Miracles in American History

Miracles in American History
Author: Susie Federer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-05-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780982710197

Discover desperate circumstances in America's past and how men and women rose up with faith and courage and situations unexplainably turned around. Read of captivating, little-known stories during the French & Indian War, Revolution, Barbary Pirate War, War of 1812, Civil War, WWI & II, and up through Apollo 13. Learn "the rest of the story" of how leaders prayed, challenged and inspired the nation and disaster was averted! YOU will be inspired as you uncover "Miracles in American History - 32 Amazing Stories of Answered Prayer." ARE you aware of these past crises when America's fate hung in the balance? In 1746, 70 ships with 13,000 troops sailed from France to lay waste to the American colonies. Massachusetts Governor William Shirley proclaimed a Day of Fasting. What happened next was unexplainable! After the Battle of Monongahela, George Washington wrote from Fort Cumberland to his younger brother, John Augustine Washington, July 18, 1755: But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me! How did Thomas Jefferson's resolution for a Day of Fasting on June 1, 1774, lead to the forming of the Continental Congress, and eventually Independence? Read how in 1781 the providential rising of three rivers in 10 days allowed Americans to escape British General Cornwallis? Or how the uncanny way Benedict Arnold's planned betrayal of West Point was discovered? George Washington exclaimed: "The Hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all this (the course of the war) that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith." Ben Franklin declared: "In the beginning of the Contest with Great Britain...we had daily prayer in this room for Divine protection...All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a Superintending Providence in our favor." In 1865, President Lincoln proclaimed a Day of Fasting for April 30. What freak accident happened two days later which changed the course of the Civil War? What did Woodrow Wilson declared as the U.S. entered WWI. Or Herbert Hoover during the Great Depression? Or FDR, Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton during WWII? Or Truman during the Korean War? When Apollo 13 was lost in space, what happened after President Nixon called all of America to pray? Are you aware of these American Miracles? Find out as you read "Miracles in American History - 32 Amazing Stories of Answered Prayer."

Miracles in American History, Volume Two: Amazing Faith That Shaped the Nation: Adapted from William J. Federer's American Minute [With 2 Paperbacks]

Miracles in American History, Volume Two: Amazing Faith That Shaped the Nation: Adapted from William J. Federer's American Minute [With 2 Paperbacks]
Author: Susie Federer
Publisher: Amerisearch, Incorporated
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2019-08-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780989649179

Inspiring and captivating stories of faith and courage from America's history. "As religious faith is the foundation of free government, so is prayer an indispensable part of that faith."-President Dwight Eisenhower, December 24, 1953. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. William Penn Given 45,000 Square Miles in America; 2. Penn's Holy Experiment "the Seed of a Nation"; 3. Pere Marquette Braves the Mississippi; 4. Great Faith of the Moravian Missionaries; 5. Wesleys' "The Religion of the Heart"; 6. Whitefield & the Great Awakening Revival in America; 7. Molly Pitcher, Betsy Ross & Courageous Women of the Revolution; 8. Francis Asbury & the Circuit-riding Preachers; 9. Early Black Preachers & Missionaries; 10. Richard Allen & the AME Church; 11. "Black Harry" Hosier; 12. "Amazing Grace": Newton & Wilberforce; 13. Second Great Awakening Camp Meetings; 14. Timothy Dwight & the Yale Student Revival; 15. Haystack Prayer Meeting & World Missions; 16. Indians Look for "Book to Heaven": Whitmans & Northwest Missions; 17. John Stewart, Missionary to Wyandot Indians; 18. Missionaries to Hawaii; 19. Volcano Defied & Hawaiian Great Awakening; 20. Charles Finney's Revival "Every Member Must Work"; 21. William & Catherine Booth: The Salvation Army; 22. George Williams & the YMCA; 23. Thousands Join Layman's Prayer Revival & Third Great Awakening; 24. Shoe Salesman to Evangelist: Dwight L. Moody; 25. From Slave to College President: Booker T. Washington; 26. Booker T. Washington's Wisdom & World Influence; 27. Katherine Lee Bates & "America the Beautiful"; 28. Baseball Star to National Preacher: Billy Sunday; 29. Helen Keller "Things Unseen are Eternal"; 30. Eddie Rickenbacker - World War I Fighter Ace; 31. U.S. Military "For God and Country"; 32. Four Chaplains Day; 33. John F. Kennedy & PT109; 34. God's Samurai - Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor becomes Evangelist; 35. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream"; 36. Billy Graham "If Ever We Needed God's Help It Is Now; 37. NASA & Astronauts Prayer on the Moon.

American Minute

American Minute
Author: William J. Federer
Publisher: Amerisearch, Inc.
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2003-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780965355780

This is an interesting and inspiring collection of history vignettes, one for each day of the year. Well-known national holidays and achievements are recalled in detail as well as facts of courage, sacrifice, and captivating American trivia.

Seven Miracles That Saved America

Seven Miracles That Saved America
Author: Chris Stewart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: America
ISBN: 9781609079260

"When the odds were stacked against us, and there have been many times when the great experiment we call America could have and should have failed, did God intervene to save us?"That question, posed by authors Chris and Ted Stewart, is the foundation for this remarkable book. And the examples they cite provide compelling evidence that the hand of Providence has indeed preserved the United States of America on multiple occasions. Skillfully weaving story vignettes with historical explanations, they examine seven instances that illustrate God's protecting care. Never, at any of these critical junctures, was a positive outcome certain or even likely. Yet America prevailed. Why?"No man is perfect," write the authors. "And neither is any nation. Yet, despite our weakness, we are still, as Abraham Lincoln said, the best nation ever given to man. Despite our faults, this nation is still the last, best hope of earth." In short, God still cares what happens here. This reassuring message is a bright light in a world that longs for such hope.

Stories from Miracles in American History

Stories from Miracles in American History
Author: Vachele Higbee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781690608653

The reader will see action in these colorful pages that tell about winning wars, and establishing a constitutional government. This book features public domain pictures and photos of famous historical paintings. It contains a lot of history about our country. Exciting stories from Miracles In American History are included.

The American Miracle

The American Miracle
Author: Michael Medved
Publisher:
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0553447262

Among the stirring, illogical episodes described here: a band of desperate religious refugees find themselves blown hopelessly off course, only to be deposited at the one spot on a wild continent best suited for their survival; George Washington's beaten army, surrounded by a ruthless foe and on the verge of annihilation, manages an impossible escape due to a freakish change in the weather; a famous conqueror known for seizing territory, frustrated by a slave rebellion and a frozen harbor, impulsively hands Thomas Jefferson a tract of land that doubles the size of the United States; a weary soldier picks up three cigars left behind in an open field and notices the stogies have been wrapped in a handwritten description of the enemy's secret battle plans--a revelation that gives Lincoln the supernatural sign he's awaited in order to free the slaves.

The Miracle of America

The Miracle of America
Author: Angela E. Kamrath
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781628711400

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA Now, for the first time ever, the American Heritage Education Foundation presents a new book that explores the correlation between America's philosophical origins and the Bible Miracle of America shows how the Bible and Judeo-Christian thought are arguably the nation's most significant foundational root and its enduring source of strength. Professional educators and historians have praised Miracle of America as the first-ever systematic analysis of the relationship between key American political principles and Judeo-Christian ideas. First Edition, copyright 2014.Second Edition, copyright 2015. Third Edition 2020

There Will Be No Miracles Here

There Will Be No Miracles Here
Author: Casey Gerald
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0735214212

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR AND THE NEW YORK TIMES A PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK "Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary." —Marlon James "Staccato prose and peripatetic storytelling combine the cadences of the Bible with an urgency reminiscent of James Baldwin in this powerfully emotional memoir." —BookPage The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart—a generation searching for a new way to live. Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously; for a brief idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar Children on her disability checks. When Casey--following in the footsteps of his father, a gridiron legend who literally broke his back for the team--is recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a world he's never dreamed of, the anteroom to secret societies and success on Wall Street, in Washington, and beyond. But even as he attains the inner sanctums of power, Casey sees how the world crushes those who live at its margins. He sees how the elite perpetuate the salvation stories that keep others from rising. And he sees, most painfully, how his own ascension is part of the scheme. There Will Be No Miracles Here has the arc of a classic rags-to-riches tale, but it stands the American Dream narrative on its head. If to live as we are is destroying us, it asks, what would it mean to truly live? Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly humor and quiet fury, There Will Be No Miracles Hereinspires us to question--even shatter--and reimagine our most cherished myths.

Blood from the Sky

Blood from the Sky
Author: Adam Jortner
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2017-02-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813939593

In the decades following the Revolution, the supernatural exploded across the American landscape—fabulous reports of healings, exorcisms, magic, and angels crossed the nation. Under First Amendment protections, new sects based on such miracles proliferated. At the same time, Enlightenment philosophers and American founders explicitly denied the possibility of supernatural events, dismissing them as deliberate falsehoods—and, therefore, efforts to suborn the state. Many feared that belief in the supernatural itself was a danger to democracy. In this way, miracles became a political problem and prompted violent responses in the religious communities of Prophetstown, Turtle Creek, and Nauvoo. In Blood from the Sky, Adam Jortner argues that the astonishing breadth and extent of American miracles and supernaturalism following independence derived from Enlightenment ideas about proof and sensory evidence, offering a chance at certain belief in an uncertain religious climate. Jortner breaks new ground in explaining the rise of radical religion in antebellum America, revisiting questions of disenchantment, modernity, and religious belief in a history of astounding events that—as early Americans would have said—needed to be seen to be believed.

Ship of Miracles

Ship of Miracles
Author: Bill Gilbert
Publisher: Triumph Books
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2000-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1623684919

It was a miracle worthy of the season. When Captain Leonard La Rue spied from his twelve-man merchant ship, the Meredith Victory, the throng of Korean refugees on the docks of a city in flames, he didn't hesitate to do what others would consider impossible. In December of 1950, La Rue and his skeleton crew rescued fourteen thousand Korean refugees from the hands of the rapidly-approaching Chinese army in the city of Hungnam. Through the night and next day, a seemingly endless succession of refugees boarded the Meredith, their will to live and strong spirit steeling them against the bitter cold and incredibly crowded conditions. Standing shoulder to shoulder for three days the refugees and crew stoically endured as La Rue steered the ship through sea battle, a thirty-mile web of sea mines, and enemy shelling. "Ship of Miracles" is the incredible story of what has been called "the greatest rescue operation by a single ship in the history of mankind." Against all odds, the little merchant vessel transported its precious cargo to the island of Koje-Do on Christmas Eve completely unharmed, all fourteen thousand refugees alive and well, including an additional five new lives begun on this incredible journey. As the fiftieth anniversary of this miraculous rescue approaches, "Ship of Miracles" is as touching today as it was then; a tale you'll hold close to your heart, and return to time and again. While the United States Navy prepares to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the perilous evacuation at Hungnam and honor the Meredith Victory's miraculous feat, read this never-before-told account from the crew themselves, as they relate the incredible and unbelievable details of their three-day journey from fear to freedom.