Tag: Now

I GUESS NO ONE IS EXEMPT!

ByDr. Mark August 1, 2025 0 Comments
Someone asked me the other day, “Is anybody exempt from what your T-Shirt says?” That person was referring to the T-Shirt I have that says, “Be careful what you say or do, I just might write about it.”  My quick reply was, “No one!’ After I walked away, thinking about the challenge that churches face today to grow their congregations, I thought about my response for a minute. In...

LIVE IN THE “RIGHT NOW” MOMENT!

ByDr. Mark July 23, 2025 0 Comments
“But friends, that’s exactly who we are: children of God. And that’s only the beginning. Who knows how we’ll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we’ll see him—and in seeing him, become like him. All of us who look forward to his Coming stay ready, with the glistening purity of Jesus’ life as a model for our own.” (I John 3:2 The Message Bible) While we...

I WONDER WHAT THEY WOULD SAY NOW!

ByDr. Mark August 5, 2024 0 Comments
“Now the Jews murmured and found fault with Him because He said, “I am the Bread that came down out of heaven.” They kept saying, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?” (John 6:41-42 The Amplified Bible) In third grade I was pulled out of my class a couple of times of the week to get...

I GOT NOW!

ByDr. Mark March 9, 2024 0 Comments
“But make sure that you don’t get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day-by-day obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off, oblivious to God. The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing! God is putting the finishing touches on the salvation work he began when we first believed. We can’t afford to waste a minute, must...

YOU BETTER KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS!

ByDr. Mark December 1, 2022 0 Comments
“And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain—for He says, “At a favorable time I listened to you, and on a day of salvation I helped you.”  Behold, now is “a favorable time,” behold, now is “a day of salvation.” (2 Corinthians 6:1-2) Traveling to Los Angeles from Indianapolis, my wife and I had a stop at Dallas to catch another...

GIVING FLOWERS TO SOMEONE WHILE THEY ARE STILL LIVING

ByDr. Mark February 18, 2022 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...

NOW!

ByDr. Mark January 22, 2022 0 Comments
“Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.” (I Timothy 1:17 NIV) How many times when you were younger did an authoritative figure move you into action to do what you were supposed to be doing with one simple word, “Now!”  Yes, this one word was spoken with a tone that revealed the seriousness surrounding your need to take...

NOW!

ByDr. Mark November 17, 2021 0 Comments
“Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it .” (I Corinthians 12:27 Amplified Bible) There were times in our youth when we were given instructions, told to do something expeditiously, without delay and the adults in the house with the authority to tell us what to do ended their instructional command with the word “Now!”  “Now” meant right away and there was...