Tag: Children

NO GREATER JOY

ByDr. Mark August 26, 2026 4 Comments
“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”(3 John 1:4 ESV) I talked my two oldest sons into playing with me in a regional three-on-three basketball game back in 1997.  I’ll spare you the math.  I was 48 years old.  While I’m the one who taught them how to play and still thought I had earned the GOAT (Greatest of All Time) distinction for our...

PRAY FOR THE CHILDREN

ByDr. Mark March 7, 2024 0 Comments
“Children are a blessing and a gift from the Lord.” (Psalm 127:3 Contemporary English Version) As a child, brought up in the church, I never considered myself as one who was standing in the need of prayer. I viewed others, such as delinquent children, destructive bullish kids, distinctly poorer than even me…peers, and deviant youth as the children who needed prayer.  As an adult my...

CHILDEN OF THE CORNFLAKES

ByDr. Mark January 10, 2023 0 Comments
“The Lord is my shepherd; I have all that I need.” (Psalm 23:1 NLT) Two 8-year-old twins, Betty and Beatrice, had been allowed to spend Friday night at one of their friends.  Not often did their single, hardworking, churchgoing mother allow the children to do an overnighter.  But after their whining, crying, begging, and pleading, “Please Mommy!  Please Mommy!  Pretty Please!,” the...

THE WALK

ByDr. Mark August 28, 2022 0 Comments
“Establish my footsteps in Your word, and do not let any wrongdoing have power over me.” (Psalm 119:33 NASB) I was texted a dozen or so photos a couple of days from a couple visiting Europe with their one-year-old son.  There was one picture that caught my eye more than any of the others in the collection.  If you saw how long I stared at the picture, and you did not know otherwise, you...

FROM THE AFRICAN CONTINENT TO AN AMERICAN CAFÉ

ByDr. Mark February 14, 2022 0 Comments
“God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts.  Use them well to serve one another.  Do you have the gift of speaking?  Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you.  Do you have the gift of helping others?  Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies.  Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ.  All...

A MISSING ITEM

ByDr. Mark July 27, 2021 0 Comments
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” (Philippians 4:6 NIV) Many of our churches have held “Back-to-School Fairs,” orchestrated drive-thru events to giveaway book bags, notebooks, pens, and pencils, and other churches have made monetary contributions to ”Back-To-School” events held on a...

MAKE SURE NOT TO OVERLOOK THE BOY

ByDr. Mark December 30, 2020 0 Comments
“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are these for so many people?  Jesus said, “Have the people recline to eat.” Now there was plenty of grass in the place.  So the men reclined, about five thousand in number.  Jesus then took the loaves, and after giving thanks He distributed them to those who were reclining; likewise also of the fish, as much as they...

HOW DOES THE MOON GET FULL?

ByDr. Mark November 30, 2020 0 Comments
“Behold, children are a gift of the Lord…” ({Psalm 127:3a NASB) My great-granddaughter asked her mother a question laid bare that she was blessed with an exploring, curious, observing, inquisitive and extraordinary mind.  The question was not one that I would have thought of at the age of four years old!  While her inquiry, as expressed in an abbreviated form in the title above,...