Dr. Mark, Author at Mark Writes

JESUS SAYS, “I GOT THIS!”

ByDr. Mark November 14, 2023 0 Comments

As often is the case, yesterday’s Monday Short was not short at all. It was equivalent to the length of a full page printed in a published book, especially when you add in the scriptural references. I posed three simple questions. Go back and look at them when you have time. Now, this morning, when I sat down just a little after midnight to write, intending to pose three profound...

WHEN THE STRING OF LIGHTS IS NOT WORKING

ByDr. Mark November 13, 2023 0 Comments

“Cut to the quick, those who were there listening asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers! Brothers! So now what do we do?” Peter said, “Change your life. Turn to God and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, so your sins are forgiven. Receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is targeted to you and your children, but also to all who are far...

WHEN THE DIVINE DIRECTS YOU

ByDr. Mark November 12, 2023 0 Comments

“When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus then sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there and a colt with it. Untie them and bring them to Me. And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them on immediately.”...

DON’T STOP AT THE COLON!

ByDr. Mark November 11, 2023 0 Comments

“Under three things the earth quakes, and under four, it cannot bear up: under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied with food, under an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maidservant when she supplants her mistress. ” (Proverbs 30:22-23 NASB) If there is one book in the Bible that lends itself to textual preaching, focusing on one specific verse for a...

KINDNESS DAY

ByDr. Mark November 10, 2023 0 Comments

“…love is kind...” (I Corinthians 13:4 NASB) Other than Monday, you have put up with some pretty long meditations this week, and you patiently, without perturbed criticism, you overlooked my typos and understood what I was trying to communicate. I’ll do better with my “Pastoreez,” in my early morning writing in the future. With that being said, let me reward you with a...

THROWBACK DAYS

ByDr. Mark November 9, 2023 0 Comments

“Yet from the days of your fathers you have turned away from My statutes and ordinances and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’” (Malachi 3:7 The Amplified Bible) In our present times, people are wearing “throwback” gear as if it was something new. It’s not new. We just called...

OPENING CLOSED DOORS

ByDr. Mark November 8, 2023 0 Comments

“The crowd joined in an attack against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and 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 midnight Paul...

SOMETHING YOU WILL NEVER SAY OR DO

ByDr. Mark November 5, 2023 0 Comments

“Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.” (James 1:19-20 NLT) Two young ladies who had just left a nearby church. For real! An hour had not passed when they ran into each other at a retail store, one was accompanied by a friend who was not at...

SPECIFIC MESSAGES FROM GOD

ByDr. Mark November 4, 2023 0 Comments

“Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in the presence of the thousand. While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. Then they...