And our American media gobbled it up, and they're still eating it.

Yeah, and you look at the example of Alyssa Slotkin, the senator, where she said just a couple days ago, we not only need to go after Trump, we need to go after people who would enable him, maybe people that wanted to work for the Trump administration.

We need to make it so... hard and so punish them so much.

And it's like, wow, this is, I hate the way some are trying to turn America into a banana republic.

You know, it's so much better when people show respect and everything.

But it's just the abuse of power.

is what we're beginning to see.

And he is also the first builder in the White House since Thomas Jefferson.

And so that in and of itself can be so revealing, so freeing.

It certainly can be.

And when you talk about miracles, honestly, I think the greatest miracle is the transformation of the human heart.

So every person that knows Jesus that's born again, every single one used to be dead in his or her sins, and then God made them alive.

A spiritual resurrection, just like the gentleman that was highlighted a few moments ago named Ben.

that transformed, Jesus transformed it, just like you, just like me.

And we thank God for these miracles in our lives of all kinds.

That's biblical actually, rest in the Lord.

You cannot have the Constitution work properly without people who work- control themselves by a moral f- uh, a moral entity.

Absolutely.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.

It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." That's what John Adams, our second president, said.

And George Washington, before he left office in 1797, uh, well, actually in 1796, the year before he left, he, uh, wrote up something called the, uh, his farewell address.

And in that address, he said, "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." And, uh, you know, it's interesting when we talk about, you know, prayer being supposedly, prayer in the school supposedly being unconstitutional.

Hey, the Founding Fathers, who gave us the First Amendment, which was what was twisted and distorted to mean, oh, yeah, you can't have school prayer or that kind of thing.

in understanding that, first of all, just will it sit alongside other religions?

And I know you're talking all over the country about this.

Well, I think, Tim, it's good to be reminded about the core principles of America.

America, as G.K. Chesterton said about 100 years ago, is the only nation with a creed.

And that creed is basically found in the Declaration of Independence.

And that's what we celebrate.

The approval, the voice votes on July 4th, 1776 of the final wording of the Declaration of Independence, which they signed about a month later by the founding fathers.

And the Declaration of Independence says that our, you know, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Jerry, just your thoughts on that.

Let's talk about the roots in faith, and I'm not going to say religion, but the roots in faith that has really shaped this country and that are now being espoused even more.

Absolutely, Terrence.

You're absolutely right.

In fact, Oz Guinness, a contemporary scholar, said this one time.

He said, the biblical concept of covenant gave rise to the American Constitution.

Here we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of America.

What are we celebrating specifically? Well, on July 4th, 1776, the 56 men by voice vote approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence.

and

Give us some reflections, Jerry, out of your heart and all the history and the study and the passion you have for God and country.

Sure.

Well, thank you for the opportunity.

The 250th anniversary is specifically in reference to when 56 men in Philadelphia on July 4th, 1776, by voice vote, approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence.

That, of course, is our nation's birth certificate.

It was followed up 11 years later by the Constitution.

The two documents together, one explains how I'm sorry, why we exist.

Reflect on that, Jerry, and just talk to us about the need for leadership, strong leadership, courageous leadership, bold leadership.

Do you think that more people in Hollywood are going to follow suit?

Well, that would be great, wouldn't it? I think the bottom line for Tim Allen, as I understand it, one of the key things that really helped him was coming to grips with the need to forgive, to forgive somebody that caused problems in his life, to let it go and to turn it over to God.

After he heard Erica Kirk forgive so publicly the man that shot Charlie Kirk, her husband, And she said, I forgive that young man because Jesus said, Father, forgive them.

They know not what they do when he was on the cross.

And what happened with Tim Allen, as I understand it, is that ever since 1964, when a drunk driver killed Tim Allen's own father, he had had resentment and bitterness in his heart, understandably so.

but he let it go after he heard that example from Erica Kirk and obviously reading the Bible.

I mean, the Bible has a lot to say about forgiveness.

Thank you so much for being with us this morning.

And they're having to be good soldiers in enduring.

Yes.

And it is interesting, too, to look at Tim Allen and his particular faith journey.

And then also Bill Maher, which is interesting.

Bill Maher, of course, doesn't claim to be even seeking the Lord.

And yet I was on Bill Maher's program 25 years ago, four times when it was on ABC News.

And my wife said a very interesting remark.

Everybody.

Lay it out for us, would you?

Sure.

Well, the pilgrims were basically a group of Christians that were an individual congregation in mid England who they formed in 1606 or thereabouts.

They made a covenant as they became a congregation, but they received so much persecution and pushback.

that they finally left to Holland.

They were able to go there.

They were there for about a dozen years, but they were getting older and they wanted to retain the Christian unity.

Very basic, some of it crude, but effective, right?

Was it, was it all equal next to each other? How did they do it?

Well, okay, when they first came over, first of all, they were blown off course.

They weren't even supposed to be there in what became Massachusetts.

They were supposed to be in the northern parts of Virginia, and they had permission for that.

But what happened was when they went into, you know, they were in the Cape Cod area and the captain would not let them sail further south because it was too dangerous, so they took this as a sign of God that, "Well, we're gonna have to wait at least for the winter here." And then eventually, they were able to find Plymouth within a month and they were able to- to settle there.

When they later met the Indians who made a treaty of peace, they made a treaty of peace with them and they bought the land from the Indians and so forth.

Okay, so here they are.

Wow.

Um, when you look to the first Thanksgiving, you look to the story that's uniquely American, what stands out to you, uh, that you want to call attention to for the 2025, our modern Americans?

Well, how much suffering the pilgrims endured just for the sake of the goal to be able to worship Jesus Christ in the purity of the conscience and be left alone.

When they started in England, it was a small little church.

The, the pilgrims were basically one particular congregation that managed to...

When they began in a place in the Midlands, in England, about 150 miles north of London, it was all secret, it was illegal, and so eventually they decided, "Hey, we could be tolerated, at least, in Holland." So they were able to migrate that even there that wasn't an easy thing to do.

And then eventually, about 10 years later, they were able to come to the New World.

But through it all, they were suffering, and in fact, in the, uh, book called A Plymouth Plantation, which their main leader, Governor William Bradford, wrote, he said, at the very beginning, "It is well known unto the godly how ever since the first breaking out of the light of the Gospel in our honorable nation of England, Satan hath raised, maintained and continued wars and oppositions against the saints." And so they, they, they suffered one hindrance and persecution after another, but they, they went forward with their goal.

Dr. Newcomb, uh, your reaction?

What stands out to you that you want to call attention to for the 2025 that are modern Americans?

Well.

how much suffering the pilgrims endured just for the sake of the goal to be able to worship Jesus Christ and the purity of the conscience and be left alone.

When they started in England, it was a small little church.

The pilgrims were basically one particular congregation.

That managed to, when they began in a place in the Midlands in England, about 150 miles north of London, it was all secret.

It was illegal.

Dr. Newcomb, your reaction?

the churches and the neighborhoods and the families that really bear the brunt of this for the average citizen.

That is exactly right.

And you look at the Christian-based charities.

They get involved, and they're right, right there, right away.

[laughs] It's amazing.

At Food for the Poor, which by the way, it's based in South Florida.

It's one of the largest charities, if not the largest charity in the United States of America, and it started right here in South Florida in 1982.

No, I agree.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good to be with you.

Yes, Jesus himself said the thief talking about the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy.

But I have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.

And of course, in this life, he gives us abundant life.

But in the next life, he gives us eternal life for those who believe in him.

If you were in a room with Elon Musk and he was talking to you about transhumanism and living forever, what would be some of what you would impart to him? And quite frankly, some folks that want to take their life into their own hands and not give it to God.

Um, Why do you think over the 250 years now we're coming up on the big anniversary, why do you think that those are taught more in school, those are celebrated more, in your opinion as a historian, versus the Madisons, the Jeffersons, the other ones that, by the way, played pivotal roles in the creation of our nation?

Oh, they certainly did.

I think in the case of George Washington, he was the first president under the U.S. Constitution.

You know that there were a few presidents before George Washington.

as presidents of the United States, but that was under the Articles of Confederation.

And that didn't work.

And in fact, in 1787, when the founding fathers met in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation, they said, oh, no, let's start all over again.

They know more about our history these days.