Jerry Newcombe

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  Jul 10, 2014

  Breaking News From AD 33: You Cannot Cheat Death

  In our culture, we do just about everything we can to push death away from our thoughts. Often we don't even use the words. We'll say things like, "He passed away" or just "he passed." But these are just euphemisms for "he died."

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  Jul 2, 2014

  The God Factor; America's Key to Success

  Two hundred thirty eight years ago (July 4, 1776), our founding fathers voted to affirm a revolutionary document---the Declaration of Independence.

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  Jun 26, 2014

  Saul Alinsky Would Be Proud

  The Tenth Amendment says, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." But Barrack Obama says, I've got a pen and I've got a phone, and I can do what I want. Not the states, not the people, but Me, Myself, and I.

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  Jun 18, 2014

  Is Marriage In America On the Rocks?

  June, long the most popular month of weddings, is a good time to ask: How strong is marriage today? In the pop culture, marriage is weak. Songs often extol illicit sex or denigrate marriage.

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  Jun 16, 2014

  The Essence of Liberalism

  As the fallout from the Bowe Bergdahl swap for five Taliban prisoners of war continues to reverberate, there's a fascinating statement from one MSNBC host on the subject.

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  Jun 4, 2014

  George Washington's Warning to America

  George Washington envisioned an America where people of all faiths could enjoy peace. He wrote to the synagogue in August of 1790 in Newport, Rhode Island : "May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants, while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig-tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid."

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  May 29, 2014

  The Deadly Sin of Anger Is On the Rise

  If you can control your anger, you're greater than being able to control a city. That's a paraphrase from Solomon the Wise, about a thousand years before Christ.

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  May 21, 2014

  Is Boko Haram's Motivation 'Mysterious'?

  Here we are, a month after the kidnapping of some 300 girls by a radical Islamic group in Nigeria, and there are still many in the West who don't get it. They just don't understand the motivation of the kidnappers.

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  May 14, 2014

  Why Are Schools Banning the Bible in the Classroom?

  In our own backyard here in Broward County, Fla. has arisen a disturbing story of a twelve year old boy (Giovanni Rubeo) getting in trouble with his teacher for having the audacity of reading the Bible to himself during free time, when the children were free to read whatever they wanted to.

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  May 8, 2014

  The Power and Danger of the Tongue

  Virtually every week there's a new headline of somebody getting in trouble because of something they have said. Perhaps a lifetime's work has been undone by a thoughtless remark.