William J. Federer

Did you know modern Olympics were inspired by the Muscular Christianity movement, as was the game of rugby? Were you aware basketball and volleyball were invented by Y.M.C.A. trainers and used as evangelism tools to bring youth to Christ around the globe? Fun Fact: The Y.M.C.A. director in Geneva, Switzerland, started the International Red Cross and was the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Did you know Charles Finney's preaching in the Second Great Awakening Revival helped found the Young Men's Christian Association, which led in racial reconciliation and inspired Black History Month? How did the Spirit-Mind-Body triangle become the Y.M.C.A. logo? Be inspired by evangelist D.L. Moody, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, General Douglas MacArthur, Tuskegee President Booker T. Washington, Boy Scout Founder Lord Baden Powell, revivalist Billy Sunday, and President Theodore Roosevelt. Discover daring writings of Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous, Horatio Alger's Rags-to-Riches stories, and Dale Carnegie's win friends and dream big. Learn about the Layman's Prayer Revival, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Athletes in Action, and the Student Volunteer Missionary Movement, whose motto was winning the world to Christ in this generation You will be strengthened and your heart emboldened to change the world after reading Courageous Christianity

WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT? How have godly people been persuaded to let ungodliness reign? President Eisenhower, 1954: "This relationship between a spiritual faith ... and our form of government is ... obvious ... 'Man is endowed by his Creator' ... born in the image of God." How were America's founders inspired by ancient Israel's "covenant" government? How did this influence the Puritans who founded New England's colonial governments? How did this result in the U.S. Constitution? Did you know "federal" is Latin for "covenant"? How is Romans 13 understood differently in a self-governing republic than in a monarchy? Hint: in monarchies, subjects submit to the king; in republics, the citizens ARE the king. Who came up with the idea that politics were worldly and "holy" people should withdraw? If the "holy" withdraw, who is left in charge? How did the "two kingdom" concept of the church withdrawing allow Hitler in Germany to kill Jews? What was the Old Light-New Light controversy between the Puritans and Pietists, and how is it still impacting America's churches today? Who began calling Christian patriots "Christian nationalists"? Do globalists hate nationalists? George Soros: "The main obstacle to a stable and just world is the United States." Klaus Schwab: "Acute crises contribute to boosting the power of the state." World Economic Forum, Agenda 2030 video: "You will own nothing and be happy." Are you aware that just as your silence gives consent to wedding vows, it gives consent to other things? It is called "the rule of tacit admission." If you know of evils in your community and are silent, are you an accessory to them? Is it scriptural to not care about what kind of country we are leaving to our posterity? Proverbs 13:22 states "A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children." And even if we can't turn the culture around, shouldn't we at least try? Are we being given one last chance to show what we really believe in our hearts through our words and actions? Billy Graham: "There is no doubt that nations come to an end when they have ceased to fulfill the function that God meant for them." Ben Franklin: "Work as if you were to live 100 years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow." The fate of the world hangs in the balance. Now YOU are key to turning things around. THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON YOU

Booker T. Washington was a towering figure in American history. His story from slave hut to university president is one of the most inspiring in American history. During the Post Civil War and Reconstruction Era, he founded Tuskegee Institute in 1881, and tirelessly labored to help his people in the South. He addressed thousands across the nation and met with renown leaders, such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and the Queen of England. He was the first African American to have dinner with a President in the White House. He overcame critics to advocate practical solutions to the pressing issues of his day. He was a man of faith. Historians refer to the years 1880-1915 as the "Age of Booker T. Washington." You too can be inspired by the strength and genius of Booker T. Washington "Character, not circumstances, makes the man." "Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed." "I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." "The surest way to lift up ourselves is to lift up someone else." "The happiest people are those who do the most for others." "Great men cultivate love ... only little men cherish a spirit of hatred." "The only way to show ourselves superior to others is to excel them in kindlier impulses and more generous deeds." "I learned to love to read the Bible ? No matter how busy I am, I always make it a rule to read a chapter or a portion of a chapter in the morning."

Because we need to believe ...This inspiring devotional will help you realize how much God loves you. You will see in a new light why He made you? You are made in His image and have the ability to love Him back, but for love to be love it must be freely given. Ponder why He has to hide Himself behind His creation in order for you to have a free will. And how that also necessitates you have faith. God is all-powerful, all-knowing, exists for eternity and is outside of time -- consider what the plan of creation and redemption might look like from His point of view? How can God be both just and merciful? In Genesis 22:8, Abraham said "God will provide himself a lamb." John the Baptist pointed at Jesus and said "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." You will be refreshed by realizing how special you are to God. Read selected scriptures and uplifting quotations on how God has plan for your life and wants to bless you, protect you, fill you with joy, and provide for you and your family. You can trust Him to help you through every difficult situation here on earth and look forward to eternal life in heaven.

Captivating stories of revivals, battle heroes, missionaries, & courage from America's history: William Penn's Holy Experiment "the Seed of a Nation"; Pere Marquette; Moravian Missionaries; Wesleys; Whitefield & Great Awakening; Molly Pitcher, Betsy Ross & Courageous Women of the Revolution; Francis Asbury & Circuit-riding Preachers; Early Black Preachers; Richard Allen & AME Church; "Black Harry" Hosier; "Amazing Grace": Newton & Wilberforce; 2nd Great Awakening; Yale Student Revival; Haystack Prayer Meeting & World Missions; Indians, Whitmans & Northwest Missions; John Stewart, Missionary to Wyandots; Volcano Defied & Hawaiian Great Awakening; Charles Finney's Revival; Salvation Army; YMCA; Layman's Prayer Revival, 3rd Great Awakening; Shoe Salesman to Evangelist-D.L. Moody; Slave to College President-Booker T. Washington; Katherine Lee Bates & "America the Beautiful"; Baseball Star Preacher-Billy Sunday; Eddie Rickenbacker-World War I Fighter Ace; U.S. Military "For God & Country";

Discover the facts you've been missing from the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving story Did freedom of religion & conscience exist in 16th century Europe? How did kings of Spain, France & England, & Turkish Sultans, dominate people's lives? What was the first empire "on which the sun never set"? How did its Invincible Armada sink? Globalist Kings sought world empires. How miraculous was it for the Pilgrims to escape? Did the Pilgrims experiment with communism? How did the Dutch invention of "joint-stock companies" & the "stock exchange" fuel international trade? How devastating were the Ottoman sieges of Constantinople, Malta & Vienna? Did you know Pilgrims were terrorized by Muslim Barbary pirates? Did you know our "calendar" was developed in the 16th century? Who was Squanto & how did his amazing life rescue the fledgling Pilgrim community? If you like speaking your views, participating in politics & sharing your faith without fear of government persecution, you will be fascinated by the compelling Pilgrim experience told from an amazing world perspective -- Other chapters include: -Age of Discovery -Reformation -Henry VIII -Queen Elizabeth -Role of the Printing Press -Protestant Ripple Effect -Suleiman the Magnificent -Catherine de Medici -Sir Francis Drake -Sir Walter Raleigh -The Lost Colony -King James I -The English Bible -Puritan Religious Uniformity -Jewish Influence on Pilgrims

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."

How did past civilizations rise and fall? How rare is America's experiment with a republic? With every crisis, is power being taken away from "the people" and transfered to the central government. Does history give us a clue as to where all this is all headed? George Washington warned in his Farewell Address, 1796: "Disorders and miseries...gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an Individual... who] turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public...and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism." Ronald Reagan stated at St. John's University, NY, March 28, 1985: "Government that is big enough to give you everything you want is more likely to simply take everything you've got." Woodrow Wilson warned in New York, 1912: "The history of Liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the powers of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties." In the nearly 6,000 years of recorded human history, power, like gravity, seems to inevitably concentrate into the hands of one individual, sometimes called pharoah, caesar, czar, kaiser, king, emperor, monarch, sultan, president or communist dictator. No matter what the autocratic leader's particular title is, the default setting for human government throughout history has most often been monarchy. When power is concentrated, the State is supreme. When power is separated, the individual is supreme. America's founders had a unique window of opportunity in the long train of world history, to maximize the freedom and opportunity of the individual. Ronald Reagan stated in 1961: "In this country of ours took place the greatest revolution that has ever taken place in the world's history...Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another." Is past behavior the best indicator of future performance? What can we expect? Find out as world history comes alive from a whole new perspective in "Change to Chains - the 6000 year quest for control - Volume I: Rise of the Republic."

How did America go from Pilgrims seeking freedom to express their Christian beliefs to today's discrimination against those very beliefs in the name of tolerance? Federer investigates.

"All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" - Declaration of Independence, 1776 Do you like having rights the government cannot take away? Do you like being equal? Do you like a country with few laws? Then you want America under God "The Rights of man Come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God" - John F. Kennedy, 1961, Inaugural Address "We believe that all men are created equal, because they are created in the image of God" - Harry S Truman, 1949, Inaugural Address "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people, it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other" - John Adams, 1798, Letter to the Massachusetts Third Division

The Interesting History of Income Tax William J. Federer "The only things certain are death and taxes" - Benjamin Franklin Yet few know America's interesting history of Income Tax, such as: *1787 - U.S. Constitution prohibited a "direct" Federal tax *1862 - "Revenue Tax" on incomes went into effect to finance the Union during the Civil War *1895 - Supreme Court made Income Tax unconstitutional *Woodrow Wilson thought tariffs on imports caused wars, so he worked to replace them with an Income Tax. *1913 - Income Tax was only a 1% tax on the top 1% richest people in America. *1943 - Paycheck Withholding began as an emergency effort to get funds to finance WWII. John F. Kennedy - "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 flow of revenues to the Federal Government." (Annual Budget Message, Jan. 17, 1963) Thomas Jefferson - "It is an encouragement to proceed as we have begun in substituting economy for taxation" (2nd Annual Message, 1802) (176 pages, includes pictures)

An in-depth study of how each of the Ten Commandments had a historical impact on the development of laws in America and affected the legal philosophy of our government framers. For example, the 4th Commandment-"Keep Holy the Sabbath" PENNSYLVANIA FRAME OF GOVERNMENT, April 25, 1682, Article XXII: "That as often as any day of the month...shall fall upon the first day of the week, commonly called the Lord's Day, the business appointed for that day shall be deferred till the next day, unless in the case of emergency." U.S. CONSTITUTION, 1787, Article I, Section 7, Paragraph 2 "If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law" Read how the Ten Commandments affected the views of America's leaders: "The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount contain my religion" - John Adams, Nov. 4, 1816, letter to Thomas Jefferson. "The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days." - Harry S Truman, Feb. 15, 1950, Attorney General's Conference. See references to the Ten Commandments in court cases: "The Ten Commandments have had an immeasurable effect on Anglo-American legal development" - U.S. District Court, Crockett v. Sorenson, W.D. Va. (1983) "It is equally undeniable ...that the Ten Commandments have had a significant impact on the development of secular legal codes of the Western World." - U.S. Supreme Court, Stone v. Graham, (1980) (Rehnquist, J., dissenting) An ideal book for students, teachers, journalists, writers and those interested in researching the foundations of American law