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“Patrick Henry – Voice of Liberty”

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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!

Patrick Henry - Voice of Liberty 1They 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 Continue reading →

“Pastors Taught America’s Founders”

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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 Continue reading →

“Ben Franklin’s Speech Saved Our Constitution”

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The many educational elitists in our land would have us believe that our Founding Fathers were people who had no faith in God; or, at best, were skeptics.  They often point to Ben Franklin as proof of that, quoting some wrong things that Franklin said in his early life.  However, they will almost never quote from his speech at the Constitutional Convention in May of 1787 when he was eighty-one years of age.  But I want to quote, at length, from his speech that most surely saved that Convention from breaking up from selfish interests, and thus brought about the writing of our Constitution; which has produced the greatest amount of liberty for the greatest number of people in all of world history.  Consider Franklin’s faith in God when he stated:

“Mr. President:

“The small progress we have made after 4 or 5 weeks…is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding.

“We indeed seem to feel Continue reading →

“Alvin York: Hero in War and Peace”

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In April of 1917 the United States entered into World War I.  While all wars are caused by the selfishness of man, the desire of our people as a whole was not our gain.  Rather, it was our desire to protect the liberty which God had entrusted to us.  And our people responded in great numbers to the request of President Woodrow Wilson to observe a Day of Public Humiliation, Prayer and Fasting on May 11, 1918.  He requested our people to:

“…humbly and devoutly…acknowledge our dependence on Almighty God and to implore His aid and protection…with religious solemnity and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of our cause, His blessings on our arms, and a speedy restoration of an honorable and lasting peace to the nations of the earth…”

(American Minute by William Federer, April 6, 2015)

Our prayers “were heard and graciously answered.”  Few would argue that it was American arms which won the day for liberty in the nations of the earth and brought this mighty scourge of war to an end.  And while Continue reading →

“Pastors Are Stewards of Civil Government”

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Pastor Jonas Clark stood on Lexington Green on the steps of his church building on April 19th, 1775, watching 600 British troops file onto the grassy area.  He had taught his people for twenty years the Biblical principles of why and how to defend civil liberty.  He did this because he knew the Bible taught that civil government was God’s institution just like the home and the church were God’s institutions.  He stood there that day and watched nine of his men die on that field.  They died because they stood and took the first volley.  They had learned from their Pastor that only defensive war is just.  For God to fight with them, they must not fire the first shot.  They didn’t.  God honored their sacrifice; the British, though a vastly superior force, were routed that day by the Colonial forces.  A “shot was heard round the world” about how you defend civil liberty God’s way!

Samuel Davies, a Pastor in Virginia, was Patrick Henry’s inspiration for powerful public speaking.  Laying “line upon line” the great Pastor’s reasoning both stirred and gave Continue reading →

“A Powerful Evangelistic Tool!”

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The Pilgrims stated that their main reason for coming to this land was the…

“…propagation of the Gospel of Christ in that remote part of the world, even though they should be but stepping stones to others in so great a work.”

While they did this well in their own day, it is still happening through their descendants also.  Consider how God is using the JESUS Film Project to share Christ.  I quote from one of the Project’s recent newsletters…

“It was a dream.  Pastor George kept seeing a dark, shadowy hand hovering over the villages of a mountainous region, in his home country of Ecuador.

“George didn’t understand the dream, but…he heard God, [saying]:  ‘Go and show these people that My power is greater.’  So, Pastor George returned from the U.S. to Ecuador, bringing Continue reading →

“America’s Most Recent National Revival”

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The last time America had a move of God that was nationwide was over 150 years ago.  Since that time the growing darkness of secularism—founded in Americans gradually believing the lie that we are god, and that the life that has our name attached to it is ours—has brought more and more darkness to us.  It definitely looks like we’re going to destroy ourselves.

Is there any hope for our nation?  There definitely is!  And His Name is Jesus Christ!  But we’ll never make our nation a candidate for His deliverance, until we, as a majority of individuals in this land, surrender these lives completely to Him.  That would bring the awareness of His Presence to us in such a real way that we could hear His voice again.  That would let us work with Him in the revival he wants to give to us.  Perhaps you’re thinking:  “That can’t happen in these last days”, or, “Wrong is too much in control, we can’t turn it back now.”  These are Continue reading →

“The Must of Biblical Education”

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A leader among America’s Founding Fathers made the following statement about education:

“We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education…We’ve become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children containing fables and moral lessons…We are spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools…The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any…manmade book.”

(Ames, Fisher. September 20, 1789, in an article published in the Palladium magazine. | D. James Kennedy, The Great Deception (Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Coral Ridge Ministries, 1989; 1993), p. 3.)

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Thus spoke Fisher Ames, the Founding Father who authored the wording of the First Amendment to the Constitution.  Could this Founder have possibly wanted the “separation of church and state” idea that liberals now use to remove the Bible from schools?

But to continue with our thoughts on education:  Since education teaches children how to think; and since, in the next generation, those thought processes become Continue reading →

“Fixing Our Educational Mess”

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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 Continue reading →

“Fixing Kentucky’s Pension Mess”

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Kentucky has a state pension “nightmare”.  The report is that the state workers retirement fund is forty-one billion dollars in the hole.  To give you an idea how bad that is for my home state:  Kentucky’s state government budget is only about twelve billion a year.  Previous administrations have, in my opinion, defrauded Kentucky’s people.

So shouldn’t we address this problem at its root instead of just trying to temporarily change the fruit out on the limb?  To do that, we have to Continue reading →