Rev. Mark H. Creech

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  Jun 16, 2019

  Have you really given your heart to God?

  Salvation isn’t just applying for fire insurance from hell. That’s what some people do when they pray a certain little prayer, get baptized, and join the church.

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  Jun 7, 2019

  When there is uncertainty, the benefit of the doubt should be given to life

  It’s more than disturbing to see our state’s downward trajectory on the sacredness of human life.

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  May 27, 2019

  ‘War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.’ Really?

  Not all war is wrong. Granted, war always tends to produce greater evils than those which precipitated its cause. But to argue all war is wrong just isn’t true.

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  May 20, 2019

  Christianity, NC, the Mecklenburg resolves and freedom

  Rev. Benjamin Morris developed a deep concern that America was drifting from her spiritual moorings.

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  May 11, 2019

  Preachers must preach the hard things

  If preachers would make a mark for eternity, they must obey the Lord by their willingness to sometimes, even many times, preach the hard things.

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  May 1, 2019

  Shadows gathering over North Carolina: Alcohol issues matter too

  You see, the darkness is so thick with LGBTQ advances, pro-choice contentions, religious liberty issues – issues we deem much weightier – it hardly seems consequential we should be concerned about alcohol and its related harms.

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  Apr 24, 2019

  Church in a bar?

  Having church in a bar is a new phenomenon, but a growing one. It’s largely an informal movement started in recent years that has spawned hundreds of church services in dives and bars across the country.

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  Apr 20, 2019

  NC’s bitter ironies during the celebration of Christ’s passion and resurrection

  Does anyone remember the Roman soldiers, the gamblers at Golgotha, during Jesus’ crucifixion, down on their knees, casting dice for his garment? They were so caught up in gambling’s pernicious effect; they didn’t even notice the Savior of the world was dying.

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  Apr 9, 2019

  Democrats in North Carolina want to repeal the death penalty

  According to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, since 1910 when the state assumed responsibility for ...

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  Mar 28, 2019

  Democrats' Trump envy threatens to destroy themselves and the nation

  There is an ancient story about a Greek athlete who lost a race and was filled with envy toward the winner. The people acknowledged him as the victor. A statue was erected in the champion’s honor.