Mark Creech

Mark Creech

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  • If prophecy predicts things will get worse, why engage the culture?

    If prophecy predicts things will get worse, why engage the culture?

    In other words, everything that God's Word predicts will come to pass. But exactly when or how these prophecies will pan out is not always so clear. What is abundantly clear, however, is that what God's people do and the way the world responds is factored into it.

  • How victimology can become a religion

    How victimology can become a religion

    Victimology is not a new religion. It's as old as when Adam and Eve wouldn't own their sin, but passed the blame for it. It's been practiced in thousands of ways for thousands of years.

  • Are Southern Baptists about to miss another exceptional opportunity?

    Are Southern Baptists about to miss another exceptional opportunity?

    I want to see the ERLC trending in the right direction again. Its positions and actions shouldn't even smell of progressivism. Still, I fear it won't happen unless a new guard is restored to prominence more like the old guard.

  • Cracker Barrel: No apple pie, but they got booze

    Cracker Barrel: No apple pie, but they got booze

    If you've been to Cracker Barrel lately, you might have noticed something new and different on the menu: alcohol.

  • Our Republic: Can we keep it? So far, we’re losing it

    Our Republic: Can we keep it? So far, we’re losing it

    Perhaps what we ought to do this July 4 is skip the barbecues, the beaches, that trip to our favorite vacation spot, and even the fireworks. America is in terrible trouble! Instead, we should fill our churches to pray this isn’t our last Independence Day.

  • Why so many empty churches? A reminder and warning for Southern Baptists

    Why so many empty churches? A reminder and warning for Southern Baptists

    In my hometown, prominently sitting high on a hill, is an old and empty Episcopal church. No one attends there anymore.

  • Memorial Day: Home of the brave

    Memorial Day: Home of the brave

    Memorial Day is about paying tribute to the bravest of the brave, our fallen heroes of wartime. That this nation fought four major wars before the idea of a Memorial Day became a reality is an indictment of our propensity to forget unappreciatively and the need to be ever vigilant never to do so.