Sunday, November 22, 2020

Today in History - November 23

 534 BC - Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character on stage (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Should Christians Watch Movies? by Dr. David P. Murray

[Note: The text for Dr. Murray's sermon is Revelation 18:4 (Audio):

"And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, my people, that ye be not partaker of her sins, and that ye share not in her plagues."

Recommended poems:

1174 - Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Second Crusade and Saladin, by Dr. Paul Ferguson

1644 - John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

John Milton: Christians and Classical Learning, by Pastor Kevin Boling

1733 - The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies (Source)

Recommended reading, sermons and podcasts:

Reparations for Slavery, by Dr. Peter Hammond

Exposing and Opposing Slavery Today, by Dr. Peter Hammond

The Welfare State Did What Slavery Couldn't - zerohedge.com


How I Found Christ?

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