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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
A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within Oh cunning wreck that told no tale And let no Witness in The...
11/1 (996): Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
7/4 (1778): American Revolutionary War: US forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
11/22 (1718): Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself.
12/24 (1906): Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
11/1 (1914): World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
2/14 (1945): World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden.
11/1 (1520): The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
1/1 (1001): Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Sylvester II (probable).
7/4 (836): Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed.
On the same day, Augustin-Jean Fresnel signs a "supplement" (submitted four days later) on reflection of polarized light.
5/8 (2019): British 17-year-old Isabelle Holdaway is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage therapy to treat a drug-resistant infection.