Author: Dr. Mark

TOO OLD! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

ByDr. Mark March 14, 2024 0 Comments
A little girl who loves the Lord, and loves her Pastor too, told her grandmother, in so many words, “Pastor King is too old to be cool.” This followed a discussion comparing Pastor M.R. King, my son, with me, Pastor M.L. King. She made a preliminary comment; an opening statement, much like a lawyer, and perhaps it would stand up in court. Perhaps! Well, if my Counselor were to make an...

NOW WHERE DID I PUT IT?

ByDr. Mark March 13, 2024 0 Comments
“But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former way of life, you are to rid yourselves of the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you are to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self,...

CHATTER OR WHAT REALLY MATTERS?

ByDr. Mark March 12, 2024 0 Comments
“These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit—but nothing moved that house. It was fixed to the rock.”...

HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS?

ByDr. Mark March 11, 2024 0 Comments
“God blesses those people who refuse evil advice and won't follow sinners or join in sneering at God. Instead, they find happiness in the Teaching of the Lord, and they think about it day and night. They are like trees growing beside a stream, trees that produce fruit in season and always have leaves. Those people succeed in everything they do.” (Psalm 1:1-3 Modern English Version) Are you...

NO CHARGE!

ByDr. Mark March 10, 2024 0 Comments
“Jesus paid the price and won the victory. Dying on the cross, He rose to set me free. Giving up His life in love that I might live forever, Jesus paid the price and won the victory.” (Lyrics from “Jesus Paid the Price” by Elton Smith and Steve Israel) Friday, I went to a couple of thrift shops, and in retrospect, is realized that I should have gone home after I had done some bargain...

I GOT NOW!

ByDr. Mark March 9, 2024 0 Comments
“But make sure that you don’t get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day-by-day obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off, oblivious to God. The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing! God is putting the finishing touches on the salvation work he began when we first believed. We can’t afford to waste a minute, must...

THEREFORE, IF THE LORD FOUND IT NECESSARY…

ByDr. Mark March 8, 2024 0 Comments
 “Just as You commissioned and sent Me into the world, I also have commissioned and sent them (believers) into the world.” (John 17:18 The Amplified Bible) A couple of years ago, I went to the hospital for a surgical procedure.  I was unsure of when I would get out, so I started writing in advance and advised readers to check the Mark Writes blog site for the next few days. While I...

PRAY FOR THE CHILDREN

ByDr. Mark March 7, 2024 0 Comments
“Children are a blessing and a gift from the Lord.” (Psalm 127:3 Contemporary English Version) As a child, brought up in the church, I never considered myself as one who was standing in the need of prayer. I viewed others, such as delinquent children, destructive bullish kids, distinctly poorer than even me…peers, and deviant youth as the children who needed prayer.  As an adult my...

CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT!

ByDr. Mark March 6, 2024 0 Comments
“Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me,    for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.” (Psalm 25:4-5 Modern English Version What I am about to share with you has to be assigned a title by you, and not this author. I would perhaps call it “Determination,” “Dedication,” “Devotion,” or “Disciple’s...

NOT ODD! JUST GOD!

ByDr. Mark March 5, 2024 0 Comments
“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners,    nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law, he meditates day and night.” (Psalm 1:1-2 ESV) I know!  Yes, I used the passage above just a couple of days ago. But repetition has it value when it comes to remembering what the...