Author: Dr. Mark

THE COUPLE LOOKING IN THE WRONG SECTION!

ByDr. Mark September 3, 2025 4 Comments
At a local bookstore, I went to see if I could find some books to add to my library, specifically books that would give insight to the Psalms. I didn’t want to be spoiled by the availability of expository accounts found online, but preferred to peruse the published, printed word of scholarly theologians who had diligently pursued the word of God, searching, seeking the pure truth it contained...

HOLY GROUND

ByDr. Mark September 2, 2025 2 Comments
“…the place where you are standing is holy ground.” (Exodus 3:5b NIV) During the latter month of August and the first few weeks of September in the year 1990, I was busy reaching out to the community, letting people know that Salt Of The Earth Church would have it’s inaugural service on September 21. I was still attending my home church on Sunday, but after receiving the permission and...

DON’T GET TRAPPED BY YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES!

ByDr. Mark September 1, 2025 4 Comments
“I, Paul, am a prisoner for the sake of Christ, here with my brother Timothy. I write this letter to you, Philemon, my good friend and companion in this work—also to our sister Apphia, to Archippus, a real trooper, and to the church that meets in your house. God’s best to you! Christ’s blessings on you!” (Philemon 1:1-3 The Message Bible) Here is your Monday Short meditation! It really...

CURIOSITY

ByDr. Mark August 31, 2025 0 Comments
“One day while Moses was taking care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, he led the flock across the desert and came to Sinai, the holy mountain. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him as a flame coming from the middle of a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire but that it was not burning up. “This is strange,” he thought. “Why isn't the...

WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?

ByDr. Mark August 30, 2025 0 Comments
“You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” (Isaiah 26:3 NKJV) The Labor Day Weekend is upon us. Let me ask you a personal question. What’s on your mind this weekend? Fun, family reunions, or folly? What’s on your mind? Games, going out, or getting away? What’s on your mind? Problems, peril, predicaments, or the pursuit of...

THE FITTED SHEET

ByDr. Mark August 29, 2025 2 Comments
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (I John 1:9 New King James Version) Here is a prelude to “The Fitted Sheet.” A famous pastor, a very erudite theologian, a musicologist, and a historian, once said, “Christians are not failures, but we do have failings.” I agree and I thank God for how He forgives...

SAY, “IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT ME!”

ByDr. Mark August 28, 2025 2 Comments
“Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” (Philippians 2:4 King James Version) As commanded, the smart device in the kitchen played, “When We All Get to Heaven.” The first rendition was very slow and a little bit, well, country. So, I commanded the device to play the same song by a well-known gospel mass choir. Their version was a little bit...

UP MEANS UP!

ByDr. Mark August 27, 2025 0 Comments
"Wise people walk the road that leads upward to life." (Proverbs 15:24a The Good News Translation) I’m the guy that gets on your very last nerve at the airport. You know, the one who gets on the moving sidewalk but just stands, waiting until he gets to the end. Yeah, that’s me! I’m also the guy who gets in the escalator that is going upward and stands with my luggage taking up its own...

THE SONG THAT MADE MOMMA SHOUT

ByDr. Mark August 26, 2025 2 Comments
“Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.  Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.I will strengthen you and help you.  I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.” (Isaiah 41:10 NLT Version) One Sunday when I was a youngster, I decided to forego sitting with the other young people who regularly sat in the two rows near the back of the church, on pews located in the center section of...

SCARS

ByDr. Mark August 25, 2025 2 Comments
“He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds.” (Psalm 147:3 NLT Version) Last Wednesday night, after studying Psalm 149 in Bible Study and focusing on giving God glory and giving God the praise, I entered the bathroom and looked in the mirror, searching my face like a top-notched crime scene investigator, looking for a scar that had been present since I tried to shave at the age of...