Author Archives: Mark Ashley

Remembering the Fallen

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Mark Ashley

It’s Memorial Day here in the USA.  We enjoyed our annual local parade with the high school marching band, the VFW, mounted police, emergency vehicles with sirens blaring, an active soldier who was the grand marshall, one lonely politician decked out in his … Continue reading →

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“Celebrity Pastors”

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Mark Ashley

I just returned from a conference that centered on the Gospel.  It featured some well-known preachers, what some might call “big-name” pastors; others might use the description “celebrity pastors.”  In fact, I’ve heard one of these pastors described as having the status … Continue reading →

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Strength

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Mark Ashley

Held in its unyielding clutch he released himself from death, and a horrible death at that.  To make sure eyewitnesses would see that the his formerly occupied burial niche was empty, he tossed aside the two-ton stone sealing off the opening allowing … Continue reading →

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Weakness

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Mark Ashley

I don’t like to be weak… the one who loses at arm wrestling the one who couldn’t survive two minutes in a boxing match without being knocked out cold the one who can only haul half of a package of shingles up the … Continue reading →

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Facing Fifty

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Mark Ashley

Ok, so it’s arrived.  I turned 50 yesterday.  Benchmark birthdays strike each individual differently.  For me fifty has proven to be a big one; well, a challenging one, to be honest. Maybe it’s because a “half-century” genuinely sounds old (though … Continue reading →

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