American’s Faith Minute

Lincoln stated “Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.” More

After the Reformation, Protestant countries formed the first “joint–stock” companies. A joint–stock company was much like modern-day crowd–sourcing or crowd–funding. Any individual could invest in a ship sailing to the Far East in search of spices, and when the ship returned, investors received a profit. More

The Dutch gained control over Indonesia while the British gained control of India. More

In 1696, King William granted freedoms to Dutch Church in New York with the Charter: “William the third, By the grace of God, King of England … Our said loving subjects … to preserve to them and their successors that liberty of worshiping God according to the constitutions and directions of the Reformed Churches in Holland […]

Fifty days after Jesus rose from the grave was the Feast of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Apostles and the Church was born. The harvest of souls began. More

Thus, setting the date of Easter is the reason the world is using the Gregorian Calendar!More

George Washington’s tomb is engraved with John 11:25, where Jesus told Martha: “I am the Resurrection and the Life; sayeth the Lord. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.” More

Professor Peter W. Stoner concluded: “We find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1 in 10 to the 17th power. That is one with 17 zeros behind it.” More

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 […]

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.” More

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. More

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 […]

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.” More

Phyllis Schlafly described in the book Judicial Tyranny: “Twentieth-century judges developed the notion that when they put on black robes, they became wiser than the rest of us and can reign supreme over the other branches of government …”  More

Fifteen percent of the world’s maritime traffic travels this route, but as the Yemen Houthis attack oil tankers, the only alternative route is to sail around South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope adding an extra 2,000 miles to the trip. This consumes much more fuel and drastically increases the costs of products shipped.More

In his thirty years of ministry, Saint Patrick is credited with baptizing 120,000 people and founding 300 churches. He used the three-leaf clover to teach the Trinity. More

Noah Webster wrote to David McClure, October 25, 1836: “In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.”More

Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: “May freedom be seen not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to please to do what is right. May it be ever understood that our liberty is under God and can be found nowhere else. May our faith be something that is not merely stamped upon our coins, but expressed in our […]

Executive Orders are not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, but Article 2, Section 3, does say the President is to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”More

On January 1, 1802, Jefferson wrote back, agreeing with the Baptists: “Gentlemen … Believing WITH you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions…” More

Presidents’ Day is actually Washington’s birthday, recognized by an Act of Congress for government offices in Washington, D.C., in 1879, and for all federal offices in 1885.  More

President McKinley approved a Resolution of Congress, April 20, 1898: “Whereas the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States, have been a disgrace to Christian civilization …” More

John F. Kennedy continued: “But in the two years since that revolution swept Fidel Castro into power, those promises have all been broken … All political dissenters have been executed, imprisoned, or exiled. All academic freedom has been eliminated … All major newspapers and radio stations have been seized … And all of Cuba […]

Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Anna Murray-Douglass, Mary Ellen Pleasant, Clara Brown, Biddy Mason, Maggie Lena Walker, Anne Malone, Madam C.J. WalkerMore

When Emperor Claudius demanded that Christians deny their consciences and worship pagan idols, Saint Valentine refused. More

Reagan continued: “Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide […]

Past and Present of Wyandot County, Ohio: a record of settlement (1913): “At Pipetown was a considerable body of Delawares … At this place Stewart stopped, but as the Indians were preparing for a great dance they paid but little attention to him … Stewart took out his hymn book and began to sing.” More

Booker T. Washington stated: “Anyone can seek a job, but it requires a person of rare ability to create a job … What we should do in our schools is to turn out fewer job seekers and more job creators … At the bottom … there must be for our race, as for all races … economic prosperity, economic independence … Political […]

Santa Anna had previously told the U.S. Minister to Mexico, Joel R. Poinsett, 1824: “A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is, unenlightened as they are … A despotism is the proper government for them.” More

George Mason originally suggested the wording of the First Amendment be: “All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.” More