Today's American Minute

Zinzendorf, the Moravians, the Wesleys & the Muhlenbergs - American Minute with Bill Federer

& the Pietist Lutherans: Young Christians who changed the world! Ludwig von Zinzendorf the Moravians

Zinzendorf, the Moravians, the Wesleys & the Muhlenbergs - American Minute with Bill Federer

More Moravian missionaries were sent out from Herrnhut in 20 years than all Christendom had in the previous 200 years. They were the first to send unordained lay people onto the mission field rather than trained clergy. Missionaries were also given no financial support but had to earn their own living. Most were young men and women. Imagine today, if all the woke youth, instead of rioting and tearing things down, were using their energy to share the love of Christ and found missions, orphanages, schools and hospitals around the world!

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"I have not yet begun to fight!" - John Paul Jones - American Minute with Bill Federer

"I have not yet begun to fight!" - John Paul Jones

"I have not yet begun to fight!" - John Paul Jones - American Minute with Bill Federer

John Paul Jones had commanded the Continental Navy's first ship, Providence, in 1775. With 12 guns, it was the most victorious American vessel in the Revolution, capturing or sinking 40 British ships.

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Harvard University, Rev. John Harvard, & "Christian Hebraists" - American Minute with Bill Federer

Harvard University, Rev. John Harvard, & "Christian Hebraists" - American Minute with Bill Federer

During this time after the Renaissance and Reformation, there was a "Hebrew Revival" among Protestant and Catholic scholars. They studied the ancient Israel, especially the first 400 year period in the Promised Land before Israel got its first king--Saul. Christian Hebraists studied: the self-governing ancient Hebrew republic; the Hebrew language; Jewish historian Josephus (37–100); the Jerusalem Talmud (2nd century AD); the Babylonian Talmud (4th century AD); Jewish philosopher Maimonides (1135–1204); and Rabbinic Leterature.

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Deconstructing California: From Churches founding State to State closing Churches! - American Minute with Bill Federer

Deconstructing California: From Churches founding State to State closing Churches! - American Minute with Bill Federer

California was founded by churches and went on to become one of the most prosperous places on Earth. Then, California started closing down churches, restricting businesses, experiencing record numbers of people leaving, and has become the most in debt state in America.

 

 

 


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Byzantine & Ottoman Empires, and Turkish Republic: Moderate "Kemalists" vs Militant "Islamists" - American Minute with Bill Federer

& Republic of Turkey: Moderate "Kemalists" vs Militant "Islamists Byzantine Empire Ottoman Empire

Byzantine & Ottoman Empires, and Turkish Republic: Moderate "Kemalists" vs Militant "Islamists" - American Minute with Bill Federer

Ataturk, Father of the modern Republic of Turkey, empowered the military to be custodians of maintaining a secular government, with responsibility to remove political leaders who drifted toward Islamist fundamentalism: "Mohammedanism was based on Arab nationalism above all nationalities ... The purpose of the religion founded by Muhammad, over all nations, was to drag (them into) Arab national politics ... (It) might have suited tribes in the desert. It is no good for a modern, progressive state."

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