Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Birthday Verse of the Day: 

Romans 8:15 NIV = For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”

Today in History:

1911: Procter & Gamble of Cincinnati introduced Crisco hydrogenated shortening.

1939: The film Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

1999: Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship, the youngest player to win two majors since Seve Ballesteros.

1456: The Gutenberg Bible, the first book printed from a movable type, was dated by hand. Printed by the German Johann Gutenberg, its exact date of publication is unknown. Gutenberg probably printed about 180 copies, of which 20 complete copies are extant. The Gutenberg Bible is the oldest surviving printed book in Europe. 

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Birthday Verse of the Day:

Romans 8:14 NIV = because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Today in History:

1935: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, creating a system of federal income insurance for the elderly.

2003: The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, said he would not remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building, defying a federal court order to remove the granite monument.

1942: Bill Wallace returns to China as a missionary doctor. He had vowed to give his life for this work years earlier. 

Monday, August 13, 2012

Birthday Verse of the Day:  

Isaiah 8:13 NIV = The LORD Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear.

Today in History:

1910: Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale died at age 90. She had taken to her bed 34 years earlier, convinced she was dying. 

1998: Iowa honored longtime Governor Terry Branstad by having his likeness carved in a 150-pound block of Colby cheese. The bust was displayed in a cooler outside the cattle barn at the Iowa State Fair.

1587: Members of Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to Roanoke baptizes Manko, the first American Indian convert to Protestantism.

Friday, August 10, 2012

Today in History

1498: England’s King Henry the 7th paid John Cabot a 10-pound reward for discovering Canada. In American currency, that was about $15 worth of beads.

1993: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the U.S. Supreme Court`s 107th justice, and second female member.

1948: English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: "We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country."

Birthday Verse of the Day

Nehemiah 8:10 NIV = Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Today in History:

1944: The U.S. Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council created the character Smokey the Bear to plead for Americans to prevent forest fires. 

1765: English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: "You have but one Pattern; follow Him inwardly and outwardly. If other believers will go step for step with you, well; but if not, follow Him!"

Birthday Verse of the Day:

2 Corinthians 8:9 NIV = For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Today in History:

1923: Clarinetist Benny Goodman got his first professional job as a band leader on a Chicago excursion boat. He was 14 years old.

1974: President Richard Nixon announced he would resign following new damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal.

1994: Israel and Jordan opened the first road link between the two once-warring countries.

Birthday Verse of the Day:

Zechariah 8:8 NIV = ...they will be my people, and I will be faithful and righteous to them as their God.”

Tuesday, July 7, 2012

Today in History:

1782: George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in military enlisted men and noncommissioned officers.

1999: Boston's Wade Boggs became the first player to homer for his 3,000th hit.

1771: Francis Asbury answers John Wesley's call for volunteers to go to America as missionaries; he would become the father of American Methodism.

Birthday Verse of the Day:

Deuteronomy 8:7 NIV = For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills.