Tag: Life

HOLD ON!

ByDr. Mark July 27, 2022 0 Comments
“We are pressed on every side by troubles, but not crushed and broken.  We are perplexed because we don’t know why things happen as they do, but we don’t give up and quit.  We are hunted down, but God never abandons us.  We get knocked down, but we get up again and keep going.” (2 Corinthians 4:8-9 The Living Bible) In a one-on-one conversation with a five-year-old child,...

DON’T FORGET THE IMPORTANCE OF BALANCE

ByDr. Mark July 21, 2022 0 Comments
“Beloved, I pray that in every way you may succeed and prosper and be in good health , just as your soul prospers .” (3 John 1:2 The Amplified Bible) Was God just talking to me this morning?  Or is He talking to you as well when it comes to maintaining balance in your life?  Well either way, the Scripture above will profit all of us, either now or in the future.  It may...

ANOTHER SPLENDID SPLENDA INSPIRATION

ByDr. Mark April 19, 2022 0 Comments
“And now I have a word for you who brashly announce, “Today—at the latest, tomorrow—we’re off to such and such a city for the year.  We’re going to start a business and make a lot of money.”  You don’t know the first thing about tomorrow.  You’re nothing but a wisp of fog, catching a brief bit of sun before disappearing.  Instead, make it a habit to say, “If the Master...

OXYMORONS

ByDr. Mark April 3, 2022 0 Comments
“Your old evil desires were nailed to the cross with him; that part of you that loves to sin was crushed and fatally wounded, so that your sin-loving body is no longer under sin’s control, no longer needs to be a slave to sin; for when you are deadened to sin you are freed from all its allure and its power over you.” (Romans 6:6-7 The Living Bible) Dead or alive is an expression that...

THIS STORM CALLED LIFE

ByDr. Mark March 14, 2022 0 Comments
“And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28 NASB) I heard someone say the other day, in their summary of life, “It’s always something.  If it is not one storm, it is another.”  I thought about it and wrote the following composition, “This Storm Called Life.” It...

THE RUBIK’S CUBE OF LIFE

ByDr. Mark January 5, 2022 0 Comments
“Father, if Thou art willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will but Thine will be done.” (Luke 22:42 NASB) Do you remember the Rubik’s Cube?  Yes, that toy; that three-dimensional combination puzzle, seemingly found in every house and even some offices.  It had six faces or sides made up of small square cubes, colored white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow.  To...

GOING THROUGH

ByDr. Mark December 5, 2021 0 Comments
“A man of many friends comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” (Proverbs 18:24 NASB) You may have been through something in the past, of which the memory still last.  But yet you press on.  You may be going through something right now, and that something is challenging, confusing, or compounded by the curves that we come to as we tarry through this...

THE REVOLVING DOOR

ByDr. Mark September 24, 2021 0 Comments
“Don’t just think about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and in what they are doing.” (Philippians 2:4 The Living Bible) A fun-loving child who loved to play games accompanied his parents to a downtown building to take care of some important personal matters.  Once their business was completed, the three family members, mom, dad, and son, approach the revolving...

AN ANTITHESIS TO AN AWFUL THESIS

ByDr. Mark August 18, 2021 0 Comments
“There is an appointed time for everything.  And there is a time for every event under heaven—a time to give birth and a time to die…” (Ecclesiastes 3: 2a NASB) I have postponed writing this meditation, but in view of the fact that I have heard people take the great platform of national news and explain their reason for not getting their COVID vaccine or not wearing masks, I have to...

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS NEW?

ByDr. Mark June 29, 2021 0 Comments
“Therefore we have been buried with baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in the newness of life.” (Romans 6:4 NASB) This morning’s meditation was inspired by an illustration used by Rev. M. King, Jr., my oldest son, when he was preaching in my stead this past Sunday. Okay, there is not really a “Jr.”...