“Rediscovering Our Constitution”

Posted on May 6, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this…”? Do you know what document contains these words that I just read? It could just be that your life—and the life of your children—depends on it!

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John Jay was one of America’s Founders who would become the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His great wisdom guided us in those early years as our Constitution was being tested. His understanding of liberty and how it passed to the next generation is so powerful—and pertinent to our present day. He wisely stated:

“…But let it be remembered that whatever marks of wisdom…may be in your constitution, yet like the…forms of our first parents before their Maker breathed into them the breath of life, it is yet to be animated…From the people it must receive its spirit…”

“Vice, ignorance, and [lack] of vigilance will be the only enemies able to destroy it…Every member of the State ought diligently to read and to study the constitution…By knowing their rights, they will sooner perceive when [those rights] are violated, and be the better prepared to defend [them]…

“Hence it becomes the common duty…to unite in [subduing][those unrestrained by morality]…and thereby diffusing the blessings of peace.”

What was John Jay’s standard for morality? On April 15, 1818, he wrote:

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“Education During The Founder’s Era”

Posted on April 29, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

What made America rise to prominence among the nations of the world in just 50 years from its founding? Why did this young Republic equal England and France in world influence in so short a time? Many would make visits here to try to find that out.

One of those, a French political scientist by the name of Alex De Toqueville, would identify in no uncertain terms to secret of America’s greatness. He wrote:

“I sought for the key to the greatness and genius of America…in her fertile fields and boundless forests…I sought for it in her…Congress and in her matchless Constitution.

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.

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“Pastors Are Stewards Of Civil Government”

Posted on April 19, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

Pastor Jonas Clark stood on Lexington Green on the steps of his church building on April 19th, 1775, watching 600 British troops file onto the grassy area. He had taught his people for twenty years the Biblical principles of why and how to defend civil liberty. He did this because he knew the Bible taught that civil government was God’s institution just like the home and the church were God’s institutions. He stood there that day and watched nine of his men die on that field. They died because they stood and took the first volley. They had learned from their Pastor that only defensive war is just. For God to fight with them, they must not fire the first shot. They didn’t. God honored their sacrifice; the British, though a vastly superior force, were routed that day by the Colonial forces. A “shot was heard round the world” about how you defend civil liberty God’s way!

Samuel Davies, a Pastor in Virginia, was Patrick Henry’s inspiration for powerful public speaking. Laying “line upon line” the great Pastor’s reasoning both stirred and gave courage to the young boy. Later, this boy would become the statesman who would fire the American citizens to rise up and refuse to give up their liberty to teach the Gospel of Christ in this land. His stirring words, which used to be the stuff of speeches in our country, went like this:

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