DISTRACTIONS

ByDr. Mark April 28, 2022 0 Comments
“Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd.  After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray.  Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.  Shortly before dawn Jesus went...

“WHEN THINGS ARE MESSED UP”

ByDr. Mark April 27, 2022 0 Comments
“So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God.  There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.” (Hebrews 4:16 NLT) In this life you will have to deal with times when things are messed up.  When you were a child and your number one Saturday chore was to clean up your messed up room, there was a process you followed.  Not...

“THE ‘YES LORD’RESPONSE”

ByDr. Mark April 26, 2022 0 Comments
“Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise from the dead.”  Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”  Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one who believes in Me will live, even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die.  Do you believe this?” She said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have come...

“UNLIMITED”

ByDr. Mark April 25, 2022 0 Comments
“Do you have any idea how powerful God is?  Have you ever heard of a teacher like him?  Has anyone ever had to tell him what to do, or correct him, saying, ‘You did that all wrong!’?  Remember, then, to praise his workmanship, which is so often celebrated in song.  Everybody sees it; nobody is too far away to see it.  He is—infinite, greater than anything you could ever imagine or...

“THE VENT”

ByDr. Mark April 24, 2022 0 Comments
“After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.  In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.  For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever...

“THE ELDERLY WOMAN’S JARS”

ByDr. Mark April 23, 2022 0 Comments
“It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” (Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV) Two members of a local church’s women’s group went over to visit with an elderly woman at her long-lived in home, realizing that her health conditions would not allow her to attend church as regular as she used to do...

“ATTENTION ALL WALKERS!”

ByDr. Mark April 21, 2022 0 Comments
“And who of you by worrying can add one hour to the length of his life?” (Matthew 6:287 Amplified Bible) With springtime’s arrival and summer eager to knock on the door of seasonal change, I have seen an increase in the number of individuals who have stepped out to improve their physical stature.  In other words, many people have renewed their daily routine of walking to get in...

“EVERYTHING IN EXISTENCE”

ByDr. Mark April 20, 2022 0 Comments
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.  Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.  They have no speech; they use no words; no sound is heard from them.  Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” (Psalm 19:1-4 NIV) One of my responses to Tuesday’s meditation posed...

ANOTHER SPLENDID SPLENDA INSPIRATION

ByDr. Mark April 19, 2022 0 Comments
“And now I have a word for you who brashly announce, “Today—at the latest, tomorrow—we’re off to such and such a city for the year.  We’re going to start a business and make a lot of money.”  You don’t know the first thing about tomorrow.  You’re nothing but a wisp of fog, catching a brief bit of sun before disappearing.  Instead, make it a habit to say, “If the Master...

CORRECTED!

ByDr. Mark April 18, 2022 0 Comments
“Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.” (Job 8:7 KJV) Many of us tend to look back over our lives and we say, “I could have done more.”  Recently I had a dream where I was a late comer as an activist in the late 1960’s civil rights movement.  This made me think of the late 1970’s when I woke up; caused me to revisit a time when I was...