#58 - Jerry Newcombe
The Eric Metaxas Show
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric and Jerry Newcombe unpack why America 250 matters, why the founders grounded liberty in God given rights, and why the Christian worldview behind the revolution gets minimized. They dig into Samuel Adams, the Declaration of Independence, and how Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address points back to the founding vision. Subscribe for clips from The Eric Metaxas Show to hear politics and culture from a Christian perspective.📢 Sponsor: Don’t Let the Financial Storm Destroy Your Wealth and Future!https://www.metaxasgoldira.com/⏱️ TIMESTAMPS0:00 Intro0:45 Jerry Newcombe Joins6:28 Were The Founders Evangelical?16:36 Why Samuel Adams Was Forgotten27:14 Why Lincoln Looked Back- - -TODAY'S SPONSORS:✡️ Help Save Lives in Israel TODAY: https://www.savinglifeisrael.org/Legal Help Center - Get Free Legal Help Today: https://www.legalhelpcenter.com/MyPillow — Save BIG with code ERIC: https://www.mypillow.com/ten Boom Coffee— Save 10% with code ERIC: https://tenboom.coffee/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, folks. I don't know about you, but every year around President's Day, I feel the need to say that I think President's Day is stupid. |
| 0:16.0 | Why? Because we used to have Lincoln's birthday on February 12th, and we used to have Washington's birthday on February 22nd. I preferred that. Lumping them together into President's Day annoys me. I just wanted to open with that. But we're going to talk about President's Day and all those. I'm, you know, |
| 0:39.5 | I'm vaguely in favor of it because it is a celebration, of course, of Abraham Lincoln and George |
| 0:44.6 | Washington. And I have as my guest, Jerry Newcomb, who's Executive Director of Providence Forum and |
| 0:50.1 | outreach of Coral Ridge Ministries. He's been our guest before. Jerry, welcome back. |
| 0:54.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:55.7 | Great to be with you, Eric. |
| 0:57.1 | Now, I don't know if you got the memo. |
| 0:58.9 | Did you know what the 250th anniversary of America is to be called? |
| 1:05.1 | America at 250? |
| 1:06.7 | Celebrate America? |
| 1:08.2 | Wrong. |
| 1:09.2 | Wrong. |
| 1:09.6 | No, it's, we're calling it the supercentennial because the actual term is semi-quincentennial. And nobody's going to say that President Trump's not going to say that. So I got the idea that we ought to call it the supercentennial. And I shared that with the president. He was all for it. He spoke about it on Fox News. |
| 1:29.4 | So a lot of people haven't gotten the memo. |
| 1:31.1 | So I feel like it's my job to mention it every time I have an opportunity. |
| 1:35.4 | But why don't we start there? |
| 1:38.3 | This is, it's an exciting moment. |
| 1:40.8 | You know that I read a book on the American Revolution, which will be out in a couple of months, and to talk about our founding, and even our founding, that's not even the right term, the revolution, which is before the founding, everything that led up to the revolution from 1763 onward, it is so exciting when you know it. |
| 2:01.0 | And it's why I wrote the book and why I'm excited when the book's coming out to talk about it. |
| 2:05.0 | Because this nation is unique in the history of the world. |
| 2:10.6 | And you know that better than almost anybody. |
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