Jerry Newcombe: A Great Goal for the New Year

Jerry Newcombe
5 Jan 2026
no comments

With a new year upon us, when we consider new goals for the next 12 months, here’s a worthy ambition to pursue – to get closer to Christ. That resolution would put you in the company of a good number of America’s founders.  When the great founding father Patrick Henry was dying, in his last Will and Testament, he wrote to his children, “This is all the Inheritance I can give to my dear family, The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.”  The man who once declared, “Give me liberty or give me […]

-Read More

Jerry Newcombe: From Trauma to Triumph: A Survivor’s Case Against Abortion

Jerry Newcombe
11 Dec 2025
no comments

Jerry Newcombe, D. Min. Executive Director, Providence Forum I heard a very moving talk from a rape victim recently, and what she said reminds me of the reason why abortion has gained such a stranglehold in America. Rape is a horrible and violent crime. The allegation of rape is part of the reason America has embraced abortion so strongly in the last half-century. The original story of “Roe” was that she was raped. She was not. She just wanted an abortion. “Roe was the plaintiff in “Roe v. Wade,” the 1973 Supreme Court decision that gave us abortion on demand. […]

-Read More

Jerry Newcombe, Providence Forum, Broward Right to Life, Good News Media Group, December 2025

Jerry Newcombe: God’s Rule Means We Rule Ourselves First

Jerry Newcombe
11 Mar 2024
no comments

Throughout the centuries, the bells of Christendom have pealed a tune that actually reminds the knowledgeable hearer of our need for God’s help to overcome temptation that very hour. This tune I refer to is called “the Westminster chimes,” as in Westminster Abbey. This tune is heard in churches and college campuses across America — and if you own a grandfather clock, or any kind of chiming clock, you too are very familiar with this 16-note melody that plays at the beginning of every hour. The words to the hourly tune go like this: “Lord, in this hour, be thou […]

-Read More

Jerry Newcombe, Providence Forum, Good News Media Group, March 2024

Jerry Newcombe: Celebrating the 4th of July

Jerry Newcombe
3 Jul 2023
no comments
Jerry Newcombe, Providence Forum, Good News Media Group, July 2023

On the 4th of July, 1776, 56 delegates to the Continental Congress voted to approve the final wording of the Declaration of Independence, our national birth certificate.  The Declaration declared independence from Great Britain, while at the same declaring dependence upon Almighty God. Four times, the document mentions God.    God-given rights Fast forward to today. Why do people from many other countries try to come to America – even in some cases, risking their lives to do so? What is the source of this nation’s greatness? I think the single biggest thing that makes this country so great gets […]

-Read More

Jerry Newcombe: “And I Won’t Forget the Man Who Died”

Jerry Newcombe
18 May 2023
no comments

With another Memorial Day upon us, it’s great to remember those who laid down their lives for their country. On November 21, 1864, President Lincoln wrote to a Mrs. Bixby of Massachusetts, who had lost five sons in the Civil War. He wrote her, “I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.” Then he added this beautiful prayer: “I […]

-Read More

Jerry Newcombe, Providence Forum, Good News Media Group, May 2023

Jerry Newcombe: The Pilgrims Gave Thanks – Despite a Multitude of Difficulties

Jerry Newcombe
15 Nov 2022
no comments

Thanksgiving is such a great tradition in America, and it’s an annual reminder of our nation’s Christian roots. Our Thanksgiving tradition goes back to the Pilgrims who founded Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. It is amazing how many setbacks the Pilgrims endured and how they thanked God through it all. All they wanted was the freedom to worship Jesus in the purity of conscience. Historian Rod Gragg wrote The Pilgrim Chronicles: An Eyewitness history of the Pilgrims and the Founding of Plymouth Colony (2014). I thought I knew a lot about the Pilgrims, but this book added greatly to my knowledge. […]

-Read More

Jerry Newcombe, Providence Forum, Good News Media Group, November 2022

Jerry Newcombe: Will the Music Go Silent in Kiev?

Jerry Newcombe
4 May 2022
no comments
Jerry Newcombe, D.Min. Providence Forum, Good News Media Group, May 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century” was the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Now, in 2022, Putin is moving hard to “reclaim,” as he would see it, an important part of Russia – neighboring Ukraine.  Thus, the fallout from the Communist atheists’ disastrous takeover of Russia in 1917 continues to this day. In many ways, Putin is following in Lenin’s and Stalin’s footsteps. How this story will end, no one knows. But there is an angle that ought to be considered. There are millions of devout Christians in Ukraine, and they […]

-Read More

Jerry Newcombe: Easter Hope

Jerry Newcombe
12 Apr 2022
no comments

These are very trying times. But the ultimate problem is the threat of death. Despite all of life’s difficulties, Jesus has taken the sting out of death. After a bee stung a boy one day, his young brother was frightened as the insect continued hovering around him. But his father told him not to worry – there was only one stinger in that bee, and his older brother had already received it. Jesus is our older brother, and He has taken the sting of death upon Himself. As the Apostle Paul would say, “Oh death, where is thy sting?”   […]

-Read More

Jerry Newcombe, Providence Forum, Good News Media Group, April 2022