Two Men and a Bible

When Truth in Love began, we started with two men and a Bible. Jason and I worked together in sessions helping people from the Word of God.

Now, two years later, our ministry has grown to over 50 committed volunteers and a new group of co-laborers for Christ coming soon!

We praise God because our feeble, foolish, and faith-filled ministry continues to be upheld by God’s Hands and He continues to produce fruit through us in so many ways and in many places!

The movie, Three Men and a Baby, was one of my favorites. Well, you could write a new movie about TIL and it would be just as entertaining! Just ask my Dad, who really is the third man in all of this as he serves as our office manager! We praise the Lord for his servant-mindedness for the past 2 years, also!

One other comparison: I have employed the company, Two Men and a Truck, to move me before. Like them, Jason and I pray to see the Lord use us to MOVE all of the division we see in the body of Christ to bring unity, healing, and power to reach the WORLD for Christ by fulfilling the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20).

We are thankful that we see transformed lives DAILY by God’s grace through TIL.

-Mark (grateful for the team approach to ministry and working alongside Jason who continues to grow in his faith and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ – not just facts about Jesus, but intimate knowledge of knowing Christ personally)

The faithfulness of a child

I have an eight year old daughter who faithfully reads her DAILY BREAD devotional AND her Bible each morning. She is like clockwork and more faithful than BOTH of her parents!

In fact, we went on a recent trip and she had her devo book with her! She had packed it and read it on her vacation.

8 years old!

I think we underestimate our children’s ability to be responsible because we are so irresponsible.

Nothing like the uncluttered mind of a child.

-Mark (asking the Lord to remove my cluttered thoughts and to replace them with His truth)

Nothing in life gives me much more joy than…

…seeing my 13 year old son reading the Bible in the mornings on his bedroom floor!

Praise the Lord!

-Mark (wow! God is good!)

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Glory Revealed 2

Been listening to this new album and loving it!

Great lyrics! All of the lyrics are biblically based and true to the text. It’s great to listen to and I love for my children to learn the Bible while they listen to the great music.

Thanks to David Nasser, a great speaker, who loves Jesus and proclaims Him as an evangelist to the lost!

Mac Powell of Third Day did a great job as well.

Let’s pray for these brothers and for this album to show many the GLORY that God has REVEALED to us through our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ.

-Mark (blessed by music that praises God with His very own Word of truth!)

The Heart of Addiction – why I wrote this book!

I wrote The Heart of Addiction for one primary purpose: to glorify God by pointing people to Christ and His Word for the answer for all types of “addictions.”

Glorifying God means honoring His Word which is THE most powerful weapon in overcoming any and all “addictions.”

Sadly, the Bible is one of the most unused resources for battling addictions. THE most powerful weapon for addicts to use is God’s Word since it partners with the Holy Spirit to bring about mind renewal and real, permanent change (Rom. 12:1-2 and Eph. 4:23).

Don’t turn to the world’s best ideas for solutions to your problems. Turn to Christ and His love and His Word of truth.

-Mark (still can’t believe I’m a published author)

Who sustains our seasons?

Genesis 8:22 (ESV): ”While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”*

*The Holy Bible : English standard version. 2001 (electronic ed.). Good News Publishers: Wheaton.

This verse in Genesis 8 is a PROMISE of God and God always keeps His promises.

Sometimes, I think we all take God’s promises for granted. We take the seasons for granted, too. God has promised to bring the seasons to us (the Hebrews had 6 seasons; therefore, the verse above references all 6 of them) regularly as He sees fit. He alone sustains us and gives us the seasons!

I like studying God’s creation, though it is fallen and cursed by man’s sin, because it reminds me of the wisdom, power, and love of God.

This ought to give us great confidence as biblical counselors that we can count on God’s promises. When He says we become new creations in Christ Jesus and no longer have to struggle with an addiction, I believe Him!

-Mark (no longer taking this promise lightly that God will provide the seasons for us by His great power and wisdom)