Land That I Love: Restoring Our Christian Heritage

by Bobbie Ames

Overview

With the gracious forcefulness of a true Southern lady, Bobbie Ames confronts us with our current societal dilemma, traces its development, reminds us of our compelling history at God’s Hand, and leads us toward the solution to the recovery of America’s great heritage. This overview of four hundred years of American spiritual struggle and victory should grace every home and educational institution, to read and re-read for decades to come.

Our author engagingly chronicles the astonishing character of the United States, resulting from a unique Providence in its people. From the beginning, God placed His Word in peoples’ hearts in such a way that for the first time in history, Christians thought they could form their own civil communities, with only Christ governing them as King.

Yet men are sinners, and sin forces evil consequences on even the best intentions. From the beginning then, America has suffered a dual or schizophrenic character—the best of the best, and some of the worst of the worst. For at least two hundred and fifty years of our history, the best managed to keep the upper hand. Then, with the prosperity, liberty with justice, and generosity that a general godliness had produced, the nation began wandering away from the One who prospered and blessed it, upon Whom that blessing depended and depends.

After over two hundred more years of a godly thrust of history battling against the wicked one, we have come to a crisis of faith, bringing the future of Christian civilization into question. Bobbie Ames outlines the remedy, while offering tremendous resources to flesh out the knowledge, spirit, and wisdom necessary to re-establish and maintain godly and free institutions.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164085803
Publisher:	Nordskog Publishing Inc.
Publication date:	05/20/2020
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Bobbie Ames is a woman whose life has been marked by accomplishment. Her legacy is one of tireless commitment to Biblical truth, reflected in the establishment of Christian schools, service to her community, and a wealth of published writings. She has spent her life advancing the cause of the restoration of America’s Christian heritage. Bobbie has received numerous awards in her lifetime, but the one she cherishes most is the Verna Hall Research Award, which she received in 2016. The following is the press release from that special celebration:

VERNA HALL RESEARCH AWARD 2016 RECIPIENT MRS. BOBBIE AMES
Chesapeake, Virginia, November 11, 2016

Acknowledging outstanding lifetime achievement in education and America’s Christian history has been the purpose of the Foundation for American Christian Education for over fifty years. Periodically, the Foundation awards an individual of distinguished service with the Verna Hall Research Award. This year the recipient of this prestigious award is Alabama native and leader in Christian education Bobbie Mae Hackney Ames of Montgomery, Alabama.

Delegates at the “Reason for Hope” Conference held November 11–12 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, gave Mrs. Bobbie Ames a resounding ovation as they heard the story of Mrs. Ames’s accomplishments in founding and establishing Christian schools, in political and community service, and in her scholarly writing for publication in Christian history and government. Conference participant, Carey Dudkovsky, Executive Vice-President of the Foundation for American Christian Education, said, “Mrs. Ames’s life and work are an inspiration to parents, grandparents, teachers, administrators, and scholars.” The Foundation for American Christian Education commends the life and contribution of Mrs. Ames to the field of Biblical Classical education and America’s Christian history and heritage.

Bobbie Ames was born in Washington, North Carolina, attended Greensboro College, then East Carolina Teacher’s College, now East Carolina University, majoring in Elementary Education. She married John Brewer Ames in 1950 and lived in Selma, Alabama, and later in Marion, Alabama, while raising their five children. Today, there are twelve grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Ames founded Perry Christian School in 1965, where Mrs. Ames taught and was the school administrator. She pursued graduate work in Library Science and a Masters Degree in School Administration.

Over the years, Bobbie was active in Republican political circles, having served as President of the Federation of Republican Women at the county and state levels, and as Republican National Committeewoman from Alabama, from 1968–1972.

Along with teaching for many years, Mrs. Ames oversaw the library built at Emerald Mountain Christian School. This vast and valuable collection was used as her main research source that enabled her to write for an area newspaper, The Alabama Gazette, for many years, writing on issues of education and history from the Biblical worldview. Mrs. Ames’s articles ran in The Alabama Gazette from 2009–2019. A selection from that collection of articles has been transformed into this amazing book that we hope will inspire Americans to return to our spiritual foundations that are moored to God, Family, and Country.

Based on and updated from the press release from the Foundation for American Christian Education (FACE) in The Alabama Gazette (December 2016).