By Dr. Mark Creech This week approximately 3 million people tuned into to watch the debate on evolution between Bill Nye, “The Science Guy,” and Ken Ham of the Creation Museum. Ham did a stupendous job articulating the creationist view and contributed greatly to raising awareness to the legitimacy of its claims regarding origins. Enter […]
Rev. Creech's Commentary
Barber Attacks Religious Right as ‘Just Running Their Mouths’
By Dr. Mark Creech Two Sundays past (January 19, 2014), in a sermon the media described as “fire and thunder,” [1] Rev. William Barber, head of the NC NAACP mounted the pulpit of Zion Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and began to excoriate all things political to the right. Rev. Barber singled out by […]
Churches that Keep BSA Ties Are at Risk
By Dr. Mark Creech According to the Christian Post (CP), Trail Life USA, the organization that formed as an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), started with approximately 500 troops on New Year’s Day. Troops are being planned in at least 42 states with an average of 25 to 30 boys in each. […]
How Sacred is Life in the Tar Heel State?
By Dr. Mark Creech In 1994, Mother Teresa of Calcutta India was the keynote speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. What took place that day was nothing less than historic. Next to the podium sat then President Bill Clinton, Vice President Gore, their wives, and a number of dignitaries. Slowly aids rolled […]
Simon Says…
By Dr. Mark Creech You may have heard the story about the two Navajo Indians who were having a conversation across an Arizona valley by smoke signals. While they were speaking, the Atomic Energy Commission released an atomic bomb nearby, and when the gargantuan mushroom cloud rose on the horizon, one of the Indians sent […]
Robin Roberts ‘Comes Out’. Why Now?
By Dr. Mark Creech Another beloved television celebrity has “come out” and said to the world, “I am gay.” This time its ABC’s Good Morning America host, Robin Roberts. CNN says that Roberts has always been “open about her health battles, but she has not previously spoken publicly about her sexuality.” [1] The timing of […]
God Save America in 2014
By Dr. Mark Creech The book of 2 Kings, chapters 22 and 23, tell us about a reformation that took place in Judah during the reign of King Josiah. If we consider the general background of the passages, it’s likely that some were already trying to bring their wayward nation back to God. A project […]
When the Pastor is in Trouble
By Dr. Mark Creech People looked up to David and he liked it. In fact, he didn’t know it but one of the reasons he was drawn to the ministry was to serve his big ego. He relished the complimentary remarks about his sermons. He loved the adulation and it really made him defensive when […]
Pastors: Mental Illness and Suicide
By Dr. Mark Creech Rev. Teddy Parker Jr., 42, pastor of Bibb Mount Zion Baptist Church in Macon, Georgia, discovered by his wife in the driveway of their home, dead from a self-inflicted gun-shot wound. [1] Ed Montgomery, 49, a pastor at Full Gospel Christian Assemblies International Church, Hazel Crest, Illinois, takes his own life […]
Environmentalists Close Bonner Bridge
By Dr. Mark Creech If one should think that politics is just politics and one’s worldview has nothing to do with it, then he or she should consider the circumstances facing the people of Hatteras Island, North Carolina. Tuesday, December 3rd, the Department of Transportation (DOT) in the state indefinitely closed the Herbert C. Bonner […]