Today's American Minute

Layman's Prayer Revival, Evangelist D.L. Moody, P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth, & the Third Great Awakening - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 13, 2023 • & the Third Great Awakening • Evangelist D.L. Moody • Layman's Prayer Revival • P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth

When P.T. Barnum's show began traveling, D.L. Moody, with help from banker J.P. Morgan and railroad industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt, transformed the Great Roman Hippodrome into a revival tabernacle.

Ben Franklin's support of Religious Liberty, Freedom of Conscience & Abolition of Slavery! - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 11, 2023 • Ben Franklin's support of Religious Liberty • Freedom of Conscience & Abolition of Slavery!

Franklin proposed a General Fast, which was approved by the Colony's Council and printed in his Pennsylvania Gazette, December 12, 1747: "As the calamities of a bloody War ... seem every year more nearly to approach us ... there is just reason to fear that unless we humble ourselves before the Lord & amend our Ways, we may be chastized with yet heavier Judgments."

Ulysses S. Grant: Union General & 18th President "Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties" - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 11, 2023 • Ulysses S. Grant: Union General & 18th President "Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties"

Grant stated in his Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1873: "Under Providence I have been called a second time to act as Executive over this great nation ...The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected. To this correction I stand committed."

Persecution of Virginia Baptists influenced James Madison to Defend Liberty of Conscience - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 06, 2023 • Persecution of Virginia Baptists influenced James Madison to Defend Liberty of Conscience

Francis L. Hawks wrote in Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States of America (1836): "No dissenters in Virginia experienced for a time harsher treatment than the Baptists ... They were beaten and imprisoned ... Cruelty taxed ingenuity to devise new modes of punishment and annoyance."

"America has gone a long way down the wrong road--We must turn around ... If ever we needed God's help, it is now!" Billy Graham - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 04, 2023 • "America has gone a long way down the wrong road--We must turn around ... If ever we needed God's help • it is now!" Billy Graham

Rev. Graham continued: "What is the problem? The real problem is within ourselves ... I believe the fundamental crisis of our time is a crisis of the spirit. We have lost sight of the moral and spiritual principles on which this nation was established - principles drawn largely from the Judeo-Christian tradition as found in the Bible...