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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?”
24,022 sermon illustrations through the Eastern Orthodox lens
1/20 (1265): The first English parliament to include not only Lords but also representatives of the major towns holds its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament".
5/8 (1978): The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
3/17 (2004): Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.
4/9 (1454): The Treaty of Lodi is signed, establishing a balance of power among northern Italian city-states for almost 50 years.
7/4 (1832): Durham University established by Act of Parliament; the first recognized university to be founded in England since Cambridge over 600 years earlier.
1/20 (1874): The Treaty of Pangkor is signed between the British and Sultan Abdullah of Perak, paving the way for further British colonization of Malaya.
5/8 (589): Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church.
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).