1980: Mount St. Helens located in the Cascade Range erupted and blasted 1,300 ft off it's top that sent hot mud, gas and ashes running down its slope. The explosion sent plumes of dark gray ash some 60,000 feet in the air (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
- Mount St. Helens: A Different Kind of Heat, by Ken Ham
- Mount St. Helens and Creation Proofs, by David Darmond
- Mount St. Helens: The Implication for Catastrophic Geology, by Dr. Steven Austin
- Fossils and Geology, by Rev. Stephen Hamilton
Recomended podcast:Understanding the Crisis in Ukraine, by Dr. Peter Hammond
1969: Apollo 10 takes off for the dry run for Apollo 11's mission to land a man on the moon later in the year (Source)
Recommended sermon: Moon Madness, by Dr. Ian R. K, Paisley (1926-2014)
This sermon was preached on July 27, 1969 - One week after Apollo 11 landed on the moon. The text Ecclesiastes 7:29 (Audio):
"Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions."
While I recommend you listen to this whole sermon, here are a few quotes:
"It's not the moon we need to reach. It's the God that placed it there."
"There's one of the cartoons...that's utter blasphemy. Man's sitting on the moon with his feet upon the world. 'The heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool.' That's how far man goes in his blasphemy against God....There's coming a great ruler, and he'll say the same thing: 'I'll sit where God sits!'"
"I know people who sat up half the night to see it, but they never sat up half the night to consider, 'Where will you be in eternity?' What a fool you are!"
"The greatest day in man's history was when Jesus rose from the dead. He brought in a new creation, which shall last longer than the sun and the moon shall endure, and the heavens as we see them today."
