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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
As the sun began to dip below the horizon, casting a warm golden hue over Jerusalem, a tense atmosphere hung in the air. The bustling market square, usually filled with the sounds of lively barter and laughter, felt charged with...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic and asked the captain to tell him when they passed over...
In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision his colleagues thought was reckless. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed the...
In *The Shawshank Redemption*, Andy Dufresne spends nineteen years inside a prison he does not belong in. But what makes Andy remarkable is not his...
Leonard Cohen once admitted that he wrote eighty draft verses for his song *Hallelujah* — sitting on the floor of his hotel room in his...
In 1690s England, a teenage Isaac Watts sat fidgeting in the pews of Above Bar Congregational Church in Southampton, miserable over the flat, joyless psalm-singing...
Cinematic retelling of Jesus' ascension
In 1905, Albert Einstein solved a puzzle that had baffled physicists for years. Scientists knew that shining light on certain metals could knock electrons free...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring down at cold, dark water. Somewhere beneath those waves,...
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 149
In 1505, Martin Luther's father Hans had mapped out his son's entire future. Martin would study law, rise in society, and bring honor to the...
In 2018, a trauma surgeon named Dr. Liz Scarlett gave a talk at a medical conference in Nashville. She rolled up her sleeve and showed...
In September 2001, recovery teams pulled dozens of computer hard drives from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. They were crushed, waterlogged, scorched beyond...
In 333 BC, Alexander the Great rode into Jerusalem on a warhorse draped in purple, his cavalry stretching behind him like a river of bronze....
In 1917, a pastor named Frederick Lehman sat down to write a hymn about the love of God. He composed two verses that morning, but...
In *The Shawshank Redemption*, Andy Dufresne spends nineteen years inside the walls of a prison he never deserved. But one stormy night, he crawls through...
In bone marrow transplantation, something remarkable happens that sounds more like theology than medicine. When a patient with leukemia receives a donor's healthy marrow, the...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues considered foolish. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed...
In 2014, Google engineer Tadek Pietraszek helped design a revolutionary security key — a tiny USB device called the Titan Security Key that replaced passwords...
On the western tip of Tenerife, where the Atlantic crashes against volcanic cliffs, stands the Faro de Teno — a lighthouse that has guided sailors...
In 1864, a freed slave named Washington Ruffner stood outside a salt furnace in Malden, West Virginia, clutching a scrap of paper — the Emancipation...
For decades, scientists called it "junk DNA." When the Human Genome Project mapped our genetic code in 2003, researchers discovered that only about two percent...
In the final decade of his life, Claude Monet was going blind. Cataracts clouded his vision so severely that the painter who had spent fifty...
In 1967, psychologist Martin Seligman conducted a groundbreaking experiment at the University of Pennsylvania that revealed something heartbreaking about captivity. Dogs were placed in a...