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The orthodox, historical consensus of biblical interpretation.
Key question: “What is the most widely accepted and historically grounded understanding of this text?”
25,889 sermon illustrations through the Traditional lens
KIND Reader! take your choice to cry or laugh; Here HAROLD lies--but where's his Epitaph? If such you seek, try Westminster, and view Ten thousand just as fit for him as you.
11/9 (2005): The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
11/9 (1979): Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland, detect a purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
12/24 (971): Battle of Ayn Shams: The Fatimids under Jawhar defeat the Qarmatians at the gates of Cairo, putting an end to the First Qarmatian invasion of Egypt.
9/2 (1792): During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
3/17 (1988): Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
7/20 (1999): The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.
3/15 (1919): Ukrainian War of Independence: The Kontrrazvedka is established as the counterintelligence division of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.
1/20 (1986): In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
10/12 (1999): The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
10/31 (2002): A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
1/15 (1908): The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.