By L.A. Williams Christian Action League January 6, 2023 Does your New Year’s resolution involve drinking less? Or perhaps you decided to dive into 2023 totally alcohol-free? You’re not alone. Hundreds of thousands of people are taking part in Dry January, a public health push that started in the United Kingdom in 2013 and has […]
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Alcohol Warning Labels: A Commonsense Strategy for Reducing Alcohol-Related Harms
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League September 21, 2022 If you knew something you were doing increased your risk of getting cancer, would you stop doing it? Or at least do it less? That’s the logical reasoning behind a new push to require better warning labels on alcohol. “Requiring new, well-designed warning labels on alcohol […]
Hearts and Minds Dulled by Alcohol, Less Able to Decide for Christ
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League May 20, 2022 I stopped at an old country store many years ago to purchase some gas and a snack. While there, I took the occasion to share the Gospel with a man. I didn’t realize it when our conversation began, but he had been drinking. As I […]
‘There Should Be No Prohibitions on Vice,’ They Claim. Really?
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League April 8, 2022 Vice might be defined as something that negatively impacts one’s behavior patterns so as to not only make one a detriment to themselves, but also to others. There is a view today, which I suggest is extreme and seeks to avoid even the shadow of […]
Salutary Effects of Drinking are Starting to Change
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League January 28, 2022 My pastor friend is an excellent and faithful leader. We grew up together and graduated from the same High School. He pastored a well-known and historic church in Western North Carolina. At his invitation, I preached there and spent time with him and his wife. […]
Jesus Rescued Me from Alcohol
By Mark Perko Christian Action League January 5, 2022 I took my last sip of an alcoholic beverage 40 years ago. The seven years preceding this, I will never get back. My journey began at age sixteen when my best friend convinced me to help him drink a six-pack of beer he had stolen from […]
Experts Believe Pandemic-fueled Alcohol Abuse is Triggering a Wave of Hospitalizations
By Eli Cahan Kaiser Health News April 27, 2021 Alcoholism-related liver disease was a growing problem even before the pandemic, as 15 million people suffer with the condition around the country, and as hospitalizations have doubled over the past decade. But the pandemic has dramatically added to the toll. Although national figures are not available, […]
It’s Still a Big Deal, and for Me It’s Personal
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League April 9, 2021 A friend of mine, who is an attorney, recently sent me an email saying that he had been reading the Christian classic, In His Steps. He was given the book by his grandmother, who lived from 1872 to 1960. He wrote, “I’m amazed at how […]
Do Not Gaze at Wine…
by Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “The Scriptures say, ‘And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit’ (Eph. 5:18). Nothing casts off restraint in life like alcohol. It’s a known fact that where alcohol runs high, morals run low. The brother of alcohol is excess. But God doesn’t […]
‘Churches Should Suspend Services During Pandemic.’ I Respectfully Dissent!
By Dr. Mark Creech Christian Action League December 4, 2020 For the last few months, I’ve been on the telephone with hundreds of pastors, asking them how their churches are navigating the Coronavirus Crisis. The stories of low attendance are disturbing, despite churches employing health protocols to keep people as safe as possible. Many are […]