Historical

Coral Ridge Ministries writes: Some historians today talk about America’s founding fathers as mainly being Deists, who didn’t believe in the Christian God. In other words, unbelievers, not Christians. But is that historically accurate? Many years ago, Kirk Cameron interviewed Dr. Jerry Newcombe about the faith of the founding fathers.

William Penn envisioned a grand haven in the New World where people who were distressed in conscience could come and find refuge. He called his great venture, “the holy experiment.”

 We are free in modern America because of the sacrifices of those who went before us, such as the sacrifice our troops endured at Valley Forge. In this short video with Dr. Jerry Newcombe, we see how God used George Washington and his troops to help forge a great nation.

 In a very real sense, the United States was born in the cabin of the Mayflower in 1620 when the Pilgrims made a Biblical-type covenant. In this video Leo Martin, the founder of the Jenney Center in Plymouth, comments on the foundational link between the Mayflower Compact and the Constitution.

 In his Providence Today commentary, Dr. Jerry Newcombe explains how George Washington managed to liberate Boston from the British military, essentially without firing a shot.