Tag: Changing

EARLY SUNDAY MORNING

ByDr. Mark April 9, 2026 2 Comments
“But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus...

WHEN YOU ARE FIXED IN YOUR WAYS

ByDr. Mark March 13, 2026 0 Comments
“The revelation of God is whole and pulls our lives together. The signposts of God are clear    and point out the right road. The life-maps of God are right, showing the way to joy. The directions of God are plain and easy on the eyes. God’s reputation is twenty-four-carat gold,  with a lifetime guarantee. The decisions...

A CERTAINTY IN CHANGING TIMES

ByDr. Mark December 20, 2024 0 Comments
The speed by which technological innovations bring about change is amazing. Cars that drive themselves. Television is on twenty-four hours; the screen never going black. We’ve moved from lighting the stove to air fryers, microwaves, and other appliances. Telephone booth on one or two corners near the place where you are, they have been replaced by cellphones that are with you wherever you are....

THEN, LATER, AND NOW!

ByDr. Mark January 27, 2024 0 Comments
“If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world… (John 5:19a NASB) There was a time, back in the day, when children played a variety of things, including church, because that was part of their acculturation, a prelude to their adult participation with a local house of God. That was back “then.”...

CHANGING COLORS

ByDr. Mark April 19, 2023 0 Comments
CHANGING COLORS “Happy is the person who doesn’t listen to the wicked.  He doesn’t go where sinners go.  He doesn’t do what bad people do.  He loves the Lord’s teachings.  He thinks about those teachings day and night.  He is strong, like a tree planted by a river.  It produces fruit in season.  Its leaves don’t die.  Everything he does will succeed.” (Psalm 1:1-3...

OPPOSITES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

ByDr. Mark November 13, 2021 0 Comments
“When he finished that talk, a Pharisee asked him to dinner.  He entered his house and sat right down at the table.  The Pharisee was shocked and somewhat offended when he saw that Jesus didn’t wash up before the meal.  But the Master said to him, “I know you Pharisees buff the surface of your cups and plates so they sparkle in the sun, but I also know your insides are maggoty with...

CAN GOD’S MIND BE CHANGED? (PART 2)

ByDr. Mark March 16, 2021 0 Comments
“Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”  The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord. Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous...

CAN GOD’S MIND BE CHANGED? (PART I)

ByDr. Mark March 15, 2021 0 Comments
“At that time, Hezekiah got sick. He was about to die. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and said, “God says, ‘Prepare your affairs and your family. This is it: You’re going to die. You’re not going to get well.’” Hezekiah turned away from Isaiah and, facing the wall, prayed to God: “God, please, I beg you: Remember how I’ve lived my life. I’ve lived faithfully in...

UNCHANGED IN CHANGING TIMES

ByDr. Mark December 27, 2020 0 Comments
“God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need him.  We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake, before the rush and roar of oceans, the tremors that shift mountains.” (Psalm 46:1-3 MSG) There are some people who seem to never change.  There are those older folks blessed with special youth preserving genes and may still look nearly the...