This Weekend in History - October 30 & 31

 October 30

1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaption of H. G. Well's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

  War of the Worlds, by Rev. Ian Brown. The text for this sermon is Revelation 9:13-21 (Audio):

-1944 - Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of World War II  (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Auschwitz: A Foreshadowing of Hell, by Rev. Ian Brown [Text: Psalm 116:3 (Audio); Psalm 137:7 (Audio)]
The Holocaust of Hell, by Dr. David P. Murray [Text: I Thessalonians 1:7-9 (Audio)]
Who Brought the Holocaust to America and the World? - Planned Parenthood's 100th by 

2014 - Sweden is the first European Union Member to officially recognize the State of Palestine (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

  Shining the Gospel Light in Sweden, Part 1, by Ken Keltner

 Shining the Gospel Light in Sweden, Part 2, by Ken Keltner

Recommended video:

I Enjoy Being a Swede, by Stan Boreson

Here is a great version of Amazing Grace in English and Swedish:

Amazing Grace in English and Swedish

October 31

1517 - Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Thesis on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Here is a great quote by Martin Luther to Erasmus:

"'You alone,' [Luther] tells Erasmus, 'have attacked the real thing, that is, the essential issue. You have not worried me with those extraneous issues about the Papacy, purgatory, indulgences and such like - trifles, rather than issues - in respect of which almost all to date have sought my blood...you, and you alone, have seen the hinge on which all turns, and aimed for the vital spot. For that, I heartily think you; for it is more gratifying to me to deal with this issue.' 'Free-Will' was no academic question to Luther; the whole gospel of the grace of God, he held, was bound up with it, and stood or fell according to the way one decided it."  -  Protestant Reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546) to Roman Catholic scholar Erasmus (1466-1636):(Source)

Here is one of Martin Luther's Hymns:

A Mighty Fortress is Our God

1968 - Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1 (Source)

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 Kennedy 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."