Author: Dr. Mark

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....

BAD ATTITUDES

ByDr. Mark June 6, 2025 0 Comments
“Get rid of all bitterness, passion, and anger. No more shouting or insults, no more hateful feelings of any sort. Instead, be kind and tender-hearted to one another, and forgive one another, as God has forgiven you through Christ.” (Ephesians 4:31-32 Good News Translation) I have written Mark Writes meditation daily since the start of 2017. I have been careful to acknowledge the...

WHO IS YOUR SUPERHERO?

ByDr. Mark June 5, 2025 0 Comments
“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.He who believes in Him is not condemned. But he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” (John 3:17-18 Modern English Version) Superman, is a fictitious superhero, sent by his father from a dying planet,...

RISING UP!

ByDr. Mark June 4, 2025 0 Comments
“Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desert. So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship, was returning. And sitting in his...

THE ANSWER TO OUR EXCUSES

ByDr. Mark June 3, 2025 2 Comments
The excerpt from Exodus found below is long. Therefore, I will make my admonition brief. Many of us come up with excuses, and we do it expeditiously when it comes to executing that which the Lord wants us to do. Think about it! Before you read the passage, remember, like Moses: (1) You have been picked by the Lord. (2) God has a purpose for you. (3) God has given you promised. (4) God can use...