Tag: DARK

DARK MOMENTS

ByDr. Mark July 30, 2026 4 Comments
“But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn that shines brighter and brighter until the full day.” (Proverbs 4:18 New American Standard Bible) You never know when someone is having a dark moment and they need someone to brighten up their day. Yes, someone who needs to escape their thoughts about their concerns, their circumstances, and/or their conditions. And after...

GETTING OUT OF THE DARK FOREST

ByDr. Mark August 22, 2025 2 Comments
“Your word is a lamp that gives light wherever I walk.” (Psalm 119:105 Contemporary English Version) Participating in a senior scout rendezvous, a group of older young boys were required to spend the night in the woods, near a far-eastside reservoir. To one of the boys, it was a challenge comparable to being a contestant on one of the televised, wilderness survival shows. The adult leader of...

THE MIRROR MAZE OF LIFE

ByDr. Mark May 16, 2025 0 Comments
Most of us have been to a state fair or an amusement park that had a mirror maze. Intrigued by the challenge to find our way through the maze quickly, we gave the person in the ticket booth the number of tickets needed to enter the maze. We entered the maze thinking that we could get through it in record time. We thought, “How hard could it be?” However, we soon found the challenge was more...

COMING OUT OF YOUR CAVE

ByDr. Mark August 9, 2023 0 Comments
“So he got up and ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.  There he came to a cave, where he spent the night.  But the Lord said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” (I Kings 19:8-9 NLT) As you can tell from our opening verses, which is about Elijah, shortly after his victory of the prophets of...

DARK PLACES

ByDr. Mark February 23, 2023 0 Comments
“I cry aloud with my voice to the Lord; I make supplication with my voice to the Lord.  I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my trouble before Him.  When my spirit was overwhelmed and weak within me , You knew my path.  In the way where I walk.  They have hidden a trap for me.  Look to the right and see; for there is no one who has regard for me .  Escape has failed me, and...

“THE RISING OF THE SONS”

ByDr. Mark November 14, 2022 0 Comments
At least two of my five sons are actively serving in church ministry.  Let me rephrase that statement.  At least two of my five sons are actively serving in an excellent and impactful way in the gospel ministry.  I raised them, but it is God who gets the credit for them rising up.  He gets the credit for the rising of the sons.  Side Note: To the other three sons reading...