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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
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...
Paul (Galatians 3:19) and Stephen (Acts 7:53) explicitly affirm angelic agency in law-giving, yet the Pentateuch itself remains ambiguous.
On August 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a force that stunned the entire planet. The explosion was heard nearly three thousand miles...
In the prophet's day, the Jewish leaders had cast off their wives for heathen women, then taught their followers this transgression was no sin.
In the autumn of 1904, Evan Roberts was a twenty-six-year-old coal miner in Loughor, Wales, known mostly for his quiet temperament and calloused hands. He...
In 1959, a sixty-five-year-old professor named Pedro Bach-y-Rita suffered a devastating stroke that left him paralyzed and unable to speak. Doctors offered little hope. But...
Yahweh commanded His people to bind blue thread upon the borders of their garments—not for ornament, but as a *zikaron* (remembrance).
In 1997, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard made a discovery that reshaped our understanding of how forests work. Using radioactive carbon isotopes, she traced an invisible...
In 1994, engineers at Ericsson faced a stubborn problem: every device manufacturer spoke a different digital language. Phones could not talk to headsets, computers could...
Psalm 38:5 speaks of wounds that stink and are corrupt because of our foolishness. What folly marks the sinner's path? Consider the cascading stupidity of sin's progression. First, *dallying* with sin—toying with temptation as though it were harmless sport. The...
In 1909, a twenty-one-year-old Japanese seminary student named Toyohiko Kagawa walked out of his comfortable dormitory in Kobe and moved into a six-foot-by-six-foot shack in...
In *The Return of the King*, the final film of Peter Jackson's *Lord of the Rings* trilogy, there is a scene that catches audiences off...
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes modern medicine. He found that human bone is not static. It actively remodels...
In the film *Chariots of Fire*, the name Eric Liddell resonates not just because he was an Olympic champion, but because of the profound declaration he made: "When I run, I feel His pleasure." Picture that moment on the track,...
In 1455, in a workshop in Mainz, Germany, Johannes Gutenberg pulled the first finished sheets of a Latin Bible from his wooden press. Each page...
In the late 1740s, Johann Sebastian Bach labored in his Leipzig study, his eyesight steadily failing, assembling the final sections of what would become the...
In the 1890s, Sir Francis Galton conducted one of the most exhaustive studies of human fingerprints ever attempted. After analyzing thousands of prints, he calculated...
In the winter of 1942, Vichy police arrived in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains of southern France, and demanded that Pastor André...
In 1929, a young German surgeon named Werner Forssmann did something his colleagues considered suicidal. Convinced that a thin tube could safely reach the human...
With the remaining timber, he carves a god and falls before it in worship.
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...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano needed help just to reach the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach — the...
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...
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...