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What do these words mean: The Kingdom Key of Binding & Loosing
BY DORAL PULLEY, Today’s Church Tampa Bay READ | Matthew 16:13-20  “Death and life are in the power of the tongue. We love words and eat the fruit thereof.” (Proverbs 18:21) One of the ways to powerfully use the scriptures in your life is through finding scriptures that apply to an experience that
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The Lost Relationship The Kingdom Key of Lost & Found
BY REV. DORAL PULLEY, Today’s Church Tampa Bay READ|II Corinthians 5:16-21 “For the Son of God came to seek and to save that which was lost.” (Luke 19:10) We all began as ideas in the mind of God (Psalm 8:4). We are all words spoken out of the mouth of God (John 1:1,14-18). Our genesis […]
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The Maestro: “A Man and His Music”
St. Mark M. B. Church, this community, and the greater Tampa Bay area say goodbye and reflect on the life of their own, beloved, Brother Franklin Gray. Growing up in Methodist Town, next door to the old St. Mark Church building on 11th Street North, Frank was destined to be a great musician and
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Take Your Shot – What Do We Learn About the Shot?
Pastor Brian K. Brown, St. Mark M.B. Church II Kings 13:14-19 In this text Elisha, prophet of God, is near death but even though Elisha was going to die he wanted to live for God until the day he died.  He didn’t spend his last days feeling sorry for himself but continued to be a […]
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Prayer: A Way of Being
BY REV. DORAL PULLEY, Today’s Church Tampa Bay “And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, who touched my clothes?” (Mark 5:30) Without you telling them, people can tell when you are a person who prays consciously and
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The Big Revelation
“Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes (Matthew 11:25).” Jesus, our Wayshower, began his prayer with thanksgiving, and then he acknowledged the Lord of heaven and earth as his
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Starting Over
Pastor Brian K. Brown, St. Mark M.B. Church – Exodus 13:17-20 While we didn’t meet in the traditional way for ‘Watch Night’ Pastor Brown did give us a message entitled ‘Starting Over’ with the text coming from Exodus 13:17-20 and on the first Sunday of January he continued to preach on this subject
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Wolves: The Kingdom Key of Sheep & Goats
BY REV. DORAL PULLEY, Today’s Church Tampa Bay READ | Matthew 7:13-20 “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore, be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves (Matthew 10:16).” Wolves are conniving and destructive. The wolf is that part of us that does not desire to
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Are You A Good Neighbor?   What Does A Good Neighbor Do?
Pastor Brian K. Brown, St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church Luke 10:25-37 The text is the story of the Good Samaritan.  In the passage we find a ‘certain lawyer’ ask Jesus what he should do to inherit eternal life.  Jesus responded by asking him ‘what is written in the law?’ The lawyer responded by
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The Kingdom Key of Wise and Foolish –
BY REV. DORAL PULLEY, Today’s Church Tampa Bay The Kingdom Key of Wise and Foolish is rooted in the Parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1-13). Five of them were wise and five of them were foolish. The difference between wisdom and foolishness is preparation. The Kingdom Key of Sheep and Goats is
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A Church God Can Trust
Scripture: Luke 12:35-48 Congratulations to St. Mark for the blessings of God as we celebrate our 89th Church Anniversary! In the text presented, Pastor Brian K. Brown of St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church explained that Jesus was talking to His disciples and to the church as the extension of the
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Visions needs Visuals
BY REV. DORAL PULLEY, Today’s Church Tampa Bay “The word of the Lord came to me say, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree (Jeremiah 1:11).” God communicates with us in various ways. Sometimes it’s in words, and other times it may be through pictures. A […]
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Continuing the series: Facing What’s Forward
Pastor Brian K. Brown, St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church Scripture: Genesis 6:5-15 Opportunity comes at many junctures of our daily life, and as believers, we subscribe to the thought that God can do all but fail. Yet, what are we doing with these opportunities, do we notice them? Do we appreciate
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Prayer is Rewarding!
BY REV. DORAL PULLEY, Today’s Church Tampa Bay “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full” (Matthew 6:5). Jesus, the perfect pattern for
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Standing
BY REV. DORAL PULLEY, Today’s Church Tampa Bay “When you stand praying, forgive” (Mark 11:25) Standing is a powerful prayer posture. Not only did Jesus, the Perfect Pattern, lay prostrate to pray, he also stood in prayer and taught his disciples to do the same. Standing in prayer demonstrates your
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Balancing Ministry & Family Jesus, the King of the Kingdom
READ | Matthew 12:46-50 “Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, my sister, my mother, my family (Matthew 12:50).” When Jesus, the Wayshower, said my Father, he was claiming his personal relationship with God. His relationship with God superseded the religious rituals and dogmas
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Starting Over, Ending the Bitterness
By Pastor Brian K. Brown, St. Mark MBC Exodus 15:23-26 Starting over can be painful, sorrowful, and challenging but if we stay with it, it will bring us to God’s expected end.  Israel had praised God through their journey to a place called Marah.  When they got there, weary, and thirsty, they
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‘What is Needed to Handle the Unknown Moments That Come up in Our Lives?’
Rev. Brian K. Brown, Pastor, St. Mark M.B. Church Sermon: “Facing What’s Forward” | Scripture Reference: Hebrews 11: 8-10 Facing what is forward in faith continues as our topic of discussion, and a model found in the life of another Biblical figure, Abraham. Walking synchronously, the narrative of
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Returning Responsibly
PASTOR BRIAN K. BROWN, St. Mark M.B. Church Genesis 9:1, 20-23 Over the past two Sundays Pastor Brown has brought a word from the story of Noah and his family from the book of Genesis.  On the second Sunday the message was ‘On Your Return – What Should We Consider’.  The third Sunday’s message was
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Facing What’s Forward
Pastor Brian K. Brown, St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church Scripture Reference: Genesis 8:13 -19 Continuing to unpack the theme of how to successfully face forward and face it with faith, we journey through the chronicling of Noah’s narrative, verse 13. This scripture allows us to examine the exodus
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Praying in the Spirit
BY REV. DORAL PULLEY, Today’s Church Tampa Bay “Building yourselves up on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Ghost (Jude 1:20).” Prayer has several languages. You are free to utilize the best prayer language for your situation. Sometimes you need to pray in your native language so that you
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I Call it like I See it! The Kingdom Key of Good & Evil
READ | Matthew 6:19-24 “The light of the body is the eye; therefore, if your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light (Matthew 6:22)!” BY REV. DORAL PULLEY, Today’s Church Tampa Bay There are three major perceptions that people have. One perception is the single good eye. With the
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The Kingdom Key of Binding & Loosing
READ | Matthew 23:13-39 “Woe to you, teachers, writers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the Kingdom of God in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to (Matthew 23:13).” Do you remember the first time that you were
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No Comparisons
BY REV. DORAL PULLEY, Today’s Church Tampa Bay “Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican (Luke 18:10).” To help his disciples understand the difference between traditional praying and Kingdom praying, Jesus, who represents the Christ consciousness, told
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Way of Being
BY REV. DR. DORAL PULLEY, Today’s Church Tampa Bay “And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, who touched my clothes (Mark 5:30)?” Without you telling them, people can tell when you are a person who prays consciously and
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Prayer tool of forgiving: Vice grip pliers
By Rev. Doral Pulley, Today’s Church Tampa Bay Vise-grip pliers have several uses, such as removing broken screws and loosening frozen nuts. They can also be used to clamp small things in place, to remove stripped screws and even to open a zipper when the pull breaks off. Forgiveness, in its
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The Valley and its Way
Rev. Brian K. Brown, Pastor, St. Mark M.B. Church Genesis 26:17-22  Even before Covid we experienced valley moments with some of the same situations we find ourselves experiencing during Covid.  Sometimes we can be in the valley because we sent ourselves there and other times someone made a valley
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When the Crisis Gets Worse
Pastor Brian K. Brown, St. Mark M.B. Church Mark 5:25-34  The is a familiar text of a woman who had been hemorrhaging for 2 years. Her situation is a reminder of our circumstances.  She had been losing blood, was losing hope and perhaps losing patience.  This is where some of us are.  She had gone
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Sowing vs. Planting: The Kingdom Key of Sowing & Reaping –
BY REV. DORAL PULLEY, Today’s Church Tampa Bay READ | Matthew 13:1-23 There is a difference between sowing and planting. With planting, you have a designated place, a plan, and the preparations to make it grow and produce fruit. With sowing, you throw the seeds out and let the seeds fall where they
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Facing What’s Forward
Pastor Brian K. Brown, St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church Genesis 7 (Noah’s account of facing forward) Our study in the “Facing What’s Forward” series allows us to again revisit, review, and consider Noah’s account of what moving forward brought in the many days, weeks, months, and years of his
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