December 7
1932 - German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa (Source)
1951 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Source)
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Recommended sermons and podcasts:
1932 - German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Einstein Was Wrong - Absolutely! by Dr. Alan Cairns
1951 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Recommended reading:
Excerpt from this article:
"Stinnett demonstrates, on the basis of extensive incontrovertible factual evidence and self-evidently accurate analysis that President Roosevelt oversaw contrivance and deployment of a closely-guarded secret plan to goad the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor and monitor them while they did it."
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Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Just War Theory, Pearl Harbor and the Second World War, by Historian Bill Potter
Hiroshima, Scorched Earth, and Nuclear Warfare - Why We Don't Kill Women and Children, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
Were the Atom Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Justified? by Peter Hammond
Was Pearl Harbor An Unprecedented Attack? by Peter Hammond
2017 - Same-sex marriage is legalized in Australia with the passing of the Marriage Amendment Bill (Source)
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The best sermon I know of on the Christian's responsibility to secular authority (aka, the government), is Dr. David P. Murray's When Government Tries to Be God.
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Christians Should Avoid Offense - (Jesus Opting Out of Tax Exemption), by Grant van Leuven [Text: Matthew 17:24-27; Romans 13:5-7]
Now is the Time for Churches to Lose Tax Exempt, by Pastor Sean E. Harris
Equality Act Advances and State Department to Advance LGBT - Jim Schneider of Crosstalk interviews Matt Staver of The Liberty Council
Recommended reading:
Beto O'Rourke: Religious Institutions Will Lose Tax Exemption if They Oppose Same-Sex Marriage (Viedo)-- breitbart.com
Note on this last article: Maybe it is past time for true Christian churches to give up their tax exemption status and focus on preaching the gospel, not building religious empires!
December 8
1854 - In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin (Source)
December 8
1854 - In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
The Black Pope and His Murdermen - An Exposition of the Jesuits, Roman Catholicism, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014)
The Immaculate Conception and Incarnation, by Dr. Alan Cairns
1980 - Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City
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2013 - Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first band to perform on all 7 continents (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
The Coming Death of Just About All Rock and Roll Legends, by Dr. Paul J. Dean, Jr
Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Michael Jackson - Are the Beatles Bigger Than Jesus? by Pastor Kevin Swanson
