Jerry Newcombe

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  May 24, 2018

  God and the Santa Fe School District

  The hostility against religion in general, but Christianity in particular, can get downright vicious. In Santa Fe, the ACLU filed suit to halt prayers at a baccalaureate service, privately sponsored by a group of ministers in 1995. Just to make sure they got the message, Kent declared, "Anybody who violates these orders, no kidding, is going to wish that he or she had died as a child when this court gets through with it."

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  May 18, 2018

  Is America Shaking Its Collective Fist at God Through the Wholesale Slaughter of the Unborn?

  Some people virtually celebrate abortion. Just because evil may prevail for a time, God will only allow it for a while.

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  May 12, 2018

  'Uncle Joe' Is Back?

  I can't believe the depth of ignorance of many modern people in the West. Mass murderer Joseph Stalin, ruthless dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953, appears to be making a comeback, at least among some.

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  May 6, 2018

  Spreading the Gospel Globally — Through Healthcare

  What about those who want to serve as a medical missionary yet they have an unpaid student loan that helped train them to become a doctor, a nurse, a physical therapist?

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  Apr 28, 2018

  Do You Have to Go to Church to Be a Good Christian?

  From time to time, someone objects to the need to attend church regularly. They say they can be good Christians without participating in church. I don't agree.

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  Apr 20, 2018

  Confessions of a 'Christian Constitutionalist'

  After a recent column on "fake news," someone sent me an email, accusing me of propagating fake news by saying the Bible had anything to do with the founding of America. Unfortunately, this reader, like so many others, fails to understand the historical truth that the Bible played a unique role in helping to create the U.S. Constitution.

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  Apr 16, 2018

  'Fake News' and 'Our Democracy'

  I think it's a given that in a country where our Constitution forbids the government from abridging the freedom of the press, some might abuse that freedom and declare what is false. There are legal and societal remedies for that. Besides, who gets to define what is "fake news"?

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  Apr 6, 2018

  God's Not Dead ... at the Box Office

  Active Christians are trying to make a difference for Jesus in the box office. The most important thing is that these films are changing lives.

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  Mar 30, 2018

  Jesus Was Rejected That We Might Be Accepted

  What are Good Friday and Easter all about? In a sentence: Jesus was rejected that we might be accepted.

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  Mar 25, 2018

  What Was the 'Crime' of Jesus That Got Him Crucified?

  Crucifixion was a horrible way to die. It was so bad that no Roman citizen could be crucified. It was an execution reserved for slaves and bandits. How amazing then that the Son of God become man would allow Himself to be so degraded by people whom He Himself had created.