Sitemap - 2017 - Mark Daniels

For the Nobel Prize, I nominate...

Are We Listening?

A Japanese Christian Who Survived the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb

Are you welcoming the stranger?

Christmas: For You! (AUDIO)

The Best Movies About...Being a Pastor?

Not enough faith to be an atheist

Christmas: For You

On Glory and Bragging

The Call to Persist

Random Thoughts

God, Help Me Not to Be the Prostitute

Remembering a Gracious Professor

Again and Again (AUDIO)

Lord, break me, thaw me, remake me

Do we get what we deserve?

Hurricane Maria was likely far deadlier than once thought...but you can help!

TCM's Annual Memoriam for those who passed away in 2017

Again and Again

Remembering this tonight, for some reason

On finding two old family photos

Two 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Acts

For Christ and the Gospel, the Church and Clergy need to stay out of politics

Just because I'm OK, it doesn't mean I'm OK

The Message We Need to Hear

Jerusalem Decision: One Christian's Perspective

Grace and Wrath

How to Wait for Jesus (AUDIO)

The Only Worthy One

"If you're alive, you're winning...

How to Wait for Jesus

A Book Review: 'Connected to Christ'

How to really build yourself up

This will appeal to the MacGyver on every gift list

Just Follow Jesus (AUDIO)

Just Follow Jesus

Brace Yourself: I'm Thankful for People Who Make Government Work

Can you be a Christian without being part of Christ's Church?

"I'm Not Called to Keep My Kids from Danger"

The Purpose of Your Life

Ready to Meet Christ

Some People Never Know by Paul McCartney and Wings

Thanks to our veterans, including my Dad!

What Skipping Worship Does to Your Kids

Happy Birthday, Martin

Remembering Kristallnacht: No More Scapegoats or Easy Answers!

If it helps, this is how I pray

You Might Be a Saint...Really

Learning to Love Christ More Than I Love Myself and My Favorite Sins

A Reason to Celebrate

Did Dusty Baker Deserve to Get Fired...Again?

The Grocery Deli: Part of My Mission Field

Pay Your Taxes and Follow Jesus (and Don't Be Afraid)

Staying Focused

Trust?

Hero by Steve Taylor

In the Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra

The Third Partner

Choosing the Right Kingdom

The Antichrist (No, Really)

A Prayer for the United States after the Las Vegas Massacre

A Bumper Sticker That Made Me Sick

Tom Petty

Don't Miss the Obvious!

Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands

The Death of Hugh Hefner

This made me laugh...

God Loves the Leftovers!

Dance (You See It) by Andy Mineo and Wordsplayed

I'm a Loser by the Beatles

Protect me, God, from the lies I tell myself

Forgiven and Forgiving: Living in Jesus' Kingdom (AUDIO)

Saved for a Life Lived On Purpose

Forgiven and Forgiving: Life in Jesus' Kingdom

Even through the storms, God speaks to us

A funny prayer request

Robert Jenson, eminent Lutheran theologian, has died

The mysteries of God

A walk to the Bronx with Andy Mineo and Lecrae

"Take up your cross and follow Me"

What is Abundance?

Reading

A good warning from Carolyn Arends...

Just a thought

In This Moment

How we can help the victims of Hurricane Harvey

An Anniversary Forgotten

My Dad, the Romantic

Using Your Spiritual Gift

The Ultimate Makeover

Smelling Good to God

LEGEND by Andy Mineo and Wordsplayed

When you break a promise

Help me to walk through the doors You open, God

Red and yellow, black and white, we all need Jesus (AUDIO)

Remembering

"Red and yellow, black and white...we all need Jesus"

"We're not just the Rotary with a pointy roof"

The safest and most dangerous states

Why it's hard (for me and maybe you) to obey God

Today's 11:11, August 14, 2017

Jesus Knows What the Meaning of Is Is

Reflections on Charlottesville and Racism

"If Jesus calls us to love our enemies, what does it mean to love those white supremacists in Charlottesville?"

Happy anniversary...

"I like presidents who had campaign managers that didn't have their homes raided."

Today's 11:11, August 9, 2017

Today's 11:11, August 8, 2017

Today's 11:11, August 7, 2017

Check out 'Magic & Bird'

Sharing What's Most Important to Us (AUDIO)

Sharing What's Most Important to Us

Has the Church abandoned the poor...as well as God's truth?

She Chose Me by Randy Newman

Whatever the changes, just one thing matters

Calvin Coolidge, his dad, and the majesty of Constitutional Democracy

No vanity here...

Only One by James Taylor

How we can believe

He Reigns by The Newsboys

A song

"Give me your tired..."

Putin by Randy Newman

Today's 11:11, August 2, 2017

How to face temptation

Something Old, Something New

Today's 11:11, July 27, 2017

Belated 11:11 for July 26

John McCain's Speech

Today's 11:11, July 25, 2017

Today's 11:11, July 23, 2017

Be Patient...We're Not There Yet

Today's 11:11, July 22, 2017

Why this sinner dares to preach the Word of God

Today's 11:11, July 21, 2017

Today's 11:11, July 20, 2017

Today's 11:11, July 19, 2017

Help me be an un-self-conscious servant

Today's 11:11, July 18, 2017

What is the Magnitsky Act?

At Rest in Christ

More Places Grabbed from Google Streetview

Optical Store in India

State Capitol #1: Madison, Wisconsin

The Peace That Brings Conflict (AUDIO)

Who's in Charge?

7 (maybe 8) Movies for the Fourth

Willing to Be Crazy?

Did the Bible inform the largely non-churchgoing founders?

The Peace That Brings Conflict

Hope and Comfort

Grace, Discipleship, and Change

Persecution and the Only Thing to Fear (AUDIO)

Persecution and the Only Thing to Fear

Shame on Johnny Depp

Good Advice

A 'Melania Makeover' and the Value of a Human Being

Is this a bid for the Nobel Peace Prize?

Trusting

What Now?

Thoughts on the Philando Castile Verdict

Did Dylan Swipe from SparkNotes for His Nobel Lecture?

With My Own Eyes, I Shall See God

The Trinity: Knowing God

Note to Self

Praying for Friends on Tough Anniversaries

Love Alone is Worth the Fight by Switchfoot

Glad to See You by America

As we grow older, do friends become more important than family?

Quenching Our Thirst for "It" (AUDIO)

Claiming the Place Prepared for Us

Quenching Our Thirst for "It"

Stetzer: Christians Need to Repent for Conspiracy Theories (I agree)

Petition for Our Troubled World

Praying Blessings on the United Kingdom Tonight

Welcome to America by Lecrae

Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

Memorial Day Prayers, Blessings, and Charges

The Open Book

America's Drunkest Cities

Today's Hunger for God's Word Isn't Surprising

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2

Where the Streets Have No Name by U2

Blackbird by Paul McCartney

I Want to Hold Your Hand by the Beatles

God is On the Move by 7eventh Time Down

You don't have to love. You get to love! (AUDIO)

You don't have to love. You get to love!

A Deluge of Grace, Grace, GRACE!

Inspiration at the Ford Museum

Never Forget the One Who Never Forgets You!

Cincinnati Woo-ing...Still Not As Annoying As the Vuvuzela

Following THE Leader to Life (AUDIO)

Following THE Leader to Life!

Inviting people to see Jesus (Quiet Time reflections)

1 Pastor's Response to Yesterday's Executive Order

Opened Eyes, Burning Hearts

"You're not the Placater-in-Chief" (Quiet Time reflections)

Majoring in God's Majors

Living in the New Creation (AUDIO)

Living in the New Creation

Praying for Others

No Conflict Between Faith and Science

The reality of the demonic and not giving up on Christ!

The reality of the demonic and not giving up on Christ

Hope in the Midst of Grief (Message at My Mother's Funeral)

Are you willing to believe in the Resurrection? (AUDIO)

Are you willing to believe in the Resurrection?

Cherish Those Pearls!

The Sacrifice for Sin (Maundy Thursday)

Palm Sunday and the Jesus Path (AUDIO)

Palm Sunday and the Jesus Path

Is the Biblical view of homosexuality unloving?

For the Whole Church (including me): Make Disciples, Not Excuses!

Who can't change?

Calico Skies by Paul McCartney

Jesus' Sign of Power

Fear is no excuse for hatred

Where temptation comes from

Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?

Apostles' Creed, Part 1

Good Monday News

Knowing Jesus

Living in freedom, facing the lure of slavery (Quiet Time Reflections)

Called, even when I don't feel qualified (Quiet Time Reflections)

How can a loving God send people to hell? (AUDIO)

Prayer

How can a loving God send people to hell? (Tough Questions, Part 3)

All I Know by Art Garfunkel

So, what's stopping us?

Father No-Lumps

How can we know that the Bible is the Word of God?

Let Jesus Deep-Six Your Fear

Letting God Be the Star

Learning to Wait on God

John Ylvisaker: An Appreciation

Tough Questions: How Do I Help My Grieving Friend?

Decide Beforehand (AUDIO)

"Nice hairline"

"You're from Ohio!"

Lutheran Christians believe that Christ means "is" when He says "is"

On Handling the Holy

Decide Beforehand

Blackbird (Rehearsal Take, 1968) by Paul McCartney

Renewed in Thankfulness and Awe

The Call to Repentance

Perfect Though Imperfect? (#AUDIO)

Luther's Catechisms, Part 3 (AUDIO)

Perfect Though Imperfect?

"Hello, Father! No fatalities!"

When I wore my clerical collar to Sam's

A Song for Someone by U2

The Lutheran Catechisms (Session 2) (AUDIO)

Tough Talk from the Tender Savior (AUDIO)

Tough Talk from the Tender Savior

Washing Your Sheets, Productive Writers, and Jitney Linches

When the Bit Breaks, Drill Somewhere Else (Quiet Time Reflections)

Just because...

Looking at the Lutheran Catechisms (Part 1) (AUDIO)

Super Bowl Sunday

Using God's Greatest Gifts (AUDIO)

Using God's Greatest Gifts

The Blessed Life (AUDIO)

More Power to Share

The Power of the Cross: A Word to Al Qaeda and ISIS

Confessions of the Aspiring Songwriter (and Collaborator)

Three from Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors...

Trust Me, Mark

Jesus Means Freedom (AUDIO)

Inviting All to Come and See (AUDIO)

Jesus Means Freedom

What exactly does a "people leader" do?

A Prayer for America

Inviting All to 'Come and See'

Stick to the job at hand, Franklin!

The Trumpster Tweets

Hello, My Old Heart by the Oh Hello's

Contentment and Going for Broke

"Celebratory Gunfire"...Really?

Don't give up on God; God hasn't given up on you!

O Come All Ye Faithful by Pentatonix