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Radical discipleship, pacifism, and the church as a distinct counter-cultural community.
Key question: “How does this text call the community of faith to live as a distinct, counter-cultural witness to the Kingdom?”
23,986 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens
5/8 (1924): The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
2/12 (1818): Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
7/14 (1790): Inaugural Fête de la Fédération is held to celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation.
11/9 (2011): The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m.
11/1 (996): Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
11/1 (1914): World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
11/1 (1976): Burundian president Michel Micombero is deposed in a bloodless military coup d'état by deputy Jean-Baptiste Bagaza.
6/19 (1785): The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, without the Nicene Creed, establishing it as the first Unitarian congregation in the United States.
2/14 (1778): The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.