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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?”
24,057 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens
12/7 (1987): Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.
11/1 (1914): World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
4/22 (1945): World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.
7/20 (1949): The Israel-Syria Mixed Armistice Commission brokers the last of four ceasefire agreements to end the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
The majority of the garrison is massacred the next day.
3/15 (1907): The first parliamentary elections of Finland (at the time the Grand Duchy of Finland) are held.
4/1 (1999): Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
They performed ten lunar orbits, took the Earthrise photograph, broadcast live TV pictures, and read the first ten verses of Genesis.
12/7 (1724): Tumult of Thorn: Religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
4/1 (1949): Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.