STILL DREAM!

ByDr. Mark January 24, 2025 0 Comments
“Then Joseph had a dream…” (Genesis 37:5 NASB) “Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done. He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are. We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more.” (Exodus 1:8-10a NLT) You remember the story about Joseph in Genesis, don’t...

ASK TEACHERS ABOUT NO OUTSIDE RECESS DAYS

ByDr. Mark January 23, 2025 0 Comments
“There once was a rich man, expensively dressed in the latest fashions, wasting his days in conspicuous consumption. A poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, had been dumped on his doorstep. All he lived for was to get a meal from scraps off the rich man’s table. His best friends were the dogs who came and licked his sores. Then he died, this poor man, and was taken up by the angels to...

SET FREE FROM CURIOSITY

ByDr. Mark January 22, 2025 0 Comments
Arriving early for Sunday School with her grandmother and one of her sisters, a saint who is always on time, a young girl, a darling sociable preschooler, after giving hugs and hellos to the adults, came up to me, the senior pastor. Knowing I was approachable. She may have been holding back on this question for a little while, but not Sunday. Noticing one of my canine teeth was missing, she...

A SIMILAR LETTER, BUT NOT FROM THE SAME MLK

ByDr. Mark January 21, 2025 0 Comments
“For this reason, I left you in Crete… For there are many rebellious people, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of dishonest gain.” (Titus 1:1a and 10-11 NASB) Sunday morning, I listened to one of the masterful sermons online, a...

JUST START!

ByDr. Mark January 19, 2025 0 Comments
“The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country and your people. Leave your father’s family and go to the country that I will show you. I will build a great nation from you.    I will bless you and make your name famous. People will use your name to bless other people. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you. I will use you to bless all the people on...

BILL? NO! BLESS? YES!

ByDr. Mark January 18, 2025 0 Comments
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV) To get the best counsel, available at any time of day or night, keep referring to the directions in the opening verse. Is there a bill with this incomparable counsel, the best you could ever find? No! There is no really...

WHEN RAINY DAYS COME

ByDr. Mark January 17, 2025 0 Comments
 “Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) No one is exempt from dreary, dark, and depressing rainy days. As the quote above points out, rain will fall in all our lives. So, what do we do when rainy days come? I’ll swiftly summarize what you are about to take away from the passage below, taken from the story of Noah and the ark:...

IT’S NOT LIKE BASEBALL!

ByDr. Mark January 16, 2025 0 Comments
Life for you, my fellow believer, well, know that what we can look forward to is not like baseball. While a baseball game is not over until there are twenty-seven outs, or in the case of a tie after nine innings, and extra innings are played until one team comes out on top and wins the game, that’s not the case for us. I’ll tell you more in a minute. But first some more facts. There is one...

STAY DOES NOT MEAN STANDING STILL!

ByDr. Mark January 15, 2025 0 Comments
“Companions as we are in this work with you, we beg you, please don’t squander one bit of this marvelous life God has given us. God reminds us, ‘I heard your call in the nick of time; the day you needed me, I was there to help.’ Well, now is the right time to listen, the day to be helped. Don’t put it off; don’t frustrate God’s work by showing up late, throwing a question mark over...

CONNIE, CONSUELA & THE CHALLENGE

ByDr. Mark January 14, 2025 0 Comments
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”(Will Durant) Connie and Consuela, identical twin sisters who attend a local school were scheduled to take an important test last week. However, because of school closings due to weather, the test was not given as scheduled, but was delayed until yesterday, Monday. Both girls had studied and were prepared for...