“America’s Christian Founding”

Posted on July 22, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

The Bible says that God,

“…established a testimony in Jacob…which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them…who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments…” (Psalm 78:5-7)

Why did God tell fathers to tell the stories of His workings in the past to their children? Because hearing the stories of God showing up in history helps the next generation know that God is real; and that He cares about His creation, man. That knowledge helps them not be deceived into thinking that “We’re on our own here in this world.” Knowing how God has worked in previous generations encourages us to seek Him that we might know Him and His purpose for us, as an individual in the present generation. This is also why satan does not want us to know of God’s workings in the past; not in Bible history, or in our nation’s history!

So was God at work in America’s founding? Let’s consider this question. Lawrence Cremlin, a Professor at Houston University, searched through over 15,000 of America’s Founding Documents to see if our origins were based in the Bible. Here was his conclusion:

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“The Wisdom Of William Penn”

Posted on July 15, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

The Bible tells the story of Nehemiah, the civil leader who rebuilt Jerusalem after the Jews had been captive many years in Persia. In a time when the enemies of God had been trying to discourage the Jews from finishing the work God had called them to, Nehemiah exhorted them:

“…Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and [awesome], and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.” (Nehemiah 4:14)

The spiritual and natural enemies of the Gospel of the Kingdom of Christ have been trying for a hundred years to discourage Americans from knowing their history. They knew if they could disconnect us from our past, they could steal from us the reason God birthed this nation; which was to be a vessel of liberty by which to take that Gospel to the world. It only takes one generation who doesn’t pass on the story of America’s founding, and the hand of God in it, to disconnect all future Americans from their purpose. Then we would become a pleasure seeking, possession seeking, and prestige seeking people, and useless to the purpose of God in getting the Gospel to our children and their children. On the other hand, if we will revisit our past in this nation, we will find ample stories and writings which exhort us to follow the God of our Fathers; and why we should do that. Such as William Penn, the Founder of Pennsylvania in 1681. Penn desired to have a colony which would welcome all denominations within its borders. He wanted to create a civil government founded, as completely as his knowledge would allow, on the Bible. He wrote that His aim was to:

“Make and establish such laws as shall best preserve true Christian and civil liberty, in all opposition to all unchristian…practices, (whereby God may have His due, Caesar his due, and the people their due).”

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“The Underlying Ideas Of American Independence”

Posted on July 8, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

The time had finally come. After twenty years of growing government interference into the affairs of the American Colonies, the patience of Americans was exhausted. The Representatives of America had appealed to their British King and the Parliament over and over during those twenty years, and had only been insulted for their efforts. Over and over the King had treated their appeals with disdain. Finally, Thomas Jefferson would sum up the attitude of the majority of Americans when he wrote in The Declaration of Independence,

“A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

The final break with England began on March 16, 1776. The Continental Congress, representing each of the thirteen colonies, called upon the American people to observe a day “of fasting, humiliation, and prayer”. The Congress stated:

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