Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Today in History - January 22

871 - Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King AEthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Historic Innacuracies in Vikings, by Dr. Peter Hammond

1689 - The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:


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1905 - Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The Forgotten Bloody Sunday, by Pastor Jonathan Campbell [Text: Romans 12:19]

1973 - The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Abortion: The New Holocaust, by Rev. Roger Higginson

The text for Rev. Higginson's sermon is Psalm 116 (Audio)

Recommended video: 


Note: This is a hard video to watch, both because of its subject matter, but also because of the song that goes along with it. It is a great song, but the audio quality is not very good. I suggest you watch the whole video, but when they come to the song, turn the volume down and just read the lyrics below!

A Malediction:

The judges sat outside the law
And in their pride no evil saw
In setting teeth to Satan's jaw
And feeding him our children.

A curse, a curse, the law it cries
A curse, a curse, on mankind's pride
A curse on him who would deny
God's image in mankind.

When viewed in terms of cost and ease
An unborn child is a disease
A holocaust soon fit to please
Our own convenience.

Torn from out their mother's womb
Denied the sky, denied the tomb
Conceived in lust to their own ruin
A sacrifice to pleasure.

A Curse, a curse their blood cries out
A curse, a curse the heavens shout!
A curse on him who dares to flout
God's image in mankind.

The doctors with their blood-red hands
Who loved their money more than man.
With greed their god they lay their plan
The butchers of mankind.

Oh, rid us of this evil Lord
And turn our hearts by cross or sword
Our nation cannot long afford
To live beneath your anger.

A Curse, a curse upon their heads
O, save them Lord, or slay them dead!
And fill our country with your dread
And turn away your anger.

Recommended reading:

607203: . . . Down Will Come Roe, Babies and All: A Road Map for Overruling Roe vs. Wade . . . Down Will Come Roe, Babies and All: A Road Map for Overruling Roe vs. Wade
By Thomas M. Powers / WestBow Press

1973 - The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:




The Gospel Written in the Sky, by Rev. Ian Brown [Text: Psalm 19:1]
The Revelation of Scripture, by Dr. David P. Murray [Text: Psalm 19:1]

Moon Madness, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014 [Text: Ecclesiastes 7:29] [Note: This sermon was preached in 1969, right after the Apollo moon landing]


The Bible says:

"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handiwork." - Psalm 19 (Audio)

Recommended video:

How Great is Our God - Louie Giglio


1984 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical User Interface,  is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial 

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

How I Found Christ?

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