“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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“Why They Came”

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

The little boy tugged at the young man’s coat sleeve. “How far is it to America?” he asked, “Will we soon be there?” “No, lad,” the man replied, “It will take many days to cross this huge ocean.” The little boy gazed briefly across the ocean to the west. Then, unaware of the risks of such a voyage, he ran to find his friend to tell him this ship, the Mayflower, would be their playground for a long time. The young man continued to gaze across the vast ocean. His thoughts drifted back twenty years—to the time he had first met these people he was now a part of.

He remembered the wonderful meetings they had in their homes in England. For the first time in his life he had felt accepted, really accepted. These people were genuine, somehow he just knew it. Though others were saying this group were bigots who thought they were the only ones who were right and that they had “gone off the deep end” with their religion, he knew the truth. These people were real. They people didn’t claim to be perfect. They readily admitted that they too were capable of selfishness. But the unique thing about them (that so set them apart from those who were against them) was that they had entered into an agreement to help each other not give into selfishness by letting their friends point it out to them. And the way they did it seemed safer to him than living the way his relatives did. Because they recognized their own bent toward selfishness, they didn’t trust their own thoughts alone. They had agreed to compare their thoughts about another member’s actions to what the Bible said about those actions. Those who were critical of them certainly didn’t live that way. As he had considered their agreement (which they called their “Covenant”) he had come to recognize this was the safest way to live on this earth and had decided that—no matter what anyone said—he would cast his lot with this group, who now referred to themselves as “Pilgrims”. The years had brought them much hardship, but also much maturity. The peace they enjoyed was worth all the difficulties of living in a world system which was against their Covenant.

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“The Government Of The Pilgrims”

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

It was November 11th, 1620. After sixty-six days at sea, with over half that time in violent storms, they were more than ready to get off the ship. The Mayflower had just dropped anchor inside Cape Cod Bay. They had been blown off course by the storm, and deposited here, much farther north than they had intended. But they came to believe that the storm was the Lord’s way to get them to settle in this place.

These “Pilgrims”, as they called themselves, had come to America to have the freedom to teach their children the Bible; and to them that meant much more than teaching them how to be born again. It included teaching to their children reading, writing, and all the other academic subjects. Their Pastor, John Robinson, had taught them how to establish from the Bible the institutions of education, government, and economy. These Pilgrims were Christians who believed the Bible was true and that its teachings could be lived out in this present world. Thus, they were intent on creating a community which agreed that their children would be taught the Bible, and all the academic subjects from the principles of the Bible; and they had agreed on establishing a Biblical economy to fund that teaching; as well as a Biblical government to protect that education system and that economic system so they could accomplish the Pilgrim vision.

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“Americans Are The Guardians Of Liberty”

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

We should carefully take in the words of the Father of our country, George Washington. In his first inaugural address he stated words of such wisdom that they should sober and inspire every one of us who are Americans. If heeded, they will inspire us to become an instrument in the hands of Almighty God for the good of our children and the entire earth.

Just after Washington took the oath of office to defend and uphold the newly written Constitution of the United States, he spoke these words of wisdom:

“We ought to be no less persuaded that the…smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained;…the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as…perhaps finally, staked [with] the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people…”

(Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1987), pp.63-64, 107)

Let’s look carefully at Washington’s words, since they spell out for us the way of success in the effort to pass the torch of liberty to our children.

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“Will A Wall Stop Illegal Entries?”

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

The Debate continues over illegal immigration. The socialists in Congress, and their supporters, don’t want a wall. The reasons they put out front is that it’s unfair to deny needy people entrance to our nation; and a wall won’t work anyway. But are those the real reasons they want open borders? Consider their arguments just mentioned: If we’re going to admit people just because they are needy, then the whole world will be standing at our door. Few nations on earth have anything like the lifestyle Americans enjoy. Most of the world is needy compared to this nation!

Their talk that, “a Wall won’t work” is just that—TALK! A recent example of how well a Wall does work to keep out illegals is the nation of Israel. David Rubin, the former Mayor of the city of Shiloh in Israel, told Fox News that,

“…from 2010 to 2012, some 55,000 illegal immigrants came…through Egypt into Israel. In a tiny nation like Israel, he said, ‘that’s a lot,’ [and] the result was that crime rocketed…where they settled…Israeli officials finally agreed to build [a] wall…and in 2016, there were only 11 illegal immigrants who entered Israel through that route…A year after…the Israeli government made security improvements to the wall and increased its height…and now, Rubin contends that the wall is virtually impenetrable by illegal immigrants…‘[T]here was not [one] illegal immigrant that made it through the southern border – not one,’ Rubin [said], referring to last year.”

(Fox News Insider: December 12, 2018, ‘It Works’: Israeli Mayor Says Border Wall With Egypt Eliminated Illegal Immigration in 2 Years)

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“Fixing Our Educational Mess”

Posted on August 19, 2025 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

John Dewey—the father of the present educational system in America—stated in his book, Living Philosophies (1930),

“There is no God, there is no soul. Hence there are no needs for…traditional religion…truth is dead…There is no room for fixed natural law or permanent moral absolutes.”

(Biblical Solutions to Contemporary Problems, R. Walton, p. 136)

With such ideas being the foundation of modern education, is it any wonder “Johnny can’t read”; and drugs, immorality, and suicide are epidemics in America’s public schools? In spite of the effort of many Christians who teach in our local schools, the devastation worsens each year. Is there any hope for public education in America? Yes! But the road back will be one of the most difficult things ever tackled.

The root of America’s education problem is that it has left the Biblical method of education. How can the Bible be restored as America’s “basic textbook in all fields”, as Noah Webster said? Only by returning the control of the public school to the local community. This means cutting it completely loose from all tax support! Get the state and federal governments out of it! Let the local community completely control it by funding it through voluntary donations. Then—and only then—will the quality of education go up again.

Will most people want to do that right now? No. So I believe some preliminary steps must first be taken.

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“The Ideas Which Made America Great”

Posted on July 16, 2025 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

One of the men who helped to found our nation, but is almost completely unknown today, was Noah Webster. He wrote our first dictionary, a work of twenty years in the making, which he published in 1828. He published his Blue Backed Speller, which sold millions of copies over the following 100 years. It was an entire learning course compacted into a small book, which the pioneers used to educate their children. In 1832 he published his History of the United States and included a “brief exposition of the U.S. Constitution” because he wanted young people to know early that our nation was a republic, not a democracy; and that our Founders got the ideas for its purpose, structure, and spirit of operation from the Bible. Keep in mind that when he uses the term republican, he’s not talking about a political party, but rather a particular form of government.

He stated it this way:

“The brief exposition of the constitution of the United States, will unfold to young persons the principles of republican government; and it is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament…”

(Webster, Noah. History of the United States (New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1832), pp. 273-274, 300, paragraph 578 | Verna M. Hall, The Christian History of the American Revolution (San Francisco: Foundation for American Christian Education, 1976), p. 10.)

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“The Scottish Covenant And American Liberty”

Posted on July 8, 2025 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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This day in time we really need to look back and see the Hand of God in our history in this nation. Let’s review a segment of our history that is not commonly known.

While the Pilgrims and Puritans were establishing themselves in New England, a giant step toward human liberty was occurring in Scotland. In 1638 the King of England was trying to force Roman Catholicism on the Scots. For years the Scots had been more and more throwing off this yoke, and they were not about to submit to what they believed were satanic rituals that would plunge them back into the slavery of the “dark ages”.

Thus, they came together in a covenant (which means the meeting of minds) vowing to fight to the death to refuse Catholic tyranny in their churches and civil government. Over 3,200 people signed the original document—many signing it in their own blood—saying we will die rather than live as slaves to a government that won’t submit to the moral law of God.

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