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Soul liberty, congregational autonomy, believer's baptism.
Key question: “How does this affirm individual conscience and congregational discernment?”
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On November 23, 1924: Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times. This historical
On November 22, 1307: Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. This historical e
On November 22, 1989: NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-33, a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illustrat
On November 22, 2004: The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illustration about godly leadership and
On November 23, 1499: Seven days after being convicted of treason, Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the throne of England, is hanged for attempting to escape from the Tower of London; his supporter John
On November 21, 1995: The Dayton Agreement is initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This historical even
On November 23, 1914: Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. This historical event can serve as a powerfu
On November 23, 1867: The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody. This historical event
On November 23, 1991: Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury announces in a statement that he is HIV-positive. He dies the following day. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illustration
On November 23, 1943: World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illustration about how God works through the events of histor
On November 24, 1221: Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia. This historical event can serve as
On November 23, 1943: World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche
On November 24, 1863: American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confedera
On November 24, 1941: World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illustration about the gift of freedom and libe
On November 23, 1940: World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illustration about how
On November 24, 1962: Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin. This historical event can serve as a p
On November 23, 1944: World War II: The Lotta Svärd Movement is disbanded under the terms of the armistice treaty in Finland after the Continuation War. This historical event can serve as a powerful
On November 23, 1971: Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time. This historical event can serve a
On November 24, 1542: Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon ill
On November 24, 1190: Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illustration about godly leader
On November 23, 2004: The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illustration about the end
On November 23, 1939: World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illustration about how God works t
On November 23, 2019: The last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia, Imam, dies, making the species officially extinct in the country. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illustration abo
On June 5, 1947: Cold War: Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe. This historical event can