32 illustrations referencing 2 Samuel
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 1722, a twenty-two-year-old German nobleman named Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf offered a corner of his family estate in Saxony as refuge for a small...
In 1952, a young minister named Will Campbell sat in a segregated diner in Nashville, laughing with his white colleagues while a Black seminary student...
In 1956, a young carpenter named Earl Palmer saved up enough money to buy land outside Asheville, North Carolina. He had one dream: build a...
In 1987, a cardiac surgeon in Portland named Dr. Raymond Kelley made an error during a routine bypass that left a forty-year-old mother partially paralyzed....
In the heart-wrenching film *Ordinary People*, we meet Conrad Jarrett, a young man grappling with the unbearable weight of grief and survivor's guilt. After a tragic boating accident claims the life of his older brother Buck, Conrad finds himself adrift...
"David's sin was abuse of power—exploitation of Bathsheba, murder of Uriah. 'Create a clean heart' is the plea of the powerful who have misused power. The heart formed by empire needs re-creation. God
Teaching on Confession and Self-Examination from Ambrose of Milan: Ambrose on David's Confession as Model