“Will You Be a Soldier For Truth?”

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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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 own 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, 4/6/2015)

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 answered prayer cannot be scientifically proven, an honest analysis of the outcome of battles and their timing can only admit that God’s Hand was evident.

One soldier readily gave credit to the Lord for an almost unbelievable feat he accomplished in October of 1918. In a battle in France, Corporal Alvin York’s battalion was pinned down by over 30 German machine guns. Continue reading →

“Jesus’ Redemption: The Foundation of Civil Government”

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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With the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus we naturally think of Christ’s redemption for us personally: How His shed blood washes away our sin and guilt, and how His resurrected life makes possible that we can actually be what He created us to be. The wonder of this cannot be fully described, but it can be fully experienced!

However, as we mature in Christ once we’ve received Him as our Lord, His life within us desires to flow in an outwardly direction. And if we allow Him to do that to its farthest extent, His resurrected life will shape the institutions of the culture so that those institutions will become vessels through which His truth can flow to the next generation. The institution of civil government will then protect, by law, the right of the truth of Christ’s kingdom to flow to the next generation. America’s Founders understood that this was civil government’s responsibility. They never envisioned the government being hostile to the church. Any honest individual who researches their writings will reach that conclusion.

Founding Father and Sixth President, John Quincy Adams, made plain the connection between Christianity and our nation’s liberties when he stated:

“Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the Progress of the Gospel…? Continue reading →

“Patrick of Ireland”

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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It’s such an amazing story! Patrick, a young, former slave in Ireland, was called by God in the 400’s 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, pub. 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, Continue reading →

“The Gender Agenda vs The Church”

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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What would your church do if the parents of a lesbian daughter asked you to perform her funeral—AND—insisted a picture be showed of her kissing her lesbian partner? According to writer, Bryan Fischer, this has already happened to a church in Colorado. What if they threatened to sue the church if it didn’t perform the funeral? What would your church leadership do?

These are the exact kinds of choices we’re heading for in this land. David Gibbs, President of the Christian Law Association in America, warns us that the homosexuals have an agenda to take control of the media, of business, of civil government, and of the church, in order to force acceptance of their lifestyle on us. They’ve gained so much control of the media, business, and civil government, that they are now invading the church’s territory, insisting it bow to an all-powerful, socialist form of government.

Since the Obama Administration pushed through Congress the so-called “Hate Crimes” law in November of 2009, government power is being used more and more to threaten the worship and mission of the church in America. The “Gender Agenda” is flexing its government muscle and attacking the Biblical definition of marriage. Now they are advancing into the church in order to silence its moral voice in our nation. Satan’s real aim in all this is to stop the teaching of the Gospel of Christ to the next generation. He is simply using the homosexual movement to achieve his goal. Continue reading →

“The Gender Agenda”

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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I recall once hearing a state legislator in Kentucky argue that there was no such thing as a “homosexual agenda”. However, David Gibbs, President of the Christian Law Association in America, tells how he was in a state government committee hearing about 30 years ago where an attorney speaking for the homosexuals related their plan to gain acceptance for their lifestyle. We’ll share that plan in a moment.

But why should we question that there is a plan? Since the Garden of Eden, satan has had a plan to keep man from becoming what God had created him to be. Years ago, the apostle Paul revealed satan’s schemes to control man and this earth. Paul wrote in Ephesians 6,

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”

(Ephesians 6:12-13)

There is a war in the spirit realm that causes every action in this natural realm. To deny that this war exists is to invite destruction to yourself and your nation. Continue reading →

“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 →

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Category Archives: “Think About It”

“Will You Be a Soldier For Truth?”

“Jesus’ Redemption: The Foundation of Civil Government”

“Patrick of Ireland”

“The Gender Agenda vs The Church”

“The Gender Agenda”

“Foundational Ideas of America”

“Revival Can Happen in Our Day”

“Are We Slaves of Socialism?”

“Who is Standing in the Gap?”

“God’s View of Abortion”

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