Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Today in History - September 19

1676: Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon, during Bacon's Rebellion (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

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 (2006)
He Who Notes Providences: Jamestown 1607, by Historian Bill Potter

1908: Berlin doctors announce the inauguration of electric Knife to be used in surgery (Chronicle of the 20th)  

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Biblical Reflections Before Brain Surgery, by Brian Borgman [Text: Psalm 61:1-4]
Biblical Reflections After Brain Surgery, by Brian Borgman [Text: Psalm 50:15]
Heart Surgery - Not Lip Service, by Rev. Andrew Patterson [Text: Matthew 15:8]
Discernment and the Dragon Lady - Reason and Reassignment Surgery, by Pastor Kevin Boling [Text: Proverbs 27:6]

1969: Nixon cuts draft by 50, 000 this year (Chronicle of the 20th)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Senate Approves Forced Draft for Our Daughters, by Adam McManus (2016)
Drafting Women into the Military? by Dr. Paul J. Dean, Jr. (2016)
Republicans Want to Draft Your Daughters, by Pastor Kevin Swanson (2016)
Johah, The Draft-Dodging Prophet, by Rev. Henk Bergsma [Text: Jonah 1:1-3]

1976: Washington: Sun Myung Moon ends 4 year U.S. ministry with anti-communist speech  (Chronicle of the 20th)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The Unification Church: The Cult of Sun Myung Moon, by Vincent Sawyer
Sun Myung Moon Dies at 92, by Pastor William J. Sturm (2012) [Text: Galatians 1:8,9]

1976: Two imperial Iranian Air Force $-4 Phantom II Jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object, when both independently lose instrumentation and communication as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

UFOs in the New Age: Extraterrestrial Messages, Doctrines of Fourth Dimensional Demons, by Larry Wessles [Text: Revelation 12:4; 2 Corinthians 11:14,15]


How I Found Christ?

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