Monday, August 27, 2018

History: 7 Things That Happened on Augsut 27

1. 1914:  Africa: French and British troops occupy German Togo (Chronicle of the 20th)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Optimism Has Its Limits (1780-1914), by Jake Stone
Hidden From Jehovah's Witnesses: 1914 and 1975 (Video 3), by Theo Hikmat (Underground Christian Network) [Text: Matthew 24:4]

2. 1916: World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austrio-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied Nations (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcats:

Note: The following podcast is the first of 17 readings from Richard Warmbrun's book Tortured for Christ

Tortured for Christ, by Richard Wurmbrand (1/17) Read by 

3. 1921: Grass Soup found to be staple of starving Russian Peasants (Chronicle of the 20th)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Feeding the Five Billion, by Jeff Morgan [Text: John 6:1-14]
Hunger and Thirst for Christ, by  Rev. John Greer [Text Matthew 5:6]
*A Famine of the Word, by Dr. R. C. Sproul (1939-2017
Don't Tip-Toe Past the Dying (The Good Samaritan), by Dr. Toby B. Holt [Text: Luke 10; Luke 10:25,30]
You Feed Them: Fundamentalism Vs. The Social Gospel, by Justin Pierce [Text: Luke 10:10-20; 2 Timothy 4:2-5]

4. 1941:  U.S. Sec. of State Cordell Hull warns Japan to leave Pacific open to U.S. shipping (Chronicle of the 20th)

Recommended sermons and podcasts by *Peter Hammond;

Versailles - The Poisonous Spirit of Vengence
Pearl Harbor - The Untold Story
Darkest Hour - The Legend of Winston Churchill
Was Winston Churchill Really the Greatest Briton of All Time?

5. 1956: Storrs: University of Connecticut traces plant lift back 2 billion years (Chronicle of the 20th)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Six Days & the Eisegesis Problem, by Ken Ham

6. 1963:  Cambodia severed ties with South Vietnam (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Taking on the Worst of child Sex Slave Trafficking - Child Rescues in Cambodia, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

Recommended reading:


7. 1979: Ireland: Lord Mountbatten killed by IRA bomb on fishing boat (Chronicle of the 20th)

2001: Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6.0 (Source)

Amy Grant Helps Bill Gates Foundation - Abortafacients Kill Billions, by *Pastor Kevin Swanson

Recommended video:

Better Than a Hallelujah Sometimes

* Recommended reading:


 

How I Found Christ?

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