Results for: "Bible"

Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian Education, December Articles

ListenThe week of Thanksgiving in America has been designated as National Bible Week. As is the case for nearly all national celebrations, the historical facts demonstrate that America's origin was not secular but sacred—and National Bible Week is no exception to this rule. Click to read the entire article… December 12, 1808 Founders convene first Bible Society in America Despite the fact that America was founded and maintained as a Christian nation from its inception until the middle of the twentieth century, the fallacy that America was founded as a secular nation persists and was widely...Read more... Read more... -->

Biblical, Historical, May Articles, Products, System

Listen $6 @ Each In 1809, President James Madison appointed John Quincy Adams as America's first ambassador to Russia. Leaving his oldest son behind in America, Mr. Adams—sensible of his spiritual obligation to his son—began to write a series of letters to help provide basic guidance to his son concerning his son's spiritual disciplines, the importance of Bible study, and it basic teachings. His admonition to his son was, "build upon the Rock" of the Lord Jesus Christ. Though written with their oldest son-George-in mind, Mr. Adams fully intended that these nine letters also be kept and...Read more... Read more... -->

Bible, Christian Beliefs, Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian Living, Christian Social Influence, Christian Witness, November, Schedule Post

Listen Sunday before — Sunday after Thanksgiving National Bible Week The reading of the Bible was abruptly interrupted over the NBC radio network in 1941 when world-changing events began to transpire. Seldom in the history of America was Scripture needed to comfort and bring hope as it was needed that day. Yet, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the significance of the beginning of National Bible Week is almost, for many Americans, a matter of historical amnesia. Like so many, many other moments in American history, Christians were presented with a reason to be proud of their...Read more... Read more... -->

American Founding Fathers, Bible, Role of Pastors

ListenSeptember 11, 1777 Congress proposes purchase of 20,000 Bibles Justice David Josiah Brewer After presenting more than eighty pieces of evidence of America's Christian origin, Supreme Court Justice, David Brewer—writing the majority decision for a unanimous court—arrived at this same conclusion in 1892: ". . . many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation."[1] In his classic work, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States,[2] Benjamin F. Morris...Read more... Read more... -->

Audio Videos

ListenJune 1, 2020 President Trump visited St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington For several months, I have received emails, texts, and a phone call or two concerning a video (click featured image above) of the story behind President Trump's Bible. To the surprise of family and friends, I have explained that the minister relating the details of the Bible is my pastor, Dr. Clarence Sexton. President Trump at St. Johns On June 1, 2020, President Trump visited St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, which had been damaged by the fire of protestors the previous night. Prior to visiting...Read more... Read more... -->