Saturday, July 10, 2021

This Weekend in History - July 10 & 11

 July 10

1584 - William of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gerard (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

1645 - English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

I think it was Oliver Cromwell who said:

"You need not hope in order to undertake, and you need not succeed in order to persevere." The following sermons and podcasts are on Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War:

Oliver Cromwell: Saint, Soldier, Statesmen, by Dr. Alan Cairns (Text: Hebrews 8)
Oliver Cromwell, by Dr. Peter Hammond
Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England, by Rev. Ian Goligher (Text: 1 Samuel 18:12)

1921 - Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Centenary of Northern Ireland, by Dr. Ian Brown [Text: Deuteronomy 16]

1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The Human Genome, by Dr. James White
Ethics and the Human Genome, by Mr. Bill Pinkston

 July 11

1576 - While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existing) island of Frisland (Source)

Recommended missionary hymn:

From Greenland's IFrom Greenland's Ice Mountains

1922 - The Hollywood Bowl opens (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."

How I Found Christ?

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