Saturday, June 8, 2019

Today in History - June 8 & 9

June 8

632 - Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Median (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

U.S. Islamic Center Influences Children to Sing About Beheadings - Jim Schneider of  Crosstalk America interviews Osama K. Dakdok of Straight Way of Grace Ministry
'Chrislamic' Deception -  Jim Schneider of Crosstalk interviews Shahram Hadian of the Truth in Love Project.


1789 - James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Grace Rejected at James Madison, by James Hamilton, The Street Preacher [Text: Titus 2 (Audio)]

1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B . McClellan (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Stonewall Jackson and Self-Control, by John Weaver [Text: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27]
The Christian Character of Stonewall Jackson, by Rober Maddox, M.D.
Stonewall Jackson, by BJU Students and Faculty

1912 - Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Should Christians Watch Movies? by Dr. David P. Murray

 [Note: The text for this sermon is Revelation 18:4 (Audio):

"And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, my people, that ye be not partaker of her sins, and that ye share not in her plagues."

More recommended sermons and podcasts:

Avengers, Endgame Movie Review - Sorcery, Human Sacrifice, Fates, Pagan Gods Restored, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

Recommended poems:

The Devil's Vision
The Bible or the TV Guide

1949 - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published (Source)

More recommended sermons and podcasts:

Supreme Court Decisions Against Us - Christians Shouldn't Support 1984 Police State, by Pastor Kevin Swanson (2015)
A Biblical Response to the Supreme Court Decision, by Dr. David P. Murray (2015)

Recommended reading:

1984 Turns 70 in a World That Looks a Lot Like the Book - zerohedge.com


June 9

AD 68 - Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of Four Emperors (Source)

More recommended sermons and podcasts:

Nero Leads Ireland, Belgium, Colorado - Top Moral Cesspools in the World, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

1856 - Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail (Source)

1954 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, 'You've done enough  Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" (Source)

Recommended reading:

How I Found Christ?

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