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IT’S NOT HOW YOU START! IT’S HOW YOU FINISH!

ByDr. Mark July 14, 2023 0 Comments
“No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.” (Philippians 3:13-14 NLT) If you played sports at any level, perhaps you participated in competition with other teams and...

TRANSITIONS: A SHORT BIBLE STUDY

ByDr. Mark November 2, 2022 0 Comments
“Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, and asked for letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them in shackles to Jerusalem.  Now as he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed...

“NOT FORGOTTEN”

ByDr. Mark October 3, 2022 0 Comments
“Jesus was at Bethany, a guest of Simon the Leper.  While he was eating dinner, a woman came up carrying a bottle of very expensive perfume.  Opening the bottle, she poured it on his head.  Some of the guests became furious among themselves.  “That’s criminal!  A sheer waste!  This perfume could have been sold for well over a year’s wages and handed out to the poor.”  They...

WHAT IF GOD ACTED LIKE THE WORLD ACTS?

ByDr. Mark September 1, 2022 0 Comments
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’” (Matthew 5:38 NASB) Six times in the Sermon on the Mount, found in The Book of Matthew, chapters 5-7, Jesus makes the following preliminary remark that precedes a valuable teaching, “You have heard…”  He uses these words as a preface to what He has to say about adultery.  He uses these same words,...