“Coming To God’s Order”

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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A principle in one of our schools in East Kentucky insists that the students who come to his school be given breakfast before they start their day, even if they have to take it with them to class. His reasoning: So many children come from homes that are out of order, they may not have eaten since yesterday when they were at school. Of course this is nothing new. We’ve been feeding children breakfast for many years now. But we didn’t do this when I was a child. Our homes still had enough of the holdover of Christian order to them that most parents accepted their God-given responsibility of feeding their children before school.

Children coming to school hungry is typical of the disorder that now affects so much of our nation. Individuals are being destroyed by addiction to drugs, or alcohol, or sexual immorality. This disorder is the result of not knowing the God of order who created us. His order protects us from destruction by bringing us into peace. Peace is the natural result of His order. When we are at peace in our soul, we don’t go looking for life—we already have it! This is what Jesus meant when he said Continue reading →

“Knowing Our History Is A Must!”

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Woodrow Wilson said:

“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about…”

(1913. Robert Flood, The Rebirth of America (Philadelphia: The Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation, 1986), p. 12)

Where did earlier generations get the idea we are to know our history? Why did our ancestors place so much emphasis on knowing our history? Could our present decline be rooted in the “national amnesia” so prevalent across our land?

While it may be a shock to some; America’s Founders got the idea they must communicate to their children the story of where they came from—right out of the Bible. It was the Pastors who taught the importance of remembering our history. They pointed out such commands by God as the one in Deuteronomy 32:7, which states:

“Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.”

Those early American Pastors realized that if we knew history well, we would Continue reading →

“The Rock Of Nation Building”

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

During the Revolutionary War, some Delaware Indian Chiefs brought three young people to General George Washington, asking that they be taught in American schools. General Washington responded:

“…You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this wise intention.”

(May 12, 1779. The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources: 1749-1799, “Address to Delaware Indian Chiefs”, (Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1907, ed., John C. Fitzpatrick)

This statement gives us great insight into the way Washington thought about several issues of our day: And his thinking was typical of all our Founders.

The statement reveals that America’s Founders believed their way of living was better than the natives of America. He reveals this when he says, “You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life…” America’s Founders believed that their way of life, based on the teachings of the Bible, was the best the world had ever seen up unto that time. They believed if Jesus Christ was the Creator of man, then his teachings would reveal the best way for man to live. That didn’t mean they couldn’t learn even more from their Creator and make their country even better. They most certainly believed that. But they did believe that a culture based on Christianity would bring more liberty and prosperity to individuals within it than any other type culture. Neither did it mean that they couldn’t learn certain things from the Indians. Continue reading →