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 […]
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Gratitude: The Spirit That Defies Defeat
By Dr. Mark Creech Try to imagine this situation. It’s been an exceedingly difficult year for you and your family. In fact, half of your relatives recently died. You’ve been living in a foreign land far away from home – essentially a wilderness you don’t understand. You’ve faced real hunger. You’ve been cold and others […]
Fall of Leadership Symptomatic of Moral Rot
By Dr. Mark Creech It was heartbreaking to learn that U.S. Rep. Trey Radel, a Tea Party favorite, was in a courtroom Wednesday answering to a misdemeanor charge for cocaine possession. Radel had been arrested as a part of a sting rooted in a broad FBI/DEA investigation of drug trafficking in the nation’s capital. [1] […]
Free Will Baptists’ Cancellation of ‘Duck Dynasty’ Event Commendable
By Dr. Mark Creech Kevin and Jason made their way down the steps after 1 a.m. Kevin led his friend into the corner room that the family called the study and opened his Dad’s liquor cabinet. “He’s going to know you got in here,” Jason warned. “No way,” said Kevin. “I only take what he […]
‘Taps’ in Glory
Dr. Mark Creech Last year, my father, who was a veteran, passed away. As mourners stood along with my family at his grave side, a soldier blew the strains of “Taps.” That eloquent and haunting melody drifted over his resting place as an official tribute to a fallen serviceman – a man who was a […]
Reflections on Forgiveness
By Dr. Mark Creech I remember once reading about a Sunday School teacher who was trying to teach her children that we all need God’s forgiveness. After sharing the Bible story, she asked one of the girls, “Lisa, when is a time you might need God’s forgiveness?” The little girl’s blank stare prompted a response […]
A Great Lesson from Two Tar Heel Tales
By Dr. Mark Creech There is a place in western Chatham County, North Carolina, approximately 10 miles from Siler City that has baffled folks for many years. In a wooded area there is this well-worn path about forty feet in diameter in a perfect circle. In the center and outside of the round is lush […]
Cherokees Break Ground for New Casino
By Dr. Mark Creech One of the most trusted men in America once expressed the way he saw the danger of gambling to our nation. In the program, The Dice are Loaded; Walter Cronkite indicated that the collapse of moral resistance against gambling is among the worst things that could happen in the United States. […]
To Honor God’s Man is to Honor God
By Dr. Mark Creech Lyn Cryderman, associate publisher for Zondervan Publishing House, says that at one of the Promise Keepers’ rallies, Bill McCartney invited all the pastors in the arena to join him at the front of the podium. “In a scene reminiscent of a Billy Graham crusade,” [1] Cryderman said the ministers went forward, […]
God’s Law: Absolute and Inviolable
By Dr. Mark Creech Two good old boys were driving a semi-truck through the back roads when they came to an overpass with a sign that read, “Clearance 11’3.” Both of them got out and measured their rig. The rig was 12’4”. “What do you think?” one of them asked as he climbed back into […]