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 […]
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What God Can Do with Five Loaves of Bread and Two Fish
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League November 29, 2022 Giving Tuesday is such an important day for many Christian ministries. Some ministries will inform you that they have a donor who will match your gifts, making it possible to double the effect of your contribution. At the Christian Action League, we have no such […]
Revelation Chapter 5: Seven Horns and Seven Eyes
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League November 18, 2022 Over sixty years ago, the Soviets made their first space journey around the globe. Atheistic cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin returned puffed-up with pride, boasting, “I went up to space, but I did not encounter God.” W.A. Criswell, the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, […]
Halloween Hypocrites
By Dave Eden, Eden Political Cartoons “Jesus warned His disciples, we must beware of hypocrisy—pretending to be something we aren’t, acting with a mask covering our face. Hypocrisy is a terrible sign of trouble in our hearts—it waits only for the day of exposure. For as John Milton put it in Paradise Lost, ‘Neither men […]
The Christian Life: Easy or Hard?
By Dave Eden, Eden Political Cartoons “Sometimes, when attempting to win a lost soul to Christ, the individual says, ‘I hesitate to give my life to the Lord because I’m afraid I won’t keep living it. I’m too sinful and weak. I can’t live it.’ The fact is, no one can live the Christian life […]
The Jesus Difference
By Dave Eden, Eden Political Cartoons “Life without God. Senseless? Meaningless? Full of despair? Yes.” -Edith SchaeferCommon Sense Christian Living (1983)
Revelation Chapter 1: ‘The One Who is, Who Was, and Who is Coming’
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League July 29, 2022 Not long ago, I finished reading through the entire Bible again. Of course, I finished in the book of Revelation. The experience of reading “The Revelation of Jesus Christ,” as it is referenced in the first verse of the first chapter, was so remarkably moving […]
Governing from the Left
By Dave Eden, Eden Political Cartoons “I have many unanswered questions concerning eschatology – the Christian doctrine of last things. But we seem to be seeing current events that Jesus said we could expect before his arrival a second time. He said lawlessness would spread, and the love of one’s neighbor would grow cold. He […]
Andy Stanley’s Tweet about the Bible Seductive and Harmful
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 11, 2022 The recent now-deleted tweet by Andy Stanley, son of famed pastor emeritus of the First Baptist Church, Atlanta, read: “The Christian faith doesn’t rise and fall on the accuracy of 66 ancient documents. It rises and falls on the identity of a single individual: Jesus […]
Christmas is for Kids
By Dave Eden, Eden Political Cartoons But Jesus also came for all seekers & sinners. All losers & winners.For atheists & religionists. For socialists & hedonists.For scholars, soldiers & teachers. For addicts, athletes, artists & preachers.For the homeless, the jobless, the fatherless.He came for prodigals & politicians. For police officers, patriots & protesters.He came for […]