By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League April 14, 2023 Starting with verse 14 of Revelation chapter 11, an announcement is made that the second woe has passed. The first woe of the three to which we were introduced in Revelation 8:13 was the assault of demon scorpion locusts upon humanity. The sting of these […]
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Seven Evidences for the Resurrection of Christ
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League April 8, 2023 Jesus wanted people to believe in him. His words and works showed them he was worthy of their faith. He performed miracles by healing the blind, the lame, the deaf, and people who suffered from hopeless mania. He showed his authority over nature by calming […]
Revelation Chapter 11: The Two Witnesses, Faithful Ministry Protected by God
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 31, 2023 Perhaps one of the most treasured books in my library was written by W. Phillip Keller, titled, Predators in Our Pulpits. In one chapter, Keller talks about the necessity of preaching repentance. He writes: “When John the Baptist, the greatest man born of a woman, […]
Revelation Chapter 11: The Temple and its Place in the Divine Economy
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 24, 2023 We currently live in an era when temples, church buildings, and other religious edifices are mostly diminished in importance. We rightly understand God to be everywhere, and it isn’t necessary to go to a building to find him. Of course, the New Testament speaks of […]
Revelation Chapter 10: The Little Book that is Sweet and Bitter
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 18, 2023 Many years ago, Christianity Today shared a remarkable true story about a drug-store security guard in Washington, D.C. Louie D. Hairston always kept a small copy of the New Testament in his breast pocket for reading in his spare time. One day a masked bandit […]
Revelation Chapter 10: A Mighty Angel and the ‘Mystery of God’
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 10, 2023 An interlude is an intervening or a period of interruption, providing space or time before something continues. Chapter 6 of the Book of Revelation described the first six seal judgments but not the seventh. There was an interlude (a parenthesis) in chapter 7 for the […]
Revelation Chapter 9: Four Unchained Demons, a Demonically Driven Army, and the Unrepentant
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 3, 2023 In The Bruised Reed, Richard Sibbes asks, “Can we think that he that threw the angels out of heaven will suffer dust and worms’ meat to run a contrary course, and to continue always so?” Surely not. The Lord is full of grace, mercy, and […]
Revelation Chapter 9: The Pit, the Smoke, and Hideous Demon Creatures
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 24, 2023 In the spring of 1994, the Associated Press reported that Sweden’s defense ministry determined a Soviet submarine had violated Sweden’s territorial waters. High-tech buoys had detected suspicious noises, which prompted their military to start a submarine hunt in the Baltic Sea. This wasn’t the first […]
Revelation Chapter 8: The Eagle of Woes
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 17, 2023 In the book Storm Warning, the late Dr. Billy Graham writes about a group of people having a “hurricane party” before Hurricane Camille. Graham says the winds were strong and howling outside the classy Richelieu Apartments in Pass Christian, Mississippi, when Police Chief Jerry Peralta […]
Revelation Chapter 8: Trumpets Announce Something Bad is About to Happen
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 10, 2023 These are times of significant anxiety. Every day tens of thousands of people feel like something bad is about to happen. This free-floating worry is vague and uncertain, and it troubles them deeply. PsychReel, a group which is made up of psychologists and other mental […]