Today's American Minute

Lamb of God sacrificed on Passover; In tomb on Feast of Unleavened Bread; Resurrected on Feast of First Fruits - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 18, 2025 • Lamb of God sacrificed on Passover; Resurrected on Feast of First Fruits - "I know that my Redeemer liveth"

On the Jewish Feast of Passover, the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, around 30-33 AD, Jesus was crucified as the "Lamb of God." The Apostle Paul wrote: "For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us." (I Corinthians 5:7) The lamb is considered the most innocent of animals. The Gospel of John recorded when John the Baptist saw Jesus, he exclaimed: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world!”

Income Tax: Civil War Emergency, Supreme Court declared unconstitutional "Class legislation...leads inevitably to oppression"; Woodrow Wilson made permanent, FDR expanded - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 15, 2025 • & FDR expanded • Income Tax: Civil War Emergency • Supreme Court declared unconstitutional "Class legislation...leads inevitably to oppression and abuses"; Woodrow Wilson made permanent

Kennedy stated January 17, 1963: "Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government."

Tariff History - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 13, 2025

In fact, the second bill signed by President George Washington was the Tariff Act of 1789, which imposed a 5 percent tariff on all imports.

Père Marquette, French missionary to Indians of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Mississippi River valley, who settled Chicago - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 04, 2025 • & settled Chicago - American Minute with Bill Federer • French missionary to Indians of Michigan • Illinois • Mississippi River valley • Père Marquette • Wisconsin

The first Europeans to explore the northern Mississippi, Jacques Marquette gave his account in Voyage et De'couverte de Quelques Pays et Nations de l'Amerique Septemtrionale (translated 1852, The Jesuit Relations, Volume LIX): "We came to ... the Folle Avoine (Menominee). I entered their river to go and visit these people to whom we preached the Gospel ... in consequence of which, there are several good Christians among them ... I told ... of my design to ... discover those remote nations, in order to teach them the mysteries of our holy religion ..."

Pastors in Politics during Revolution, and Constitution Signer Hugh Williamson - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 02, 2025 • Pastors in Politics during American Revolution: Hugh Williamson & other preachers

Baptist Pastor Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated:

“The church must be reminded that it is ... the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state ...

If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”