“Foundational Ideas of America”

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Four generations of Americans have now been taught that this nation was birthed out of ideas from many different cultures: That America is the great ‘melting pot’ of ideas. While it is true America has descendants from many nations which make up her citizenry, the men who birthed this nation were very much alike in their basic view of life and the world. The effort to hide from us their beliefs is designed to destroy the very liberty we cherish.

In 1843, Emma Willard, educator and historian, identified both the characteristics of the young republic of the United States and the reason for its emerging greatness. Her words give us insight, which, if taught to our children, will protect God’s precious gifts to us of “life, liberty, and property”. She wrote:

“The government of the United States is acknowledged by the wise and good of other nations, to be the most free, impartial, and righteous government of the world; but all agree, that for such a government to be sustained for many years, the principles of truth and righteousness, taught in the Holy Scriptures, must be practiced. The rulers must govern in the fear of God, and the people obey the laws.”

(1852. Willard, Emma. 1843. Emma Willard, History of the United States. Rosalie J. Slater, Teaching and Learning America’s Christian History (San Francisco: Foundation for American Christian Education, 1980), p. 83. Stephen McDowell and Mark Beliles, “The Providential Perspective” (Charlottesville, VA: The Providence Foundation, P.O. Box 6759, Charlottesville, Va. 22906, January 1994), Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 3. Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg’s Heart’N Home, Inc., 1991), 9.23.)

Since Emma Willard lived in the very next generation after America was founded Continue reading →

“Revival Can Happen in Our Day”

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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On February 3rd in 1970, God worked a modern day revival in central Kentucky. A Chapel service at Asbury College was invaded by the Holy Spirit of God. His work would go deep in the hearts of students, faculty members and many others, for the next eight days. Classes were cancelled as most of the college family waited in the Presence of God. Honest confessions of sin, private and public, were the norm as one person after another made their way to the altar at the front of the auditorium. After their surrender of every area of their lives, they would walk up onto the platform and give their witness to the whole group as to what God had done in them. This was repeated in hundreds of individuals over the eight day span as there were always some people in Hughes Auditorium for every hour of those eight days.

Those days were characterized by deep repentance and, thus, lives being transformed. One rebellious Senior’s testimony describes well what would happen to many. In Robert Coleman’s book One Divine Moment, which recounts the story of the revival, this young man is quoted as saying,

“I’m not believing that I’m standing here telling you what God has done for me. I’ve wasted my time in college…but Christ has met me and I’m different. Continue reading →

“Are We Slaves of Socialism?”

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Do we Americans live in the land of the free; or the land of political slavery? Political slavery, or socialism, means that the few who administer civil government tell the rest of us what to do. To determine if we live in political slavery:

Ask a parent if they can spank their child without fear of the government removing the child from them.

Ask a school teacher if they can choose their own curriculum.

Ask a physician if they can choose the type of medicine, therapy, or hospital, by which they care for their patients.

Ask a business owner if he can operate without first consulting government as to his location, pay for employees, and tools he uses.

Ask a church if they can build a building or parking lot without first asking government about septic systems, phone taxes, employee taxes, fire prevention restrictions.

Ask an individual how long he works each year just to pay the government what he is taxed. Let me answer that one for you; in 2013 all Americans worked until April 18th just to pay local, state and national taxes—30% of their work year!!

President Ronald Reagan warned us, Continue reading →

FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS is finally available!

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

We are excited to announce that Don Pinson’s new book For Such a Time as This is now available! Addressing over 50 current issues (including abortion, homosexual marriage, the rise of Islam, Common Core Curriculum, and the National debt), Don attempts to give God’s view of each one by utilizing both Scripture and quotes from America’s Founding Fathers. Designed in an easy-to-read, 2 pages-per-topic format, For Such a Time as This is a handbook for restoring the Biblical understanding of education, government, and economy that once made America the greatest nation on earth. Our prayer and belief is that this book will inspire, challenge, and equip you to fight the good fight as you stand for liberty- for such a time as this!

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“Who is Standing in the Gap?”

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Some 600 years before Christ came to earth the nation of Judah was falling apart. Ministers had stopped teaching Biblical morality for fear they’d lose their income. Government leaders had approved the murder of the innocent in their nation. Citizens had oppressed the poor with money loaned by interest, and the bribery of judges. (Ezekiel 22: 25-29) Does all this sound familiar? God warned them that He would judge them and destroy their nation if they didn’t repent. They didn’t. Destruction came by the hand of the King of Babylon, whom God called, His “servant”.

We Americans deserve God’s judgment just as much as Judah did. We have murdered over 55 million of our own children by abortion. We have accepted homo-sexuality, which the Bible calls perversion. And we have given away the civil liberty which God entrusted to us for the purpose of getting the Gospel of Christ to our children and the world. Any one of these is enough to merit judgment on our nation!

And yet, God said to the prophet Ezekiel these amazing words: Continue reading →