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The immediate, experiential work of the Holy Spirit and the expectation of spiritual gifts.
Key question: “How does this text reveal the present-day work and power of the Holy Spirit?”
25,762 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens
When Roses cease to bloom, Sir, And Violets are done -- When Bumblebees in solemn flight Have passed beyond the Sun -- The hand that...
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.
7/14 (1958): In the 14 July Revolution in Iraq, the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who becomes the nation's new leader.
The majority of the garrison is massacred the next day.
11/1 (1870): In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
The event gained wide media attention as it was the only shuttle launch in the program's history to occur on the United States' Independence Day.
The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk.
3/17 (1958): The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, which is also the first satellite to achieve a long-term orbit.
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.
6/19 (1964): The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
2/12 (1946): African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially...