100 Bible Verses That Made America

Jacques Cartier sailed from France on April 20, 1534, with two ships and sixty-one sailors. They had all confessed their sins before sailing, and they prayed for the safety and success of their voyage. Find out what their goal was.

A fleet of four ships left the Isle of Wight, carrying seven hundred Puritan immigrants to the New World. Among them was John Winthrop, a noted English lawyer.

Rev. William Tennent Sr. came to America from Ireland in 1716 and five years later he settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was in midlife, but his true life's work was just beginning. Robert Morgan tells his story.

In the midst of a conflict, Bostonians heard with alarm that the French admiral Duc d'Anville was preparing to sail his fleet from Nova Scotia to Boston Harbor to attack the city and ravage New England.

In the mid-1700s, both France and England had colonies in America. The strife between them led to the French and Indian War, which preceded the American Revolution by just over a decade. Robert Morgan tells the story.

Robert Morgan explains the story of Patrick Henry, who was a natural orator. One of Henry's speeches was described as 'more than that of mortal men. His talents seemed to swell and expand themselves.'

This story is about a man with three biblical names - John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1746 and began pastoring a Lutheran church in Woodstock, Virginia in 1772.

Samuel Webster graduated from Harvard in 1737, enjoyed a ministry of nearly 55 years, and died on July 18, 1796 at age 78. It was said of him, 'In his preaching he was remarkably clear and plain.' But there was more to Mr. Webster.

My small hometown of Elizabethton, Tennessee played its part in winning the American Revolution. Robert Morgan tells this amazing story.

Did you know that Evangelical Christianity crashed after the American Revolution? Church attendance dropped to near nothing and French rationalism swept over colleges, which became hotbeds of atheism.

During the height of the Revolutionary War, Jedidiah Morse enrolled at Yale and soon came under a sense of his need for Christ. Learn more from Robert Morgan.

Alexander Hamilton was brilliant, ambitious, and gifted, and argued for a strong central government. Washington appointed him America's first Secretary of the Treasury, and it was Hamilton who established the U.S. Mint.

The Cane Ridge Revival was started by Presbyterian Barton Stone, but its combustion fired up the Methodists, whose circuit riders tackled the frontier-Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, and points beyond.

Dr. William Holmes McGuffey was born in 1800 in Pennsylvania and grew up in Ohio. He had a remarkable ability to memorize Scripture, learning whole books by heart. Robert Morgan explains.

No one in American history can match the resume of John Quincy Adams, who served in the government of George Washington and in Congress with Abraham Lincoln.

For the first twenty-five years of her life, Harriet Tubman was a slave in Maryland and spent much of her time behind oxen, loading and unloading wood and carrying heavy loads, which gave her the endurance of an athlete.

New Year's Day 1863 was a bright, sunny, and chilly Tuesday along the Eastern Seaboard. In Washington, Abraham Lincoln's staff brought him a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, and he suggested a change in the superscription.

Abraham Lincoln was born near the Kentucky camp meetings that helped spark the Second Great Awakening, but Lincoln's heart was not warmed by revival fire. He rejected frontier religion and the faith of his parents.

Many people know about the famous Christmas Eve truce during World War I, when German and Allied soldiers paused on the Western Front to sing carols and exchange greetings in 1914.

As an adolescent, John Wanamaker took a large sheet of brown paper and wrote down all the things he wanted to be - a minister of the gospel, an architect, a merchant, a journalist, and a doctor. Robert Morgan tells his story.

The circuit-riding evangelists of the 1800s gave way to the itinerant evangelists of the 1900s, who crisscrossed America holding evangelistic campaigns in churches, tents, and tabernacles in every corner of the nation. More from Robert Morgan.

As word spread of the allied invasion of Europe on D-Day, Americans were overcome with thoughts of their boys storming the beaches of Normandy and of their men taking the cliffs.

In his autobiography, 'Just As I Am', Billy Graham pulled back the curtains to give us a behind-the-scenes glimpse into American political life in the 1950s and so much more.

'If slavery is not wrong,' said Abraham Lincoln, 'then nothing is wrong.' In our world today, we can say the same for the slaying of preborn and newborn children.