Tag: Use

USE THE FILTER!

ByDr. Mark October 31, 2025 0 Comments
“What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God-direction is road-tested.    Everyone who runs toward Him makes it.” (Psalm 18:30 The Message Bible) Pastor M.R. King used an analogy in Sunday School a couple of weeks ago to make a profitable point to participants in the Adult Sunday School Class. He referred to how professional painter today often use paint guns as...

WHAT IT AIN’T!

ByDr. Mark June 2, 2025 0 Comments
“Then He said to them all, “If anyone will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” (Luke 9:23 Modern English Version) This is your Monday Short meditation, but hopefully it will go a long way in impacting how you carry yourself as a Christian this week. I am not going to tell you what it is, for you already know the verse above, one of my...

THE OPEN DOOR POLICY

ByDr. Mark August 23, 2024 0 Comments
“Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.” (Psalm 55:22 NIV) It’s been over 13 years since I worked as a HR Executive, yet every once and a while I still get calls from associates at various levels seeking advice at no charge. That’s okay, as long as I can be helpful. This week I had one of those calls, asking me about my former...

DON’T STOP AT THE COLON!

ByDr. Mark November 11, 2023 0 Comments
“Under three things the earth quakes, and under four, it cannot bear up: under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied with food, under an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maidservant when she supplants her mistress. ” (Proverbs 30:22-23 NASB) If there is one book in the Bible that lends itself to textual preaching, focusing on one specific verse for a...

USE WHAT YOU DO HAVE

ByDr. Mark October 26, 2022 0 Comments
“Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’  The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” (Exodus 4:1-2 ESV) In the 1960’s we lived in a shotgun house, no, not where any weapons would be found other than the word of God, but a house where you could stand in the...

USE WHAT YOU GOT!

ByDr. Mark January 31, 2022 0 Comments
“Now after him came Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck and killed six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad; and he also saved Israel.” (Judges 3:31 NASB) For readers who prefer the shorter Mark Writes meditations, we are going to make Monday the day where your preference is met, and I will do it without sacrificing a meaningful message via the meditation.  The theme is the title, “Use...