“The Greatest Need in America”

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The Greatest Need in America 1With more disrespect being shown to our flag, even within our own borders, it would do us well to revisit our heritage! Fort McHenry (where in 1812 a battle raged which inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star Spangled Banner) was named after a man who served as a medical soldier in George Washington’s army, and later signed the U.S. Constitution. His name was James McHenry. While unknown to us today, James McHenry was one of those men who laid such a firm foundation for America that during the 1800s it would grow to become the greatest nation on earth. James McHenry got his foundation from the Bible. In addition to his achievements just mentioned, he also served as a member of the Continental Congress, his state legislature, and the U.S. Secretary of War—and President of the Baltimore Bible Society! He had this to say about the Bible:

“…public [usefulness] pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. The doctrine they preach, the obligations they impose, the punishment they threaten, the rewards they promise…can alone secure to society, order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability and usefulness.

“In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. Bibles are strong entrenchments.”

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“Heroes’ Memory Worth Preserving”, Part 2

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The outcry to remove Confederate monuments from the public square is not, at its root, an issue of racial justice.  One of the ways we know this is that the leaders who are stirring people to march in the streets against monuments of Robert E. Lee are the same people who will vehemently defend Planned Parenthood.  Planned Parenthood murders more children by abortion that any other one organization in America, and many of those are black children.  Their founder, Margaret Sanger, believed the black race was inferior and should be killed.  And, no doubt, this is why they’ve placed so many of their “clinics” in predominately black neighborhoods.  And now abortion is the leading cause of death in the Black community (sisforlife.org)!  If the leaders of this “remove the monuments” movement were so concerned about racial justice, why do they so adamantly support Planned Parenthood?

The truth is:  Robert E. Lee was one of the greatest American Christians ever!  Lee once spoke of the Bible to Chaplain William Jones:

“There are things in the old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.”

(Young, Marse Robert, p. 344.  Peter Marshall & David Manuel, The Glory of America Calendar (Garborg’s Heart’N Home, Inc., Bloomington, MN, 1991), 8.9.)

Heroes' Memory Worth Preserving, Part 2 1

On the way to battles, Lee would often stop and join his troops if they were gathered praying.  Perhaps this is why Continue reading

“Heroes’ Memory Worth Preserving”

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Heroes' Memory Worth Preserving 1The recent rash of attacks on monuments of heroes like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson should be a matter of great concern to all freedom-loving Americans.  Because of the massive deleting of our history from the minds of the last three generations, most of us are taking this “sitting down”, instead of letting our voice be heard about this wholesale theft of the liberty of our children and grandchildren.

Why do I say this?  Because only Biblical ideas produce liberty in a nation.  The Bible says,

“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” (2 Corinthians 3:17)

Liberty in the heart from the guilt and bondage of sin only comes through the blood of Jesus Christ, and by His resurrection power.  And if we let this liberty grow to its full maturity, it will result in civil liberty being diffused throughout a society.  That liberty will then be institutionalized in Constitutions which will secure the right of each citizen to live in that civil liberty.  And while you can’t legislate what will happen in the human heart; if you don’t legislate the protection of the flow of the Gospel of Christ to the human heart, you work against the purpose of God in bringing men into a redeeming relationship with Him.

This concept of internal liberty becoming also external liberty is the basic idea from which America’s liberty was birthed and maintained for the first 300 years of our existence.  For the last few months an attack against Southern statues of heroes committed to this concept has been mounting.  What is called “social justice” is actually a direct attack against the liberty of all Americans.  See last week’s message entitled Learning From Our Past at heritageministriesky.com to discover who is really behind the riots happening in the name of “social justice”. Continue reading