Tag: Times

THE APOSTLE PAUL & Y’ALL!

ByDr. Mark March 21, 2026 3 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) This short meditation is about “The Apostle Paul and Y’all. “The...

GETTING OUT OF THE DARK FOREST

ByDr. Mark August 22, 2025 2 Comments
“Your word is a lamp that gives light wherever I walk.” (Psalm 119:105 Contemporary English Version) Participating in a senior scout rendezvous, a group of older young boys were required to spend the night in the woods, near a far-eastside reservoir. To one of the boys, it was a challenge comparable to being a contestant on one of the televised, wilderness survival shows. The adult leader of...

IT’S NOT PAUL, IT’S PERSONAL!

ByDr. Mark February 21, 2025 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. These bodies of ours are constantly facing death just as Jesus did; so it is clear to all that it is only the living...

ADJUSTING TO THE TIMES

ByDr. Mark February 20, 2025 0 Comments
“You, therefore, will be perfect  , as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48 The Amplified Bible) When it comes to fashion, forwarding your life to be a famous music artist, facing the inevitable physical changes that come with aging, or forging through, successfully, the fast-changing world of technology, in all those instances, adjusting to the times is understandable. However,...

A CERTAINTY IN CHANGING TIMES

ByDr. Mark December 20, 2024 0 Comments
The speed by which technological innovations bring about change is amazing. Cars that drive themselves. Television is on twenty-four hours; the screen never going black. We’ve moved from lighting the stove to air fryers, microwaves, and other appliances. Telephone booth on one or two corners near the place where you are, they have been replaced by cellphones that are with you wherever you are....

YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE! (Part II)

ByDr. Mark December 11, 2024 0 Comments
“Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more so, if by about this time tomorrow I do not make your life like the life of one of them. "And he was afraid and got up and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah; and...

IN THESE RARE TIMES

ByDr. Mark April 4, 2024 0 Comments
“Now the boy Samuel was attending to the service of the Lord under the supervision of Eli. The word of the Lord was rare and precious in those days; visions were not widespread. Yet it happened at that time, as Eli was lying down in his own place (now his eyesight had begun to grow dim and he could not see well).and the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in...

IN THE MIDST OF MOURNING

ByDr. Mark March 18, 2024 0 Comments
“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4 KJV) To be forthright, I believe God led me to this morning’s meditation because a couple of our faithful members recently lost a loved one; one in the immediate and one in an extended family. However, this is not of my own initiative by which I am writing, for I believe God is sending a specific message for a...

THEN, LATER, AND NOW!

ByDr. Mark January 27, 2024 0 Comments
“If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world… (John 5:19a NASB) There was a time, back in the day, when children played a variety of things, including church, because that was part of their acculturation, a prelude to their adult participation with a local house of God. That was back “then.”...

THE WITTICISM AND THE WITNESS

ByDr. Mark January 19, 2023 0 Comments
“Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword will perish by the sword.  Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?  How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?” (Matthew 26:52-54 NASB) Joseph P. Kennedy may get...