Friday, October 9, 2020

This Weekend in History - October 10 & 11

 1560 - Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian is born (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:


Here is a short excerpt from this sermon:

"The biblical doctrine of election [predestination] teaches that some people receive grace [mercy] and the rest receive justice. No one ever receives injustice from God."

Quotes from Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892):

"That old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach today, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again." (From Iain Murray's The Forgotten Spurgeon)

Recommended sermons:

The Doctrine of Reprobation, by Rev. Cornelis (Neil) Pronk [Text: Romans 9 (Audio)] [Canons of Dort, Article 15]
John Calvin: The Galleons of Grace (The Five Points of Calvinism), by Dr. Ian Brown [Text: Romans 8:29-30 (Audio)]

For more on the Five Points of Calvinism, the following series of sermons was preached in 1982 by Rev. Paul den Butter:

Introduction to the Doctrines of Grace (aka The Five Points of Calvinism) [Text: Jude 3b (Audio)]

Unconditional Election

Unconditional Election, #1 [Text: Ephesians 1:4,5 (Audio)]
Unconditional Election, #2 [Text: Romans 9:18-21 (Audio)]
Unconditional Election, #3 [Text: Acts 18:9-11 (Audio)]
Unconditional Election, #4 [Text: 1 Thessalonians 1 (Audio)]

Limited Atonement

Limited Atonement, #1 [Text: Romans 2:1-16 (Audio)]
Limited Atonement, #2 [Text: Hebrews 7:27b (Audio)]
Limited Atonement, #3 [Text: 1 Peter 3:18a (Audio)]
Limited Atonement, #4 [Text: John 12:31 (Audio)]
Limited Atonement, #5 [Text: Matthew 20:17-28 (Audio)]
Limited Atonement, #6 [Text: John 3:1-16 (Audio)]

Total Depravity


Irresistible Grace

Irresistible Grace, #1 [Text: Matthew 22:1-14 (Audio)]
Irresistible Grace, #2 [Text: John 6:44 (Audio); Acts 16:14 (Audio)]
Irresistible Grace, #3 [Text: 2 Timothy 1:9 (Audio)]

Perseverance of the Saints

1899 - The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State  (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Emily Hobhouse and the Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War, by Dr. Peter Hammond

1954 - In Accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Woodstock Won: The Cultural, Social, and Sexual Revolution, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
Woodstock and the Hippies: A Biblical Analysis, by Rev. Brian Schwertley [Text: 1 Corinthians 10:7]
Woodstock: A Christian Analysis, Part 1, by Rev. Brian Schwertley [Text: Romans 13:10]
Woodstock: A Christian Analysis, Part 2, by Rev. Brian Schwertley [Text: John 16:33]

Recommended videos:

Captain Gerald Coffee - Prisoner of War: His Story, Part 1

Captain Gerald Coffee - Prisoner of War: His Story, Part 2

The following two books should be required reading before anyone is allowed to vote in the 2020 election:


None Dare Call It Conspiracy, by Gary Allen
Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, by Ann Coulter

Here is what Ann Coulter has to say about the Vietnam War:

"Vietnam is the Left's favorite war because America lost."

"Historical accounts of the Vietnam War are incomprehensible because liberals refuse to admit the failure of their national security strategy. The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars."

"In the great Democratic tradition of taking the nation to war without a plan to win, only the Democrats could have produced Vietnam."

"President Lyndon Johnson, who inherited the war when Kenedy was assassinated, viewed the Vietnam War as a method of proving the Democrats could be trusted with foreign policy, which they cannot."

"Nixon had been elected in part based on his promise to end the war honorably. He would have done so, too, but for Democrats in Congress,"

"A Republican President either wouldn't have started that war, or would have won it pretty fast."

How I Found Christ?

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