Author: Dr. Mark

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN…

ByDr. Mark May 23, 2025 0 Comments
“Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one !You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and with all your soul and with all your strength . These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart and mind. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road...

GO BEYOND….

ByDr. Mark May 22, 2025 0 Comments
“While I was in Susa, one of my brothers named Hanani and some other men came from Judah. I asked them about the Jews who had escaped captivity and still lived in Judah. I also asked them about the city of Jerusalem. They answered, “Nehemiah, the Jews who escaped captivity and are in the land of Judah are in much trouble. They are having many problems and are full of shame because the wall...

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND?

ByDr. Mark May 21, 2025 0 Comments
“And He sat down opposite the treasury, and began watching…” (Mark 12:41 Amplified Bible) You already know what I’m going to say, don’t you? Well, I’ll be succinct, seeing how I did not publish the anticipated Monday Short meditation this week, and due to the fact that Tuesday’s meditation did not serve as a succinct substitute in its place. Now, don’t just cruise through...

FINISH THE COURSE

ByDr. Mark May 20, 2025 0 Comments
Back in the 1960’s I ran on my high school cross-country team. The time it took me to finish a competitive race against other schools is nothing to brag about. But I can say that I finished the course. Unlike a couple of runners who blatantly cut across the course, taking a shorter route, I stayed within the boundaries laid out by course officials. As hard as it was and even though there were...

MOMMA SAID…

ByDr. Mark May 19, 2025 2 Comments
“And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.” (Luke 2:7 New King James Version) It is a Monday morning. A little boy is sitting at the kitchen table waiting for his momma to bring him his breakfast before he begins his eight block walk to school. Momma, she is wearing her duster, a...

I’M NOT WAITING!

ByDr. Mark May 18, 2025 0 Comments
 “And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.” (Revelation 1:4 NKJV) I will wait on the Lord and be of good courage in this life. I know I am not yet what I should be, and neither am I what I used to be, but I will wait until my change comes. I will wait for...

STAY BACK, LEAN BACK, OR STEP BACK?

ByDr. Mark May 17, 2025 0 Comments
“…so the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the man who was cured, ‘You can’t work on the Sabbath! The law doesn’t allow you to carry that sleeping mat!’ But he replied, ‘The man who healed me told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ‘Who said such a thing as that?’ they demanded. The man didn’t know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd.” (John 5:10-13 NLT) When we...

THE MIRROR MAZE OF LIFE

ByDr. Mark May 16, 2025 0 Comments
Most of us have been to a state fair or an amusement park that had a mirror maze. Intrigued by the challenge to find our way through the maze quickly, we gave the person in the ticket booth the number of tickets needed to enter the maze. We entered the maze thinking that we could get through it in record time. We thought, “How hard could it be?” However, we soon found the challenge was more...

THE CATCH

ByDr. Mark May 15, 2025 0 Comments
My dad must have attended a bible study class that pointed out the fact that Peter and his boys had been out all night, and they caught nothing on one occasion. Dad just had to have been taught that the fishermen in the text he was taught from during his childhood, went out to fish at night because that is when you have the best chance of catching fish. I can’t think of any reason, other than...

DON’T TAKE THEM FOR GRANTED!

ByDr. Mark May 14, 2025 0 Comments
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” (William Ward Quote) As I was on my way to pick up some “Thank You” cards for the young students in our church’s tutoring ministry so that they could write notes of gratitude and appreciation to their teachers throughout the school year that is about to end, I had a thought. What was that thought?...