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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 December 23, 1954, twenty-three-year-old Ronald Herrick lay on an operating table at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, perfectly healthy, waiting to be cut...
In Cape Town, South Africa, tourists file through the narrow corridors of Robben Island's maximum-security block. They stand before Cell 5, where Nelson Mandela spent...
In *The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*, Frodo Baggins collapses on the slopes of Mount Doom. The Ring has drained every...
On June 30, 1966, Pauli Murray sat in a Washington, D.C. hotel conference room, watching government officials dismiss yet another resolution calling for the Equal...
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a doctor's malpractice left her permanently blind. The world would have written her story in a single word:...
In 2005, Dr. Sarah Sallon planted a seed that had no business growing. Recovered from the ruins of Masada during excavations in the 1960s, the...
Cinematic retelling of Jesus' teaching on clean and unclean
By the time Ludwig van Beethoven began composing his Ninth Symphony, he was almost entirely deaf. The man whose life was built around sound could...
In 1985, a luxury hotel perched high on the cliffs above Armero, Colombia, advertised itself as the safest address in the valley. Its brochure boasted...
In 1887, musician Daniel B. Towner was leading worship at a D.L. Moody evangelistic meeting when something unexpected happened during the testimony time. A young...
In 1692, a physician named Georg Handel had no intention of letting his eight-year-old son pursue music. The boy was destined for law — a...
On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. Seventy-five thousand people stretched...
In 2020, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing technology that has revolutionized medicine. Scientists design...
When cardiac researchers isolate individual heart muscle cells and place them in a laboratory dish, something remarkable happens. Each cardiomyocyte contracts on its own, beating...
In 2003, scientists completed the Human Genome Project — a thirteen-year effort to map every gene in human DNA. One of the most stunning discoveries...
In March 2012, landscape architect Emily Sullivan walked through the grounds of a Joplin, Missouri, church that had been leveled by an EF5 tornado ten...
In 1944, Allied bombs had reduced much of Coventry, England, to rubble. The medieval cathedral lay in ruins, its famous pipe organ nothing but twisted...
In 2001, psychologist Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet conducted a study at Hope College that revealed something remarkable about what unforgiveness does to the human body....
In the language of art, there is a word that belongs equally in a sanctuary: *pentimento*. It comes from the Italian *pentirsi* — to repent....
In 2012, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center made a remarkable discovery. When they examined the brain tissue of women who had passed...
In December 2022, a massive winter storm stranded over four thousand travelers at Denver International Airport for three days. Strangers who would never have spoken...
In February 1944, the Gestapo raided the Beje, the narrow Dutch watchmaker's house where Corrie ten Boom and her family had been hiding Jewish refugees....
In 1997, a fifth-grader named Marcus Torres stood at the edge of the blacktop at Jefferson Elementary in Tucson, Arizona, watching his classmate David trip...
Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells suffers between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage. Ultraviolet light, metabolic byproducts,...