DIVINE BEST PRACTICES

ByDr. Mark March 5, 2025 0 Comments
“God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good, and He validated it completely.” (Genesis 1:31a The Amplified Bible) Desiring to empower employees in streamlining processes without sacrificing quality, and simultaneously increasing the speed of production, a company’s team of managers went to visit another manufacturer, located in another state. That host company had...

HELP SAVE YOUNG PEOPLE SINKING FAR FROM THE SHORE

ByDr. Mark March 4, 2025 0 Comments
“For God did not spare even the angels who sinned. He threw them into hell, in gloomy pits of darkness, where they are being held until the day of judgment. And God did not spare the ancient world—except for Noah and the seven others in his family. Noah warned the world of God’s righteous judgment. So God protected Noah when he destroyed the world of ungodly people with a vast...

WE SAY WE WON’T, BUT WE DO!

ByDr. Mark March 3, 2025 0 Comments
What’s up with that? The soloist’s extraordinaire, that person in your choir with the captivating voice, is singing, I won’t complain. After every line, most of the congregation is touched emotionally, and internalizes the song, and they each hear it as it is entirely their song. You know the song, written by the later Rev. Don Johnson of Nashville Tennessee, is titled, “I Won’t...

RESPONDING TO PEOPLE WHO COULD NOT FIND YOU ON SUNDAY MORNING

ByDr. Mark March 2, 2025 0 Comments
It is not even Monday, but since you spent a “long time” reading yesterday’s meditation, I will be short today. I simply want to provide you with words to use when responding to the question, “Where were you today?” My advice is to just use the words of Jesus, legitimately so, expressed in the verses below when asked that question. Now, go be blessed in the house of the Lord today! He...

YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT GOD IS DOING UNTIL HE HAS DONE IT!

ByDr. Mark March 1, 2025 0 Comments
I had two conversations on the same day this week. In both conversation I used the same phrase, identical to the words in today’s title, “You don’t know what the Lord is doing until He has done it!” In the last conversation the person I was talking with expressed how the daily news produces anxiety and a curiosity about what the future holds for us. Seriously I said, “It’s only a few...

THE RUN

ByDr. Mark February 28, 2025 0 Comments
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses , stripping off every unnecessary weight and the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles us, let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us…” (Hebrews 12:1 The Amplified Bible) Do you remember the movie, Forrest Gump? There is a segment in this film where the character, played by...

YOU’S ONE OF HIS PEOPLE AREN’T YOU?

ByDr. Mark February 27, 2025 0 Comments
“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray…”  Forgive the English in my title, but don’t’ form a resistant attitude to what I have to ask of you. Criticize me from a textual versus contextual perspective if you so desire, but don’t circumvent the critical question, that is if you are one of God’s people.  In a time where the exodus of men from...

QUENCHING YOUR THIRST

ByDr. Mark February 26, 2025 0 Comments
“As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.” (Psalm 42:1 NIV) Decades ago, during a time when youth went to the parks in their neighborhood for recreation instead of rendezvous characterized by unscrupulous behaviors, after a rigorous pick-up game, children would run and line up at a fountain where you would utilize a pump handle to cause refreshing water to...

WHEN YOU COME OUT OF CAPTIVITY

ByDr. Mark February 25, 2025 0 Comments
“Now these are the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had taken into exile to Babylon, and they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city." (Ezra 2:1) If you continue reading in the second chapter of Ezra, you will see how the author lists the number of those who came out of Babylon captivity and returned to...

DON’T STOP!

ByDr. Mark February 24, 2025 0 Comments
“I do not claim that I have already succeeded or have already become perfect. I keep striving to win the prize for which Christ Jesus has already won me to himself.” (Philippians 3:12 Good News Translation) It’s Monday, so here is probably the shortest Monday Short meditation you have ever received from me. Let me just encourage you to “Press on!” Be blessed! “I’m not saying that I...