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CORRECTED!

ByDr. Mark April 18, 2022 0 Comments
“Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.” (Job 8:7 KJV) Many of us tend to look back over our lives and we say, “I could have done more.”  Recently I had a dream where I was a late comer as an activist in the late 1960’s civil rights movement.  This made me think of the late 1970’s when I woke up; caused me to revisit a time when I was...

THE OBEDIENT RESPONSE

ByDr. Mark April 10, 2022 0 Comments
“The king of Aram had great admiration for Naaman, the commander of his army, because through him the Lord had given Aram great victories.  But though Naaman was a mighty warrior, he suffered from leprosy.  At this time Aramean raiders had invaded the land of Israel, and among their captives was a young girl who had been given to Naaman’s wife as a maid.  One day the girl said to her...

IF YOU THINK YOU CAN…

ByDr. Mark April 8, 2022 0 Comments
“After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not fear, Abram,I am a shield to you; your reward shall be very great.”  But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”  Abram also said, “Since You have given me no son, one who has been born in my house is my heir.”  Then...

WHAT GROUP DO YOU BELONG TO?

ByDr. Mark April 5, 2022 0 Comments
“…then choose for yourselves this day…” (Joshua 24:15 NIV) The Pew Research Center shared some statistics discovered in an examination of the current operation of houses of worship after the pandemic.  Let’s look at just a couple of their findings that surfaced in the organization’s research and consider some implications I was led to make. Finding: Sixty-seven percent of...

SEE YOUR STOP!

ByDr. Mark April 4, 2022 0 Comments
“Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?  If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; but if we sit here, we will also die.  Now then come, and let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans.  If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, then we...

THE “SHORT” MONDAY

ByDr. Mark March 21, 2022 0 Comments
“When they came down from the mountain, the disciples stood with Jesus on a large, level area, surrounded by many of his followers and by the crowds.  There were people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and from as far north as the seacoasts of Tyre and Sidon.  They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those troubled by evil spirits were healed.  Everyone tried...

“AREN’T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE…?”

ByDr. Mark March 13, 2022 0 Comments
“And behold, a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” (I Kings 19:13b NASB) Before you continue reading, insert your name in the place of Elijah’s name in the opening verse.  Once you have done that, proceed. Now I know I am not the only person in the world to be asked, “Aren’t you supposed to be…?”  You know what I’m talking about. ...

THE BEST IS YET TO COME

ByDr. Mark March 12, 2022 0 Comments
“But as it is written, ‘Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.’” (I Corinthians 2:9 KJV) As you travel down city streets filled with traffic and seasoned with more than a dash of those seasonal terrors called potholes; as you maneuver through the main, monstrous highways that stretch from...

KEEP THE FAITH: THE LORD WILL PROVIDE!

ByDr. Mark March 3, 2022 0 Comments
“When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it.  He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.  Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.  But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”  “Here I am,” he replied.  “Do not lay a hand on the...

FROM EXODUS TO BONDAGE?

ByDr. Mark February 24, 2022 0 Comments
“Now about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them; and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains were unfastened.  When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to...