Montville Church of Christ

Montville Church of Christ Montville Church of Christ
Dean Burnette, Minister
9601 Madison Rd
Montville OH
Bible School @ 9:30 a.m. Adults and Children
Services @ 10:30 a.m.

Contact Dean @ 216-213-5118 Dean Burnette, Minister

06/17/2026

This day in Church History
June 17
362
Emperor Julian “the Apostate” orders that all professors and schoolmasters must obtain a license before teaching—thus excluding Christians from educating youth.

1714
Performance of Bach’s first sacred cantata “Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis,” BWV 21 (“My Heart Was Full of Heaviness,”) after a clash with the elders at Halle.

1789
In Norwalk, after singing and praying, Jesse Lee preaches his first sermon in Connecticut (out of doors because no one will let him borrow a house or barn), taking as his theme, “You must be born again.” He will establish Methodist churches throughout New England.

1791
Death of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, a lifelong supporter of revival leaders and Methodists. Hours before her death of a ruptured blood vessel, she had whispered, “I shall go to my father tonight.”

1855
James Theodore Augustus Holly, an African-American, is ordained as a deacon at St. Matthew’s Church, Detroit. Nineteen years later, he will become the first African-American missionary-bishop of the Episcopal Church (for Haiti).

1922
Evangelist Paul Rader in Chicago makes the first of many radio broadcasts to generate publicity for his evangelistic meetings.

1956
Founding of the Thomas Road Baptist Church by Jerry Falwell and his associates.

1981
Muslims in al-Zawya Alhamra, a Coptic district of Cairo, attempt to seize a Coptic businessman’s land to build a mosque. Armed with machine guns, knives, crowbars, and other weapons they attack Christians and their property over a two day period, destroying one hundred and fifty homes and shops and murdering more than a hundred Christians, several by burning them alive. Afterward, foreign correspondents will be barred from photographing the carnage or interviewing the relatives of the victims or eyewitnesses.

2004
Jiang Zongxiu, a 34 year old mother and wife in China is arrested and beaten for distributing Christian literature in a marketplace. She will die the next day.

2012
Islamic terrorists bomb three churches in Kaduna State, Nigeria, killing dozens of Christians, including children, and injuring many more.

06/16/2026

This day in Church History
June 16
1361
Death in Strasburg of Johannes Tauler, German mystic and influential preacher.

1660
The British House of Commons passes a resolution to burn books of John Milton that had championed the Parliamentarian rebellion against Charles I and argued for the legitimacy of that king’s ex*****on. The books will be burned on 27 August 1660.

1752
Death at Bath of Bishop Joseph Butler, whose head-on challenge of his own doubts had led him to write Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of Nature (1736), a highly original and famous apologetic that answered Deism. It had quickly become a textbook for ecclesiastical students.

1818
Death of Samuel J. Mills at sea. He had been exploring Africa to see if a mission work could be established. With Adoniram Judson and others, Mills had been a founder of American foreign missions.

1833
John Henry Newman, while traveling on a ship from Italy to France, pens the words to the hymn, “Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom.”

1862
Repose (death) of Archimandrite Moses, who had entered the monastic life with the blessing of the famous St. Seraphim himself. After years of asceticism in Roslavl Forest, he had visited Optina and was persuaded to found a hermitage there.

1948
Death at Haverford, Pennsylvania, of Rufus M. Jones, American Quaker theologian. Through his writings and articles he had done much to advance Quaker social action. He had also helped found the American Friends Service Committee.

1983
Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, remaining there through June 23rd.

06/15/2026

This day in Church History
June 15
992
Death of Michael of Kiev, the first Metropolitan of Kiev.

1692
In response to a query from Salem leaders regarding trial procedures, Cotton Mather and eleven associates sign a statement on witchcraft that shows their literal belief in the claims coming out of the Salem witch trials.

1755
Birth in New York of John Marrant, an African-American who will become a missionary to Native Americans, one of America’s first African-American missionaries.

1774
Death at Halle, Germany, of Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky, a German Pietist hymnwriter.

1932
Death of Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney at Notting Hill, London. She had authored the wedding hymn “O Perfect Love.”

1937
Kierkegaard scholar Walter Lowrie is so impressed with Charles Williams’s editorial suggestions for a series on the Danish philosopher that he writes: “I am willing to have [Williams] carry them out in the revision of the proofs up to the end of the book, without delay of referring them to me.” Charles Williams will become one of the literary circle around C.S. Lewis, known as the Inklings.

1941
Death in London of Anglican mystic Evelyn Underhill, author of Mysticism (1911) and Worship (1937) among other books.

1982
John Stott leads a memorial service for influential British evangelist Eric John Hewitson Nash at All Souls’ Church in London.

2000
Death from cancer of Presbyterian theologian James Montgomery Boice, a prolific writer and Bible commentator, widely known for defending the inerrancy of Scripture. He had been a founding member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

2006
Three million believers parade through Sao Paolo, Brazil, according to organizers, in the world’s largest “March for Jesus” headed by the leaders of the Reborn in Christ Pentecostal church.

06/15/2026

This day in Church History
June 14
370
Basil succeeds to the see of Caesarea where he becomes famous for innovations such as hostels, hospitals, and soup kitchens.

853
Ex*****on at Tabanos of Anastasius, a priest, Felix, a Berber monk who converted from Islam, and Digna, a nun.

1594
Death in Munich of Dutch vocal composer Orlandus Lassus. Along with the works of Palestrina, his compositions will be considered the pinnacle of the Renaissance. He wrote over 1,200 pieces of music, including 53 masses, but his motets will be regarded as his finest pieces.

1723
Death in Paris, France, of Claude Fleury, confessor to Louis XV and author of a highly original, multi-volume ecclesiastical history of France. Although he often moved in circles of power and held offices of great responsibility, he remained a modest and simple man of unimpeachable character.

1745
Death of Aaron of Cuddalore, the first indigenous priest ordained by the Lutheran mission at Tranquebar. He had labored eleven years, even after his health failed, winning hundreds to Christ.

1936
Death in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, of G. K. Chesterton, an influential Roman Catholic apologist and wit, noted for his use of paradox. Pope Pius XI will later pronounce him a defender of the faith.

1948
At the order of Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, Hungarians ring church bells in defiance of the Communist government which has declared most traditional church responsibilities illegal.

06/14/2026

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06/13/2026

This day in Church History
June 13
313
Edict of Milan is proclaimed by Licinius when he enters Nicomedia.

853
Beheading in Toledo of Fandila, a priest of Tabanos, who had reviled Muhammed.

1231
Death in Arcella, Verona, Italy, of Anthony of Padua, who had been a notable Franciscan preacher and wonder worker.

1525
German reformer, Martin Luther, formerly a monk, marries Katherine von Bora, formerly a nun, who had escaped from her convent in a fish barrel.

1749
In Germany, John Henry Schramm ordains Philip William Otterbein, who will become a notable evangelist and leader of the United Brethren movement in America.

1776
Death in Wethersfield, Connecticut, of Elizabeth Scott, a hymnwriter whose most notable hymn was based on Psalm 3:5 and titled “Morning Hymn.”

1793
William Carey and his family sail for India, accompanied by John Thomas. They will do notable mission work there.

1857
David E. Campbell, missionary to India, with his wife and two children are put to death by Nana Sahib, a rebel chief.

1903
A. J. Tomlinson leads an assembly that creates the Church of God (Cleveland), a Pentecostal-Holiness group that considers the years from the Council of Nicaea in 325 until 1903 the dark ages of the church. Over the next century, the new denomination will gather more than a million adherents world-wide.

1910
A World Missionary Conference is called to order this evening at the Assembly Hall of the United Free Church of Scotland. Lord Balfour of Burleigh reads greetings from world leaders and the delegates arise spontaneously to sing “God Save the King.” The conference will run for ten days.

06/12/2026

This day in Church History
June 12
1509
Publication of John Fisher’s The Seven Penitential Psalms.

1595
Ruthenian bishops of Lithuania formally read a letter drafted by an Orthodox synod held in Brest, submitting to Pope Clement VIII. They are then accepted into the Roman Catholic Church as “Uniates.” Among concessions granted by the pope, they are allowed to retain priestly marriage, to recite the creed without the “filoque” clause added by Rome, and to observe the Julian calendar rather than the Gregorian. The Uniates joined Rome rather than come under the rule of the newly-created Russian Patriarchate.

1677
Eusebio Kino is ordained a priest in the Jesuit order at Eistady, Austria. He will become a missionary to New Spain in the area that will become the nation of Mexico and the southwestern United States.

1744
David Brainerd is ordained in New Jersey. The latter years of his short life will be spent in efforts to evangelize American Indians until his death of tuberculosis at age twenty-nine.

1775
Less than two months after a skirmish at Concord, Massachusetts between American militia and British soldiers, the Continental Congress issues a call for all citizens to fast and pray and confess their sins that the Lord God might bless the land.

1840
The World’s Anti-Slavery Convention meets in Freemasons’ Hall, London. Many Christians represent the anti-slavery societies of many nations but women delegates are rejected.

1842
Death in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, of Thomas Arnold, a Christian and a prominent English educator.

1844
Dr. D. B. McCartee, the first American Presbyterian missionary to settle in Central China, gets his first sight of the city of Ningpo where he will live and work for many years. His presence is the result of prayerful faith, the Board of Foreign Missions having prepared for the day when changes in international agreements would allow them to enter this region of China with the Gospel.

1845
Death in Hartburn, Northumberland, England, of clergyman John Hodgson, author of a well-planned history of Northumberland, and, perhaps more importantly, a successful advocate for improved safety in the mining industry.

1893
Professors of Marsovan College in Turkey are condemned on false accusations of revolutionary activity, receiving sentences that range between seven years and death.

1898
Death in Richmond, Indiana, of Sanford F. Bennett, American hymnwriter, author of the hymn “In the Sweet By and By” (“There’s a Land That Is Fairer Than Day”).

1902
Death at the White Earth Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota of John Johnson Enmegahbowh, the first recognized Native American priest in the Episcopal Church. He had worked tirelessly among the Ojibway people, especially in Minnesota.

1917
Death in Glasgow, Scotland, of James Denney. As a theologian and educator in the Free Church, he strongly defended the penal character of the atonement.

06/11/2026

This day in Church History
June 11
888
Death of Rimbert, archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg. He had helped evangelize Scandinavia and probably authored the life of his mentor Ansgar.

1289
Dante, who will one day write the Divine Comedy, fights on the side of the Guelphs in the Battle of Campaldino. The Guelphs are victorious and control Florence.

1294
Death of Roger Bacon, a Franciscan monk and one of the most original thinkers of the Middle Ages. He had predicted aircraft, submarines, suspension bridges, engines, and more.

1445
Repose (death) of Venerable Barnabas the abbot of Vetluga, who, after serving as an Orthodox priest, became a hermit along the River Vetluga at Red Hill, living on wild growth and acorns. He is supposed to have predicted that many people would one day live in this uninhabited region. Following his death, a monastery grew up there, followed by an influx of farmers.

1632
John Owen graduates BA from Oxford University. He becomes one of the leading non-conformist preachers of his day and the author of many theological works. A Calvinist, he will strongly oppose Arminian views.

1860
Death in London of Rev. Baden Powell, a clergyman-mathematician who developed an argument based on uniformitarian presuppositions to prove that belief in miracles is atheistic! He had also supported Darwinian evolution. His son, Robert Baden-Powell, will later found the Boy Scouts.

1923
Mildred Cable and the Chinese Trio leave Hwo Chow to set out for Central Asia, uncertain what and where the Lord is calling them. Years later they will have preached the gospel to hundreds of cities and villages in the Gobi desert.

1936
The Presbyterian Church of North America is founded in Philadelphia, led by J. Gresham Machen and others who believe that the United Presbyterian church has become too liberal. In 1938 the denomination changes its name to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

1951
Ordination of Fulton John Sheen as a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church. Although a masterful theologian and educator, he will gain international recognition as the host of the radio program The Catholic Hour and will present the TV programs Life Is Worth Living and The Fulton Sheen Program.

1965
Evangelist Prem Pradhan is released from prison in Nepal where he had been incarcerated for his witness about Christ. He will become an educator and accept hundreds of orphans whom he, his wife, and assistants will rear in Christian faith.

1970
Death of missionary Frank Laubach in Benton, Pa. He had taught reading through phonetics.

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