Today in the History - April 19, 2018

1993: USA Waco Cult Raid (Source)

Recommended podcast:

Waco II? by Pastor Kevin Swanson (2008)

Recommended reading:

Bitter Lessons 25 Years After Waco, Texas Seige - thedailysheeple.coom
Waco and the Attack on Syria - thenewamerican.com ("On April 19, 1993, The U.S. Government used chemical weapons on its own people - but no foreign government government retaliated against America.")

1995: Oklahoma City Bombing - A truck bomb at Alfred P. Murrah Building kills 168 and injures 500 (Source)

Recomended sermon:

The Real Pity of Oklahoma City, by Joe Pellicone (2015) [Text: 2 Timothy 3:1-5]

Recommended reading:

15 Years After Oklahoma City Bombing: Lessons Learned (2010) - thenewamerican.com

1987: The first showing of the Simpsons (Source)

The Church of England Recruits the Simpsons, by Dr. Alan Cairns (2007)

2005: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected as successor to Pope John II. The new pope takes name Benedict XVI and is head of world's 1.1 Catholics (Source)

Who is Ratziner Pope Benedict XVI? by Richard Bennett
Anti-Christ: The Pope? The Historic Protestant View, by Rev. Stephen Hamilton
A Rat - In the Vat, by Rev. Noel Hughs (2005) [Text: Revelation 17]

Today in History - April 18th

1783: Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day after it began (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The French Revolution: (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death - Satanic Politics and God's Wrath Upon Nations, That Turn From Him), by Francis Nigel Lee
Was the American Revolution Wrong? by Pastor Sean E. Harris
Baptists and the American Revolution, by Laurence Justice

1676 Sudbury, Massachucettes Was Attacked by Indians (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

America's Sins Against the Indians, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
J.S. Murrow: 72 Years A Missionary to the Indians in Oklahoma, by Laurence Justice

1980: Rhodesia becomes an independant nation of Zimbabwe (Source)

Recommended podcasts:

Remmember Rhodesia Service (2016), by Dr. Peter Hammond
Dedication, Duty, and Destiny - Remmember Rhodesia Service (2017), by Dr. Peter Hammond

Today in the History - April 17

1937: Cartoon character Daffy Duck made his debut in the Warner Bros. animated short "Porky's Duck Hunt", directed by Tex Avery (Source)

The Bible says:

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven...a time to weep, and a time to laugh..." - Ecclesiastes 3:1,3 (Audio)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Serious Preaching in a Comedy Culture, by Dr. David P. Murray [Text: 1 Corinthians 5:10,11 (Audio)
How to Benefit from a Funeral, by Dr. David P. Murray [Text: Ecclesiastes 7:2,3 (Audio)]
Should Christians Celebrate Halloween? Is It Time To Abandon Disney? by Pastor Kevin Swanson
Dejected Jesters!: The Tragic Lives of Many Comedians, by Pastor Joey Faust [Text: Ecclesiastes 3:4 (Audio)]

1985:  The US Government has announced a camaign to increase awareness of organ donation hoping to make donation of organs as widespred as giving blood (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Organ Donation and Cremation, by Rev. Gordon Ferguson
Organ Snatchers and the Brain Dead Lie, by Pastor Joey Faust
Organ Transplantation and Brain Death, by W. Daniel Jordan, M.D.

1989: In Poland, Courts gave Solidarity legal status (Source)

Recommended video:

Solidarity Forever
Organized Labor Hurts Us, by John Strossel

Recommended reading:

Poland: Solidarity - The Labor Union That Changed the World - rferl.org
You Will Lose Your Job to Robots Sooner Than You Think (Automation Brought the Age of Trump. What Will A.I. Bring?) - motherjones.com
Companies Lay Off Thousands, Then Demand Immigration Reform for New Labor - washingtonexaminer.com [2013]

Recomomended podcasts:

Labor Unions - Blessing or Curse? by Pastor Kevin Swanson

Today in History - April 16

1917: Vladimir Lenin issues his radical "April Thesis" calling for Soviets to take power during the Russian Revolution (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

KGB, Active Measures, Disinformation and Subversion, by Dr. Peter Hammond
Cuba, Castro, and Communism, by Dr. Peter Hammond
Christian Colleges - Pro-Marxist? Communism for Kid - New Curriculum, by Pastor Kevin Swason
How Apostate Presbyterian Churches Support Communism, by Dr. Carl McIntire (1906-2002) [Note: This sermon was preached in 1971]

Recommended article & video:

95 Years Ago, The USSR Was Formed. Let's Look at the Numbers - dailycaller.com
History of the Soviet Union Set to the Music of Tetris

1521 Martin Luther Arrived at Diet at Worms (Source)

Recomemend sermons and podcasts:

Martin Luther at Diet at Worms 1521, by Rev. Brian McClung [Text: Matthew 10:19]
Luther: Here I Stand, by Pastor Kevin Boling

Here are some excerpts from Faith Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification, by R. C. Sproul (1939-2017):

"Does saving faith require a trust in the righteousness of Christ alone as the grounds of our justification? Or may a person have a different view of the gospel and still be a Christian?" 

"The Reformation was waged, not over the issue of justification by faith, but over the issue of justification by faith alone. It was the Sola of Sola Fide that was the central point of dispute." 

" Agreement between Rome and Evangelicals can be reached in several ways. One is for Evangelicals to abandon their historic position of Sola Fide. A second is for Rome to adopt Sola Fide as its official doctrine. The third is for agreement to be reached that Sola Fide is not essential to the gospel." 

Here is how Pastor Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) felt about the importance of the Reformation (in the 1500s, the 1800s, and in 2017!

"It is today as it was in the Reformers’ days. Decision is needed. Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day? We who have had the gospel passed to us by martyr hands dare not trifle with it, nor sit by and hear it denied by traitors, who pretend to love it, but inwardly abhor every line of it….Look you, sirs, there are ages yet to come. If the Lord does not speedily appear, there will come another generation, and another, and all these generations will be tainted and injured if we are not faithful to God and to His truth today. We have come to a turning-point in the road. If we turn to the right, mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and His Word." (From The Forgotten Spurgeon, by Iain Murray

Today in History - April 13th

1598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The French Huguenots, by Dr. Peter Hammond
Killing Saul's Saints for Worship: Saul and King Louis XIV, by Keith Dewell
Battling for the Reformation in France, by Rev. David Mook

1965 The Beatles record their singe hit "Help" (Source)

Recommended podcast:

The Beatles: How They Led the Cultural Revolution, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
Led Zepplin, Madonna, Michael Jackson - Are The Beatles Bigger Than Jesus? by Pastor Kevin Swanon

1970 Apollo 13 announces "Houston, We've Got a Problem." as Beech-built oxygen tank explode en route to moon (Source)

Recommended sermon:

Moon Madness, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014) [Note: This was  preached after the 1969 moon landing]