By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League July 21, 2023 In today’s Western culture, the word “diversity” is referred to as a social value that people are encouraged to laud and celebrate. There is racial/ethnic diversity, so-called gender diversity, LGBTQ+ diversity, disability diversity, religious diversity, socioeconomic diversity, age diversity, cultural diversity, and linguistic diversity. This […]
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Progressive Christianity Leads to Hell
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I am struck with how seemingly sweet Progressive Christianity sounds, but it’s only saccharine sweet. It’s appealing to the undiscerning, but it’s just a white-washed tomb full of dead men’s bones. So much of it is socialism with a religious veneer. Though it claims to be non-political and non-partisan, […]
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 […]
A Few Good Men
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “There’s something to the saying, ‘If we had more preaching on hell, there would be less hell in our streets.’ Indeed, if we had stronger preaching in the pulpit, there would likely be stronger saints in the pews. Too many preachers want to be seen as scholars and erudite. […]
About Elitists, Rednecks, Uneducated Buffoons, Bigots, and Deplorables
By Rev. Mark H. Creech Christian Action League January 31, 2020 Recently, I attended a worship service in a small rural church in North Carolina with a segment of our country’s citizens, who, by the standards of many today, would be deemed as rednecks, uneducated buffoons, bigots, and deplorables. Because of their support for President […]
Don’t Ignore God. There is a Hell!
By Dr. Mark Creech Christian Action League June 21, 2019 There is a matter that somewhat afflicts my spirit every day. It is the observation that so many of the people with whom I associate hardly ever give God a thought. When it comes to the way they live, God is not a part of […]