A LOVE CHALLENGE

ByDr. Mark November 2, 2025 0 Comments
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and with all your soul and with all your strength .” Deuteronomy 6:5 Amplified Bible) Good morning, my friend!” I just want to give you a love challenge today, but please note that the challenge extends beyond today and continues into your future existence. Let your personal response to the challenge reflect that for you, it...

THE SUPER NANAS, THE SPINNERS, & THE SUPREME

ByDr. Mark November 1, 2025 6 Comments
Many of you know that my younger brother, now absent from the body, but at home with the Lord, he played bass for many well-known groups, including “The Spinners.” One of the group’s best-selling recordings, is titled “I’ll Be Around.” It includes these lyrics, “Whenever you call me, I’ll be there. Whenever you want me, I’ll be there. Whenever you need me, I’ll be there.”...

USE THE FILTER!

ByDr. Mark October 31, 2025 0 Comments
“What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God-direction is road-tested.    Everyone who runs toward Him makes it.” (Psalm 18:30 The Message Bible) Pastor M.R. King used an analogy in Sunday School a couple of weeks ago to make a profitable point to participants in the Adult Sunday School Class. He referred to how professional painter today often use paint guns as...

PIGEON-LIKE CHRSITIANITY

ByDr. Mark October 30, 2025 2 Comments
I recently spent a week in Chicago, visiting with one of my five sons. When I entered the kitchen and looked at the refrigerator, it was like déjà vu. A quick visual audit revealed that were close to sixty magnets collected from all the countries that my son and his wife had visited in recent years. Of course, there were also pictures of their two boys and some of their school work affixed...

GOD IS NOT A BENCHWARMER

ByDr. Mark October 29, 2025 0 Comments
“The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.” (Psalm 34:17 New King James Version) At all levels you will see something entertaining at basketball games. I’m not talking about what happens between the lines, but I am talking about something that happens off the court, on the sidelines. No, I’m not talking about the enthusiasm of the crowds...

IT’S KIND OF A BIG DEAL!

ByDr. Mark October 28, 2025 3 Comments
“Those who are kind benefit themselves,    but the cruel bring ruin on themselves.” (Proverbs 11:17 NIV) I’m just getting back in town, but not a day has gone by where I have not remembered to write a meditation, just for you. Today, I might write just a little, but what I’m about to pen, it’s kind of a big deal. A big deal? Yes! Let’s focus on being kind to each other this week....

FAMILY LIVING COURSE OMISSION

ByDr. Mark October 27, 2025 0 Comments
This is your Monday Short meditation. Back in the 1960’s I had to take a couple of elective courses in high school. I didn’t choose ROTC, even though that would have solved my wardrobe deficiency issue, I did not take Home Economics, in spite of the fact there would be some delicious free meals cooked in class that would have helped offset my joy of eating, as well as subsidizing my meager...

REALITY VERSUS DUALITY

ByDr. Mark October 26, 2025 0 Comments
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” (Matthew 6:24a Amplified Bible) Digest this thought my friend. Duality is not a reality for you. Other things can master you, such as a desire for popularity, worldly trends, money and more money, a special person, hobbies, the sport season that gets...

DON’T LET ANYBODY CHANGE YOUR NAME!

ByDr. Mark October 25, 2025 0 Comments
“In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord handed Jehoiakim king of Judah over to him, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god. Then the king told Ashpenaz,...

SCOURGE THE HOUSE!

ByDr. Mark October 24, 2025 2 Comments
“Or imagine a woman who has ten coins and loses one. Won’t she light a lamp and scour the house, looking in every nook and cranny until she finds it? And when she finds it you can be sure she’ll call her friends and neighbors: ‘Celebrate with me! I found my lost coin!’ Count on it—that’s the kind of party God’s angels throw every time one lost soul turns to God.” (Luke 15:8-10...