Mark’s Memos

“For you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?” (1Cor. 3:3) “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles...

“For you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?” (1Cor. 3:3) In 1Corinthians 3:1-2 Paul tells the Corinthians that he couldn’t give them solid food spiritually because they were...

“And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able;” (1Cor. 3:1-2) Paul spoke to the...

“And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb … as an inheritance. Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb … to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel. … Then the land had rest from war.” (Josh. 14:13-15) Even though Joshua “gave”...

“As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in. Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how...

“But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it. Except for Caleb … and Joshua … you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make...

In Numbers 13 Moses sent 12 spies to spy out the Land of Canaan, while they were in the wilderness. The spies reported that the land was very fruitful (Num. 13:27), but its inhabitants were big, strong and intimidating (Num. 13:28). “Then Caleb quieted the people...

“Now Joshua was old, advanced in years. And the LORD said to him: ‘You are old, advanced in years, and there remains very much land yet to be possessed. This is the land that yet remains: …’” (Josh. 13:1-2) Just because Joshua was old and advanced in years it didn’t...

“Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”  (Josh. 24:15)...

"Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD!” (Josh. 24:14) It’s time for the people of God have a healthy fear (reverence) for the...