Tag: Heaven

BUT WHAT ABOUT HEAVEN?

ByDr. Mark October 10, 2025 2 Comments
I don’t know the modern-day phrase or idiom that is applicable or appropriate to ask. I plead ignorance in regard to the latest slang expressions. So, let me ask you a question using the phrases of which I am familiar. How was the noise level as you rejoiced in your church last Sunday. Was it “off the hook,” or “off the chain,” or “off the charts?” Or was the church mouse making...

LET’S GIVE HEAVEN REASON TO CELEBRATE!

ByDr. Mark September 21, 2025 3 Comments
The church where I have pastored since 1990 celebrates it anniversary today! The fact that we are still standing is something to celebrate. I think Heaven will be rejoicing with our congregation not just for hitting a milestone, but for continuing to be faithful over the years, regardless of changing attitude toward the value of church, regardless of the number of members, in spite of a...

LOOKING & LISTENING

ByDr. Mark July 5, 2025 2 Comments
“Heaven is my home. I’m just traveling through this world.” (Billy Graham Quote) It does not matter how old our children may be when they go out, whether it be for education, entertainment, or just escapement from that feeling of being bored at home. In any case, we find ourselves looking and listening for signs that they have come safely home. This looking and listening does not stop when...

THE HEAVENLY P.A. SYSTEM

ByDr. Mark March 10, 2025 0 Comments
This is your Monday Short! Let me be really quick, really. Listen! You will hear really important announcements spoken over the overhead public address system in your school, the inner-office intercom system at your work, or the broadcast “Breaking News” on TV this week. You will hear loud announcements transmitted over the speakers at the various stores and malls that you will shop at this...

WHAT IS THE PORTAL TO HELL?

ByDr. Mark July 18, 2024 2 Comments
“Then these   will go away into eternal (unending) punishment, but those who are righteous and in right standing with God   into eternal (unending) life.” (Matthew 25:46 The Amplified Bible) You can file this short meditation under your “While At The Store” meditations. You see, while I was doing grocery shopping early one morning, a young man said, “I know you.” I asked,...

MAYBE THEY ARE LOOKING DOWN AND SMILING!

ByDr. Mark December 18, 2023 0 Comments
“The smile of God is the goal of your life.” (Rick Warren, Purpose Driven Life) Some great faculty and alumni of the greatest high school ever, Crispus Attucks High School, in Indianapolis, have gone home to be with the Lord. The other day, I imagined them looking down and smiling at me. Not because I was a class clown that earned the senior class title of “Mr. Crazy,” but because of the...

ARE THERE GOING TO BE ANY INTROVERTS IN HEAVEN?

ByDr. Mark August 25, 2022 0 Comments
“After this, I saw a large crowd with more people than could be counted. They were from every race, tribe, nation, and language, and they stood before the throne and before the Lamb. They wore white robes and held palm branches in their hands.” (Revelation 7:9-10 Contemporary English Version) In spite of the positions I have held in life that required outgoing behaviors; positions that...

THE LARGEST PART OF THE BODY

ByDr. Mark September 3, 2021 0 Comments
“The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the rod, fifteen hundred miles; its length and width and height are equal.  And he measured its wall, seventy-two yards, according to human ]measurements, which are also angelic measurements.” (Revelation 21:16-17  NASB) A medical news report said the length of the intestines in people...

THE SAME ZIP CODE

ByDr. Mark October 10, 2020 0 Comments
“For this world is not our home; we are looking forward to our everlasting home in heaven.  With Jesus’ help we will continually offer our sacrifice of praise to God by telling others of the glory of his name.  Don’t forget to do good and to share what you have with those in need, for such sacrifices are very pleasing to him.” (Hebrews: 13:14-16 The Living Bible) I have lived in the...