“Foundational Ideas of America”

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Four generations of Americans have now been taught that this nation was birthed out of ideas from many different cultures: That America is the great ‘melting pot’ of ideas. While it is true America has descendants from many nations which make up her citizenry, the men who birthed this nation were very much alike in their basic view of life and the world. The effort to hide from us their beliefs is designed to destroy the very liberty we cherish.

In 1843, Emma Willard, educator and historian, identified both the characteristics of the young republic of the United States and the reason for its emerging greatness. Her words give us insight, which, if taught to our children, will protect God’s precious gifts to us of “life, liberty, and property”. She wrote:

“The government of the United States is acknowledged by the wise and good of other nations, to be the most free, impartial, and righteous government of the world; but all agree, that for such a government to be sustained for many years, the principles of truth and righteousness, taught in the Holy Scriptures, must be practiced. The rulers must govern in the fear of God, and the people obey the laws.”

(1852. Willard, Emma. 1843. Emma Willard, History of the United States. Rosalie J. Slater, Teaching and Learning America’s Christian History (San Francisco: Foundation for American Christian Education, 1980), p. 83. Stephen McDowell and Mark Beliles, “The Providential Perspective” (Charlottesville, VA: The Providence Foundation, P.O. Box 6759, Charlottesville, Va. 22906, January 1994), Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 3. Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg’s Heart’N Home, Inc., 1991), 9.23.)

Since Emma Willard lived in the very next generation after America was founded Continue reading →

“Revival Can Happen in Our Day”

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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On February 3rd in 1970, God worked a modern day revival in central Kentucky. A Chapel service at Asbury College was invaded by the Holy Spirit of God. His work would go deep in the hearts of students, faculty members and many others, for the next eight days. Classes were cancelled as most of the college family waited in the Presence of God. Honest confessions of sin, private and public, were the norm as one person after another made their way to the altar at the front of the auditorium. After their surrender of every area of their lives, they would walk up onto the platform and give their witness to the whole group as to what God had done in them. This was repeated in hundreds of individuals over the eight day span as there were always some people in Hughes Auditorium for every hour of those eight days.

Those days were characterized by deep repentance and, thus, lives being transformed. One rebellious Senior’s testimony describes well what would happen to many. In Robert Coleman’s book One Divine Moment, which recounts the story of the revival, this young man is quoted as saying,

“I’m not believing that I’m standing here telling you what God has done for me. I’ve wasted my time in college…but Christ has met me and I’m different. Continue reading →

“Are We Slaves of Socialism?”

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Do we Americans live in the land of the free; or the land of political slavery? Political slavery, or socialism, means that the few who administer civil government tell the rest of us what to do. To determine if we live in political slavery:

Ask a parent if they can spank their child without fear of the government removing the child from them.

Ask a school teacher if they can choose their own curriculum.

Ask a physician if they can choose the type of medicine, therapy, or hospital, by which they care for their patients.

Ask a business owner if he can operate without first consulting government as to his location, pay for employees, and tools he uses.

Ask a church if they can build a building or parking lot without first asking government about septic systems, phone taxes, employee taxes, fire prevention restrictions.

Ask an individual how long he works each year just to pay the government what he is taxed. Let me answer that one for you; in 2013 all Americans worked until April 18th just to pay local, state and national taxes—30% of their work year!!

President Ronald Reagan warned us, Continue reading →

“Who is Standing in the Gap?”

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Some 600 years before Christ came to earth the nation of Judah was falling apart. Ministers had stopped teaching Biblical morality for fear they’d lose their income. Government leaders had approved the murder of the innocent in their nation. Citizens had oppressed the poor with money loaned by interest, and the bribery of judges. (Ezekiel 22: 25-29) Does all this sound familiar? God warned them that He would judge them and destroy their nation if they didn’t repent. They didn’t. Destruction came by the hand of the King of Babylon, whom God called, His “servant”.

We Americans deserve God’s judgment just as much as Judah did. We have murdered over 55 million of our own children by abortion. We have accepted homo-sexuality, which the Bible calls perversion. And we have given away the civil liberty which God entrusted to us for the purpose of getting the Gospel of Christ to our children and the world. Any one of these is enough to merit judgment on our nation!

And yet, God said to the prophet Ezekiel these amazing words: Continue reading →

“God’s View of Abortion”

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Since January 22, 1973 we have killed nearly 57 million of our own children. That number is equal to 20% of our total population in this country. And don’t be fooled by the political rhetoric: only 1% of those killings had anything to do with rape, incest, or the mother’s life being in danger. 99% of this murderous holocaust has been done because these children were thought to be an inconvenience! What heights of selfishness we’ve now reached!

And God has something to say about all this selfishness. When His people, Israel, fell into the murderous practice of sacrificing their children to the demon, Baal, God rebuked them with scathing words through the prophet Ezekiel. He told them,

“Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of My gold and of My silver, which I had given thee, and [made] to thyself images of men, and didst commit [adultery] with them… Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto Me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy [adulteries] a small matter, That thou hast slain My children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?” Continue reading →

“Why Submit to Islam?”

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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January 7th was the deadly shooting in the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office in Paris. On January 11th over a million people gathered in Paris to protest the Muslim philosophy that those who refuse to bow to allah must be killed. Heads of state from a number of countries marched alongside the French President, including Israel’s and Germany’s leaders. However, Mr. Obama was not there. Neither did he send the Vice-President or even Secretary of State, Kerry. This is a huge dishonor to those who have been our allies and suffered a terrible tragedy at the hands of Muslims who intend to live out the Koran. Why does this man refuse to acknowledge that terrorism is almost always tied to the Muslim religion? While he has steadfastly refused to acknowledge the importance of Biblical Christianity to our nation’s liberty, he has, at the same time, worked to cast in the very best light the Muslim faith.

Please consider his track record: Continue reading →

“The Slaughter MUST STOP!”

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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This month marks 42 years in which the murder of unborn children by abortion has been legal in America. Not that our Congress, the voice of the people, ever legalized it! It was the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 that illegally declared abortion legal. Because we in the church sat by and griped (instead of getting involved in the voting process and attending law-making sessions, so as to identify the law makers who supported such a hideous crime and replace them with our votes) now over 55 million of our own children have been murdered. And that in the place that should be the safest on earth: Their mother’s womb. The God Who made us, to Whom we will give a full account of our earthly deeds, is not blind to these hideous “rippings apart” of baby’s bodies in their mother’s womb!

God warned His people in the days of Jeremiah that their nation would be destroyed because they “burned their children in the fire” as a sacrifice to the demon god named Molech. He spoke through the prophet Jeremiah this warning:

“Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, ‘Behold, I will give this city into the hand of…Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall…set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal…to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into My mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.’” Continue reading →

“Teaching Children Who is Their Creator”

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Few ministries in America have been attacked more than Answers in Genesis. From the day they started to build the Creation Museum they have been constantly harassed by the liberal media and socialist organizations which hate the message of mankind having a Creator. These groups know they have to control the mind of the next generation in order to teach them socialism. The first Biblical truth they must remove from the eyes of children is that God made them in His “image, after [His] likeness, to have dominion.” Unless they can convince them of the lie of evolution, they will lose the war to change America to atheism and socialism.

America’s Founders were not fooled by the teaching of evolution. Others, before Darwin, had put forth the theory for centuries. But America’s Founders were men who had already considered the arguments against the Bible’s explanation of man’s origins—and had rejected those arguments. George Washington revealed his thinking on the subject when he stated:

“It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe, without the agency of a Supreme Being…A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to.” Continue reading →

“2015: Why We Are Alive”

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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This time finds many making new resolutions as to how they’ll live a different way. It may have to do with how they plan to use their time, how they are going to eat or exercise differently, or a host of other things. But most resolutions never happen because they are ours and not God’s. Only if we line up with His plan can our true purpose be realized.

Perhaps you’re wondering: What is God’s plan for me? The Bible reveals this in Genesis 1:26. Here, God tells why He made man. He states,

“…let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion…over all the earth.”

In other words, God made us to look like Him, live like Him, and rule like Him—in this world. Continue reading →

“The Christmas Story”

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Ladies and gentlemen, the following story is why we have Christmas:

“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away [privately]. But when he thought on these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, ‘Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she shall bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name JESUS; for…he… shall save his people from their sins.’ Now all this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, ‘Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel; which is, being interpreted, God with us.’ And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took unto him his wife; and knew her not till she had brought forth a son: and he called his name JESUS.” Continue reading →