Tag: God

POETIC, THEMATIC, AND DIDACTIC

ByDr. Mark February 9, 2021 0 Comments
“The Lord is my solid rock, my fortress, my rescuer.  My God is my rock—I take refuge in him!—He’s my shield, my salvation’s strength, my place of safety.” (Psalm 18:2 CEB) My effort this morning is to present you with something poetic, thematic, and didactic.  Hopefully you will like the prose, quickly recognize the theme, and find the instructive features edifying; preparing...

WHAT’S NEXT?

ByDr. Mark January 29, 2021 0 Comments
“Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy is everlasting.” (Psalm 107:1 NASB) I’ll admit it!  Because I can turn on the radio and listen to a couple of my sons in their radio talent jobs, I do check them out to see what they are playing and saying (smile).  One of the songs I heard recently was “Thank You, Next,” by Ariana Grande whose overall theme in her...

TASSELS CONFRONTING HASSLES, ETC.

ByDr. Mark January 21, 2021 0 Comments
“Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners.  And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are...

THE NURSING HATS & THE HALLOWED STETHOSCOPE

ByDr. Mark January 3, 2021 0 Comments
“For I, the Lord, do not change.” (Malachi 3:6a NASB) In the mid 1980’s, just around the time nurses hats disappeared in medical facilities, a father and an uncle both brought what was thought to be a perfect gift for their daughter and niece who was graduating from nursing school.  The father added a purple, amethyst colored stethoscope to his graduation gift bag.  Both the...

THE PERSON YOU ARE CALLING…

ByDr. Mark November 14, 2020 0 Comments
“Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.” (Isaiah 65:24 NIV) The phone rings repeatedly, but it is not answer by the person you are calling.  After a programmed limit of rings, often greater than your patience, you hear the following message: “The person who you are calling has a voicemail box that has not been set up.  Please try back again.”...

GOD WANTS A LITTLE TALK WITH YOU

ByDr. Mark October 27, 2020 0 Comments
“For the word of God is alive, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12 MEV) As I sat down to write this morning, I seemed to hear a heavenly directive, “Move out of the way!  I got this!”  My first response was kind of like...