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God's absolute sovereignty, covenant theology, and Westminster Confessional standards.
Key question: “How does this text display God's sovereign grace and purpose, and ultimately bring glory to His name?”
24,403 sermon illustrations through the Reformed/Presbyterian lens
He who, sublime, in epic numbers roll'd, And he who struck the softer lyre of Love, By Death's _unequal_hand alike controul'd, Fit comrades in Elysian regions move!
5/8 (1919): Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
6/6 (1654): Swedish Queen Christina abdicated her throne in favour of her cousin Charles Gustav and converted to Catholicism.
6/19 (1862): President Abraham Lincoln signs the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862, which prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories.
5/8 (1963): South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
11/9 (2005): The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
11/9 (1943): An agreement for the founding of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is signed by 44 countries in the White House, Washington, D.C.