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Dry January Compliments Ongoing Public Policy Work of the Christian Action League

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 […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: alcohol, Alcohol Change UK, British Medical Journal, CAL, Dr. Keith Heinzerling, Dry January, Jaclyn London, Karen Farris, L.A. Williams, Max Lucado, Oprah Magazine, Rev. Mark Creech, Richard de Visser, Richard Piper, Royal Free Hospital, Ruby Warrington, The Christian Post, The Try Dry app, The Washington Post

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 […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: alcohol, Anna Grummon, cancer, CDC, DNA, L.A. Williams, Marissa Hall, Rev. Mark Creech, Simone Pettigrew, warning labels

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 […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: alcohol, Charles Spurgeon, Daniel Dorchester, Peter Lumpkins, Rev. Mark Creech, Richard Lees, temperance movement, Walter Rauschenbusch

‘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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Rev. Creech's Commentary Tagged With: alcohol, Frank Turek, government, Norman Geisler, Prohibition, prostitution, Rev. Mark Creech, Sports Gambling, vice

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. […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured, Rev. Creech's Commentary Tagged With: alcohol, cancer, CNN, heart disease, Jonathan Reiner, Lancelot Oncology, Monika Arora, Rev. Mark Creech, World Heart FEderation

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 […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: alcohol, Deep Creek Baptist Church, family, Mark Perko, marr

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, […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: alcohol, COVID-19, Dr. Brian Lee, Dr. Haripriya Maddur, Dr. Jessica Mellinger, Dr. Raymond Chung, Eli Cahan, Kaiser Health News, liver disease, pandemic

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 […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured, Rev. Creech's Commentary Tagged With: alcohol, Hiroshima, In His Steps, John Christopher Doumar, Nagasaki, National Alcohol Awareness month, Noah, Rev. Mark Creech

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 […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Cartoons Tagged With: alcohol, Holy Spirit, intemperance, Jeff Larson, Rev. Mark Creech, temperance, The Back Pew, wine

‘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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Rev. Creech's Commentary Tagged With: alcohol, Brian Kingslake, Coronavirus, Dr. Mark H. Creech, Drugs, Francis Collins, mental health crisis, Out of This World, pandemic, suicide, vaccine

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