Today's American Minute
Jonathan Edwards, Revivals, the Founding of Universities & the Battle for Minds of Children -American Minute with Bill Federer
Jonathan Edwards Revivals the Founding of Universities & the Battle for Minds of Children
Edwards wrote in Narrative of the Surprising Word of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls, 1737: "The Spirit of God began extraordinarily to ... work amongst us ... Suddenly, one after another ... were ... savingly converted ... in a very remarkable manner ... A young woman, who had been one of the greatest company-keepers in the whole town ... gave an account ... that God had given her a new heart, truly broken and sanctified ... God made it, I suppose, the greatest occasion of awakening to others ... News of it seemed to be almost like a flash of lighting upon the hearts of young people all over the town."
Justice Samuel Chase & Secretary of War James McHenry "Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures" - American Minute with Bill Federer
Secretary of War James McHenry became President of the first Bible Society in Baltimore, Maryland, stating in 1813: "Bible ... is a book of councils and directions, fitted to every situation in which man can be placed."
U.S. Navy origins and Naval Academy - American Minute with Bill Federer
U.S. Naval Academy & Early Navy Heroes
President Wilson, Executive Order, January 20, 1918: "The sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors ... the best sentiment of a Christian people ... demand that Sunday labor in the Army and Navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity."
CHARIOTS OF FIRE: Scottish runner Eric Liddell in the 1924 Olympics
The movie depicted his running coach pressing him to compete in the 1924 Olympics, with Eric’s brother, Robert, agreeing: “What we need now is a muscular Christian to make folks sit up and notice.”
Early U.S. Navy Heroes - Farragut, Porter & Maury
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut yelled out: "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" Rallying his sailors, he captured Mobile, Alabama, the last Confederate stronghold in the Gulf of Mexico, on August 5, 1864.