Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
From the prosecutor’s perspective, I’m unfit for jury duty — I would not vote to convict.
As far as the defense is concerned, I’m unfit for jury duty — I would not vote to acquit.
I suspect the judge wouldn’t want me on the jury either — a juror who won’t vote at all in the process is a stone in the gears of justice. Read it all
As I shuffled through the cemetery’s expired grass this evening — troubled — a verse fragment suddenly dashed almost furtively through my chilly, swirling cranial fog.
Is any afflicted?
Now where did that come from? And what is the answer? Read it all
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
I believe every word of it.
Every. Last. Single. One. Of. It.
Do you?
Sure you do! Read it all
Naaman was mad. Very angry, in fact.
It’s no wonder. He had a huge, monstrous, humanly-insurmountable need.
He had come a long way for a solution. And a divine solution at that. He’d had plenty of time to develop a certain scenario, a specific sequence of events that should transpire.
In other words, he had his own idea on how things were going to happen Read it all
I have finished Panting, my very first ebook.
Presently, it is available only as a downloadable pdf. I anticipate having an Amazon Kindle version ready by the end of the week at the latest.
In the introduction to the book, I include these paragraphs: Read it all
A Christian died for his faith in Tunisia. (That’s in Africa, right?)
Was he praying as he died? If so, what would a Christian be praying as a Muslim slices off his head? Read it all
Self-pity is one of several self- things from which I ask God to deliver me.
Strangely enough, though, I don’t remember considering that a thankful spirit sweeps away a “negatively self-focused” spirit. Oh, sure, I’ve known (and even taught!) that gratefulness can lift us out of depression and discouragement. But, somehow, I must have missed what being thankful can do to kill being self-pitying.
Then I read Andrée’s piece Read it all