Tag: Good

GOD IS GOOD…

ByDr. Mark August 23, 2026 2 Comments
“I trust your love, and I feel like celebrating because you rescued me. You have been good to me, Lord, and I will sing about you.” (Psalm 13:5-6 Contemporary English Version) Last week I appealed to readers, requested followers, to respond in one of my meditations, explaining to me the saying, “God is good all the time.” To be honest, I thought my replies by readers would be so great...

“IT’S GOOD FOR ME!”

ByDr. Mark July 1, 2025 7 Comments
“Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep Your word. You are good and You do good; Teach me Your statutes. The arrogant have forged a lie against me; with all my heart I will comply with Your precepts. Their heart is insensitive, like fat, but I delight in Your Law. It is good for me that I was afflicted, so that I may learn Your statutes. The Law of Your mouth is...

DECISION TIME

ByDr. Mark November 20, 2024 0 Comments
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve…” (Joshua 24:15a King James Version) No! This is not a pre-election meditation that I forget to publish. It is not that kind of “Decision Time” to which I am referring in the title above. In general, my intention is not to cause you to live cautiously, but rather consciously; cognizant of the fact...

WISE COUNSEL FOR THIS WEEKEND!

ByDr. Mark November 8, 2024 0 Comments
It’s Friday, the beginning of the weekend. So, below you will find some wise counsel, straight from the Apostle Paul to the saints at Galatia and to you and me as well. If I had to describe the translation that I have chosen to pass Paul’s wise counsel to you, I would say that it is pretty straightforward or self-explanatory. Therefore, I don’t need to explain it, expound on it, or engage...

WE WERE NOT TOLD TO STRIVE FOR PRETTY GOOD!

ByDr. Mark July 6, 2024 0 Comments
The Osgood File (Copyrighted in 1986) published a list of poetic expressions, almost proverbial in form, and the writer used the term “pretty good” as the central thought. Among the phrases presented was the following, “When doing arithmetic problems, pretty good was regarded as fine. Five plus five needn’t always add up to 10. A pretty good answer was nine.” If one subscribed to this...

A GOOD LESSON FROM THE STREETS!

ByDr. Mark January 13, 2024 0 Comments
“But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a...

THE SINGING TOES

ByDr. Mark September 13, 2023 0 Comments
“A cheerful heart is good medicine…”  (Proverbs 17:22 NLT) “Somebody” recently told me after a hilarious, and apparently health good laugh, one of those laughs where you lose it and tears come from your eyes, “Laughter is good for the soul.”  The verse above talks about a cheerful heart being good medicine.  Laughter brings about a cheerful heart, and yes it ends up helping us...

WHAT MAKES A GOOD CHURCH

ByDr. Mark August 16, 2023 0 Comments
“All the Lord's followers often met together, and they shared everything they had.  They would sell their property and possessions and give the money to whoever was in need.  Day after day they met together in the temple.  They broke breadtogether in different homes and shared their food happily and freely, while praising God.  Everyone liked them, and each day the Lord added to their...

HAVE A GOOD DAY!

ByDr. Mark April 11, 2023 0 Comments
“And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” (Genesis 1:31 NASB) Have you ever entered or exited a big-box grocery store and the greeter positioned at the door told you, if you were lucky, to “Have a good day?”  Did you sense any sincerity behind their inquiry?  Or did it sound like just something they...

HOLY WEEKEND BOOKENDS

ByDr. Mark April 7, 2023 0 Comments
“For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.  For one will hardly die for a righteous person; though perhaps for the good person someone would even dare to die.  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of...