Today's American Minute

Spice Trade, Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Indonesian Nutmeg Island exchanged for Manhattan, Volcanos, Dutch Religious Tolerance - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 24, 2025 • Companies • Dutch Religious Tolerance - American Minute with Bill Federer • Indonesian Nutmeg Island traded for Manhattan • Spice Trade • Stock Market • Volcanos

The Dutch gained control over Indonesia while the British gained control of India.

Dutch Golden Age: World Maritime-Economic Power of 16th & 17th centuries, and the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam (New York) - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 24, 2025 • and the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam (New York) • Dutch Golden Age: World Maritime-Economic Power of 16th & 17th centuries

In 1696, King William granted freedoms to Dutch Church in New York with the Charter: "William the third, By the grace of God, King of England ... Our said loving subjects ... to preserve to them and their successors that liberty of worshiping God according to the constitutions and directions of the Reformed Churches in Holland ..."

Feast of Pentecost and Prophecies yet to be fulfilled - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 24, 2025 • Feast of Pentecost and Prophecies yet to be fulfilled

Fifty days after Jesus rose from the grave was the Feast of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Apostles and the Church was born. The harvest of souls began.

National Days of Prayer - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 23, 2025 • "Awful calamity ... may be but a punishment ... for our presumptuous sins" • National Day of Prayer: "We have forgotten God..." Lincoln

Lincoln stated "Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."

Did you know the date of Easter changed our calendar? - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 19, 2025

Thus, setting the date of Easter is the reason the world is using the Gregorian Calendar!