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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
A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care --...
1/1 (1985): The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
9/2 (1561): Entry of Mary, Queen of Scots into Edinburgh, a spectacular civic celebration for the Queen of Scotland, marred by religious controversy.
8/6 (1914): World War I: U-boat campaign: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
9/2 (1960): The first election of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.
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...
1/1 (1834): Most of Germany forms the Zollverein customs union, the first such union between sovereign states.
3/17 (2000): Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere...
9/11 (1851): Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, with a federal marshal and an armed party, sought to seize three of his former slaves in Christiana, Pennsylvania, thereby creating a...
12/25 (2003): The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.
9/11 (1829): An expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown to retake Mexico, surrenders at the Battle of Tampico, marking the effective end of Spain's resistance to Mexico's campaign for independence.
2/14 (1954): First Indochina War - small French garrison at Đắk Đoa is overrun by the Viet Minh after a week's siege.
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.