By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 29, 2024 More than a half-century ago my mother had a career in country music. She did quite well, having recorded a country version of the song, “The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down.” She was extraordinarily talented and had an amazing stage presence that made her […]
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Revelation Chapter 22: Finding Comfort in Heaven’s Promise
By Dr. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 1, 2024 Joseph M. Stowell, former president of Cornerstone University, recounts a compelling narrative in his book, “Eternity,” shedding light on the tragic bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in April of 1995. In this poignant story, a survivor of the Oklahoma bombing shared her harrowing ordeal […]
Revelation Chapter 19: Homesick for Heaven, Lessons About the Power of Praise and Worship
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League November 17, 2023 On April 10th, 1852, under the African sun, an American passed away. He was laid to rest in a remote cemetery in Tunis, Africa. Thirty-one years later, as a gesture of gratitude from the American public, the United States sent a warship to the African […]
Can We Be Too Heavenly Minded?
By Dr. Adam B. Dooley Christian Action League March 23, 2023 History credits Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. with the assertion that some Christians are so heavenly minded that they’re no earthly good. The same sentiment found its way into Johnny Cash’s 1977 album The Rambler when he recorded the song “No Earthly Good.” But is […]
Revelation Chapter 8: Silence in Heaven?
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 3, 2023 Revelation chapters 6-19 describe the Tribulation period during the end times. After the Church is taken out of the world in what might be called the first phase of Christ’s return, the Rapture, the time of God’s wrath, emerges in three waves of seven: seven […]
If Loving You is Wrong…
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “Due to the dark glass with which we now see, we cannot observe or experience the consuming glory of God. When that glory is seen in heaven, however, it will make the idea of rebellion ludicrous in comparison. It is a glory so awesome, were we to be exposed […]
Missing Heaven by a Few Points?
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I know that I’m going to heaven, not because I’ve been good or even good enough. When I get to heaven, it will be despite my sins – despite my never being able to satisfy God’s high bar of morality sufficiently. On the day of God’s wrath, I will […]
Access to Heaven
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “My mother-in-law loves the Lord, and at 88 years old, she’s eager to go to heaven. A couple of years ago, she had surgery for a sizeable non-cancerous tumor in her abdomen. However, doctors told her that the surgery could still be life-threatening at her advanced age. Despite the […]
No Entrance Exam to Heaven
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I am persuaded that our good deeds never merit salvation. To merit salvation would mean to earn it or to deserve it. The deeds would have to be so good, so perfect, with no mixture of sin in them, that it would impose an obligation upon God to grant […]
No False Halos in Heaven
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League July 6, 2021 It seems everyone is a Christian today. A young woman once told me that she was a Christian too; she just didn’t want to be one like me. She was living with her boyfriend, smoking dope, and engaged in various debaucheries. She practiced this way […]