Mark’s Remarks

This time of the year is when we think of being surrounded by people. However, there are plenty of people who are alone and who feel alone. For various reasons,…

When I was little in Sunday school, we often looked at “story cards” when the teacher was telling a Bible story.  Many of those images remain in my mind: Jesus…

I was reading in 2 Kings from the Bible this summer about Elijah and Elisha.  Confusing names? People mispronounce them and often get them mixed up.  But their story, their…

This is my third year of publishing my “non-thankful list.” Some folks are appalled that I publish such a thing, but I don’t care. It’s a good way to gripe…

I went through a Charlie Brown phase when I was a kid.  I tried sports, but wasn’t very good. Boy Scouts intrigued me, but I could never fish as well…

I have often wondered, during my teaching career, how many parents simply want a break.  I mean, how often did we wish we had an easy kid to take care…

I have said for all of my married life that I could die a happy man if my wife ever told me she’d found the perfect swimsuit and was also…

Hezekiah was the 13th king of Judah and is mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus, written in Matthew.  He was a righteous king who enacted religious reform in an attempt…

“That’s something kids today will never know about.” How many times do you say that as you grow older?   Michelle and I were talking about cartoons the other day…

Last week was “Walk and Roll To School Day.” I don’t know the origin, but I think it’s been around since the late 1990s. Someone asked me if it was…

One of the things I’m really going to miss about teaching in a school with a bunch of hooligans is the pranks that usually begin to crop up around this…