By L.A. Williams Christian Action League March 31, 2023 Promoters of marijuana often tout the drug’s effectiveness at treating nausea, and in fact nearly four decades ago, the Food and Drug Administration approved a synthetic version of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to help treat that symptom in chemotherapy patients. But more recently, with the steep rise in […]
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Revelation Chapter 11: The Temple and its Place in the Divine Economy
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 24, 2023 We currently live in an era when temples, church buildings, and other religious edifices are mostly diminished in importance. We rightly understand God to be everywhere, and it isn’t necessary to go to a building to find him. Of course, the New Testament speaks of […]
Studies Show More Reasons Not to Legalize Marijuana
Pot Use Negative Impacts Development of Babies’ Brains and Adolescent Brains By L.A. Williams Christian Action League March 23, 2023 While North Carolina lawmakers consider whether to legalize marijuana for medicinal use, evidence of the serious harms caused by the drug continues to mount. Among the latest is research showing how pot use among pregnant […]
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, […]
Revelation Chapter 10: The Little Book that is Sweet and Bitter
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 […]
Sports Betting Bill Reintroduced in N.C. House: Measure Will Be Heard Tuesday and Wednesday
Please contact your Representative in the N.C. House By Peyton Majors Christian Action League March 17, 2023 The battle over sports betting is back at the North Carolina state capitol. A new bill that would legalize wagering on college and professional sports from electronic devices was introduced in the North Carolina House of Representatives this […]
Republicans Barrel Ahead on Enabling Vice
Marijuana, gambling take a front seat in new legislative session. That’s disappointing under GOP leadership By Andrew Dunn Christian Action League March 16, 2023 I continue to be baffled by the energy and enthusiasm in the General Assembly’s Republican caucus for marijuana and gambling. Again this year, Republicans are the driving force behind bills to legalize marijuana […]
N.C. Congressman, Rep. Dan Bishop Tells It Like It Is
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League March 17, 2023 Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) injected a history lesson and a bit of Christian testimony into a recent hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, riling several Democrats who tried unsuccessfully to interrupt. Challenging Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen and others for their view that there is no real […]
Revelation Chapter 10: A Mighty Angel and the ‘Mystery of God’
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 10, 2023 An interlude is an intervening or a period of interruption, providing space or time before something continues. Chapter 6 of the Book of Revelation described the first six seal judgments but not the seventh. There was an interlude (a parenthesis) in chapter 7 for the […]
N.C. Pastor Leads Fight Against Liberal School Books, Curriculum: ‘It’s an Agenda’
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League March 10, 2023 A North Carolina pastor says he’s on a mission to change what books are allowed in schools and that he wants to help other parents do the same. Nicholas McNeill, the pastor of Zion Hill Baptist Church in Rennert, N.C., told The Laurinburg Exchange that his […]