Friday, April 17, 2020

Today in History - April 18

1521 - Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Total Depravity, Part 1, by Rev. Paul den Butter
The German Reformer Martin Luther, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014) [Text: Romans 1:16,17]
Martin Luther: The Monk Through Whom God Shook the World, by Dr. Alan Cairns [Text: Acts 26, Romans 1:17]

1783 - Three-Fifths Compromise: The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three-fifths of persons (for the purposes of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:


Dr. Peter Hammond: William Wilberforce & The War Against Slavery Today





1980 - The Republics of Zimbabwe (Formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency (Source)

Recommended reading:

Zimbabwe Struggles with Hyperinflation: "It's a Nightmare!" - newyorkpost.com

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Churches Can Apply for Bailout Money? by Adam McManus (Worldview in Five Minutes)
Largest Bump for Socialism in US History - Beating FDR and LBJ..., by Pastor Kevin Swanson
Armistice 100, Remembrance Day and Rhodesia, by Dr. Peter Hammond

How I Found Christ?

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