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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 Matthew 27:57-66
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 136
Every cell in your body carries your complete DNA — roughly twenty thousand genes containing instructions for everything from producing insulin to growing fingernails. Yet...
Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 7:36-50
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues thought was reckless. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he...
Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage — from sunlight, from...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a boy named Eustace Scrubb becomes a dragon. His greed and selfishness have literally transformed him...
Vivid sensory description for preaching John 11:1-16
In 2016, plant biologist Stacey Harmer and her team at UC Davis published a remarkable discovery in the journal *Science*. Young sunflowers, they found, track...
In the hill country outside Asheville, North Carolina, a furniture maker named Harold Rigsby spent forty-three years bending white oak into Windsor chairs. His workshop...
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 7
In *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*, there is a quiet moment deep in the Mines of Moria where Frodo Baggins...
In 1997, ecologist Suzanne Simard at the University of British Columbia made a discovery that changed how we understand forests. She found that trees in...
Bart Millard grew up afraid of his own father. Arthur Millard was violent and unpredictable, and Bart's childhood was shaped more by fear than by...
In *The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*, there is a moment that catches in your throat every time you watch it....
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 63
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 141
For eleven years, Marco Salinas drove his three children to Westfield Elementary in a dented silver Corolla that smelled like coffee and pine air freshener....
In Clint Eastwood's *Gran Torino*, Walt Kowalski is a bitter Korean War veteran who has spent a lifetime building walls around his heart. But when...
In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that colleagues thought was career suicide. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed...
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a country doctor's mistake left her permanently blind. She never saw a sunrise, never read a printed page,...
Marine biologist Edith Widder spent years descending into the deep ocean in submersibles, exploring a world no sunlight has ever touched. Below a thousand meters,...
Vivid sensory description for preaching John 8:31-47
Susanna Wesley raised nineteen children in a cramped Epworth rectory in early eighteenth-century England. The woman never lacked for Martha's kind of work. There were...