Today's American Minute

Israel, its enemies, and U.S. involvement in Middle East by William J. Federer

October 24, 2023

LISTEN (text to speech) Read on AmericanFaith.com On October 7, 2023, the fundamentalist Islamist organization Hamas committed an unprecedented terrorist attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, October 7, 2023, killing over 1,400 Israelis. What led up to this goes back over a century. After World War One, the Ottoman Empire dissolved, leaving Britain in control of an area called the British Mandate. In 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration giving Jews a home in their ancient land. The Arab Sharif of Mecca, Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi, had helped the British defeat the Ottomans. Sharif is the title of a...

Eddie Rickenbacker-"Fighting the Flying Circus" & "Seven Came Through" - American Minute with Bill Federer

October 23, 2023 • Eddie Rickenbacker-"Fighting the Flying Circus" & "Seven Came Through"

"Thank God I have contributed my best to the land that contributed so much to me"

Oil & World War I, Kaiser, Sultan, Chaim Weizmann & Birth of Modern Israel - American Minute with Bill Federer

October 18, 2023 • Chaim Weizmann & Birth of Modern Israel • Kaiser • Oil & World War I • Sultan

In 1898, Sultan Abdul Hamid the Second purchased rifles from Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II for use in subduing revolts and annihilating Turkey's Armenian population. In exchange, the Sultan granted Germany rights to build a Berlin-Baghdad Railway to access Iraq's oil fields.

John Peter Muhlenberg: Major-General, Congressman, Senator & Pastor; with his Pastor brother Frederick-First Speaker of U.S. House - American Minute with Bill Federer

October 02, 2023 • Congressman • John Peter Muhlenberg: Major-General • Senator & Pastor; with his Pastor brother Frederick-First Speaker of U.S. House

The pastor rose: the prayer was strong;

The psalm was warrior David's song ...

In this the dawn of Freedom's day

There is a time to fight and pray!'

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

September 29, 2023 • & the Pietist Lutherans: Young Christians who changed the world! • Ludwig von Zinzendorf • the Moravians

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!