Mark Carnes
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Take a look at one last picture. But for me, personally speaking, it is perhaps the most significant picture of the year.
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Mark Carnes
Dec 11, 20206 min read
My Pivotal Christmas
December 24, 1984. That was my pivotal Christmas. That was the year I came to an intersection in my life with regard to Christmas, faith...
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Mark Carnes
Dec 4, 20204 min read
Where Are You Christmas?
I love all the traditions that come with Christmas…getting the Christmas Tree, decorating, eating certain types of foods...
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Mark Carnes
Nov 27, 20204 min read
Why Christmas (In The City) Comes Each Year
I have two pictures to share this week. They are both from our Christmas In The City Production. The first pic is from the year 2019.
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Mark Carnes
Nov 20, 20204 min read
A Different Sort of Thankfulness
If I could use a picture to represent 2020 without a caption, this would be one of them. It captures much of what 2020 has felt like for me.
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Nov 18, 20201 min read
Sandy Poling
I am having back surgery in the morning at CMC in Charlotte. Please pray that the surgeon can fix me up with a 2 hr surgery. The...
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Mark Carnes
Nov 13, 20204 min read
The Beauty of In-Between Routine
This picture was taken on a bright, sunny afternoon on the last weekend of October, in a small, seemingly insignificant town in...
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Mark Carnes
Nov 6, 20205 min read
About That Revival We’re Seeking
So many in America are praying for our Nation and praying that revival would come, and rightly so, because we need it...
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Mark Carnes
Oct 30, 20205 min read
My One Political Post…Well Sort of…
I actually enjoy a good discussion about politics, I’m just sick and tired of talking about it at this point...
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Mark Carnes
Oct 23, 20205 min read
The Forgotten Urgency of Corporate Prayer
Little known fact…the date was August 11, 2000 and I stood at the top of one of the Twin Towers in New York City...
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Mark Carnes
Oct 16, 20204 min read
Get Them to Jesus!
These men would not let any obstacle get in the way of them bringing their friend to Jesus.
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Mark Carnes
Oct 2, 20206 min read
The Perfect, Out of Place, Pace
It was the Fall of 2004 in Roanoke, VA. My wife and I had made the trip up to visit her parents for the weekend. There was the usual...
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Mark Carnes
Sep 25, 20204 min read
Running To The School Bus
As a sixteen-year-old High School student, one of the things I loved most about getting my driver’s license was the fact that I would...
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Mark Carnes
Sep 18, 20204 min read
Tell This To Your Teenager
In a few short weeks, I will have the privilege of performing the wedding ceremony for another young couple that has decided to...
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Mark Carnes
Sep 11, 20204 min read
Christmas In The City
Christmas In The City is an annual Production staged at He’s Alive Church each Christmas Season. This would be our seventh year of CITC...
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Mark Carnes
Sep 3, 20204 min read
Being Right vs. Being In Relationship
The setting was as close to perfect as you could get, a sublime ambience of winsomeness. My wife and I had just celebrated ...
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Mark Carnes
Aug 28, 20205 min read
Seashells
About a year ago, while on Sabbatical, I was out for a run on the beach. I looked down to see a small fragment of what I believed to be a...
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Mark Carnes
Aug 21, 20205 min read
The Divine Invitation
There are moments when life is lifted above the ordinary. There are moments in life when the supernatural collides with the natural...
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Mark Carnes
Aug 14, 20204 min read
The Happy Place
It was a textbook beach day. The sky was deep, textured blue with thin layers of white clouds stretched like spider webs just for effect...
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Mark Carnes
Jul 31, 20204 min read
Venom, Honey, and Barbeque Sauce
It was the end of a worship service and this gentleman made a determined beeline directly for me. I knew he was coming my way...
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