“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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“It’s Enough!”

Posted on April 8, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

When rulers try to rule without “the fear of God” (Exodus 18:21), they miss the very foundation of success. The worldview that denies the existence of God, as well as His right to rule us and our institutions can end only in confusion and death to liberty. That’s why in recent programs we’ve been sharing the Biblical foundations for ourselves and our nation from the book Why God Birthed America. We continue with the story of Jesus’ Resurrection:

“What Mary didn’t see in that Garden was the host of others who were there. The many believers from the past who were standing around Jesus, waiting for the most triumphant entry ever staged. They were the ‘spirits of just men made perfect.’ (Hebrews 12:22-23) Abel, Noah, Moses, David, Daniel and many, many others. They did not yet have their new bodies, like the one Jesus had. But they knew His was the certain promise that theirs would one day come. (Ephesians 1:14)

“He was leading them from Paradise (the place where they had been at rest ever since their death) into heaven. The Father in heaven had ever wanted them with Him, but something had to happen first. Since all the spirit realm operates on legal principles (Psalms 94:20), there was a legality that must be taken care of before they could enter the Presence of the Almighty God.

“As they reached the gate of heaven, they found it opening to them. Light more brilliant than the mind can conceive shines from the other end of this main street of heaven. The angels bow and worship, announcing the return of the Son of God. Jesus strides toward the end of that street. He walks right up to the throne of the Almighty, Creator God, His Father. And then, the most sublime act in all of history is done by Jesus: He simply stretches His hands toward the Father, palms up, presenting the blood of His fresh wounds.

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“The Price Paid For Our Redemption”

Posted on April 1, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

Ladies and Gentlemen, the following story is why you and I can know God…

“…This One was different. Some of the soldiers had noticed the way He had taken the scourging without crying out like most men did. The soldiers who had been at the trials had noticed the way He didn’t answer trumped-up charges; refusing to dignify such accusations with an answer. The times He did speak revealed His deep inner peace. He seemed to be drawing strength from a Source they couldn’t identify, but yet was very evident.

“However, the supreme test was about to occur.

“The soldiers get up, shift their armor into place, and start to form a circle around Jesus. But then they see something that they’ve never seen in all their years of crucifying men. Jesus, of His own will, moves over to His cross, and stretches Himself out on it. He then extends His hands and waits for the nails. They are shocked! Never, among all the many experiences of crucifixion they’ve had, have they ever had anyone willingly accept a cross. This Man is different! Jesus actions seem to say, “No one takes my life from Me; I lay it down willingly.” But why? Why would He embrace a cross?

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“Who’s The Best At Influencing Government?”

Posted on March 25, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

Often when I speak in churches I ask people to be involved in their government in order to protect the liberty of their children. Many times they look at me with bewildered looks, as if to say, “How can I affect government?” I’m sorry we’ve gotten to such a state.

When the Pilgrims came to America they had been through many years of government oppression. And before them, many others had felt the restrictions of ungodly government and education. Because of the hurt they had experienced through un-Biblical government, they knew they must establish education which was true and government which was just. They knew the Bible taught that liberty could not be maintained in any nation apart from teaching the ways of God in their schools; neither could they expect liberty to continue if their government was not the form of government taught in the Bible. Thus, they worked to create cultural institutions which God taught in the Bible: Institutions which would teach and protect the moral foundation necessary for Republics to carry out their God-given purpose.

When people look at me with a questioning face that says, “How can I affect government?”, I know they have bought into the lie that only a handful of people are smart enough to govern others. That is just exactly the opposite of what the Pilgrims believed.

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“His Order, Our Help”

Posted on March 18, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

Except for one thing, the state of our land could be very discouraging. If we look only at the Moslem threat, the homosexual agenda, or the work of socialists inside our governments, we could well be in despair. However, if any person or people set their will to walk in the order of God, they have proven to be invincible under any circumstances. It is my hope, that if we can experience revival, we would need not fear any enemy, internal or external.

The Bible teaches that one with God is always a majority. Moses stood at the Red Sea without a single earthly hope of being delivered from Pharaoh’s fast approaching army. But because he was obeying God in bringing out His people from bondage, God said through Moses,

“Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD…” (Exodus 14:13)

Moses obeyed, and, to his amazement, he watched God’s people get delivered from the greatest army on earth. God still does this today.

Patrick Henry encouraged our Founding Fathers to not be afraid to stand in God’s order against the world’s greatest army of their day in his “Give me liberty or give me death!” speech. He finished it by saying,

“Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and Who will raise up friends to fight our battle for us…”

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“Patrick Of Ireland”

Posted on March 11, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

It is such an amazing story! Patrick, a young, former slave in Ireland, was called by God in the 400s to go share the Gospel of Christ with those same Irish people who had enslaved him just a few years before! Yet, without fear, he boldly entered again into that realm and became the agent of liberty to those who had once been his agents of slavery.

He developed this boldness because Christ had revealed Himself to him in such a living way. Patrick’s faith in Jesus was no cold orthodoxy; his was a living relationship with the living, resurrected Son of God! In Patrick’s life, Jesus was Lord! We get a glimpse of the intimacy between him and his Lord when he writes of hearing His voice. With great humility he simply states that God said to him:

“He who gave His life for you, He it is who speaks within you.”

(Great Christian Classics, Kevin Swanson ed. (Generations With Vision, 2010), p. 140)

His knowledge of Christ was deeper than most of us today. He understood that Jesus dwelt inside him. He knew Christ, not only as the Lord of heaven—which He certainly is—but as the present, resident, Lord inside Patrick. One time he actually saw the Holy Spirit praying within him. He wrote,

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“Patrick Henry — Voice Of Liberty”

Posted on March 3, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

A few years ago a State Senator said to me, as I was urging him to stand against the uprising of homosexuals in Kentucky: “I tell you now, I just try to get along with everybody down here”, referring to people in Frankfort. I often hear young people saying what they’ve heard in school or the music of our day: “Let’s just compromise; everybody give a little so we can get along.” I wonder if this state Senator and these young people know that they have been deceived by liberal thinkers of our day into thinking that the foundation of freedom is compromise. This is not what America’s Founders believed!

They believed you must know the truth about every subject as the Bible revealed it. Jesus had said, “If you continue in My Word, then are you My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:31-32) Then once you knew the truth, you must stand for that truth no matter what the cost. This was true in your personal life and it was true in your state and nation. They believed that your personal moral goodness, founded in knowing Jesus Christ as your Master and Savior, was the basis of being able to stand for liberty. If you knew internal self-government of your bodily desires, then you were qualified and empowered to walk in liberty in your community and nation. If you didn’t, you would have to be ruled by someone else. If you couldn’t control yourself, someone else would have to control you. Patrick Henry of Virginia summed this up well. He stated,

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“Why So Much Talk About Government?”

Posted on February 25, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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The newscast is full of it. The newspapers’ main stories are about it. Bestseller books are often discussions of it. Why is there so much talk about government? What’s so important about government?

Well, like most things in today’s world, we generally talk around the topic instead of defining it. Why not go to the root of the issue and actually learn what we’re talking so much about.

The word government comes from the word govern. The word govern is defined in Noah Webster’s original American dictionary as control. Thus, government is the exercising of control. The first form of government we must learn is self-government. The art of governing ourselves means we control our appetites of the mind and the body. Self-government in the mind means we exercise control over our thoughts and think on what is “…noble…just…and pure…” as the Bible teaches us to (Philippians 4:8). This necessarily means we must control what goes into our minds; in other words, we control what we see, read, or listen to. Self-government in our body means we exercise control over our body appetites. Things like eating, resting, sleeping, and our desire for sex, are some examples of what we must learn to control.

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“The Valley Of Decision”

Posted on February 18, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

One of America’s greatest men spoke these sobering words:

“The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them.

“The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore to resolve to conquer or die. Our own country’s honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

“Let us rely upon the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the Supreme Being in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.”

(756. Washington, George. July 2, 1776, from his Head Quarters in New York the General Orders were issued to his troops. Jared Sparks, ed., The Writings of George Washington 12 vols. (Boston: American Stationer’s Company, 1837, NY: F. Andrew’s, 1834-1847), Vol. III, p. 449. Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg’s Heart’N Home, Inc., 1991), 11.18.)

The great American who spoke those words was George Washington. He spoke them to his ‘ragtag’ army on July 2nd, 1776, the day when the Declaration of Independence was first approved in Congress. Looking at their natural assets, that little army didn’t have a ‘ghost of a chance’ against Britain’s army, which was the best in the world of that day. Yet they won America’s independence because they trusted, as Patrick Henry said, “The just God who presides over the destinies of nations…” God obviously wanted this nation to exist.

However, over the last ninety years we’ve lost the understanding of why America exists. We’ve bought into the lie that our life is about pleasure instead of purpose. Consequently, we are very close to losing our liberty. The Bible says,

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“Knowing Lincoln’s God”

Posted on February 11, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

There’s a little-known story about Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday we celebrate this week, which needs to be told.

Shortly before his death, an Illinois clergyman asked Abraham Lincoln, “Do you love Jesus?” Mr. Lincoln solemnly replied:

“When I left Springfield I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ. Yes, I do love Jesus.”

(America’s Providential History, p. 241)

Abraham Lincoln was not by himself in his profession of Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior of his life. Most of our ancestors in America, up until 1900, did know Jesus as their Lord. It was their faith in God, and their belief that the Bible was true, that made America the greatest nation on earth. However, in the early 1900’s a different way of thinking began to take root in America because the churches had weakened by that time. Liberal theology, which accepted the possibility of a different ‘creator’ of man, began to make its way into the seminaries and public school system of America. The result was that we began to accept that anyone who was, quote, “good” or religious (meaning he went to church somewhere), was also a Christian. No longer did the churches require that people make an open statement of their faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and their Savior.

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