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The present-day operation of all spiritual gifts and the experiential dimension of the Holy Spirit.
Key question: “How is the Holy Spirit actively manifesting His power and gifts in the church today?”
23,625 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens
AH, woe is me, my mother dear! A man of strife ye’ve born me: For sair contention I maun bear; They hate, revile, and scorn me. I ne’er could lend on bill or band, That five per cent.
8/6 (1890): At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
3/17 (1958): The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, which is also the first satellite to achieve a long-term orbit.
1/1 (1804): French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black-majority republic and second independent country in North America after the United States.
2/14 (1797): French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent: John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
1/15 (1973): Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1/20 (1921): The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
7/14 (1957): Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
This act impresses the Christian Emperor Honorius, who issues a historic ban on gladiatorial fights.
9/11 (1776): British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
12/7 (1995): The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.