“Our Freedom Document”

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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The Bible says, “Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1)

Ladies and Gentlemen: The following document is the reason you and I, in America, are free:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Continue reading →

“Covenant Is the Basis of Our Nation”

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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When the Pilgrims came here in 1620, they had learned some things that recent generations have had stolen from them. For instance, they had come to understand that the basis of the government is covenant. No state can exist very long if its citizens are not in covenant with each other.

The word covenant is defined as “a meeting or agreement of minds”. The minds of a people living under a particular government must be in agreement on the basics of life if they are to be able to walk together throughout the generations.

They must agree about Who God is, and who He says they are, and what His plan for them is, both as individuals and a nation. Without this agreement, education, commerce, and government just become Continue reading →

“Revival – The Foundation of America”

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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 →