Tag: Living

LIVING OFF SAMPLES

ByDr. Mark December 10, 2022 0 Comments
“But He answered and said, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out of the mouth of God.’” (Matthew 4:4 NASB) Two teenage girls are in the mall on a late Saturday afternoon.  They are mostly window shopping, having quickly purchased a couple of inexpensive items with their weekend allowance, a monetary allowance and not the “allowance”...

WEATHERING THE SEASON CHANGE

ByDr. Mark October 18, 2022 0 Comments
“As long as the world exists, there will be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.” (Genesis 8:22 The Good News Bible) With the seasonal and climate changes of recent times, I developed an interest in learning how weather affects behavior.  Here is an excerpt from a social science publication that will make you...

LIVING THE LIFE

ByDr. Mark September 28, 2022 0 Comments
“Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.” Proverbs 21:21 NIV) I was treated to a game last week between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox by one of my sons.  While I’m a Yankee fan, have been since my childhood days when Mantle, Berra, Howard, and Maris were playing, my son has always been a Red Sox fan.  Our loyalty as fans varied, but that...

SCHOOL IS OUT

ByDr. Mark October 8, 2021 0 Comments
“My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you’ve been given.  You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him.  You’re deeply rooted in him. You’re well-constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith.  Now do what you’ve been taught.  School’s out; quit studying the subject and start living it!  And let your living spill over into...

IT’S YOUR TURN TO WRITE

ByDr. Mark September 28, 2021 0 Comments
“Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you.” (2 Corinthians 3:2b The Message Bible) Good Tuesday morning to you!  I have been writing Mark Writes since the beginning of 2018.  From then to now I have given you a few assignments, took the liberty of setting themes for you, and even prompted you to fulfill our task as disciples; making other disciples...

THE MINIMALIST

ByDr. Mark July 11, 2021 0 Comments
“But his servants caught up with him and said, “Father, if the prophet had asked you to do something hard and heroic, wouldn’t you have done it? So why not this simple ‘wash and be clean’?” So he did it. He went down and immersed himself in the Jordan seven times, following the orders of the Holy Man. His skin was healed; it was like the skin of a little baby. He was as good as...

DROPPING PEBBLES IN THE WATER

ByDr. Mark April 23, 2021 0 Comments
“ Set an example for other followers by what you say and do, as well as by your love, faith, and purity.” (I Timothy 4:12b CEV) I sat down at my computer to write on a thought I had about throwing pebbles in the water, small stones, much smaller than a rock that boast by means of its mere size and seems to make a big splash when cast into the water; a splash noticeable for a quick, short...

FORMALITIES

ByDr. Mark February 24, 2021 0 Comments
“If you love learning, you love the discipline that goes with it—how shortsighted to refuse correction!” (Proverbs 12:1 MSG) A couple of years ago my family bought me a new PC for my birthday.  After getting it all set up, I continued using my old one until late last week.  All of a sudden it would not let me access Google Chrome.  Bottom line, it had seen its days.  I...

LIVING SERIOUSLY

ByDr. Mark February 18, 2021 0 Comments
“So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it.  Pursue the things over which Christ presides.  Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you.  Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ - that's where the action is.  See things from his perspective.  Your old life is dead.  Your new life,...