Sunday, June 30, 2019

Today in History - July 1

1766 - Francoise-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France (Source)


Recommended sermon on Voltaire:

Horrifying & Terrifying Death Bed Scenes Of Atheists; Apostates and Reprobates (1 of 3), by David Clark
Horrifying & Terrifying Death Bed Scenes Of Atheists; Apostates and Reprobates (2 of 3), by David Clark
Horrifying & Terrifying Death Bed Scenes Of Atheists; Apostates and Reprobates (3 of 3), by David Clark

Recommended poem for those who hate our Lord Jesus:

Invictus, by William Ernest Henley

Recommended poem for those who love our Lord Jesus:

My Captain! by Dorothea Day

Recommended sermon for all the world:

How To Benefit From A Funeral,  by Dr. David P. Murray

How I Found Christ?

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