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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
11/1 (1954): The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
12/25 (1989): Romanian Revolution: Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial.
4/9 (1952): Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
6/19 (1846): The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
1/1 (1502): The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is first explored by the Portuguese.
6/19 (1982): The People's Armed Police is de facto founded; It is officially established 10 months later on April 5, 1983
11/9 (1936): American fashion designer Ruth Harkness encounters and captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan; it becomes the first live giant panda to enter the United States.
7/20 (1997): The fully restored USS Constitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
10/12 (1945): The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence.
Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.