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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
3/17 (1958): The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, which is also the first satellite to achieve a long-term orbit.
12/7 (2015): The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
5/1 (880): The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
11/11 (1961): Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
7/4 (1960): Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)).
1/15 (1777): American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont) declares its independence.
All crew members are killed.
12/7 (1982): In Texas, Charles Brooks Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
9/11 (1995): The first game of the PCA World Chess Championship 1995, pitting incumbent champion Garry Kasparov against challenger Viswanathan Anand, takes place on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower in New York City.
3/15 (1877): First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.