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Post by Heritage Ministries on Oct 4, 2012 16:21:29 GMT -5
Teach Voting! by Don Pinson
In America’s early education system, one of the things that was constantly taught was the Biblical understanding of government. Children were taught to govern themselves by internal choices. They were taught to reason every choice back to its root; that is, what God says in the Bible about what I’m facing. This was education God’s way. That education system created a moral people. Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/09/12/teach-voting/#more-913
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Oct 6, 2012 8:11:18 GMT -5
A Prayer For Our Deliverance by Don Pinson
A few days ago the Lord awakened me very early in the morning. When that happens I know that it generally means He has something very specifically He wants to talk with me about. So I began to read my Bible in the normal progression by which I read it through each year. I was in 1 Chronicles at this particular time, and as I read chapter 16 and verse 35, the words grabbed my attention. It was as if the Lord had encircled those words and was saying, “Don, here is the prayer I want you and others to pray in these days!” This passage is the record of King David, who himself was a great worshiper, telling the priests who ministered to the Lord before the Ark a prayer they could pray to God as they did their ministry of worship 24 hours a day. And I believe the Lord is saying to us in America today we should pray this same prayer. It is causing hope to rise in my own heart as I’ve been praying it often ever since. Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/09/19/a-prayer-for-our-deliverance/#more-927
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Oct 8, 2012 19:38:54 GMT -5
Will You Rule Through Voting? by Don Pinson
We’re coming up on the most important election America has ever had. It’s very likely that our liberty will live or die with this election. Let’s consider why our one vote is so very important? Because of sin, the root of selfishness came into mankind in the Garden of Eden. Thus, God established civil government to control that selfishness in man. But because that root is in all men, we need for civil government to control not only the ruled, but the rulers as well. Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/09/26/will-you-rule-through-voting/#more-931
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Oct 11, 2012 22:10:06 GMT -5
Are You Prepared to Vote? by Don Pinson
Thomas Jefferson said, “Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens…are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion.”
Why did Thomas Jefferson so plainly say that no one has a right to try to force anyone else to think a certain way? Trying to force others to think your way will only stir up fighting. This is why dictators like Lenin, or Hitler, quickly changed what and how children were being taught in the schools of Russia and Germany. They knew, as they took power, they would be able to hold the population with force for only a brief time. Therefore they wanted to train up a generation who thought the way they did so they could continue their socialistic policies in the nation. What they didn’t count on was the effect of the sin root in man—both in themselves and in others. They thought the selfishness in man was caused by injustices in the world. They sought to right those by establishing justice as they saw it. However, they were deceived and didn’t realize that their own judgment was not perfect..... Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/10/03/are-you-prepared-to-vote/
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Oct 18, 2012 19:12:04 GMT -5
A Constitution Protects Us From Ourselves by Don Pinson
Last summer, Mr. Obama embraced the homosexual agenda by endorsing same-sex “marriage”; though by plain definition and historical evidence marriage must be between a man and a woman only! He even said his motivation for this was the teachings of Jesus. Such blasphemy demands exposure! The Bible says, “The wicked walk on every side when the vilest of men are exalted.” Psalms 12:8
When wicked men are exalted to government offices, the wicked rise from everywhere. The Bible calls homosexuality an “abomination”. The word abomination means, by Webster’s first definition, “Extreme hatred.” In other words God has EXTREME hatred for homosexuality. Webster sums up his definition of abomination by saying: “In short, whatever is an object of extreme hatred, is called an abomination.”
Thus, Mr. Obama has embraced and called good what Jesus calls, “…an object of extreme hatred.” Remember, God loves the person trapped in homosexuality, but He hates the act of homosexuality..... Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/10/16/a-constitution-protects-us-from-ourselves
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Oct 20, 2012 21:41:12 GMT -5
A Higher Law: Why It Is Needed by Don Pinson
During Mr. Obama’s administration of our national government, he has often been accused of ignoring our U.S. Constitution. Is this true? To make a true judgment of that, we must first come to understand what our Constitution is. Then we must understand why it is important. America’s Founders understood both these things very well; perhaps better than any group of political scientists ever to live in one nation. They understood that the word Constitution simply meant form. Thus, they were creating a “form” of government through which God-given liberties could be protected. The Constitution would be the structure of law by which the rights identified by the Declaration of Independence would be protected. The Declaration of Independence declares why America exists. The Constitution reveals how it is to operate. The Declaration states the reason for government. In it Thomas Jefferson stated: “…all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men…”
So it is plain our Founders in America believed that government existed for the purpose of protecting the God-given rights of life, liberty, and property..... Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/10/10/a-higher-law-why-it-is-needed
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Nov 4, 2012 7:46:25 GMT -5
Voting By Biblical Standards by Don Pinson
If I’m driving down the highway at 55 mph and I pass a sign that’s been knocked down which says the speed limit just changed to 35mph, then I can go right on without realizing I’m endangering other people’s lives—because my own thoughts are my standard and I don’t have anything to compare my thoughts with. This is exactly what happens when government servants ignore the Constitution. They think they are right so they don’t compare their thoughts to the thoughts of our Founding Fathers expressly written in the Constitution. And that is a recipe for disaster! Dictators always rise to power by ignoring the previously written Constitution, and establishing their own law by “executive orders”. This is exactly what Barack Obama has done, which is no surprise to those who know his background! Two DVDs have been produced recently that reveal this plainly. One, called Agenda, you can right now view free of charge on Vimeo: heritageministriesky.com/2012/10/25/agenda-watch-for-free-until-the-electionAgenda reveals that all his mentors and associates are people who are “hard-core” left on the political spectrum. In other words, he was taught and trained by people who are dedicated to destroying the American Constitution..... Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/10/31/voting-by-biblical-standards
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Nov 5, 2012 6:33:16 GMT -5
The Constitution Or Obama’s Will? by Don Pinson
In America, our Constitution is the highest civil law of the land. And that Constitution was based on Biblical moral law, summed up in the Ten Commandments. Our Founders firmly believed that our civil law would succeed in establishing justice only to the degree it agreed with God’s standard of morality. In fact, the English judge and political scientist, William Blackstone, was probably at the top of their list of teachers of civil law. Blackstone had stated in His commentaries on the law, “The (teaching) thus delivered we call the revealed…law, and they are to be found only in the Holy Scriptures…no human law should be [allowed] to contradict these.”
Because the Bible is the only true foundation for civil law, all human liberty flows out of civil law that is based on the Scripture. Thus, the right to teach and publicly debate the Bible becomes the basis for all liberty..... Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/10/24/the-constitution-or-obamas-will
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Nov 17, 2012 11:37:22 GMT -5
Election Lessonsby Don Pinson
We’ve just come through America’s most important election in our history. A sizable majority of our people chose a man for the White House who has, and who will surely do more, to lead us toward total socialism (communism) and dictatorship. The Bible teaches in Proverbs that those who refuse to live by the Bible, like the majority of us do, will self-destruct. Proverbs 1 warns us, “They would [have] none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.”
But, on a state level, there is encouraging news. Kentucky voted over 60% against Barack Obama’s socialism. Also, Andy Barr defeated liberal Congressman, Ben Chandler. It’s the first time in my lifetime I remember central Kentucky having a more conservative Congressman. That’s good news! Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/11/07/election-lessons
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Nov 19, 2012 17:03:06 GMT -5
But WHY Did The Pilgrims Come? by Don Pinson
The Pilgrims landed in America, this week 392 years ago. But do you know why they came to America? Was it to start a new life? Well, yes. But what kind of life? Was it so they could be free? Well, yes; but what kind of freedom were they looking for? Because most of us don’t know the answer to these questions is why we continue to accept—or even vote for— more and more of the slavery from which they were fleeing. Perhaps you would say, “They came here for religious freedom.” And you would be right. But—what kind of religious freedom. Did they come merely so they could sing songs to God and study the Bible in their own gatherings. No they came with a much broader desire than that. Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/11/14/but-why-did-the-pilgrims-come
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Dec 8, 2012 12:20:57 GMT -5
The Foundation Of Our Nation Is Covenant by Don Pinson
When the Pilgrims came here in 1620, they knew some things that recent generations have had stolen from them. For instance, they had come to understand that the basis of government is covenant. No state can exist very long if its citizens are not in covenant with each other. In Noah Webster’s original Dictionary, 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, business, and government just become a constant argument of: “What I think is best!” as opposed to, “What you think is best!” Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/11/28/the-foundation-of-our-nation-is-covenant
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Dec 10, 2012 14:03:12 GMT -5
A Superintending Providence Created America by Don Pinson
The hot summer of 1787 saw a group of men gather in Philadelphia from all over the American colonies. They were coming to consider altering their national government. They had been living under the Articles of Confederation for eleven years; and while it was much better than being enslaved to King George of England, it had some serious flaws. One of these flaws was that it had no executive branch, therefore no one to see that the laws were enforced. Likewise, it had no power to coin money; that power had been left with the individual states, and thus, there was no real standard of measurement. This had greatly hampered the growth of business between the colonies. There were other problems; thus, the gathering in Philadelphia. The work would go slowly. The heart of this group was somewhat removed from the heart of the Second Continental Congress, which had written our Declaration of Independence and established the Articles of Confederation as our first national government. In 1776, the great revival known as the Great Awakening was still flowing. The thinking of the delegates in Philadelphia in 1776 and been more dependent on “a superintending Providence.” Their dependence on Him had caused them to more readily listen to His wisdom released through another delegate; thus, more harmony was felt. Now, the measure of prosperity which they had known the last eleven years had somewhat stolen from them that dependence on God, and thus, the willingness to listen to another. The disagreements had gotten so sharp Washington, the President of the Convention, was afraid their hopes of establishing a better national government were going down the drain. Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/12/05/a-superintending-providence-created-america
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Dec 25, 2012 7:23:21 GMT -5
The Christmas Story by Don Pinson
Ladies and gentlemen, the following story is why we have Christmas: “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away [privately]. But when he thought on these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, ‘Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she shall bring forth a Son; and thou shalt call His name JESUS; for…He… shall save His people from their sins.’ Now all this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, ‘Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel; which is, being interpreted, God with us.’ And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took unto him his wife; and knew her not till she had brought forth a Son: and he called His name JESUS.” Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/12/19/the-christmas-story-2012
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Jan 4, 2013 6:38:35 GMT -5
The Reason For School Slayings by Don Pinson
It has happened again! Another school slaying! This time 26 are dead, including a former student who committed the murders. The nation is grieving with the Connecticut families who have lost family members. Everyone is asking: Why? But it seems nobody knows why. The President implies the only way to stop this is gun control. But if that is the case, why is it that teenagers have handled guns in this nation ever since the Pilgrims landed, yet earlier generations of young people didn’t go on rampages using them to kill fellow-students? The problem is not external– it’s internal! It’s not the fruit on the limb we need to cut off; it’s the root we need to destroy. It isn’t actions we need to stop; no police force in the world is big enough to make people do right. What we need to change is thoughts. Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2012/12/26/the-reason-for-school-slayings
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Jan 19, 2013 14:25:54 GMT -5
Which Gun Is To Be Controlled? by Don Pinson
On the heels of the Connecticut school killings, Mr. Obama appointed Joe Bidden to head a commission to study how these types of killings might be limited, by controlling who would own guns. To casual observers this seems reasonable. To students of history, this is gravely dangerous! In 1938 the German Dictator, Adolf Hitler, outlawed the possession of guns by the people under his rule. Once this happened, his full fury was unleashed on those populations who disagreed with his ideas of government. Why did he wait until the guns were removed to fully show how oppressive his government would be? Let him answer that in his own words. He stated at a dinner talk on April 11, 1942, “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall….” Adolf Hitler
Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/01/02/which-gun-is-to-be-controlled
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Jan 22, 2013 21:00:29 GMT -5
Where Did America’s Downfall Begin? by Don Pinson
The agenda for this new administration includes such things, as major gun control; laws to protect against “global warming” (lie that it is) which is greatly aiding the collapse of our economy; and the continued destruction of our U.S. military. How could we have ever gotten into the position of housing an administration in the White House which is ashamed of America? — It started a long time ago… In the 1830s a Massachusetts educator, by the name of Horace Mann, convinced the Massachusetts Legislature that they should begin to fund their public schools with tax dollars. This opened the possibility for a few in government to control the minds of the next generation. Though, because of our strong Biblical thinking in those days, it would take many years to change us very much. But, with each generation being taught a little less Biblical thinking, by the early 1900s there would actually be a group of educators and a group of businessmen who believed they could control the world by controlling America. The educators intended to do it by controlling the way children thought. The businessmen intended to do it by controlling the flow of money in America. By the 1920s these two groups had gotten together and were working for a socialistic and atheistic America. We call it the “humanist” movement. Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/01/09/where-did-americas-downfall-begin
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Jan 25, 2013 5:50:51 GMT -5
America’s Downfall, Part II by Don Pinson
In our last time together, we revealed the downfall of our nation as being rooted in the wrong kind of thinking we received in the 1900s. The lies we believed would surface in our local education systems and our national government by the 1930s. These were the first major fruit showing that destruction was on the horizon. Now we’re in that horizon. The administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be the first to implement large amounts of socialism into our national government. Elected in 1932, Roosevelt was handed wide-sweeping powers by the Congress in an attempt to come out of the Great Depression. In the name of being able to enact laws quickly instead of taking the slower (but safer) way of debate in the Congress, Roosevelt was given the ability to use executive orders to be able to quickly make changes to the economy. This amount of power was never before used by any President in our history. A very few voices were raised, warning us that this could lead to socialism in our nation; but they were quickly drowned out with the cry for a better economy. Roosevelt would quickly grow the national government to an unprecedented size. Though he promised in his first campaign that he would lower taxes, he did just the opposite. And he spent way beyond even the increased tax incomes: Even before WWII started, he had already grown the national debt 250% ! While many thought he saved the country, the reality is, he plunged us into a socialistic path that is now about to destroy our liberty. There are no “free handouts.” Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/01/16/americas-downfall-part-ii
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Jan 26, 2013 17:05:39 GMT -5
The Reason for America’s Downward Spiral by Don Pinson
The wisdom of America’s early generations never ceases to amaze me! As I’m watching the disintegration of our national governmental structure, I’m grieving because most still seem to be asleep to the destruction and what it will mean to them and those they love. And yet our ancestors understood so well what it took to maintain liberty. Timothy Dwight, the President of Yale College, spoke these words on July 4th, 1798: “Religion (meaning Biblical Christianity) and liberty are the meat and the drink of the body politic. Withdraw one of them and it languishes, consumes, and dies. Without religion we may possibly retain the freedom of savages, bears, and wolves, but not the freedom of New England. If [Christianity] were gone, our state of society would perish with it and nothing would be left which would be worth defending.”
Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/01/23/the-reason-for-americas-downward-spiral
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Feb 3, 2013 6:57:17 GMT -5
Immorality Is Destroying Our Nation by Don Pinson
It doesn’t work! In the long run it just doesn’t work in everyday life. This immoral lifestyle simply is not practical. Consider the effects of having sex outside of marriage. With the desertion of Biblical standards of morality, sexually transmitted diseases have skyrocketed. In the 1960s there were only two sexually transmitted diseases, syphilis and gonorrhea—and both could be cured with penicillin. Today there are over twenty-five known sexually transmitted diseases, of which, several have no cure!! Sex outside of marriage doesn’t work. It brings devastation! Likewise, “live-in” relationships are considerably more likely to break up than are marriages: And, exactly opposite to long term marriages, the longer “live-in” couples live together, the more likely they are to break up. Add to this, the woman of a “live-in” relationship is nine times more likely to be murdered by the man she lives with, than the woman who is in a legitimate marriage. Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/01/30/immorality-is-destroying-our-nation
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Feb 10, 2013 7:59:30 GMT -5
Pocahontas: Instrument Of God by Don Pinson
In the thick forests of the Virginia coastal region, Indian children had played for generations. They had imagined themselves brave warriors or as the mothers of great chiefs. They knew the land and how to gain their living from it. However, no one in 1607 could imagine the power that one of these young lives would have on the destiny of America. But she was no surprise to God, her Creator. He had planned her life, as short as it would be, to be one of the most useful in history. Her name was Pocahontas and she met the Jamestown settlers quickly after they had landed. Captain John Smith, the bold adventurer, wanted to meet the natives. He left the safety of the group shortly after they landed and went looking for the inhabitants of the region. However, his experience with them would not prove altogether friendly. He was quickly captured and taken to Chief Powhatan, the father of Pocahontas. After preparing a meal for him and treating him like an honored quest, suddenly the Indians turned on him, apparently preparing to kill him. They bound him and laid his head on a large stone. Then, picking up clubs and dancing wildly, they advanced toward him. Smith expected at any moment to be beaten to death. But then, in a shocking move, young Pocahontas, only eleven or twelve years of age, suddenly moved toward him, taking his head and pulling it up into her lap, she bent over him, shielding him from the screaming braves and cried out to her father to spare his life. By the mercy of God, Powhatan did spare Smith’s life. Indeed, he accepted Smith into the tribe as a brave friend. That friendship would often save from destruction the Jamestown settlement. Thus, Pocahontas was used of God to preserve the first English colony in America.... Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/02/06/pocahontas-instrument-of-god
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Feb 24, 2013 8:44:02 GMT -5
The Valley Of Decision by Don Pinson
One of America’s greatest men spoke these sobering words: “The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them.
“The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore to resolve to conquer or die. Our own country’s honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
“Let us rely upon the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the Supreme Being in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.”
The great American who spoke those words was George Washington. He spoke them to his ‘ragtag’ army on July 2nd, 1776, the day when the Declaration of Independence was first approved in Congress. Looking at their natural assets, that little army didn’t have a ‘ghost of a chance’ against Britain’s army, which was the best in the world of that day. Yet they won America’s independence because they trusted, as Patrick Henry said, “The just God who presides over the destinies of nations…” God obviously wanted this nation to exist..... Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/02/13/the-valley-of-decision
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Feb 26, 2013 5:14:11 GMT -5
Knowing Lincoln’s God by Don Pinson
Shortly before his death, an Illinois clergyman asked Abraham Lincoln, “Do you love Jesus?” Mr. Lincoln solemnly replied: “When I left Springfield I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ. Yes, I do love Jesus.”
Abraham Lincoln was not by himself in his profession of Jesus Christ as the Lord and Saviour of his life. Most of our ancestors in America, up until 1900, did know Jesus as their Lord. It was their faith in God, and their belief that the Bible was true, that made America the greatest nation on earth. However, in the early 1900s a different way of thinking began to take root in America because the churches had weakened by that time. Liberal theology, which accepted the possibility of a different ‘creator’ of man, began to make its way into the seminaries and public school system of America. The result was that we began to accept that anyone who was, quote, “good” or religious (meaning he went to church somewhere), was also a Christian. No longer did the churches require that people make an open statement of their faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and their Saviour. Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/02/20/knowing-lincolns-god
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Mar 8, 2013 10:15:29 GMT -5
The Two-Pronged Attack On Liberty by Don Pinson
In the early 1920s a group of pseudo-intellectuals planned how they could take over the Western world, and the U.S. in particular, establishing a communist form of government and economy. They developed a two-pronged attack which was brilliant. The first thing they planned to do was takeover the movie industry. Though it was then in its very young stages, they recognized its powerful potential for shaping the minds of people. Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/02/27/the-two-pronged-attack-on-liberty
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Mar 9, 2013 7:36:58 GMT -5
Patrick Of Ireland by Don Pinson
March 17th is set aside each year to remember a man who lived in Ireland in the 400s. His life would not only lead thousands of the Irish out of satanism to Jesus Christ as their Lord; his Biblical teaching concerning government would literally lay the foundation for liberty in America. Patrick of Ireland was actually born in England, but at 16 years of age was captured and taken to Ireland to be a slave. While many in our day would blame God as being unfair if that happened to them, Patrick did just the opposite. He recognized the heathen living of him and his neighbors had brought him this captivity. He described their state as being, “…quite drawn away from God, we did not keep His precepts…”
But during this time of captivity Patrick would find the ultimate freedom for a human being. He turned to Jesus Christ as His Lord with all his heart. Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/03/06/patrick-of-ireland-part-i
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Mar 16, 2013 5:53:18 GMT -5
Patrick Of Ireland, Part II by Don Pinson
It’s such an amazing story! Patrick, a young, former slave in Ireland, was called by God in the 400s to go share the Gospel of Christ with those same Irish people who had enslaved him just a few years before! Yet, without fear, he boldly entered again into that realm and became the agent of liberty to those who had once been his agents of slavery. He developed this boldness because Christ had revealed Himself to him in such a living way. Patrick’s faith in Jesus was no cold orthodoxy; his was a living relationship with the living, resurrected Son of God! In Patrick’s life, Jesus was Lord! We get a glimpse of the intimacy between him and his Lord when he writes of hearing His voice. With great humility he simply states that God said to him: “He who gave his life for you, He it is who speaks within you.”
His knowledge of Christ was deeper than most of us today. He understood that Jesus dwelt inside him. He knew Christ, not only as the Lord of heaven—which He certainly is — but as the present, resident Lord inside Patrick. Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/03/13/patrick-of-ireland-part-ii
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Mar 23, 2013 8:34:08 GMT -5
Patrick Of Ireland, Part III by Don Pinson
It has been said of Patrick, the great missionary to Ireland during the 400s: he “found Ireland all heathen and left it all Christian.” And while, no doubt, that statement is not completely true; it, no doubt, has much truth in it. Because Patrick was used of God powerfully in converting the Irish to Christ and helping them structure their government so that it would protect for centuries the right to share the Gospel of Christ with the next generation. Patrick’s understanding and submission to God brought tremendous power from the Holy Spirit to his life. You hear his understanding of God and this world God created and controls in what is known as Patrick’s Breastplate: Hear the power of God in it! Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/03/20/patrick-of-ireland-part-iii
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Apr 8, 2013 18:27:11 GMT -5
The Fruit Reveals The Root by Don Pinson
A great victory was worked last week in Kentucky’s state Capitol! Religious liberty was restored! Last October, the Kentucky Supreme Court had removed the “compelling interest test” for government interference of religious activity, which, in effect, nullified the protection of religious liberty in the Kentucky Constitution. House Bill 279 was designed to restore that liberty. After passing both Houses by 80% margins, Governor Steve Beshear, under great pressure from homosexual groups (pressure which it was reported he asked them to give him), vetoed the bill. But on Tuesday, the 26th with only 3 1/2 hours left in the session, it was brought to the House Floor for a vote and was passed by over 80% of the members voting for it. It then went to the Senate, who quickly passed it again; and thus, restored Kentucky’s Constitution to being the highest law in this state once again. Several lessons are to be drawn from these events..... Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/03/27/the-fruit-reveals-the-root
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Apr 14, 2013 3:40:58 GMT -5
God Honors Those Who Honor Him by Don Pinson
Jesus watched as a woman shyly made her way to the offering box in the temple. She quickly put in her small amount, and then hastily moved away; for there were those with much larger gifts waiting to give. Jesus then said to his disciples, “…of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all…” (Luke 21:1-4)
He said this because she gave the last of what she had to live on, while others were giving a little of their abundance. Jesus pointed her out and thereby honored her. In my opinion, God recently honored one of His choice servants in an event which occurred in the Kentucky Legislature..... Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/04/03/god-honors-those-who-honor-him
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Apr 16, 2013 4:15:56 GMT -5
Fighting Abortion At The Root! by Don Pinson
Kentucky has failed, for the 9th straight year to get any pro-life legislation through our state Legislature. However, other states have made significant strides toward stopping the murderous practice. Arkansas has limited most abortions after twelve weeks with a new law this session. North Dakota went even further; they limited abortions as early as six weeks. This will save thousands of innocent lives in the next few years. Kansas sent a mixed signal saying in a new law that life begins at “fertilization,” but then it stated that this was not intended to trump U.S. Supreme Court decisions on this issue, thus taking away the greatest impact the law could have had..... Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/04/10/fighting-abortion-at-the-root/
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Post by Heritage Ministries on Apr 21, 2013 12:52:49 GMT -5
National Tragedies Call Us To Repentance by Don Pinson
Three people are dead and dozens injured in the bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Two explosions have taken the lives and limbs of innocent civilians in yet another terrorist act in our land. Families are grieving in their losses: And we hurt for them as we consider once again the question, “Why?” There are answers to that question. But not many of us have been willing to receive them. They call on us to admit we’re wrong; and that crosses our pride. The first reason these things happen is because we are a race fallen from the purpose for which God originally created us..... Click here to listen to or read the entire article: heritageministriesky.com/2013/04/17/national-tragedies-call-us-to-repentance
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