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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?”
24,365 sermon illustrations through the Reformed/Presbyterian lens
11/1 (1956): The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
9/2 (44): Cicero launches the first of his Philippicae (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
4/9 (1990): The Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement is signed for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000 sq mi) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic.
4/9 (1945): Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, is executed by the Nazi regime.
Calvin Jones, and James Crowe form the Ku Klux Klan.
10/12 (2005): The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.
The telecast also includes the first television advertisement in the United States, for I.J. Fox Furriers, which also sponsored the radio show.
5/8 (1945): World War II: The German Instrument of Surrender signed at Berlin-Karlshorst comes into effect.
6/6 (1982): 1982 Lebanon War: The war begins as forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
11/11 (1918): World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.
2/14 (1797): French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent: John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
12/25 (1951): A bomb explodes at the home of Harry T. Moore and Harriette V. Moore, early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, killing Harry instantly and fatally wounding Harriette.