By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League November 4, 2022 The late Dr. Billy Graham, the world-wide renowned Christian evangelist, asked, “What is heaven? It’s the home that God created, and he possesses. His throne room is his headquarters from which he issues his commands, directions, and prophecies.” In Revelation chapter 4, the apostle John […]
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Why I Won’t Vote for a Democrat this Election
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League October 26, 2022 By the time most people have read this article, there will be less than ten days before the mid-term elections. Early voting started in North Carolina on Thursday, October 20. And, while news reports are saying early voting turnout nationally continues to climb past the […]
Revelation Chapter 4: Seven Torches and a Sea of Glass
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League October 21, 2022 D. Martin Lloyd Jones, the famed Welsh-English theologian and preacher, said: “Nothing is more dangerous than to put a wedge between the Word and the Spirit, to emphasize either one at the expense of the other. It is the Spirit and the Word, the Spirit […]
Revelation Chapter 4: Will There Be Gradations, Rank, a Higher Existence for Some in Heaven?
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League October 14, 2022 A Jewish legend says that during the great famine in Canaan, Joseph, while second to Pharoah in Egypt, ordered his officers to throw wheat and chaff upon the waters of the Nile so that the people below, downstream, might see that there was plenty above, […]
Revelation Chapter 4: The Destruction of our Planet and an Emerald Rainbow
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League October 7, 2022 The Rainbow is unquestionably a phenomenon of nature with incomparable splendor. As Kyle Hill, the science communicator and educator, said, “A rainbow is the product of physics working for your appreciation of beauty.” However, the magnificence of the Rainbow and its actual meaning have been […]
Revelation Chapter 4: The Government of God
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League September 30, 2022 In recent years some fantastic stories have been told by people who literally died, stepped into eternity, and later lived to talk about it. There have been movies about the subject. “Heaven is For Real” is a true story about a little boy’s trip to […]
Revelation Chapter 4: The Rapture Question
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League September 23, 2022 C. S. Lewis wrote, “The doctrine of the second coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives, Donne’s question, ‘What if this present were the world’s last […]
Revelation Chapter 3: The Church that Was Neither Cold nor Hot, But Lukewarm
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League September 16, 2022 Jesus’ final letter to the seven churches of Revelation is to the church in Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-22). The city’s name means “the rights of the people.” It is good to remember there is a message in each of these letters for every church of every […]
Revelation Chapter 3: The Church That Was Frail, But Was Fabulous
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League September 8, 2022 One of the finest speeches ever delivered by an American President was given on June 26, 1963, in West Berlin. Less than two years earlier, East Germany had erected the infamous Berlin Wall, which had become a profound international symbol of the great divide between […]
Revelation Chapter 3: The Church Said to be ‘Alive,’ But Was ‘Dead’
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League September 2, 2022 John Phillips, in Exploring Revelation, tells a cute story about a little girl who was required to take her birth certificate to school but lost it on the way. The janitor saw her crying and asked her what was wrong. The child said with tears […]