“The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.”. Numbers 6:24-26.

RT @HistoricalRook: #OTD July 4, 1832:.The national hymn “America” is first sung in public at a children’s celebration of Independence Day,….

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#OTD July 4, 1832:.The national hymn “America” is first sung in public at a children’s celebration of Independence Day, at the Park St. Church, Boston. The words had been written that February by the Rev. Samuel F. Smith and are sung to the tune of “God Save the King.”

RT @fbc_calgary: This day in 1721, Lutheran missionary Hans Egede lands in Greenland. He will be called "the Apostle of Greenland" becaus….

#OTD July 3, 1897.Death of David Brown, a Christian author, educator, and church leader in Scotland. He is best known as the coauthor of the Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, for which he had written the sections on the Gospels, Acts, &

#OTD July 3, 1960:.Death of Alfred H. Ackley, a prolific writer of hymns, remembered primarily for the tune HE LIVES. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and Cali.

#OTD July 3, 529: .The Synod of Orange convenes in southern France. Led by a forceful Augustinian, Caesarius of Arles, the synod upheld Augustine's doctrines of grace and free will while condemning the views of Semi-Pelagians (including John Cassian and Faustus of Riez), who

#OTD July 2, 1505: .A rain storm in Germany helps launch the Protestant Reformation. While returning from a trip to visit his parents, Martin Luther (then a law student) was caught in a violent thunderstorm near Stotternheim. Fearing for his life, he cried, "Help me, St. Anne! I

#OTD July 1, 1899:.In Wisconsin, the Gideons were founded by three traveling businessmen. They placed their first Bibles in 1908 at the Superior Hotel in Iron Mountain, Montana.

#OTD July 1, 1643:.The Westminster Assembly convenes for the first time in the Henry VII Chapel of Westminster Abbey. Five years later it published the Westminster longer and shorter catechisms.

#OTD June 30, 1860:.Bishop Samuel Wilberforce and biologist Thomas Huxley engage in a famous exchange regarding evolution. Before the debate, Wilberforce was coached by biologist Richard Owen. The debate took place at the Oxford University Museum in Oxford, England, seven months

#OTD June 29, 1810:.After resolute petitioning of college students from Williams College and Andover Seminary, the Congregationalists of Massachusetts organize the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, America's first foreign missions society.

#OTD June 28, 195: .Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons (France) and one of the most important Christian writers of the second century, dies. His best-known work is Against Heresies, often cited as a refutation of gnosticism. To counter the doctrines of the gnostic sects claiming secret

#OTD June 27, 444: .Cyril, patriarch of Alexandria and author of several writings on the dual natures of Christ, dies. He opposed Nestorius, who taught there were two separate persons in the Incarnate Christ, one divine and the other human. He was a central figure in the Council

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RT @fbc_calgary: This day in 1526, the Diet of Ilanz 🇨🇭 proclaimed the right of all in the Grisons, of both sexes and any rank, to choose b….

#OTD June 26, 1932: .Francis Schaeffer attends a Presbyterian church meeting where a Unitarian spoke out against the truth of the Bible and its teachings. A young lady named Edith had prepared a rebuttal, but before she could speak, Francis stood up and shredded the speaker's

#OTD June 26, 1691:.Death at Exeter of John Flavel, an eminent English Puritan who suffered much of his life from laws against Nonconformists but had many loyal parishioners who would travel more than five miles one way to hear him preach after he was ejected from his pulpit, or

#OTD June 25, 1530:.Lutherans present their summary of faith, known as the Augsburg Confession, to Emperor Charles V. Philipp Melanchthon did most of the work preparing it, but it was not presented until it received Martin Luther's approval.

#OTD June 24, 64:.Nero begins the first imperial persecution of Christians.