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“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 →

“Jesus is Alive!”

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Jesus had been dead three days.  Some of the women who had followed Him came to His tomb early and had found the stone door rolled away and His body gone!  They had told His disciples, and Peter and John had come to the grave site and seen for themselves that His body was gone.  But now the others had left and only Mary Magdalene remained.  It is here we pick up the story from the book, Why God Birthed America:

“Mary did not want to leave.  She stood there a few steps from the entrance to the grave, trying to sort out all that had happened.  The angels had said He was alive.  Jesus Himself had told them He would come back to life.  But could that really be?

“She moved closer to the entrance.  Questions were flying through her mind.  Could He really be alive again?

“She didn’t know how long she stood there lost in thought.  But as she put her head on the doorway and wept, she was instantly blinded with light!  There they were again!  The two shining creatures they had seen earlier.

“They looked at her with compassion.  ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ they asked.  ‘Because they’ve taken away my Lord and I don’t know where they’ve put Him’, she wailed.

“She turned her head away, having no stamina which could stand up to the questions of celestial beings.  What had happened?  Where was His body?  Her mind was racing, exceeded only by the racing of her heart.

“Blinded by tears, she turned Continue reading →

“The Purpose of Our Redemption”

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Ladies and Gentlemen, we continue to see the crucifixion of Jesus as written in the book, Why God Birthed America:

“By now it was noon, and a strange thing begins to happen.  The sky begins to darken with an eerie blackness.  For a few brief moments, the air was so still it seemed to choke you as the darkness deepened.  Then the earth began to tremble.  Lightning bolts were exploding against the ground.

“Then, unexpectedly, the voice of Jesus pierces the darkness.  In a loud, wrenching voice Jesus cries out, ‘My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?’ (Matthew 27:45-46)

“The level of emotional pain expressed by this outcry was incomprehensible.  All who heard it were arrested by its intensity.  While the light produced by the lightning bolts was short-lived, the pain in His face that they exposed was unforgettable.  His brow was deeply wrinkled.  The blood on his battered face was Continue reading →