Mark Creech
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Is it a sin to buy a lottery ticket, make a sports bet, spend a little at the casino?
Is it a sin to buy a lottery ticket? What about making a bet at a casino – so long as it's a budgeted amount of money and made responsibly? How about dropping a sports bet? Is it a sin to gamble?
What many women desperately need to hear from the pulpit
But she said to me with great emotion: "Thank you for telling women that God will forgive them for their abortion. Sometimes I think we give them the impression they are automatically damned to hell. They need to hear that Christ will forgive them of anything."
The travesty of unwanted children
That young girl’s testimony begs the question: Is the solution of not having the prospect of a good life reason enough to take away the only life one has? Absolutely not, life itself is always too precious, and the value of a child’s life is priceless.
How to defeat the suicidal state of mind
These were the first steps in purging my tortured soul. Nothing about the healing was immediate. It took time. But the light did come back into my life brighter than ever before.
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
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?
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
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
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
In my hometown, prominently sitting high on a hill, is an old and empty Episcopal church. No one attends there anymore.