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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?”
24,117 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens
3/15 (1927): The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
4/9 (1860): On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the first known recording of an audible human voice.
1/1 (1985): The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
5/8 (1924): The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
5/1 (1978): Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
6/19 (1990): The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
11/9 (1936): American fashion designer Ruth Harkness encounters and captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan; it becomes the first live giant panda to enter the United States.
1/15 (1541): King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
1/20 (1576): The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
3/15 (1875): Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
7/4 (1837): Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.