‘Judeo-Christian America’ Archives
The Civil War and The Observance of Sunday
American Minute with Bill Federer Less than two months after Lincoln was inaugurated President, the Civil War began APRIL 12, 1861, with Confederate troops in Charleston, South Carolina, firing upon Fort Sumter. The Confederate Army was unstoppable, twice winning battles at Bull Run, Virginia, just twenty miles from Washington, D.C., [...]
A Sermon on the Day of Commencement of the Constitution
Called Unto Liberty, Samuel Cooper, Founding Era Sermons Samuel Cooper (1725-1783). A life-long Bostonian, Samuel Cooper was trained at Harvard and received a D.D. from the University of Edinburgh. In 1743 he followed his father, Reverend William Cooper, as the junior pastor of Boston’s Fourth, or “Manifesto,” Church, also known as the [...]
Stay on the Path 101 — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There’s a reason for most everything; it’s just a matter of figuring out the divine mysteries which enter our lives. Most of us are slow learners and learn life’s lessons over and over. A good friend once explained it as taking “Attitude 101…Again”. So it is with 11 year old Assistant Scoutmasters [...]
The Sabbath and the Sacrament
A Way of Life with Steve Farrell In the opening session of the Semiannual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, held in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 2-3, 2011, L. Tom Perry, a member of the Church's Quorum of the Twelve, spoke on the importance of keeping the sabbath day holy and partaking of the sacrament. He began [...]
Apollo 13, And The Damaging of the Space Craft
American Minute with Bill Federer "Houston, we've had a problem" were the words sent from Apollo 13, which was launched for the moon APRIL 11, 1970. Mission control identified that an oxygen tank had exploded, irreparably damaging the craft. Special prayer services were held at the Chicago Board of Trade, at St. Peter's Basilica by the Pope, at [...]
Filling the Void: The New Political Religion
Called Unto Liberty, Albert E. Bowen A very eminent English philosopher has pointed out that “In the 19th Century there was a general agreement among thinking people as to the nature and end of the individual. His nature was that of an immortal soul; his end was to attain eternal salvation.” He then points out that broadly speaking and [...]
Wilmer McLean, and The Civil War
American Minute with Bill Federer The Civil War began on Wilmer McLean's farm in Manassas Junction, Virginia, with the First Battle of Bull Run. A Union shell exploded in his kitchen. Wilmer McLean moved to get away from the conflict, yet almost four years later his new home, near Appomattox Court House, Virginia, was the agreed location for [...]
Selfless Service in Japan
A Way of Life with Steve Farrell On Saturday April 02, 2011, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, convened in its semi-annual two day General Conference. In the opening message of the conference, Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church, summarized the Church's relief efforts in Japan following the devastating earthquake and [...]
Divine Judgments Upon Tyrants: Jacob Cushing
Called Unto Liberty, Jacob Cushing: 1778, Founding Era Sermons Jacob Cushing (1729/30–1809) was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1748, where he received a Benjamin Browne Scholarship and served as Scholar of the House. He was ordained at Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1752, where he served from that time [...]
Immigration Policy: Obey The Law, Assimilate, No Welfare
By Bryan Fischer With regard to the immigration of aliens into ancient Israel, the Mosaic civil code was clear: there was to be one rule and one law for everybody. “here shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you...You and the sojourner shall be alike before the Lord. One law and one rule shall be for you and [...]
Observe The Sabbath and To Keep It Holy
American Scripture And he commanded them that they should observe the sabbath day, and keep it holy, and also every day they should give thanks to the Lord their God. Source: Mosiah 18:23; The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
If You Observe The Sabbath, The Fruit of The Fields Will Increase
Old World Witness For Christ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. And I will give peace in the land, and [...]
General Omar Bradley and Those Who Admired Him
American Minute with Bill Federer Five-Star General Omar Bradley died APRIL 8, 1981. Born 1893, in a cabin near Clark, Missouri, he was a star player on his high school baseball team. He worked for Wabash Railroad, until his Sunday School superintendent at Central Christian Church in Moberly, Missouri, recommended he apply to West [...]
A Nation is No Greater Than the Character of Its People
Called Unto Liberty, Albert E. Bowen, 20th Century Sermons In stabilized character, established by a consistent course of conduct, directed by adherence to right principles, lies the only safety of the state. It is that which gives to the individual citizen the power to govern himself from within. If we cannot build up a race of individuals [...]
Baldwin: My Answer to a University Student
By Chuck Baldwin I often receive inquiries from college and university students. Contrary to the thinking of most older adults, I find a sizable number of today’s youth much more constitutionally aware than are their parents. I’ve traveled all over America and spoken to thousands of high school and college age young people. My observation [...]
GOP: Stop Playing Dodge Ball, Start Playing Hard Cheese
By Bryan Fischer It is a bit distressing to watch the Republican leadership, starting with Speaker Boehner, wander around on this budget business, continually allowing themselves to be demagogued by the left and outmaneuvered at every turn. The Republican strategy should have been firm, fixed and gloriously simple. They sent the Democrats a [...]
Observe The Sabbath As a Holy Day
American Scripture Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; But the seventh day, the sabbath of the Lord thy God, thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; For [...]
The Sabbath is a Covenant Between the Lord and His People
Old World Witness For Christ Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. Source: [...]
P.T. Barnum, And What God Can Do With A Nobody
American Minute with Bill Federer The "Greatest Show on Earth" was owned by P.T. Barnum, who died APRIL 7, 1891. Selling millions of tickets, his big draws were General Tom Thumb, a man only 25 inches tall, and elephant "Jumbo," whose name entered the dictionary. Barnum, who was received by President Lincoln and gave a command performance [...]
Before the Foundation of this World
A Way of Life, Bruce R. McConkie Abraham, our father, who also was present in this council, was privileged to see in vision the hosts of preexistent spirits. “Among all these,” he said, “… were many of the noble and great ones,” whom he described as being “good.” (Abr. 3:22.) Abraham saw that God the Eternal Father “stood [...]
Implementation of LGBT Law in Military Will Be a Confused Snarl
By Bryan Fischer As hearings before Congress have already indicated, implementing the LGBT law in the United States military will prove to be a confused snarl. The House Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow (Thursday) on the subject of implementing the repeal of the longstanding ban on homosexual service in the armed [...]
Left Goes Wiggy: Wildly False Accusations of Racism
By Bryan Fischer My column of yesterday has lit up the blogosphere with false accusations that I am some kind of virulent racist. This was in response to my statement that our welfare policies - in which we subsidize and reward sex outside of marriage - is incentivizing people of all ethnic groups to “rut like rabbits.” This is a [...]
Woodrow Wilson: A Day of Prayer To Aid Those In War
American Minute with Bill Federer APRIL 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I by declaring war on Kaiser Wilhelm II's Germany. Within the next two years, America enlisted 4 million soldiers and spent 35 billion dollars, resulting in an Allied victory. In a Day of Prayer Proclamation, October 19, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson [...]
Jesus Groomed His Apostles for Political Office
By Bryan Fischer People who say the followers of Christ shouldn’t be involved in politics aren’t paying attention. And they aren’t paying attention to Jesus himself. During the Last Supper, Jesus said to his chosen 12 (11 if you subtract Judas from the mix), “I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, that you may [...]
Easy to Believe in Dead Prophets, Harder, Living Oracles
A Way of Life, Bruce R. McConkie It seems easy to believe in the prophets who have passed on and to suppose that we believe and follow the counsel they gave under different circumstances and to other people. But the great test that confronts us, as in every age when the Lord has a people on earth, is whether we will give heed to the words of [...]
We Recieve Blessings For Honoring The Sabbath
American Scripture Verily I say, that inasmuch as ye do this, the fulness of the earth is yours, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and that which climbeth upon the trees and walketh upon the earth; Yea, and the herb, and the good things which come of the earth, whether for food or for raiment, or for houses, or for barns, or [...]
The Sabbath is The Holy Day of The Lord
Old World Witness For Christ ¶If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Source: Isaiah 58:13; The Holy Bible: The Old [...]
Booker T. Washington
American Minute with Bill Federer Born in a slave hut APRIL 5, 1856, was Booker T. Washington. In dire poverty after the Civil War, he moved to West Virginia to work in a salt furnace and coal mine. At age 16 he walked 500 miles to attend Hampton Institute in Virginia and later Wayland Baptist Seminary in Washington, DC. He then taught in West [...]
Hey Libs: Listen to Yourselves: Beheadings Are Your Fault
By Bryan Fischer Who is to blame for the deaths of the innocents in Afghanistan over the weekend, including the beheading of two UN soldiers from Nepal? Well, if we take the liberals at their word, they are. First, who are the ones who have been telling us ad nauseum that it’s perfectly okay to desecrate symbols that are considered [...]
A Country Cannot Get Ahead of Its Religion
Called Unto Liberty, Joseph Fielding Smith, 20th Century Sermons President Calvin Coolidge once said: Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our [...]
