Posts Tagged ‘religion’
The Battle of Antietam
American Minute with Bill Federer Just 70 miles from Washington, DC, the Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862. It was the single bloodiest day in the Civil War with the North and the South both losing over 10,000 men each. This costly battle convinced Britain and France not to recognize the Confederacy. A week later, President [...]
The Year of the Bible Remembered
By Phyllis Schlafly Powerful groups in the United States are trying to turn us into a completely secular nation and banish all reference to God and prayer from any public place or event. Those are the people who file lawsuits against the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, against Ten Commandments monuments in courthouses [...]
Jonathan Edwards v. Max Jukes
American Minute with Bill Federer He entered Yale College at age 13 and graduated with honors. He became a pastor, and his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God," started the Great Awakening, a revival involving numerous preachers which swept America, uniting the colonies prior to the Revolution. His name was Jonathan Edwards and he [...]
The Bible and the Sword
Called Unto Liberty, John Fletcher: 1776, Founding Era Sermons John Fletcher (1729–1785). Born John de la Flechere in Nyon, Switzerland, Fletcher studied at the University of Geneva, where he excelled in classical literature, and became a commissioned officer in the Portuguese army. He emigrated to England in 1752 and became an intimate of [...]
The Year of The Bible
American Minute with Bill Federer A Joint Resolution of the 97th U.S. Congress proclaimed "A Year of the Bible." It was signed by Democrat Speaker of the House Tip O'Neil, Republican President of the Senate Strom Thurmond and President Ronald Reagan, who stated OCTOBER 4, 1982: Now, therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United [...]
John Witherspoon: The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men
Called Unto Liberty, John Witherspoon: 1776, Founding Era Sermons John Witherspoon (1723–1794). Born in Scotland and educated at Edinburgh, Witherspoon came to America in 1768 to be president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton), a position he held until 1792, when blindness forced his retirement. He had led the Popular Party among [...]
First National Day of Thanksgiving
American Minute with Bill Federer On OCTOBER 3, 1789, from the U.S. Capitol in New York City, President George Washington issued the first Proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer to Almighty God, as just one week earlier the first session of the U.S. Congress successfully approved the First Ten Amendments limiting the power of [...]
White House Calls for Release of Iranian Pastor Facing Execution for ‘Apostasy’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com The White House called on Iran Thursday to release a Christian pastor facing possible execution after refusing to renounce his faith. Christian organizations, human rights groups and governments fear that Youcef Nadarkhani may hanged in a matter of days. “The United States condemns the conviction of [...]
Teacher Placed on Administrative Leave for Punishing Christian Student
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Last week, high school freshman Dakota Ary was given in-school suspension for telling another student that he believes homosexuality is wrong because of his Christian faith. Western Hills High School teacher, Kristopher Franks, is responsible for his suspension and has now been placed on administrative leave with [...]
Ben Franklin on George Whitefield’s Revival
American Minute with Bill Federer Seven times he preached in America to crowds of 25,000, spreading the Great Awakening Revival, which helped unite the Colonies prior to the Revolution. Ben Franklin wrote in his Autobiography: He preached one evening from the top of the Court-house steps...Streets were filled with his hearers... I had the [...]
President Obama Pressured to Restrict Religious Hiring
Heritage Foundation The freedom of faith-based groups to hire employees that share their organization’s beliefs was challenged last week in a letter sent to President Obama by the Coalition Against Religious Discrimination (CARD). CARD’s letter takes issue with an executive order issued in 2002by President George W. Bush that allows [...]
Squanto: A Special Instument Sent of God
American Minute with Bill Federer Governor William Bradford called him "a special instrument sent of God." Of 102 Pilgrims that landed November 1620, only half survived till spring - then appeared Squanto. William Bradford wrote: "Squanto was a native of these parts...one of the few survivors of the plague... He was carried away with others [...]
Louis Pasteur
American Minute with Bill Federer He developed vaccines for rabies and anthrax, revolutionized medicine with his germ theory of disease, and laid the foundation for the control of tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria and tetanus. While Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at Lille University in France, he developed the process of "Pasteurization" of [...]
Christian Soccer Camp Case Requests Supreme Court Review
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Today Liberty Counsel filed a Petitionfor Writ of Certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Victory Through Jesus Ministry Foundation (“Victory”) in its lawsuit against Lee’s Summit School District. Victory offers Victory Soccer Camp (VSC), a Christian summer sports camp program, throughout the [...]
Sam Adams
American Minute with Bill Federer Crying "No taxation without representation," he instigated the Stamp Act riots and the Boston Tea Party. After the "Boston Massacre," he spread Revolutionary sentiment with his Committees of Correspondence. Known as "The Father of the American Revolution," Samuel Adams, who was born SEPTEMBER 27, 1722, [...]
Daniel Boone
American Minute with Bill Federer Daniel Boone served with George Washington in 1755 during the French and Indian War. In 1765, Daniel Boone explored Florida. Virginia Governor Patrick Henry sent Daniel Boone to survey Kentucky and in 1775, the Pennsylvania Company had him erect a fort on the Kentucky River, which he named Boonesboro. In [...]
As to Same Sex Attraction: Condemn the Sin, Love the Sinner
Called Unto Liberty, Dallin H. Oaks, 20th Century Sermons Each member of Christ’s church has a clear-cut doctrinal responsibility to show forth love and to extend help and understanding. Sinners, as well as those who are struggling to resist inappropriate feelings, are not people to be cast out but people to be loved and helped (see 3 Ne. [...]
John Marshall
American Minute with Bill Federer "The power to tax is the power to destroy," wrote John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who was born SEPTEMBER 24, 1755. No one had a greater impact on Constitutional Law than John Marshall. Sworn in February 4, 1801, Marshall served 34 years and helped write over 1,000 decisions, [...]
“I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!” — John Paul Jones
American Minute with Bill Federer "I have not yet begun to fight!" shouted John Paul Jones when the captain of the British ship Serapis asked him to surrender. Their ships were so close their cannons scraped and masts entangled, yet his American ship Bonhomme Richard, named for Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, refused to give up. When two [...]
Nathan Hale
American Minute with Bill Federer "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" were the last words of 21-year-old American patriot Nathan Hale, who was hanged by the British without a trial on SEPTEMBER 22, 1776. A Yale graduate, he almost became a Christian minister, as his brother Enoch did, but instead became a teacher at [...]
Holy Name Society addressed by President Coolidge
American Minute with Bill Federer On SEPTEMBER 21, 1924, America's 30th President, Calvin Coolidge, addressed the Holy Name Society in Washington, D.C., saying: The worst evil that could be inflicted upon the youth of the land would be to leave them without restraint and completely at the mercy of their own uncontrolled inclinations. Under [...]
A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers
Called Unto Liberty, Jonathan Mayhew, 1750, Founding Era Sermons Let us now trace the apostle's reasoning in favor of submission to the higher powers, a little more particularly and exactly. For by this it will appear, on one hand, how good and conclusive it is, for submission to those rulers who exercise their power in a proper manner: And, on [...]
Fisher Ames
American Minute with Bill Federer He sat beside George Washington in St. Paul's Chapel at the church service following Washington's Presidential Inauguration in New York City. He was a Congressman from Massachusetts and helped ratify the U.S. Constitution. He authored the final House language of the First Amendment. His name was Fisher [...]
Washington’s Farewell Address
American Minute with Bill Federer The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolken tells of man's lust for "the ring of power." Kings killed to get power and kings killed to keep power. George Washington had that power, and gave it up...twice! After Washington's victory over the British at Yorktown, King George III asked American-born portrait painter [...]
Constitution Day
American Minute with Bill Federer "Done...the SEVENTEENTH DAY of SEPTEMBER, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven." This is the last line of the U.S. Constitution. A study by Professors Donald S. Lutz and Charles S. Hyneman, titled "The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late 18th-Century American [...]
Pilgrims Set Sail
American Minute with Bill Federer SEPTEMBER 16, 1620, according to the Gregorian Calendar, 102 passengers set sail on the Pilgrims' ship, Mayflower. Their 66-day journey of 2,750 miles encountered storms so rough the beam supporting the main mast cracked and was propped back in place with "a great iron screw." One youth, John Howland, was swept [...]
John Wesley, a Calm Address to Our American Colonies
Called Unto Liberty, John Wesley: 1775, Founding Era Sermons John Wesley (1703-1791). Like his younger brother Charles, the founder of Methodism John Wesley was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England. He was graduated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1724 and ordained by the Church of England in 1728. Wesley returned to Oxford the following year as [...]
A President Who Was Chief Justice
American Minute with Bill Federer The only U.S. President to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he had previously been appointed by President McKinley as the first governor of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War. He was later appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as Secretary of War. The largest President, weighing [...]
Rev. John Harvard
American Minute with Bill Federer Son of a butcher, his family died when a plague swept England, leaving him an estate. He attended Emmanuel College, was ordained, married and sailed for Massachusetts where he pastored the First Church of Charlestown. At age 31, he died of tuberculosis on SEPTEMBER 14, 1638. His name was Rev. John [...]
Francis Scott Key
American Minute with Bill Federer Just weeks after the British burned the U.S. Capitol, they set out for Baltimore. On the way they caught an elderly physician of Upper Marlboro, Dr. William Beanes. The town feared Dr. Beanes would be hanged so they asked a young lawyer, Francis Scott Key, to sail with Colonel John Skinner under a flag of truce [...]
