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Faith for blessing, positive confession, abundant life.
Key question: “How does this promise God's blessing and abundance?”
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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 August 24, 1215: Pope Innocent III issues a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illustration about how God works through the events of history.
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 29, 1114: A large earthquake damages the areas of the Crusaders in the Middle East. Antioch, Mamistra, Marash and Edessa are hit by the shocks. This historical event can serve as a powerf
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 November 23, 2006: A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
On November 24, 2016: The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil w
On November 24, 1940: World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illu
On November 25, 571 BC: Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates the first of his three triumphs for his victory over the Etruscans. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illustration
On November 25, 1034: Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, dies. His grandson, Donnchad, son of Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne. This historical event can serve as a powerful ser
On November 25, 1510: Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sul
On November 25, 1947: New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom. This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon i
On April 12, 1910: SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.[citation needed] This historical event can serve as a powerful sermon illus