Tag: What

WHEN YOU GET IT, GET TO IT!

ByDr. Mark May 8, 2026 0 Comments
Good morning! It’s Friday! I won’t write a lot this morning. I’ll just refer you to the title above and ask you to (1) Read the passage below, listening carefully to one of Jesus’ parables. (2) Meditate on it as it relates to you and how you can apply what the Lord has to say to you.  “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who was leaving on a trip. He called his servants and handed his...

BUT WHAT ABOUT HEAVEN?

ByDr. Mark October 10, 2025 2 Comments
I don’t know the modern-day phrase or idiom that is applicable or appropriate to ask. I plead ignorance in regard to the latest slang expressions. So, let me ask you a question using the phrases of which I am familiar. How was the noise level as you rejoiced in your church last Sunday. Was it “off the hook,” or “off the chain,” or “off the charts?” Or was the church mouse making...

YOU WILL GET WHAT YOU REALLY NEED!

ByDr. Mark June 29, 2025 0 Comments
“Peter and John went to the Temple one afternoon to take part in the three o’clock prayer service. As they approached the Temple, a man lame from birth was being carried in. Each day he was put beside the Temple gate, the one called the Beautiful Gate, so he could beg from the people going into the Temple. When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for some money. Peter and...

I WANT WHAT HE HAS #1!

ByDr. Mark May 26, 2025 3 Comments
“Every morning that I wake up and I’m breathing, I can feel it and take a moment to say, you know, ‘Thank God I’m alive for another day.’” – Ron Cephas Jones Every new day that the Lord blesses you to see this week, remember the quote above. And then say, “I want what he has!”  That’s your Monday Short mediation on this Memorial Day. I doubt that this will be the case, but...

NSF

ByDr. Mark April 16, 2025 1 Comment
No matter how high you have ascended on your climb up to your home above, regardless of your spiritual maturity, integrity is required. So, as you read this be completely honest about the times when your faith was floundering. Where is your faith? Is heaven sending you an NSF (Non-Sufficient Faith) notice?  Let’s explore a little. After you have cared for others, you wonder who will take...

YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT GOD IS DOING UNTIL HE HAS DONE IT!

ByDr. Mark March 1, 2025 0 Comments
I had two conversations on the same day this week. In both conversation I used the same phrase, identical to the words in today’s title, “You don’t know what the Lord is doing until He has done it!” In the last conversation the person I was talking with expressed how the daily news produces anxiety and a curiosity about what the future holds for us. Seriously I said, “It’s only a few...

WHAT WENT WRONG?

ByDr. Mark February 1, 2025 0 Comments
“Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last, where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by Thy might, led us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest out feet stray from the places, our God, where we meet Thee, lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the...

THE MAKER WANTS YOU TO BE A MAKER TOO!

ByDr. Mark August 28, 2024 0 Comments
It’s Wednesday and the Lord has blessed you to see another day. Here is what the Maker of the universe, the Maker of a way to reconcile and find peace with Him, the Maker who has revealed Himself in your life as the One who will make a way out of no way; here is what the Maker wants to tell you today! He wants you to be a maker too! No, we cannot be a maker that compares to even a fraction of...

WHAT MAKES A GOOD CHURCH

ByDr. Mark August 16, 2023 0 Comments
“All the Lord's followers often met together, and they shared everything they had.  They would sell their property and possessions and give the money to whoever was in need.  Day after day they met together in the temple.  They broke breadtogether in different homes and shared their food happily and freely, while praising God.  Everyone liked them, and each day the Lord added to their...

APPLYING THE FORMULA

ByDr. Mark June 30, 2023 0 Comments
“But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”  In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers.  They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.  A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.  So too, a...