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 […]
Revelation
Revelation Chapter 3: The Church that Was Neither Cold nor Hot, But Lukewarm
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League September 16, 2022 Jesus’ final letter to the seven churches of Revelation is to the church in Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-22). The city’s name means “the rights of the people.” It is good to remember there is a message in each of these letters for every church of every […]
Revelation Chapter 3: The Church That Was Frail, But Was Fabulous
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League September 8, 2022 One of the finest speeches ever delivered by an American President was given on June 26, 1963, in West Berlin. Less than two years earlier, East Germany had erected the infamous Berlin Wall, which had become a profound international symbol of the great divide between […]
Revelation Chapter 3: The Church Said to be ‘Alive,’ But Was ‘Dead’
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League September 2, 2022 John Phillips, in Exploring Revelation, tells a cute story about a little girl who was required to take her birth certificate to school but lost it on the way. The janitor saw her crying and asked her what was wrong. The child said with tears […]
Revelation Chapter 2: The Church with Many Good Works, But Tolerated Jezebel
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League August 26, 2022 Our Lord Jesus Christ sent his fourth letter recorded in the book of Revelation to the Church at Thyatira (Revelation 2:18-29). Thyatira was a union city because of the dominance of trade guilds there. The guild controlled manufacturing, and without membership in the guild, one […]
Revelation Chapter 2: The Church that Couldn’t Be Demolished from Without, but was Devastated from Within
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League August 19, 2022 Christian Cynosure said, “Some folks take up religion as a kind of insurance against hell – and then are not willing to pay the premiums.” Salvation is not something God requires us to pay for because Christ has already paid our debt of sin in […]
Revelation Chapter 2: The Church that Stood for What is Right, But Needed Love
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League August 5, 2022 H.A. Ironside said concerning the book of Revelation: “We need this book in order to judge aright the various movements that are going on now. For myself, I am sure that if I did not know something of the teaching of this book, I would […]
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 […]
Revelation Chapter 5: In the End, Will the Redeemed Outnumber the Lost?
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League July 22, 2022 Chapter 5 of the book of Revelation gives the account of St. John’s visualization of a tremendous futuristic throng of people worshipping in heaven. In the vision, Christ takes the scroll with seven seals from the right hand of God. He is the only one […]