Thursday, February 29, 2024

Today in History - March 1

                A special thanks to Wikipedia.org for following historical information. The sermons I have chosen from Sermonaudio.com

1562 – Sixty-three Huguenots are massacred in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.[6]

Recommended sermons and podcasts:
  1. 30 Years War and the Huguenots, by Aaron Wright
  2. 400th Anniversary of the French Huguenots, by Rev. Brian McClung
  3. The French Huguenots, by Dr. Peter Hammond
1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.

Recommended sermons, reading and podcasts:
1953 – Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.

Recommended sermons and podcasts:
  1. I Feel Like Communism is Better - Millennial Worldviews (Podcast), by Pastor Kevin Swanson
  2. Cuba, Castro, and Communism (Podcast), by Dr. Peter Hammond 
  3. How to Destroy a Nation: America vs the Soviet Union, by Pastor Kevin Swanson (2012)
  4. Recommended sermon: The Cold War, by Rev. Roger Higginson [Text: Matthew 24:12: "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold."]

1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

 The following quotes are from Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's book, Killing the Rising Sun:

  1. "In the blast that follows, a fireball spreads out over the target zone. It travels at one hundred times the speed of sound, rendering it silent. One-millionth of a second later, the people of Hiroshima began to incinerate."
  2. "But Enola Gay is safe. All twelve men on board are alive. In six hours they will celebrate with whiskey and lemonade and spend the night far from the hell they have just created."
  3. "The next day the chilling results of what the young officer saw from the air are reported on Japanese radio: 'Practically all living things, human and animal, were literally seared to death."
  4. "[President] Truman's face lights up. 'This is the greatest thing in history...'"
  5. "'Thank God for the atomic bomb' is a common refrain among American soldiers and sailors, who have been dreading the blood-bath sure to come if American troops invade the beaches of Japan. To many of them, the bombing of civilians is not an issue - it's payback for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor."
  6. "Oppenheimer soon leaves the stage, but not before bringing the house down with his final comment: 'My only regret is that we didn't develop the bomb in time to use it against the Germans.'"
Recommended sermon (for such a time as this!): The Holocaust of Hell, by Dr. David P. Murray

The text for this sermon is 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9:  "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power..."


1998 – Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The following podcasts are by Brian Dunlop
  1. What About Disney Movies? Part 1
  2. What About Disney Movies? Part 2

More recommended podcasts:

  1. TV's Power of Suggestion - The Other 13 Reasons Netflix Won't Dare to Mention, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
  2. 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."
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