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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
A suburban church decided to partner with an inner-city congregation. The suburban members brought assumptions about what their partners "needed"—food drives, tutoring, career help.
In 1748, a violent storm nearly sank a slave ship called the *Greyhound* off the coast of Ireland. Aboard was John Newton, a man who...
In 2018, a group of hikers attempted the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire during winter — a peak infamous for its unpredictable, deadly...
In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once dazzled the courts of Europe was now fifty-six,...
Orthopedic surgeons know something remarkable about fracture healing. When a bone breaks, the body does not rush to repair it. Instead, it moves through four...
In 1894, Irish botanists Henry Dixon and John Joly proposed something that still astonishes scientists: water molecules inside a coast redwood climb over 350 feet...
In 2015, three scientists shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering something remarkable happening inside every living cell. Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz...
On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood before a Vienna orchestra to conduct the premiere of his Ninth Symphony. He had spent years composing...
On August 6, 1945, a single bomb reduced Hiroshima to ash and shadow. Over 140,000 people perished. The city lay in ruins so complete that...
In 1882, Antoni Gaudí took over construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, convinced he was building something magnificent for God. He poured forty-three years...
In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave on the Cumberland River in Tennessee, intending to die. Years of amphetamine addiction had cost him nearly...
Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old when a careless doctor applied a mustard poultice to her infected eyes. By every measure of...
In 2007, researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute discovered a deep-sea octopus clinging to a rocky ledge nearly a mile beneath the Pacific...
Every single day, the DNA inside your cells sustains somewhere between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage. Ultraviolet light, metabolic byproducts, simple...
In 1989, when Hurricane Hugo slammed into Charleston, South Carolina, with 140-mile-per-hour winds, it flattened homes, snapped century-old oaks like matchsticks, and reshaped the coastline...
In the summer of 2021, Simone Biles stood at the edge of the Olympic vault runway in Tokyo and did something the world never expected....
On May 24, 1738, John Wesley walked through the streets of London as a defeated man. He had crossed the Atlantic to convert Native Americans...
At 2:14 on a Tuesday morning, David Marsh's phone buzzed on the nightstand in his apartment in Columbus, Ohio. Half-asleep, he silenced it — probably...
On May 24, 1738, John Wesley — an ordained Anglican priest, Oxford scholar, and former missionary — walked reluctantly to a small gathering on Aldersgate...
In May 2017, the WannaCry ransomware attack swept across 150 countries in a single weekend. Hospitals lost access to patient records. Businesses watched helplessly as...
In the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg hangs one of Rembrandt van Rijn's final paintings — *The Return of the Prodigal Son*, completed around 1669,...
When NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990, expectations soared. Here was a $1.5 billion instrument designed to peer into the deepest reaches...
On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart during reentry, scattering debris across East Texas from an altitude of 200,000 feet. Among the...
In 1882, Antoni Gaudí took over the construction of a basilica in Barcelona that would become his life's obsession. La Sagrada Família was so ambitious...