“The Story Of The Birthing Of The United States”

Posted on June 2, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

It had been a long struggle. For over twenty years the American Colonies had appealed to their king, asking him to recognize his departure from English law. The Americans, because of their Biblical foundation, understood that government servants (including the king) had to do what they did according to the law of God. King George III showed no respect for what the Bible had to say about government, and thus ignored every request to come back into the order of God.

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Finally on June 7th, 1776, Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee introduced a resolution on the floor of the Continental Congress stating:

“RESOLVED, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”

(The Declaration of Independence, Rod Gragg, Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville, 2005; p.35)

A committee was appointed, which included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin, to write a Declaration of Independence which would, upon the approval of the Congress be sent to the King of England. The Congress then recessed for three weeks to give the committee time to write the Declaration.

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“Picture Reformation”

Posted on May 26, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

I often hear people talking about what we need to do to return our nation to “the way it ought to be”. But I wonder how many of them have a clear picture of exactly what is, “what it ought to be”. What would Biblical Reformation in America look like?

Actually, the years just before the American Revolution can give us a good starting point. The honest student of history finds in those years an evidence of a powerful move of God. That is what birthed America. This is all that can change her now. It is to that way of thinking we must return if America is to restore the liberty to get the Gospel to the next generation. A study of the man who spearheaded that revival is a good place to start toward reformation.

His name was George Whitefield. He was an Englishmen who had grown up with no Christian background. His parents ran a tavern; and from the shady characters that came there he learned how to think. He testified that as a boy he was a

“…liar, thief, and a gambler, addicted to filthy talk…and fantasy. He had a love for novels, [and] plays…”

(Biblical Revival and the Transformation of Nations, S. McDowell (Providence Foundation, 2013), p. 26-27)

His home was very unstable; his parents eventually divorced. But in his later teenage years, he began to be very serious about his relationship to God. He read a book entitled The Life of God in the Soul of a Man. It showed him he must be born again or spend eternity in hell. The common thought of the day was that if you were a member of the church you were okay and would go to heaven when you die. Much like today, people were greatly deceived as to what a relationship with God really was. From the conviction which came from reading this book, God would eventually bring him to bow his will and surrender his life to Christ. He described the joy that came as being,

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“Pastors Taught America’s Founders”

Posted on May 20, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

To any honest, diligent student of history it is obvious that the generation of America’s Founders was one of (if not the) wisest generations that ever walked this earth. The Republic they gave birth to would rival the greatest nations on earth after only fifty years. Many political thinkers would come here just to try to find the secret of the genius of this Republic. Since then, probably more people have, of their own free will, immigrated here than to any other nation on earth; which shows us the greatness of what they created.

Where did America’s Founders get this kind of wisdom? Who taught them as children and young people in such a way so as to produce the greatest nation in world history? It was basically two groups: Their parents—and their Pastors. And since the Pastors did much of the teaching of their parents—the average adult heard 15,000 hours of Bible teaching in their lifetime—we can honestly say it was the Pastors who shaped their thinking. Their Pastors were generally men of deep Biblical study. And most sermons were not on how to go to heaven—parents taught that to their children—Pastor’s sermons were great studies on how to live out the Bible in their present day culture; including the Biblical method of operating education, business, and government. Thus, you could say that, in essence, our Founders learned to think about education, economy, and government, from their Pastors’ explanation of those subjects from the Bible.

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