Come To The Table

We’re pretty impatient as humans most of the time. We don’t like waiting for anything, do we? Have you ever been impatient waiting in line in a fast food drive-thru? That person in front of you made you wait a whole 60 seconds longer than you should have! God’s timing can mean waiting quite a bit longer than 60 seconds. In today’s message, Pastor Mark will challenge you to pray and wait on the Lor...

We sometimes wonder why we aren’t receiving God’s blessings, don’t we? God is a loving and giving Father, but He doesn’t control our actions. He has all the blessings extended to us with open hands, but He won’t make us take them. We have to reach out and grab them. It takes some amount of action on our part. In Pastor Mark’s message today, he’ll encourage you to reach out and grab the blessings G...

There’s room at the dining table of the Lord! Will you take a seat? Pastor Mark explains that it’s important to not put off deciding to follow Christ. God desires for everyone to enter into His presence eternally. But you need to commit to following Him! He will not force His way into your life. You must choose to receive Him! In today’s message from Pastor Mark, he challenges you to decide to bec...

Always turn to the Word of God and stay rooted in it! Sometimes it can be difficult to know what’s really of God and what isn’t. The enemy uses confusion to try to get us off track. However, it’s important to turn to the Lord for His wisdom which can be found in the Bible. Make reading God’s Word a daily priority in your walk with Him. As you learn in today’s message from Pastor Mark, it’s importa...

Do you keep up with your family calendar, or does your spouse handle the family schedule? For many families, one person just goes about life seemingly with no schedule, but all the while another is actually keeping everything moving and happening at its appointed time, despite the appearance of chaos. As Pastor Mark will explain in today’s message, no matter how much people, and even satan, try to...

How do you know what the Bible says is true? Most Christians would point to a feeling or some experience they have had as the way they know it’s true. For a non-believer that may not be enough, many times they will look for more concrete evidence of the accuracy and validity of what is written. In today’s message, Pastor Mark draws parallels between what secular history books say happened in the r...

There are many history books that explain the history of Israel and the surrounding region. Those all were written after the events happened, but the Book of Daniel describes historical events before they happened with astonishing accuracy. That is why it can be used to validate the accuracy of the Bible. In today’s message, Pastor Mark breaks down the historical events described in Daniel and exp...

Have you ever missed out on an experience because something about it scared you? Maybe you struggle in social settings so you have missed out on getting to know someone who may have had a positive effect on your life. Sometimes you have to push through fear to realize there isn’t anything to be afraid of. Too many times people associate anything supernatural with the demonic realm, and they are af...

Have you ever known someone whose parents protected them from everything? Anytime they faced a challenge their parents were there to make sure they didn’t struggle. Maybe it was by paying any time they owed money. That person probably had an eye-opening experience the first time they encountered strife on their own. As Pastor Mark points out in today’s message, sometimes God will allow you to face...

Have you ever stopped someone from doing something, or just didn’t agree to do something because you knew it was dangerous? Many times people do things with the intention of protecting others from something or someone, and most times they don’t even realize you did anything at all. If you are a parent you have probably had to stop your child from doing something that potentially saved their life a...

Have you ever wanted to change a process at work? Maybe you just wanted to change the way your family does dinner time. If you tell others what you want to change and then continue to do it the original way, you won’t see much change. Many times you have to just do the change and others will begin to follow. Many times people in the church will pray and ask for a revival in the church as a whole....

Have you ever read something and when you finished you didn’t really know what you had just read, so you went back and read it again? It could have been instructions that just didn’t make sense the first or even second time. Many times once you get to the end you have context and you can go back and it all will make sense. When it comes to the Bible you may not understand much of what you read the...

Have you ever been asked to do something that doesn’t align with your morals or beliefs? How did you respond? If it hasn’t happened, how do you think you would respond? There may be times when it would be easier to, just this once, compromise, but in that case, when do you say enough is enough? In today’s message, Pastor Mark explains how after being killed and mistreated for years a group of Jews...

There are so many different accents in the United States that you don’t have to leave the country to not be able to understand people. If you’re from the south people from the north speak too fast, and vice versa. If you’re not from the Deep South and you travel or move there, you may think you need a translator to order coffee! In today’s message, Pastor Mark reminds you that God can speak right...

During the end times, there will be a control exerted on the world by mankind that will be oppressive. We felt a little of that control during COVID. The world was controlling man’s lifestyle. They made everyone obey. God did not allow it to continue at this time, but in the end times, it will happen again and oppress us. In today’s message, Pastor Mark assures us of two things from scripture. The...

Is your name written in the “Lamb’s Book of Life?” There will be quite a library in Heaven, but the most important book is the “Lamb’s Book of Life.” At the judgment seat of Christ, the decision for your eternity will have already been made. If you have placed your faith in Christ while on earth, your name will be there. In today’s message, Pastor Mark reminds us of the importance of this last sce...

God’s viewpoint is different from man’s viewpoint. In today’s message, Pastor Mark describes the vision of Nebuchadnezzar in two different passages. From a man’s point of view, the statue had gold and precious metals. From God’s point of view, the statue was four beasts. God saw ugly sin in these four powers. We see things from this world’s view and often we judge ourselves by the world’s standard...

Who is the Antichrist? Is he alive today? No one knows. He is described in Daniel as a little horn, and probably unknown. He will begin as a small insignificant leader who rises up quickly. He will be given power and authority by Satan and will do away with other world leaders and take supreme leadership of the world. In today’s message, Pastor Mark shows us how God foretells about the end times a...

The first six chapters of Daniel are in chronological order. The last six chapters are prophetic and not in chronological order. It is important to realize that God sees things all at one time. He often goes outside that historical timeline to convey the truth to us. We see things in a linear way, but God sees things all at once. In today’s message, Pastor Mark gives an analogy of seeing things fr...

What happens when we find ourselves in a lion’s den? What happens when difficult times come and we are tested? Do you really believe, or do you just love God when things are going well? We don’t find out how strong our faith is until we are tested. God allows us to go through tough times for a reason. In today’s message, Pastor Mark teaches us about Daniel’s faith that survived the test of the lio...

In the study today, we find Daniel hated by the heathen world around him. There has always been a sense of animosity toward God and His people. It is spiritual blindness. There are people who hate Christians and don’t even know why. It is an evil that spews hatred without reason. It is similar to the hatred of Jews. In today’s message, Pastor Mark encourages us to recognize the spiritual realm and...

There was a severe hatred towards Daniel and His God in the Old Testament story of Daniel and the lion’s den. Those same demonic forces still exist today. There are radical forces in our culture trying to stop God’s people and His word. We need to be prepared, just like Daniel to make a decision to follow God. In today’s message, Pastor Mark admonishes us to be sure our fear shifts over to His bol...

As Christians, we need to be aware that people are watching us. Even more importantly, God is watching us. He has given us His name and we are responsible for how we represent that name and the way our actions reflect on God and His people. Just as a wife takes her husband’s name, we have been married to Christ.  In today’s message, Pastor Mark teaches us that not taking God’s name in vain has mor...

God’s word says we are His sheep, and yet we are to be as bold as lions. Sheep follow. But we are not to be sheep who follow the world, but sheep who follow the Lord. Sometimes it takes years of following the Lord for us to become strong enough to have the boldness and wisdom needed to speak up for our Lord. Today, Pastor Mark reminds us that even though we may be facing a ferocious enemy, God is...

Have you made a firm decision to follow Jesus no matter the cost? The Holy Scriptures explain that disciples of Jesus are to pick up their crosses daily and to follow Him. This can be difficult when the cross comes with mocking, peer pressure, or other temptations of the world to conform and blend in. As you listen to today’s message from Pastor Mark, he teaches you about the importance of decidin...