“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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“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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“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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“Where Did America’s Downfall Begin–Part 2”

Posted on December 6, 2025 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

In our last time together, we revealed the downfall of our nation as being rooted in the wrong kind of thinking we received in the 1900s. The lies we believed would surface in our local education systems and our national government by the 1930s. These were the first major fruit showing that destruction was on the horizon.

The administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be the first to implement large amounts of socialism into our national government. Elected in 1932, Roosevelt was handed wide-sweeping powers by the Congress in an attempt to come out of the Great Depression. In the name of being able to enact laws quickly instead of taking the slower (but safer) way of debate in the Congress, Roosevelt was given the ability to use executive orders to be able to quickly make changes to the economy. This amount of power was never before used by any President in our history. A very few voices were raised, warning us that this could lead to socialism in our nation; but they were quickly drowned out with the cry for a better economy. Roosevelt would quickly grow the national government to an unprecedented size. Though he promised in his first campaign that he would lower taxes, he did just the opposite. And he spent way beyond even the increased tax incomes: Even before WWII started, he had already grown the national debt 250% ! While many thought he saved the country, the reality is, he plunged us into a very socialistic path. There are no “free handouts.”

Any time government redistributes tax dollars into the hands of someone who didn’t earn that money; it steals that money from someone who did earn it. To violate, “Thou shalt not steal” is a recipe for destruction! The Bible warns us:

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“Where Did America’s Downfall Begin–Part 1”

Posted on December 6, 2025 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

In the 1830s a Massachusetts educator, by the name of Horace Mann, convinced the Massachusetts Legislature that they should begin to fund their public schools with tax dollars. This opened the possibility for a few in government to control the minds of the next generation. Though, because of our strong Biblical thinking in those days, it would take many years to change us very much. But, with each generation being taught a little less Biblical thinking, by the early 1900s there would actually be a group of educators and a group of businessmen who believed they could control the world by controlling America. The educators intended to do it by controlling the way children thought. The businessmen intended to do it by controlling the flow of money in America. By the 1920s these two groups had gotten together and were working for a socialistic and atheistic America. We call it the “humanist” movement.

The businessmen were able to change our economic system in a major way by implementing high control in the economy. Amazingly, they were able to do three major things in one year, 1913. First they got Congress to approve the Federal Reserve Board that year. This Board, which would have only these wealthy “Merchant Bankers” to serve on it, could control the economy by controlling the interest rates at which banks loaned money. Then they got the 16th and 17th Amendments approved that year. The 16th established a national income tax, which meant the government could now own your property if you didn’t pay the tax. The 17th established the popular election of US Senators, which, by the original Constitution, had them elected by the State Legislatures. This finished off the power of the states to keep the national government within its thirty delegated powers of the Constitution. In effect, it assured the national government would control all government in America. The plan to change America to atheism and socialism was well under way.

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