FICTION OR FACT?

ByDr. Mark December 10, 2025 0 Comments
Do “The Transformers” fall under the category of fiction or fact? The answer depends on how you look at this question. If your mind immediately resorts to memories about “The Transformers” as those action adventure, sci-fi, children’s cartoon series that was introduced in 1984, a series that prompted many children to plead with their parents, including yours truly, to purchase the...

MORE ON DA BOYZ!

ByDr. Mark December 9, 2025 0 Comments
“17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire; [and He will rescue us from your hand, O king. 18 But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods nor worship the golden statue that you have set up.” 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and his facial expression was changed...

TEN TOES DOWN!

ByDr. Mark December 8, 2025 0 Comments
“17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire; [and He will rescue us from your hand, O king. 18 But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods nor worship the golden statue that you have set up.” 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and his facial expression was changed...

TWO BOYS, MANY LESSONS

ByDr. Mark December 7, 2025 0 Comments
The school year had just ended and in anticipation of his two sons crying out, “There’s nothing to do,” a father prepared a garden bed on the west side of the house, a location that also benefited from the sun’s southern exposure. The father wasted no time in introducing his sons to a mandatory project on the Saturday after school was dismissed, closed, not scheduled to re-open until the...

THAT’S NOT WHY!

ByDr. Mark December 6, 2025 1 Comment
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10 New King James Version) For a few months now, my wife and I have been helping a single-parent family by providing them with one meal a week, usually prepared by me. One of the two children, a teenage son, usually answers the door when I make my...

ESCAPING THE INFLUENCE OF A CAVING-IN CULTURE

ByDr. Mark December 5, 2025 0 Comments
“Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.” (Colossians 2:8 NLT Version) God can aid you in escaping the influence of the caving-in culture in which you live, either physically, psychologically, or spiritually. I have some proof, and it goes beyond...

A SUNDAY SHARE!

ByDr. Mark December 4, 2025 0 Comments
His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when He was twelve years old, they went up there according to the custom of the feast; and as they were returning, after spending the full number of days required, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but His parents were unaware of it. Instead, they thought that He was somewhere in the caravan, and they...

WHY SPEND THE MONEY?

ByDr. Mark December 3, 2025 2 Comments
“18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’” (Matthew...

ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO DISCARD THE INSTRUCTIONS?

ByDr. Mark December 2, 2025 0 Comments
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.” (Mattthew 7:12a NIV) When you buy something that has to be assembled, do you discard the instructions with the box or package that contained your purchase? Or, did you go at least a little bit further and threw the instructions in your “catch all” drawer, just in case you could not figure out how to get things together...

NEXT?

ByDr. Mark December 1, 2025 0 Comments
“Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth.” (Colossians 3:2 NASB) This is your Monday Short meditation. Unless the Lord says otherwise, today, December 1, 2025, starts the last month that I will be publishing daily on markwritesdaily.com, not missing a day over the last 9 years. My anointing as a minister of the gospel has not changed, but my...