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DON’T STOP!

ByDr. Mark February 24, 2025 0 Comments
“I do not claim that I have already succeeded or have already become perfect. I keep striving to win the prize for which Christ Jesus has already won me to himself.” (Philippians 3:12 Good News Translation) It’s Monday, so here is probably the shortest Monday Short meditation you have ever received from me. Let me just encourage you to “Press on!” Be blessed! “I’m not saying that I...

THREAD COUNTS ON THE SHEETS

ByDr. Mark January 11, 2025 0 Comments
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV) When I was a child, I knew nothing about “thread counts” on sheets. I felt blessed just to have a sheet to cover my stripped, not so thick, twin bed mattress, I did not focus on having a fitted sheet and a top sheet. Like...

THE BATS OUT OF HADES

ByDr. Mark December 14, 2024 0 Comments
Let me meddle and minister to all that must make their way to a made appointment or maybe their place of employment! I’ll start by restating the title in an acceptable, not profane way and end with a reminder that relates to making your presence known among the assembly of the saints tomorrow. The restating: Don’t be one of “The Bats Out Of Hades” as you drive on the streets and...

LET THERE BE LIGHT

ByDr. Mark December 8, 2024 0 Comments
“Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” (Psalm 119:105 New International Version) Version) A truly, tremendously faithful, tireless worker in the kingdom was driving at night recently, heading home after attending to, ministering to the needs of others. Her navigation over the roads seemed to be more challenging than ever as the byways were harder to see. The bumps,...

THE CALL AND THE ANSWER

ByDr. Mark September 18, 2024 0 Comments
“Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.” (Isaiah 58:9 NIV) Do you remember receiving the daily newspaper years ago, something that took place in the era when young boys got their first job and earned a few dollars delivering papers? A paperboy’s earnings varied from week to week, depending on the timeliness and or willingness of...

READ ON!

ByDr. Mark April 24, 2024 0 Comments
A man was traveling on a four-hour flight from a major city. People were watching movies, eating snacks, taking naps, and engaging in friendly conversations with new acquaintances. The person sitting next to the man I just mentioned was a business traveler who read a fictional book, page after page after page, until the flight attendant told everyone to put things away, put up their trays, and...

“YOU CAN GET BACK ON YOUR PHONE CALL NOW!”

ByDr. Mark February 3, 2024 0 Comments
“Very early the next morning before daylight, Jesus got up and went to a place where he could be alone and pray.” (Mark 1:35 Contemporary English Version) Jesus, in the opening verse, not only shows us that we need to find a place where we can be alone, and once there we should pray. He also shows us by example that sometimes the best time to pray is early in the morning. Listen!  Why wait...

SPECIFIC MESSAGES FROM GOD

ByDr. Mark November 4, 2023 0 Comments
“Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in the presence of the thousand.  While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.  Then they...

THE WRITING ON THE WALL

ByDr. Mark October 20, 2023 0 Comments
“But you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, although you knew all this.  And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven.  They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them.  And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do not see or...

IN THE WAITING ROOM

ByDr. Mark September 12, 2023 0 Comments
“Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.” (Isaiah 40:31 NASB) Once upon a time, decades ago, there stood a little white building on the corner of a one-way street.  This edifice was a block west of the famous Indiana Avenue, and a block northeast of a building...