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Reading Scripture as a path to Theosis — deification and union with God.
Key question: “How does this passage draw us into the mystery of God and guide us on the path of theosis?”
24,095 sermon illustrations through the Eastern Orthodox lens
1/1 (1960): Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.
11/22 (2004): The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
3/15 (1919): The American Legion is founded.
11/11 (1926): The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
6/19 (1960): Charlotte Motor Speedway holds its first NASCAR race, the inaugural World 600.
1/1 (1942): The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
12/24 (1939): World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
12/24 (1800): The Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise fails to kill Napoleon Bonaparte.
12/24 (1868): The Greek Presidential Guard is established as the royal escort by King George I.
8/6 (1825): The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
1/15 (1911): Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
4/22 (2016): The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
10/12 (1928): An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital.
11/11 (1949): The People's Liberation Army Air Force is founded.
7/4 (1927): First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
6/19 (1910): The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1/1 (1990): David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
7/4 (1634): The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).
1/1 (1965): The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.
12/24 (1294): Pope Boniface VIII is elected, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned.