Author: Dr. Mark

A JUNE SHARE

ByDr. Mark June 16, 2025 4 Comments
“Get all the advice and instruction you can, so you will be wise the rest of your life.” (Proverbs 19:20 NLT) Good morning! This is your Monday Short meditation, posted for you edification on this day, June 16, 2025. I’ll call it a “June Share,” not because of the month, but because of the first name of the person who shared a quote from a leadership seminar is named June. As we were...

DEAR FATHERS!

ByDr. Mark June 15, 2025 1 Comment
“Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process....

GRAY FOR MEN AND WOMEN

ByDr. Mark June 14, 2025 0 Comments
I recently thought about coloring my gray facial hair. I even went as far to buy a wash out color pen to blacken my mustache and beard. But before I used it, I decided to see what the bible had to say about gray hair. After reading the verses below, I decided to stay with the gray and use it as a witness and communicate a message to onlookers. Check out the verses below and see how they speak to...

THE CHANGING LENS

ByDr. Mark June 13, 2025 0 Comments
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” (I Corinthians 13:11 NIV) After service on Sunday, one of the church members stopped at a nearby gas station. He was running on a spiritual high, but his car was running on “E.” According to the instrument panel he had 22 miles to go...

REPETITION

ByDr. Mark June 12, 2025 2 Comments
“The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.” (John Wooden) If you ever played organized sports at any level, when you went to practice you followed the same warm-up routine. If you were on the brain-game team, competing with students from other schools, you studied a variety of subjects to gather facts, to...

THE FIGHT

ByDr. Mark June 11, 2025 1 Comment
 “For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.” (Deuteronomy 20:4 NIV) Monday, as I was looking at some bone-in pork chops on display behind the refrigerated counter in the meat section, I overheard two men, probably in their late thirties, waiting with great patience for the butcher who could be seen in the refrigerated...

PRAY FOR OTHERS

ByDr. Mark June 10, 2025 0 Comments
“First of all, then, I ask that requests, prayers, petitions, and thanksgiving be made for all people.” (I Timothy 2:1 Common English Bible) This past Sunday, the pastor teaching the Adult Sunday School class assigned those in attendance, five questions for to answer individually during the week. One of them was, “Who in your life do you need to be praying for?” That question should be...

MEET THE AUTHOR

ByDr. Mark June 9, 2025 0 Comments
“I have been young and now I am old. And in all my years I have never seen the Lord forsake a man who loves Him; nor have I seen the children of the godly go hungry.” (Psalm 37:25 The Living Bible) You may have been following Mark Writes for 8 ½ years, or you may have just started reading these daily meditations. If you didn’t know, on Mondays, I try to write a brief message that I call...

LET IT GO!

ByDr. Mark June 8, 2025 0 Comments
“Then Peter came to Him and asked, “Lord, how many times will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him and let it go? Up to seven times? "Jesus answered him, “I say to you, not up to seven times, but seventy times seven.” (Matthew 18:21-22 Amplified Bible) As I was teaching each of our church’s three Bible Study classes this week, I asked the students to read passages that...

THE POWER OF HONEST COMMUNICATION

ByDr. Mark June 7, 2025 0 Comments
“Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear , slow to speak , slow to anger .” (James 5:19 The Amplified Bible) We live in a day where people seem to quickly opt to attempt to resolve differences and remedy conflict through weapons, wars, and words that heighten instead of decreasing conflict or even erasing the reason behind a potential skirmish....