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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?”
24,153 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens
Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
1/1 (1988): The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
4/1 (1725): J. Bach's later Easter Oratorio in its first version is performed at the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig on Easter Sunday.
1/15 (1970): Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.
6/19 (1990): The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
6/19 (1978): Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.
5/1 (1844): Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
2/14 (1556): Having been declared a heretic and laicized by Pope Paul IV on 4 December 1555, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is publicly defrocked at Christ Church Cathedral.
10/31 (1918): World War I: The Aster Revolution terminates the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, and Hungary achieves full sovereignty.
2/12 (1404): The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sofia performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen-Geist Spital in Vienna.
1/1 (1959): Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces.
3/15 (1875): Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
1/1 (1773): The hymn that becomes known as "Amazing Grace", previously titled "1 Chronicles 17:16-17, Faith's Review and Expectation", is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.
7/4 (1837): Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
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.
6/6 (1859): Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales. The date is still celebrated as Queensland Day.
1/1 (1985): The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.