By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League April 13, 2022 Auguste Comte, a French philosopher and skeptic, was once belittling English writer, Thomas Carlyle, for his faith in Jesus Christ. Comte suggested that he might start a religion of his own to replace Christianity. “Very good,” responded Carlyle. “All you need to do is to […]
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Asymptomatic Christianity
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Walking with God means that we develop a Christian worldview. Our faith affects every part of our lives. There is no sacred, no secular. Everything is sacred. All things are to be seen through His eyes – His revealed truth. One may be religious and compartmentalize his faith, but […]
The Unique Contribution of Christianity to the World, ‘Grace’
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League December 22, 2021 In What’s So Amazing About Grace, author Philip Yancey tells the story of a conference held in England on comparative religions. A debate broke out among those attending about the unique contribution of Christianity to the religions of the world. The debate went on with […]
This Nation Was Turned Around Once Before. Can It Happen Again?
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League November 19, 2021 Tyranny not only robs people of their God-given rights, but the fight against it can result in an unreasonable revolt against even the shadow of government. This was the conclusion of Daniel Dorchester in his history of Christianity in the United States, first published in […]
No False Halos in Heaven
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League July 6, 2021 It seems everyone is a Christian today. A young woman once told me that she was a Christian too; she just didn’t want to be one like me. She was living with her boyfriend, smoking dope, and engaged in various debaucheries. She practiced this way […]
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup/Patriotism and Christianity
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “It’s time we rediscovered what it means to be ‘one nation under God,’ as President Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address. It’s time we understand the full meaning of our national motto, ‘In God We Trust.’ It’s time we stop the ‘state sanctioned atheism’ that has been stripping […]
If This World Hates You, It Hated Jesus First
Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “This world hates Christianity. We see many examples of that today. How Christians are suffering in various parts of the world where once they seemed to have a welcome!.. [T]hey know that Christianity is the very antithesis of the theories that they are advocating, and by which they hope to […]
Leftist Journalist Attacks Evangelicals for ‘Crippling Coronavirus Response’
By Gary DeMar American Vision March 30, 2020 Leftist are at it again. They are trying to make Christians a scapegoat for all that’s bad in the world. The latest attempt is by Katherine Stewart, the author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism. She has written for nearly a dozen […]
Socialism: Lipstick on a Pig
By Dr. Mark H. Creech Christian Action League March 6, 2020 During the 1980s, North Carolina’s U.S. Senator, the late Jesse Helms, wrote an interesting article about America’s drift from her religious and political moorings. Helms wrote at that time something powerfully astute. He said, “It is debatable at just what point the United States […]
Christianity and Patriotism
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, second President of the United States, wrote in a letter to a friend: ‘A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral […]