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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
11/22 (1718): Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself.
Weep, daughter of a royal line, A Sire's disgrace, a realm's decay; Ah! happy if each tear of thine Could wash a Father's fault away! Weep--for thy tears are Virtue's tears-- Auspicious to these suffering Isles; And be each drop...
9/2 (1945): World War II: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japan and the major warring powers aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, thus marking the official end to the war.
11/1 (1922): Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
7/14 (1951): Ferrari take their first Formula One grand prix victory at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
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).
1/1 (1988): The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
11/1 (1790): Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
7/20 (1917): World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
1/15 (2020): The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare confirms the first case of COVID-19 in Japan.
6/19 (1964): The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.