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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
Vivid sensory description for preaching John 13:31-38
In the early sixteenth century, the painter Matthias Grünewald created the Isenheim Altarpiece for a monastery hospital in Alsace, where monks cared for patients ravaged...
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 84
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 26
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 34
Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 9:28-36
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 78
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 95
In 250 AD, a devastating plague swept through the Roman Empire. The illness — likely smallpox or measles — killed as many as five thousand...
In 1980, a team of restorers climbed scaffolding in the Sistine Chapel to begin one of the most controversial art restorations in history. For nearly...
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 99
In 1980, restorer Gianluigi Colalucci climbed the scaffolding inside the Sistine Chapel and pressed a small solvent-soaked compress against a darkened section of Michelangelo's ceiling....
In 1857, a Scottish minister named George Muller ran five orphanages in Bristol, England, housing over two thousand children. He never once asked for a...
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 74
Vivid sensory description for preaching Matthew 26:57-68
Vivid sensory description for preaching John 11:38-44
In the opening pages of J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Hobbit*, Bilbo Baggins is perfectly comfortable. He lives in a cozy hole in the ground, eats six...
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 110
Vivid sensory description for preaching John 18:12-27
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 121
Every programmer knows the terror of a corrupted database. In 2017, engineers at GitLab — one of the world's largest code-hosting platforms — accidentally deleted...
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 73
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 61
Vivid sensory description for preaching Mark 1:29-39