Author: Dr. Mark

THINGS HAPPEN WHEN CHURCH FOLKS PRAY & SING

ByDr. Mark May 7, 2025 0 Comments
“The crowd joined in an attack against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods. When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely; and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. Now about...

THE COLLEGE TRUNK

ByDr. Mark May 6, 2025 0 Comments
“O loving and kind God, have mercy. Have pity upon me and take away the awful stain of my transgressions. Oh, wash me, cleanse me from this guilt. Let me be pure again. For I admit my shameful deed—it haunts me day and night. It is against you and you alone I sinned and did this terrible thing. You saw it all, and your sentence against me is just. But I was born a sinner, yes, from the...

THE MAN WITH ALL THOSE KEYS

ByDr. Mark May 5, 2025 0 Comments
“Faith is the key to the life of a Christian. It is the key to blessings, provision, protection, inspiration, and the key to receiving every good thing that Jesus wishes to bestow upon His precious children.” (This is a quote found on pinterest.com) This is your Monday Short meditation. For real!  It’s brief, but it can serve to boost your faith walk this week. Real quick story: Two men...

FINDING & BRINGING

ByDr. Mark May 4, 2025 0 Comments
“The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!” When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus. Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?” “Come,” he replied, “and you...

THE MAKI T-SHIRT

ByDr. Mark May 3, 2025 0 Comments
“A little leaven leavens the whole batch .” (Galatians 5:9 The Amplified Bible) Vivian Baker, in an article she contributed to a Christianity.com publication, explained the verse above in these words. “The Apostle Paul was telling the Galatians that just as a little bit of yeast or leaven can work its way into the whole batch or the whole lump, a little bit of hypocrisy or false...

THEY

ByDr. Mark May 2, 2025 0 Comments
“And whenever evening came, they would leave the city. As they were passing by in the morning.” (Mark 11:19-20 NASB) To get started, let me defend my one-word title. If an old black and white fictional movie about giant ants invading the earth could be released decades ago, designed to entertain us; if it could be simply titled “Them,” well, I surely can present you with a new...

IT IS NOT SO WITH GOD

ByDr. Mark May 1, 2025 0 Comments
According to sources, Abraham Lincoln is credited with a well-known saying regarding deception. In 1858 during a political debate, Mr. Lincoln said, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” The saying is well said, but the truth in what Lincoln said about deception cannot be applied to the Almighty...

WHEN YOU NEED HELP TO DO WHAT THE LORD TOLD YOU TO DO?

ByDr. Mark April 30, 2025 2 Comments
“Bring two of every different kind of bird, two of every different animal and two of every different living thing that moves along the ground. All these will come to you. You will take care of them so that they will stay alive.” There are some things that the Lord has told us to do, and we think that what He has commanded is just too hard to do. Love all my neighbors? That’s a hard thing,...

GOD’S MODEL FOR SUCCESSION PLANNING

ByDr. Mark April 29, 2025 0 Comments
“Go up to the top of Pisgah and raise your eyes toward the west and north and south and east, and see it with your eyes, for you shall not cross this Jordan.  But command Joshua and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go across and lead this people, and he will give them the land which you see as an inheritance.” (Deuteronomy 3:27-28 The Amplified Bible) Succession planning is not...

THREE STORIES

ByDr. Mark April 28, 2025 0 Comments
“Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon—his other name) and his army got an early start and went as far as the spring of Harod. The armies of Midian were camped north of them, down in the valley beside the hill of Moreh. The Lord then said to Gideon, ‘There are too many of you! I can’t let all of you fight the Midianites, for then the people of Israel will boast to me that they saved themselves by...