Opinion

Easter Hope | For God and Country There are many people today who do not believe that Jesus rose from the dead, and they come up with all sorts of explanations to try and dismiss this extraordinary claim from the past. Dr. Jerry Newcombe focuses on one skeptic in particular in this For God and Country commentary. […]

“Above Us Only Sky” At the recent funeral of former president Jimmy Carter in Washington, D.C., there was an odd mixture of sacred music, along with John Lennon’s ballad, “Imagine.” Dr. Jerry Newcombe looks at the sentiment of “Imagine,” which may sound nice but, in reality, is very different. Here is Jerry’s vlog on this […]

Topic: Religious Liberty, Including the Sanctity of the Pulpit. America was founded for the most part for religious freedom. Yet today because of a common misunderstanding of the First Amendment when it comes to religion, many times liberty for Christians is being curtailed. For example, does the state have the right to monitor sermons and […]

Topic: Attempt to Censor Sermons. America was founded for the most part for religious freedom. But in today’s secular milieu we often find Christians having our freedom curtailed. First Liberty represents a Pennsylvania V. A. Chaplain who was sanctioned for a chapel message, and he faces sermon censorship by his supervisor for same. First Liberty […]

Topic: Spiritual Lessons from History. Chaplains in America are older than the nation. This includes military chaplains and legislative chaplains. In fact, when the ACLU challenged the chaplain program in the early 1980s, the Supreme Court ruled against them because of the historical reality of the whole chaplaincy program, which predated the writing of the […]