Jerry Newcombe

Jerry Newcombe

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  • Hollywood Loses Out by Often Ignoring Family and Faith Audience

    Hollywood Loses Out by Often Ignoring Family and Faith Audience

    Today, Sony is trying to offer consumers toned-down versions of movies that contain raunchy moments so that they will be more acceptable as family entertainment. And some in Hollywood are screaming bloody murder.

  • The Odds of Evolution Are Zero

    The Odds of Evolution Are Zero

    Zero times anything is zero. The odds of life just happening by chance are zero. This universe just springing into being by chance is impossible.

  • Political Correctness Handcuffs Us in the War Against Islamic Jihad

    Political Correctness Handcuffs Us in the War Against Islamic Jihad

    Maybe we should have a "Ramadan Alert." Every time this "holy" season comes up on the calendar, the attacks by the Jihadists increase.

  • Is Heaven Really for Real?

    Is Heaven Really for Real?

    Recently, my long-time pastor's wife died. Anne Lewis Kennedy, the widow of Dr. D. James Kennedy, passed away on May 16. She outlived her husband by ten years.

  • Memorial Day 2017: 'Freedom Is Not Bought Cheaply'

    Memorial Day 2017: 'Freedom Is Not Bought Cheaply'

    Freedom, of course, is not free. It has been bought and paid for. The freedoms we enjoy in America are ours because of those who laid down their lives in service to our country. With another Memorial Day upon us, it's good to be reminded of the debt we owe to their sacrifice.

  • Whoa — I Just Agreed With Oprah!

    Whoa — I Just Agreed With Oprah!

    I must confess that I do not agree very often with Oprah Winfrey, because I find that she tends to push people away from faith in Jesus Christ, not toward it. But I was impressed with a statement she made over the weekend — a statement that echoes one of Jesus' teachings.

  • Health Care Reform Should Put Patients First, Not Bureaucrats

    Health Care Reform Should Put Patients First, Not Bureaucrats

    Ironically, Obamacare is officially known as the "Affordable Care Act." What an Orwellian title. Obamacare has literally made health care unaffordable for millions of Americans.

  • Inside the Coptic Church Bombings

    Inside the Coptic Church Bombings

    On Palm Sunday, two bombings at Coptic Churches in Egypt killed nearly 50 persons and injured 120 others. I heard about it from two of my relatives-in-law, who were near enough to hear and feel the blast at St. Mark's Cathedral in Alexandria.

  • Why Does Guilt Persist?

    Why Does Guilt Persist?

    Our society is moving away from our Judeo-Christian roots at warp speed toward supposedly greater enlightenment. Then why do feelings of guilt remain? Isn't that an unwelcome vestige of an old-fashioned, irrelevant past?

  • Which View of Heaven Will Prevail?

    Which View of Heaven Will Prevail?

    Last week, Khalid Masood, a British-born Jihadist, ran over innocent people in London on the bridge close to Big Ben and then stabbed a police officer to death, before being killed by police. Where is Khalid Masood's soul right now? Presumably, he thought he was taking a short-cut to Paradise.

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