“John Adams: Example Of Founder’s Thinking”

Posted on June 24, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

The Bible says, “Remember those who led you…” (Hebrews 13:7) Yet, in America we’ve forgotten what those who founded this nation were like. We no longer know how they thought or what they did. Someone has truthfully described us as having “national amnesia”.

The great danger in a nation forgetting its past is that they will lose the foundational ideas that made that nation great. We’re missing out on the inspiration provided by the stories of our ancestors who did amazing things to birth, grow, and protect America. Worse still, we’re missing the interventions by God Himself so that we no longer credit Him with America’s existence. Thus we lose the very Strength Who has brought the good to us which we now enjoy.

A renowned minister, A.W. Foljambe, spoke great wisdom when he said in 1876:

“The more thoroughly a nation deals with its history, the more decidedly will it recognize and own an over-ruling Providence [in it], and the more religious a nation [it will] become; while the more superficially it deals with its history, seeing only secondary causes and human agencies, the more irreligious will it be.”

One of the greatest ways to rediscover our past is simply to read the statements of our Founding Fathers. They wrote a great deal in journals and documents just so the following generations could know the foundational ideas on which they birthed and built this nation into the greatest in world history. They didn’t claim that they came up with these ideas. They constantly acknowledged the Bible to be the source of this wisdom.

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“Religious Acts By Our Government”

Posted on June 17, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

Today we hear much about what is called the “Separation of Church and State”. By that phrase is meant that the Bible, nor Christian ideas, have any right to influence government. Groups such as the ACLU, who promote this idea, say that the First Amendment to the Constitution forbids Biblical ideas from influencing government. But an honest study of the men who wrote the First Amendment will reveal just the opposite.

America’s Founders came from a long line of people who looked to God as the Source and Strength of their lives. Prayer to them was as natural as breathing, and an absolute necessity in times of national crisis. When the first major step toward war occurred, which was the blockading of Boston harbor, the first Continental Congress was then in session. This gathering marked the first time the thirteen colonies had come together to discuss how to deal with the King of England’s tyranny over the American colonies. Their very first act was to invite a minister to start their sessions with prayer and the reading of the Bible.

On September 7, 1774, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, describing the effects of the prayer. He wrote:

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America’s Foundational Religion

Posted on June 10, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

“Education without the Bible is useless.”

Those words were not spoken by a right-wing fundamentalist, or what the media might call “an ignorant backwoodsman.” They were spoken by the man who was the Father of America’s original education system. That educational system brought the greatest amount of liberty to the greatest number of people of any in world history, in that it produced the great

est Republic the world had ever known. And while, in the last 100 years, we’ve done much to destroy that Republic, we still reap a number of the benefits of that system.

We simply must restore the Biblical wisdom concerning education, economy, and government in order that our children and grandchildren may have the opportunity to hear and obey the Gospel of Jesus Christ as a way of life. The Bible says of itself,

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“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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“Raised To Rule”

Posted on May 13, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

So many people, who say they are believers in Jesus Christ as their Master and Savior, seem to be so hesitant about participating in government. Nearly half of them are not even registered to vote! I believe this reveals a much deeper problem than just avoiding government involvement. It shows a lack of understanding (or you might say ignorance!) of what the Bible says of the position believers have in Christ.

While in my twenties, I was struggling with my walk with Christ. Some days I’d be mostly obedient. Some days I’d be mostly disobedient! I was told by many that this was the normal Christian life; that there would always be a struggle with the flesh and only when we arrived in Heaven would we ever have victory in this warfare. But I kept coming across passages in the Bible like:

“But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1st Corinthians 15:57)

And in John 10:10, Jesus said,

“I am come that you might have life…and have it more abundantly.”

And the Apostle Paul wrote in 2nd Corinthians 2:14,

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“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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“The Beginning Of The American Revolution”

Posted on April 15, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

In April 1775, our forefathers began to defend our Liberty against the greatest army the world had ever seen. It is one of the most noble and inspiring stories in all of history. Let me tell you the story you probably were never taught because it has been purposely left out of textbooks.

The American colonies had become extremely prosperous because of Biblical educational, economic, and governmental systems. They believed their liberty was God-given. They further believed God had blessed their land because the Gospel was allowed to touch all areas of their culture.

But the King of England in the 1770’s was a tyrant who didn’t care for the Gospel because it condemned his lust for power. Thus, in the spring of 1774 he succeeded in getting Parliament to pass the ‘Regulatory Acts’. These laws shut down all the colonial legislatures, which had ruled the colonies since the early 1600’s, and replaced them with his own governors who had dictatorial powers. The Americans knew they had to, at all costs, defend their God-given liberty; thus they began to prepare for war. Still, they were not professional soldiers, but rather farmers and merchants committed to protecting their homes against the army of their own government.

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