Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Today In History - April 26th

1607: English colonists went ashore at present day Cape Henry, Virginia, on an expidition to establish the first permanant English colony in the Western Hemisphere (Source).

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

He Who Notes Providence: 1607 Jamestown, by Bill Potter
The Impact of the First Africans in Jamestown on America, by Joe Morecraft III
America's 400th Anniversary and the Great Jamestown 400 Treasure Hunt, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

1968: The United States exploded beneath the Nevada desert a 1.3 megaton nuclear device called "Boxcar" (Source)

Recomended sermons and podcasts:

Principles of Legitimate Warfare, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
A Just War and a Holy War, by Rev. Andrew Patterson [Judges 20]
Just War Theory, Pearl Harbor, and World War II, by Bill Potter
The Evil of Bombing Civilians, by Joe Pittman Hey [Text: Hebrews 2:14,15; John 18:3-9]

1514: Copernicus makes his first observation of Saturn (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The Fruits of Copernicus, by Pastor Joey Faust [Text: 1 Timothy 6]
Is the Bible a Geocentric Book? by Pastor Sam Adams [Text: Psalm 19:1-11; Malachi 4:1-3]

And just for fun...

It's a Round Round World (Video)

How I Found Christ?

 How I Found Christ? by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)