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize for discovering the mechanisms of autophagy — a process whose name literally means "self-eating." When...
Barnes and William Ellery Channing, articulates the multifaceted obligations each demands.
In 1867, engineer John Roebling proposed spanning the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn with a suspension bridge — the longest in the world. Critics...
The first fault—measuring oneself by oneself—springs from three sources.
A theological meditation on 1 John 4:7-21, exploring the central declaration "God is love" and its implications. Examines love as evidence of knowing God, the incarnation as love's definition, the expulsion of fear by perfect love, and the inseparability of loving God and loving siblings.
We entrust our fellows with sums large and small, yet human confidence repeatedly fails.
In 1858, twenty-year-old John Wanamaker gathered a handful of children in a vacant lot in Philadelphia and started a Sunday school class. He had no...
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...
In 1825, Robert Owen, one of the wealthiest industrialists in Britain, purchased an entire town in southwestern Indiana. He renamed it New Harmony and poured...
In 1854, Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Scutari and found soldiers dying not from battlefield wounds but from ignorance. The wards...
The Wisdom writer distinguishes between antagonism as an inherent principle—designed by Elohim to position us against evil and the enemies of God—and antagonism as mere destructive habit.
In 1965, Millard Fuller was a thirty-year-old millionaire in Montgomery, Alabama, with a Lincoln Continental in the driveway and a marriage falling apart. He attended...
Solomon commands: "Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them." The wise are least likely to covet such company, yet this counsel applies universally.
First, consider who bestows it: Yahweh Himself, the Giver of all good gifts.
She is the chief of the four cardinal virtues and may rightly be termed the hinge that turns them all about: wisdom to direct, justice to correct, temperance to abstain, fortitude to sustain.
In the spring of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. London's musical establishment had turned against him. Creditors circled. His operas played to...
As a child, I would often visit my grandfather’s farm, where the mornings began with a breathtaking display of creation. I remember standing on the porch, a quilt of dew-kissed grass beneath my bare feet, as dawn tiptoed into the...