Truth for Our Times: Holding the line where It counts | Eastern NC Now

Today, when foundational truths are being steadily eroded - truths about marriage, moral restraint, personal responsibility, and even the sanctity of worship itself. This week’s Truth for Our Times addresses these challenges from three different angles, but with one unifying concern: what happens when society abandons God-ordained boundaries and replaces them with self-authorizing morality.

Each of the featured articles below confronts a different arena - law, culture, and worship - yet together they ask the same sobering question: What restrains human behavior when reverence for God and respect for covenantal commitments are cast aside?

Why North Carolina Still Protects Marriage
By Dr. Mark Creech
 
National media attention has recently turned to North Carolina due to a civil lawsuit involving former U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema and our state’s long-standing alienation-of-affection law. While many Americans are unfamiliar with this statute, it reflects something deeply countercultural today: a legal recognition that marriage is not disposable - and that those who intentionally intrude upon it may be held accountable.
 
From the Wilderness to the Threshold of Reform
By Dr. Mark Creech
 
For more than twenty-five years, those warning about alcohol’s social and health consequences often felt like voices crying in the wilderness. That season may finally be ending. Drawing on decades of policy work, emerging public health data, and powerful cultural shifts - especially among younger generations - this article argues that America is approaching a genuine turning point in alcohol use.
 
When Zeal Becomes Persecution
By Dr. Mark Creech

This biblical reflection examines a recent incident in which protesters interrupted a Sunday worship service in St. Paul, Minnesota, celebrating the disruption as righteous resistance. Drawing from the example of Saul of Tarsus and the piercing warnings of Psalm 76, the article exposes the danger of self-authorizing zeal that invades sacred space under the guise of virtue. True righteousness does not coerce, intimidate, or profane what God has declared holy.

Across law, culture, and worship, one truth remains constant: when restraint is lost, damage follows - to families, communities, and souls. God’s boundaries are not arbitrary restrictions; they are protections rooted in love, justice, and mercy. In a time when those boundaries are increasingly scorned, the Church must speak with clarity, conviction, and humility.

Thank you for reading, sharing, and standing for God’s truth in a confused age.

God Bless,
Rev. Mark Creech
Director of Government Relations
Return America
RevMarkCreech.org