“Rediscovering Our Constitution”

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this…” __?__ (question). Do you know what document contains these words that I just read? It could just be that your life—and the life of your children– depends on it!

John Jay was one of America’s Founders who would become the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His great wisdom guided us in those early years as our Constitution was being tested. His understanding of liberty and how it passed to the next generation is so powerful—and pertinent to our present day. He wisely stated:

“…But let it be remembered that whatever marks of wisdom…may be in your constitution, yet like the…forms of our first parents before their Maker breathed into them the breath of life, it is yet to be animated…From the people it must receive Continue reading →

“Pastor, America is in Your Hands!”

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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While in Washington recently, I heard alarming statistics about our nation. But the most alarming stats were not about government: They were about churches, and particularly Pastors. According to a Barna survey conducted in connection with Wallbuilders ministry, only 28% of the churches now believe that the Bible is absolutely true. 90% of the Pastors in those Bible-believing churches say they believe the Bible speaks to current issues. But get this: 90% of those Pastors have never preached from the pulpit what the Bible says about the issues of our land!

Pastors’ AWOL attitude concerning civil government is the reason God’s people don’t know that they must be the ones to watch over civil government, in order to protect the right of the truth to flow to the next generation. Thus, we’re having trouble deciding if marriage is between a man and a woman only; and if it should be protected by government. We’re having trouble deciding if homosexuality is a choice or a trait, when we used to be convinced that it was a crime. We’re even wondering if boys in school should get to use the girls’ bathroom!!

Pastors, if civil government is God’s institution—and Romans 13:1 makes it plain that it is—then should not those of us called to teach the Bible be the ones to reveal the Biblical Structure and Spirit by which government must operate? Is that not logical? Is that not right? Continue reading →

“Why Did Americans Fight for Independence?”

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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On April 19, 1775, seventy-five American Farmers faced an overwhelming force of some 600 British professional soldiers. The Americans were out-manned, out-gunned, and out-trained. And when the first shots were fired, nine of the Americans fell dead. Why were they willing to face such overwhelming odds? Were they dreamers? Were they crazy? Were they men of such noble ideas they were willing to die for them? While they were all these things (except crazy) they had an even greater reason for resisting the King of England. They believed they were obeying the God of the Bible with their resistance. Their Congress had stated,

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian…duty of each individual ….Continue steadfast, and with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”

(Massachusetts Provincial Congress. 1774, in a resolution. George Bancroft, Bancroft’s History of the United States, Vol. 1-X (Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 3rd Edition, 1838) Vol. VII, p. 229. Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg’s Heart’N Home, Inc., 1991), 8.31.)

When our ancestors defended themselves on Lexington Green, and later much more successfully at Concord Bridge, they believed they were walking in a principle of liberty taught in the Bible. Continue reading →