Sunday, August 18, 2019

Today in History - August 19

1692 - Salem Witch Trials: In Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft (Source)

Recommended reading:

Why is the Occult on the Rise? - christianpost.com
No Separation of Satan and State: Satanic "Christmas" Displays Aren't Progress - thenewamerican.com

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

How Does a Christian Evaluate Witchcraft, Fantasy, Yoga, and Science? by Pastor Kevin Swanson [Text: I Samuel 28 (Audio) (2012)
Principalities and Haunted Houses, by Pastor Mike Hoggard
Satan's Temptation of Eve, by Rev. Cornelis (Neil) Pronk [Text: Genesis 2:15-3:6 (Audio)
Halloween - What's Behind the Mask? by Jim Schneider [Crosstalk America]
Satan Considering the Saints, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
Colossians 2:1-15, by Rev. Paul den Butter
A Christian Response to the Salem Witch Trials, by Rev. Matthew Trewhella [Text: Acts 19:11-19 (Audio)

1759 - Battle of lagos: Navel battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The Colonial Wars of America and Providential Significance, by Historian Bill Potter

1812 - War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides" (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The War of 1812  - Commemorating 200 Years, by Pastor Kevin Swanson (2012)

Recommended video:


2003 - A Suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing (Source)

Recommended (Jewish) songs:

Minyan Man, by The Maccabeats

Recommended sermons:

How I Found Christ?

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