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NO SHOWBOATING!

ByDr. Mark March 31, 2026 2 Comments
In my high school days, when you played on a basketball team, passing behind your back or dribbling through your legs, or dribbling behind the back were considered showboating. All that has changed in the present times. It is not called showboating, but it referred to as skill. Things have changed. That’s basketball. But when it comes to your Christian lifestyle, these words still apply, “No...

“ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A FOUR-YEAR-OLD?”

ByDr. Mark October 7, 2025 2 Comments
“Jesus drew near and said to them, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always, to the end of the age.”(Matthew 28:18-20 GNT) After reading the story that...

YOU ARE NOT TOO OLD!

ByDr. Mark April 25, 2025 0 Comments
“Young people, it’s wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do. So, refuse to worry, and keep your body healthy. But remember that youth, with a whole life before you, is meaningless.” (Ecclesiastes 11:9-10 NLT) You may think you are too old for Sunday School or...

YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE! (Part II)

ByDr. Mark December 11, 2024 0 Comments
“Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more so, if by about this time tomorrow I do not make your life like the life of one of them. "And he was afraid and got up and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah; and...

HE IS WATER WHEN YOU ARE THIRSTY!

ByDr. Mark June 29, 2024 0 Comments
“You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land   where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary    and beheld your power and your glory.” (Psalm 63:1 NIV) Just as David fellowshipped with the Lord when he was in the wilderness of Judah, you too can fellowship with the Lord every day, whether you are in...

I’M NOT LIKE THOSE PEOPLE!

ByDr. Mark June 24, 2024 0 Comments
“Never envy the wicked! Soon they fade away like grass and disappear.Trust in the Lord instead. Be kind and good to others; then you will live safely here in the land and prosper, feeding in safety. Be delighted with the Lord. Then he will give you all your heart’s desires. Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him to help you do it, and he will. Your innocence will be clear to...

BEFORE, DOING, AFTER & RIGHT NOW!

ByDr. Mark June 20, 2024 0 Comments
This meditation is something that might be helpful when you experience heavy burdens in the days ahead, or if needed, it may be profitable right now, in the event that you are feeling burdened today. Let the words of the Lord communicated before Christ, doing the time of and after Christ bless you. No entertaining story or analogy this morning, I’ll just let the word of God minister to you...

WHEN MUCH IS AGAINST YOU…

ByDr. Mark March 24, 2024 0 Comments
Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands.The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, “A...

DOWN CAN BE THE DIRECTION TO UP

ByDr. Mark November 5, 2021 0 Comments
“Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.” (John 12:24 MEV) I’m sure you have heard the seed principle applied to multiple areas of life.  Yet, let me repeat how it applies to our lives. We have setbacks. But they lead to setups.  We have grief, but believe it or not, grief leads to great...