“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 →

“Will You Be a Soldier For Truth?”

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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In April of 1917 the United States entered into World War I. While all wars are caused by the selfishness of man, the desire of our people as a whole was not our own gain. Rather, it was our desire to protect the liberty which God had entrusted to us. And our people responded in great numbers to the request of President Woodrow Wilson to observe a Day of Public Humiliation, Prayer and Fasting on May 11, 1918. He requested our people to:

“…humbly and devoutly…acknowledge our dependence on Almighty God and to implore His aid and protection…with religious solemnity and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of our cause, His blessings on our arms, and a speedy restoration of an honorable and lasting peace to the nations of the earth…”

(American Minute by William Federer, 4/6/2015)

Our prayers “were heard and graciously answered”. Few would argue that it was American arms which won the day for liberty in the nations of the earth and brought this mighty scourge of war to an end. And while answered prayer cannot be scientifically proven, an honest analysis of the outcome of battles and their timing can only admit that God’s Hand was evident.

One soldier readily gave credit to the Lord for an almost unbelievable feat he accomplished in October of 1918. In a battle in France, Corporal Alvin York’s battalion was pinned down by over 30 German machine guns. Continue reading →

“Jesus’ Redemption: The Foundation of Civil Government”

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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With the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus we naturally think of Christ’s redemption for us personally: How His shed blood washes away our sin and guilt, and how His resurrected life makes possible that we can actually be what He created us to be. The wonder of this cannot be fully described, but it can be fully experienced!

However, as we mature in Christ once we’ve received Him as our Lord, His life within us desires to flow in an outwardly direction. And if we allow Him to do that to its farthest extent, His resurrected life will shape the institutions of the culture so that those institutions will become vessels through which His truth can flow to the next generation. The institution of civil government will then protect, by law, the right of the truth of Christ’s kingdom to flow to the next generation. America’s Founders understood that this was civil government’s responsibility. They never envisioned the government being hostile to the church. Any honest individual who researches their writings will reach that conclusion.

Founding Father and Sixth President, John Quincy Adams, made plain the connection between Christianity and our nation’s liberties when he stated:

“Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the Progress of the Gospel…? Continue reading →