Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Today in History - November 5

 1605 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The Gunpowder Plot, by Dr. Ian Brown [Text: 2 Kings 17:39]

1688 - William III of England lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:


The following quote is from Spurgeon's Sermon Notes

"We are like William of Orange, with a few followers and an empty purse, making war against the master of half the world, with the mines of Peru for a treasury. But like William, too, when questioned concerning our resources, we can reply, 'Before we took up this cause we entered into a close alliance with the King of Kings.'"

1757 - Seven Year's War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The Colonial Wars of America and Providential Significance, by Historian Bill Potter

How I Found Christ?

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