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 […]
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Revelation Chapter 6: The Rider on a Black Horse Brings Hunger
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League December 16, 2022 Winnie Byanyima, Ugandan politician, human rights activist, and diplomat, said: “Conflict and callous politics drive famine.” Famine is intense suffering, and the people who die from it die slowly and incrementally. In the mid-1990s, there was a terrible famine in North Korea, and more than […]
Revelation Chapter 4: Seven Torches and a Sea of Glass
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League October 21, 2022 D. Martin Lloyd Jones, the famed Welsh-English theologian and preacher, said: “Nothing is more dangerous than to put a wedge between the Word and the Spirit, to emphasize either one at the expense of the other. It is the Spirit and the Word, the Spirit […]
Revelation Chapter 4: Will There Be Gradations, Rank, a Higher Existence for Some in Heaven?
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League October 14, 2022 A Jewish legend says that during the great famine in Canaan, Joseph, while second to Pharoah in Egypt, ordered his officers to throw wheat and chaff upon the waters of the Nile so that the people below, downstream, might see that there was plenty above, […]
God’s Word Should Be Read, Not Redacted
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Trying to ‘cut off’… ‘take away’ certain unwanted words of God from the Bible…will dilute or destroy its saving message and living truth. That is why the influences of the cults, with their pseudo-revelations, as bad as they are, still are not as deadly as those of the so-called […]
It’s Later Than It’s Ever Been Before
By Dr. Mark Creech Christian Action League December 30, 2021 America’s beloved comedian, the late Milton Berle, once told this story: “The Emersons lived down the block from the church. At two in the morning one time, the church bells went crazy. Instead of ringing twice to denote the hour, they kept ringing. They finally […]
Hell is a Real Place of Horrors
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League October 29, 2021 Peter Cartwright was a nineteenth-century, circuit-riding Methodist preacher known for being an uncompromising individual. One Sunday morning, he was apprised that President Andrew Jackson was in attendance and admonished not to say anything out of line. When Cartwright entered the pulpit, he said, “I understand […]
Why So Many Empty Churches? A Reminder and Warning for Southern Baptists
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League June 11, 2021 In my hometown, prominently sitting high on a hill, is an old and empty Episcopal church. No one attends there anymore. It’s a historical edifice, which serves no purpose for the community except to reminisce about the way things were. For me, that old church […]
N.C. Lt. Governor’s Remarks on Race and Abortion Garner Contempt, But He Was Right
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League January 24, 2020 On MLK Jr. Day, N.C. gubernatorial candidate, N.C. Lt. Gov. Dan Forest (R), spoke at the predominantly black church, the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh. Forest’s remarks about race and abortion at the gathering were received with disdain by those on […]