Tag: Up

UP MEANS UP!

ByDr. Mark August 27, 2025 0 Comments
"Wise people walk the road that leads upward to life." (Proverbs 15:24a The Good News Translation) I’m the guy that gets on your very last nerve at the airport. You know, the one who gets on the moving sidewalk but just stands, waiting until he gets to the end. Yeah, that’s me! I’m also the guy who gets in the escalator that is going upward and stands with my luggage taking up its own...

RISING UP!

ByDr. Mark June 4, 2025 0 Comments
“Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desert. So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship, was returning. And sitting in his...

THE MAKI T-SHIRT

ByDr. Mark May 3, 2025 0 Comments
“A little leaven leavens the whole batch .” (Galatians 5:9 The Amplified Bible) Vivian Baker, in an article she contributed to a Christianity.com publication, explained the verse above in these words. “The Apostle Paul was telling the Galatians that just as a little bit of yeast or leaven can work its way into the whole batch or the whole lump, a little bit of hypocrisy or false...

WHEN THE PRAISES GO UP…

ByDr. Mark April 27, 2025 0 Comments
“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless his name.” (Psalm 100:4 KJV) Since my childhood years I have heard the saying, “When the praise go up, the blessings come down.” Look, you might even hear someone make that declaration today when you are in worship services. You are going, right? Let’s be real! Many people who will...

MAKING UP

ByDr. Mark April 21, 2025 0 Comments
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (I John 1:9 NASB) This is your Monday Short meditation. I’ve heard it said and sung, “Making up is hard to do.” Granted, making up for lost time is very hard to do, especially when the time span behind you, filled with misdeeds, mistakes, mischief, and...

RECOGNIZING THE WAY UP

ByDr. Mark February 18, 2025 0 Comments
“When I shut up the heaven and there is no rain, or when I command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence on My people, if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:11-14 Modern English Version) At a...

HE GOT UP FOR YOU!

ByDr. Mark January 5, 2025 0 Comments
“For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men, and they will kill Him; and when He has been killed, He will rise three days later.” (Mark 9:31 NASB) Let’s keep it short on this first day of the week, so you can make sure to get up out of your bed, get up out of your favorite big chair that you fell asleep in Saturday night, and get...

GETTING A BIGGER PICTURE

ByDr. Mark November 12, 2024 0 Comments
I was hanging four pieces of framed art on the living room wall; two 5x7 pieces on one side and two 5x7 pieces on the other side. The design idea was to have a perfect, symmetrical arrangement. I made my décor goal harder than it should have been. You see, I depended on my eyesight, as opposed to measuring the placement places on the wall or using the red-light feature on the smart phone to...

HE WHO MADE YOU IS SHAPING YOU!

ByDr. Mark September 11, 2024 0 Comments
“The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord:“Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will make you hear My words.” Then I went down to the potter’s house, and saw that he was working at the wheel. But the vessel that he was making from clay was spoiled by the potter’s hand; so, he made it over, reworking it and making it into another pot that seemed good to him....

WHEN THE PRAISES GO UP…

ByDr. Mark September 2, 2024 0 Comments
“I will praise you to all my brothers; I will stand up before the congregation and testify of the wonderful things you have done. “Praise the Lord, each one of you who fears him,” I will say. “Each of you must fear and reverence his name...” (Psalm 22:22-23 The Living Bible) If you have an old bible that you brought at a garage sale, picked up at a Goodwill Store, or you have a...