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 […]
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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 6: The Rider Death on a Corpse-Colored Horse, with Hell Following After Him
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League December 31, 2022 Recorded in the book of Exodus is the true story of how God judged Egypt and set the Hebrews free from slavery. God sent disaster and pestilence. The land was plagued with frogs, gnats, and flies. The livestock died of disease. Egyptians were covered with […]
Revelation Chapter 6: The Deceptive Rider on the White Horse
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League December 2, 2022 Some argue that no one has ever gone to heaven and come back to tell us what they saw, but evidently, that’s what happened to the apostle John. In chapters four and five of the book of Revelation, John, by invitation from the Lord, visited […]
Me, Mother Teresa, and her Profound Words about the Practice of Abortion
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League November 22, 2022 In 1995, I joined a group of Christian theologians to teach Christian pastors in Calcutta, India. Knowing Mother Teresa and her ministry, The Missionaries of Charity, were there, I wrote the Raleigh Catholic Diocese to see if I could obtain her address. The diocese was […]
Revelation Chapter 4: The Rapture Question
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League September 23, 2022 C. S. Lewis wrote, “The doctrine of the second coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives, Donne’s question, ‘What if this present were the world’s last […]
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 […]
The Conscience Bears Witness
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League August 13, 2021 Now and then, we read in the news about some fellow who has a fit of conscience and confesses to a cold case crime. A 2012 story in HuffPost reported that James Washington from Nashville, Tennessee, already incarcerated for unrelated crimes, suffered a heart attack […]
On Anger and Judgment
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 19, 2021 Best known for her part in the 90s film “Clueless,” actress and former Fox News commentator Stacey Dash recently announced she was stepping away from politics. In an interview with DailyMailTV, Dash, who is also well-known for her strong conservative views, said she no longer […]
Sexual Impurity Still Matters
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League October 9, 2020 The U.S. Senate race to represent North Carolina between Cal Cunningham (D) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R) took an unexpected turn when it was revealed that Cunningham, a married man and father of two, was caught sexting with a woman from California. Cunningham has admitted […]