YOU ARE DOING GOOD, BUT…

ByDr. Mark August 26, 2022 0 Comments
“You, therefore, will be perfect , as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48 The Amplified Bible) Happy Friday to you!  I want to compliment you and challenge you this morning.  How did all this come about?  Let me explain.  I received some compliments about last week’s sermon.  Really, I did not do anything except deliver the message how the Lord put it...

ARE THERE GOING TO BE ANY INTROVERTS IN HEAVEN?

ByDr. Mark August 25, 2022 0 Comments
“After this, I saw a large crowd with more people than could be counted. They were from every race, tribe, nation, and language, and they stood before the throne and before the Lamb. They wore white robes and held palm branches in their hands.” (Revelation 7:9-10 Contemporary English Version) In spite of the positions I have held in life that required outgoing behaviors; positions that...

THE LEAKING FAUCET

ByDr. Mark August 24, 2022 0 Comments
“For we are God’s masterpiece.  He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.  For we are God’s masterpiece.” (Ephesians 2:10 NLT) Do you remember when you experienced the leaking faucet in your home?  You tried to tighten it as tight as you could, but the leak kept dripping!  You even went to your toolbox and pulled out some...

YOUR FATHER IS LOOKING FOR…

ByDr. Mark August 23, 2022 0 Comments
“If you want to come back, O Israel, you must really come back to me.  You must get rid of your stinking sin paraphernalia and not wander away from me anymore.  Then you can say words like, ‘As God lives . . . ’ and have them mean something true and just and right.  And the godless nations will get caught up in the blessing and find something in Israel to write home about.”...

LAYERS ON LAYERS

ByDr. Mark August 22, 2022 0 Comments
“I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me.” (Philippians 3:12 NLT) It is still summer, and the temperatures are hitting record highs in many areas of the country in which I live.  Usually, the highest temperature for the days come after the...

START THIS MORNING WITH A SONG

ByDr. Mark August 21, 2022 0 Comments
“O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.” (Psalm 102:1 KJV) Start this Sunday morning with a song, not just any song, but this particular song, “Jesus Will Work It Out!’  Tell Alexa to play that specific song, sang by the Georgia Mass Choir.  If you don’t have Alexa, look it up on the Internet.  The song is just a little over six minutes long, so it will...

PICTURE YOU! WHO ART YOU?

ByDr. Mark August 20, 2022 0 Comments
“Your conduct among the heathen should be so good that when they accuse you of being evildoers, they will have to recognize your good deeds and so praise God on the Day of his coming.” (I Peter 2:12 Good News Translation) Harriet Maher, in an article published online in an edition of Imaginated.com defined abstract art as follows. “Abstract art is the kind of art that emphasizes the use of...

“STOP! NO MORE OF THIS!”

ByDr. Mark August 19, 2022 0 Comments
“While He was still speaking, behold, a crowd came, and the one called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading the way for them; and he approached Jesus to kiss Him.  But Jesus said to him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”  When those who were around Him saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?”  And one of them struck the...

STAY RIGHT THERE!

ByDr. Mark August 18, 2022 0 Comments
“Don’t eavesdrop on the conversation of others.  What if the gossip’s about you and you’d rather not hear it?  You’ve done that a few times, haven’t you—said things behind someone’s back you wouldn’t say to his face?!” (Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 The Message Bible) Today’s opening verses come right after yesterday’s opening verse.  That’s why I titled this meditation,...

FINDING THE NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK

ByDr. Mark August 17, 2022 0 Comments
“There’s not one totally good person on earth, not one who is truly pure and sinless.” (Ecclesiastes 7:20 The Message Bible) There is a screensaver function on my computer, and perhaps on yours as well.  One day the screensaver was a picture of a haystack in an open field, When I first saw it, I thought of the 16th century idiom about “finding a needle in a haystack,” a saying that...