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Why did early Americans respect the Bible so much?  Why did our Founding Fathers who wrote our Founding documents reason from Biblical principles?  Why did they insist that their education and governmental systems be the means of communicating the truth to the next generation?

To really understand how they thought we must consider the time in which they were born.  Most all of them were born in the midst of an amazing work which came to be called the “Great Awakening”.  It was a time of revival that brought the Pilgrims’ descendants back to the faith of those original settlers in Plymouth.  It started in 1734 in the little village of western Massachusetts called Northampton.  The Pastor of the church there, Jonathan Edwards, described it in his own words in Continue reading →

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Whenever I’ve been in New England studying America’s history, I’ve always been awe-struck by the many monuments and markers in that region which told of our past.  Our beginnings there speak to us in a great way concerning our Biblical roots.  Everywhere I turned there were references to the work of Jesus Christ in the lives of our ancestors.  Why did our forefathers place these monuments there?  Why are their words so specific in their instruction to us?

For example, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the Pilgrims first landed, there is a large stone placed over the spot where they buried half their number that first winter.  On the back of that stone are printed some words we definitely need to know.  They Continue reading →

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It was December, 1777.  George Washington’s army filed silently into their winter camp at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.  Washington would tell of the amazing commitment of these men by reporting how you could trace their path by the bloody tracks they were leaving.  A great many of the 11,000 were barefooted; many were nearly naked in this freezing cold.  More than 2,000 would die that winter from lack of food and shelter.  Yet the miracle was—they didn’t leave.  Why?

While it won’t be revealed completely until we stand before the Lord at the Judgment, at least one reason is the praying that George Washington did that winter.  There were different reports by people who said they came unexpectedly upon Washington kneeling in the snow in the woods, earnestly pleading with God for the cause of his nation.  While Washington was a very private person, and not at all given to showy religion, people close to him reported of his consistent devotions to God.  No doubt the last words his mother said to him before he left home to embark on his military career had greatly impacted him.  Mary Washington had Continue reading →

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Never have we seen a time in America that was so morally debased. The homosexual agenda is bent on erasing every vestige of Christianity from our culture. Their socialist ideas permeate the media and the tax-supported education institutions throughout the land. Is there any hope of a return to moral sanity? Yes, there is! But it can only come in a heaven-sent, Christ-honoring revival in our personal, family, church, and national lives. God’s promise is plain:

“If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14)

If we as Christians will “turn” —not just talk— God will send revival. And revival always restores Biblical morality. God has done this in our past in America. He wants to do it again!

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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 Continue reading →