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GIVE GOD REASONS TO BLESS YOU!

ByDr. Mark July 6, 2026 2 Comments
“Praise the Lord! Blessed is a person who fears the Lord,Who greatly delights in His commandments.” (Psalm 112:1 NASB) Close to a year ago, shortly before I retired as Senior Pastor at a local church, where I had labored since it’s finding in 1990, I preached from 2 Samuel 22. One of the three major points I made, making it personal for each one of us receiving the...

NOT JUST IN THE VICINITY

ByDr. Mark November 5, 2025 2 Comments
It’s Wednesday, the middle of the week, and I know that many of you will be going to mid-week service or Wednesday Bible Study at your church. Well, let me pass on point presented by Pastor Marcus R. King at Salt Of The Earth Church (Indianapolis, Indiana) this past Sunday. When you got to your gathering tonight, or even if it is scheduled earlier in the day or another day, don’t just be in...

GIVE GOD REASONS TO BLESS YOU!

ByDr. Mark August 14, 2025 0 Comments
“Praise the Lord! Blessed is a person who fears the Lord,Who greatly delights in His commandments.” (Psalm 112:1 NASB) Sunday, as I preached from 2 Samuel 22, one of the three major points I made, making it personal for each one of us receiving the specific message sent by the Lord was, “The Lord will bless me, for I will give Him reason to do so!”  As a supplement for those...

PASSENGER TRIES TO TAKE OVER THE STEERING WHEEL!

ByDr. Mark July 16, 2025 0 Comments
“Then they went to a place called Gethsemane; and Jesus said to His disciples, “Sit down here until I have prayed.”He took Peter and James and John with Him, and He began to be deeply distressed and troubled . And He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved and overwhelmed with sorrow, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch.” After going a little farther, He fell to...

I WANT WHAT HE HAS #2!

ByDr. Mark May 27, 2025 2 Comments
“O loving and kind God, have mercy. Have pity upon me and take away the awful stain of my transgressions. Oh, wash me, cleanse me from this guilt. Let me be pure again. For I admit my shameful deed—it haunts me day and night. It is against you and you alone I sinned and did this terrible thing. You saw it all, and your sentence against me is just. But I was born a sinner, yes, from the...

A FEW PROFOUND WORDS ON BEING FULLY BLESSED

ByDr. Mark March 19, 2025 0 Comments
When someone asks you, “How are doing today,” realizing you were just blessed to see another day, you just might answer, “Blessed by the best.” That’s absolutely true, but I have a question for you to answer. Will you be able to say, “I’m fully blessed?” If you are, then I am sure you would be able to place a checkmark by a few words on being blessed, spoken by Jesus. Here are...

DON’T BE FOOLED BY THE OUTSIDE PRESENTATION

ByDr. Mark October 6, 2024 0 Comments
“Don't depend on things like fancy hairdos or gold jewelry or expensive clothes to make you look beautiful. Be beautiful in your heart by being gentle and quiet. This kind of beauty will last, and God considers it very special.” (I Peter 3:3-4 Contemporary English Version) I have two lessons for you this morning. The first is simply the admonition above. It speaks for itself. Indeed, take...

JUST SKIP IT!

ByDr. Mark August 10, 2024 0 Comments
When you open your Internet on any given day, there will be some entries that suggest that Christianity is obsolete, the word of God is outdated, and the church itself is obsolete. A sense of urgency unraveled in my heart, and I sense that in undeniable service I must share three words to help you this morning; help keep you from being drawn away and start drifting from the faith or to start...

BE LIKE MIKE!

ByDr. Mark June 16, 2024 0 Comments
“Five times I received 39 lashes from Jews. Three times I was beaten with rods by the Romans.Once I was stoned by my enemies. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the open sea. On frequent journeys, I faced dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers,dangers from my own people, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the open country, dangers on the...

IT DOES NOT MATTER WHERE YOU ARE

ByDr. Mark June 15, 2024 0 Comments
“Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there. And the Lord was with Joseph, so he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. Now his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all that he did...