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Chasing a carrot on a string?
Don’t get me wrong, I am not into getting persecuted. I mean if it is your thing, fine, go right ahead. I will wait for you outside....

Marcos
Oct 13, 20222 min read


A day in the life of a missionary…
God manifests His interventions in our lives in neat little ways. Veronica and I did a drive thru at McDonald’s. Not our favorite place...

Marcos
Oct 12, 20221 min read
Busy making peace
Jesus is still speaking plain on the mount… Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Like I used to say when I...

Marcos
Oct 10, 20221 min read
To the nations
I read the sermon on the mount as a man burdened with Jesus’ call to take the Gospel to the nations, and I muse about Matthew 5.6…...

Marcos
Oct 7, 20221 min read
Sermon on the plain?
Today I come upon the Sermon on the Mount. Who ever came up with that name anyways? I have preached here and there, no one ever called...

Marcos
Oct 4, 20221 min read
Taco time
Then the gang of twelve arrived, stunned to see their Jesus talking to this hussy. Not even Peter dared put his foot in his mouth. One of...

Marcos
Sep 30, 20221 min read
I am he
“The water I give will quench your thirst for ever and ever.” "I want it. I need it. Give me some, por favor.” “Go get your husband.”...

Marcos
Sep 29, 20221 min read
Mr. Fancy Pants
Jesus came across Ms. Woman-at-the-Well recently. Well, if the truth be told, she wasn’t at the well, she was in chapter 4, book of John,...

Marcos
Sep 25, 20221 min read
To fulfill all righteousness
We are hanging out with JohnB still, yet, and again. He didn’t know he was Elijah. He did know he was not worthy to unstrap sandals. And...

Marcos
Sep 20, 20221 min read
Today is the day!
John the Baptist must have lived every day wondering, wondering whether the fellow he was forerunning, was going to show up today. In...

Marcos
Sep 15, 20221 min read


The world is on fire
When I clicked the computer this morning I received the first of several messages and warnings of violence in the air for our little...

Marcos
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Revelation
John the Baptist. We think he baptized in the southern area, towards the Dead Sea at Al-Maghtas, also known as Bethabara and/or Bethany...

Marcos
Sep 11, 20221 min read
Don’t do it
I am well aware that most of us love the story of noble Ruth and her fine gentleman, Boaz. But the part when Naomi tells the young...

Marcos
Sep 7, 20221 min read
A tax guy who can’t count
My teaching semester at the Bible school has begun, so I have decided to change my musings, from Jeremiah back to Mr Ex-Tax Collector...

Marcos
Sep 2, 20222 min read


Today's dawn
Walk with me as we drink in the sunrise on this fine day.

Marcos
Sep 2, 20221 min read
What kind of friend am I?
You can tell it’s me when I keep going back to the same couple of verses, getting different tidbits out of it. I find myself stuck on...

Marcos
Aug 25, 20221 min read
Standing tall
Looking at bad old Pashhur in Jeremiah 20, I realize again I have to throw out that fine and friendly doctrine I so wanted to have, about...

Marcos
Aug 21, 20221 min read


Tables turned on me
One of my favorite lists is my email recipients who are Latin missionaries. I send things their way, every once in a while, just to...

Marcos
Aug 19, 20221 min read
Dusty
It’s nice that we are so much smoother than the disobedient back in Jeremiah’s day. Pashhur the priest did not like the word from God...

Marcos
Aug 17, 20221 min read
Broken pots
You know the feeling. You come up with a good illustration or object lesson, something that really made the message alive for the...

Marcos
Aug 12, 20221 min read
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