Tag: Have

THREE MUST HAVE GATES

ByDr. Mark March 4, 2026 5 Comments
Put these three gates on the “Must Have Gates” on a list” for yourself, your household, and those in your orbit of friends and extended family. Yes, definitely share them with others! Don’t keep what I am about to share to yourself! Three Gates… Gate #1: I know you are not an agricultural person, so I won’t use the verse in Nehemiah that refer to the Sheep Gate where animal...

THE SHIP

ByDr. Mark February 12, 2026 2 Comments
“About midnight on the fourteenth night of the storm, as we were being driven to and fro on the Adriatic Sea, the sailors suspected land was near. They sounded and found 120 feet of water below them. A little later they sounded again and found only 90 feet. At this rate they knew they would soon be driven ashore; and fearing rocks along the coast, they threw out four anchors from the stern...

GIVING ATTENTION TO JACK!

ByDr. Mark February 19, 2025 0 Comments
“The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.” (Psalm 116:5 NIV) Have you ever heard the phrase, “I don’t give a “Jack?”  Or perhaps you have heard or even spoken these words, “I ain’t got “Jack!” Well, I have heard the word “Jack” used both ways. So, being curious and needing to know what “Jack” actually means, explore if it is just an...

IN CASE YOU FORGOT

ByDr. Mark December 2, 2024 0 Comments
Here is the Monday Short meditation, the one by design the is supposed to be brief and succinct! Okay! Well, that still does not mean I cannot start with a short story. So, here we go. I almost forgot that the duty of decorating the fireplace in the church education center was delegated to me. My described duty was to call on my interior design passion and create a dedicated photo opportunity...

THE EYES HAVE IT!

ByDr. Mark August 29, 2024 0 Comments
“And then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.” (Luke 22:61 NASB) Sitting at my regular spot before the start of Sunday School, a four-year-old girl comes and stands in front of me. First, she shows me the pretty outfit that she has on. “See my dress!  See my...

WHEN YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE YOURSELF

ByDr. Mark October 25, 2023 0 Comments
“They arrived on the other side of the sea in the country of the Gerasenes.  As Jesus got out of the boat, a madman from the cemetery came up to him.  He lived there among the tombs and graves.  No one could restrain him—he couldn’t be chained, couldn’t be tied down.  He had been tied up many times with chains and ropes, but he broke the chains, snapped the ropes.  No one was strong...

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...

USE WHAT YOU DO HAVE

ByDr. Mark October 26, 2022 0 Comments
“Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’  The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” (Exodus 4:1-2 ESV) In the 1960’s we lived in a shotgun house, no, not where any weapons would be found other than the word of God, but a house where you could stand in the...

COULD HAVE, SHOULD HAVE, WOULD HAVE

ByDr. Mark November 29, 2021 0 Comments
“I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.” (John 9:4 KJV) Do you want to know how to strikeout those expressions that keep you from doing something, saying something, or displaying something that would have benefitted others in a righteous way?  I thought you might.  The way to accomplish the strikeout of “could have,”...