Life Marks: SIGNIFICANT (Part 4) As we have seen previously, understanding our spiritual heritage in the Old Covenant is vitally important for us to understand our significance in Christ today. In God’s plan, the Old Covenant Temple was just temporary, a “shadow” of better things to come. God always knew

Life Marks: SIGNIFICANT (Part 3) As I mentioned last week, history is vitally important for us to understand our spiritual heritage, as well as for understanding our significance in Christ. I hope that you gained some historical perspective on temples in general and, of course, the Temple that was built for

Life Marks: SIGNIFICANT (Part 2) As we saw last week, God has a plan for each one of us. It is a good plan, a plan to bring abundant blessings to us and to those around us. In order for us to adequately tackle what I have in mind for

Life Marks: SIGNIFICANT God has a plan for each of us, and that plan is a good plan. Some people assume that if it’s God’s plan for them, it must be stifling, boring, and maybe even a little “weird.” The Old Testament historical documents record God telling the ancient Israelites that

Life Marks: SECURE No, I will not be talking about “Social Security” benefits, knowing that if things go “south” in our economy, these might be taken away from millions of Americans. Regarding our relationship with God, there are some things that will never be taken away from us. Knowing that you

Life Marks: Adopted and Accepted Last week we focused our attention on the issue of rejection and acceptance as we considered the greatest reason why you will not be rejected by the One who bought you – He paid too high of a price FOR YOU to let you go!

Life Marks: Getting a grip on your mind It’s baseball season, and whether you watch a game from the bleachers or on TV, you notice that the batters will often put on a glove or douse their hands with powdered rosin in order to get a firm grip on the

Life Marks: Deceived!!! (Part 2) As I have previously mentioned, we all hate to be deceived. We hate to be lied to, and if we buy into the lie and later discover that we have been deceived, we wonder how in the world it happened. And, we don’t need false

Life Marks: True Freedom Most of you reading this blog live in the United States of America, a country in which its citizens enjoy freedoms far beyond most other countries in the world. Our founding fathers recognized that there are certain “inalienable” rights that all human beings possess, namely, “life,