Published by admin On Apr 25, 2026

Pearl Harbor, World War 2, and the Power of the Gospel


No more let sins and sorrows grow
nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make his blessings flow
far as the curse is found,
far as the curse is found,
far as, far as the curse is found.
—Isaac Watts—


December 7, 2025 is the 84th anniversary of the Japanese surprise attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor.


Key point: When enemies move toward Christ and allow him to melt away the hatred and bitterness in their hearts, they inevitably also move closer to each other. God accomplishes this through the gospel; social justice and critical race theory never can make it happen.


 

Attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Pilot’s perspective

Source: Wikimedia Commons


On the December 7, 2018 edition of BreakPoint, John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, declared, “Pearl Harbor was for the Greatest Generation what September 11 is for ours: a national memory.” Historian and author William Bennett writes…

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Top image: — The USS West Virginia was sunk by six torpedoes and two bombs on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor. More information at Wikimedia Commons.

 

 

 

 

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