Results for: "Christianity in America"

Biography, Methodist churches, Role of Pastors

Listen March 31, 1816 Death of Francis Asbury Francis Asbury (August 20, 1745 - March 31, 1816) is remembered most for the leadership he provided to early American Methodism. Asbury must not be associated with the theologians of Methodism. Like Jabez Bunting among the British Wesleyan Methodists, Asbury was a great churchman within the American Methodist Episcopal Church. He was one of the first two general superintendents or bishops of American Methodism and was said to be more widely known than General George Washington. Because of great men of God, America became a great nation, and if...Read more... Read more... -->

Christian History

ListenFor more than a century, irreligion in its various forms have falsely claimed that America was not founded as a Christian nation. Nothing, however, could be further from the facts of history, which clearly indicate the Christian origin of America. From the granting of the First Charter of Virginia by King James I on April 10, 1606, the charters of the Thirteen Colonies and subsequent state constitutions all acknowledged dependence upon the Christian religion. Click to read the entire article… March 11, 1780 text Official state papers from the colonial era of American history through...Read more... Read more... -->

American History, Christian History, Role of Pastors

ListenMarch, 1616 Alexander Whitaker drowned while crossing the James River President John Adams indicated that four colonial pastors were responsible for the ideas that birthed the American Republic. The influence of pastors upon the life and development of America, and nations around the globe, is routinely neglected by the irreligious who seek to advance their agenda of secular intolerance against America's Christian heritage. Companies, organizations, and institutions routinely erase pivotal information explaining the influence of Christianity upon the rise and development of America and...Read more... Read more... -->