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“Mark Alan Williams is one of the best Christian bloggers, especially on sensitive subjects”
-Jason Holland Director of Operations Joshua Nations
“Loving your biblical responses. So much counseling is a chasing after wind, yours offers such a scriptural bridge.”
-Mike Kellogg
Former host of Music Thru the Night, Moody Radio network and National Religious Broadcasters
Hall of Fame Award winner
“I can’t tell you how much I have appreciated your posts on LinkedIn. Many of them have been quite timely and an answer to prayer. Keep up the good work!!!”
-Dave Meyers President, ZimZam Global
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Mark Alan Williams
Dec 13, 20133 min read
Facing Death Fearlessly
Flying to Fiji on a Boeing 747 was a piece of cake compared to the flight from the main island to an outlying island where I would be...
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Mark Alan Williams
Dec 3, 20134 min read
3 Trees That Explain Suffering: Tree #3
This is the last of the series of three trees that explain suffering. Tree #1 was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the...
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Mark Alan Williams
Nov 26, 20133 min read
3 Trees That Explain Suffering: Tree #2
If God is good, why does He allow suffering and death? In my last blog I shared about the first of three trees in God’s orchard of...
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Mark Alan Williams
Nov 20, 20133 min read
3 Trees That Explain Suffering: Tree #1
When our boys were young, our family agreed on a list of rules and posted it on our refrigerator. Beside each rule was the penalty if the...
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Mark Alan Williams
Nov 13, 20133 min read
4 Desperately Hopeless Yet Common Approaches To Suffering And Death
When I was four years old my brother Scott died a few days after birth. At that age I didn’t know what to think about death. After...
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Mark Alan Williams
Oct 30, 20133 min read
My Classmate Bart Ehrman’s Hopeless Response To Suffering
A few weeks ago I was in the Midwest and got to spend time with four classmates of the mid-1970’s from the Moody Bible Institute. It was...
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Mark Alan Williams
Oct 21, 20133 min read
How NOT To Handle The Death Of A Loved One And Other Losses
This weekend I led a memorial service for my remarkable friend Gary Taylor. Just a few weeks ago a large group of Gary’s church friends...
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Mark Alan Williams
Oct 11, 20133 min read
How To Handle The Death Of A Loved One And Other Losses
As I write this I’m on a plane headed home from Ohio after attending the memorial service of my twenty year old nephew Beau Williams. He...
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Mark Alan Williams
Sep 26, 20133 min read
Unexpected Ways It Pays To Pray
Just for fun Carolyn and I recently went on a midweek overnight trip to Julian, California. We stayed in the historic Julian Gold Rush...
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Mark Alan Williams
Sep 19, 20132 min read
What Is The Meaning Of Life?
Recently I went on an internet quest to find the meaning of life. I asked my iPhone what the meaning of life is and Siri answered, “I...
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Mark Alan Williams
Sep 11, 20133 min read
My Heroic Great Grandpa And The Pre-Titanic—Part 3
My great grandpa had an authentic Danish name: Eskild Alfred Eskildsen. In 1904, as he was attempting to immigrate to America, the SS...
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Mark Alan Williams
Sep 6, 20133 min read
My Heroic Great Grandpa And The Pre-Titanic SS Norge - Part 2
In my last post I shared about my great-grandfather Eskild Alfred Eskildsen’s attempt to come to America on the SS Norge in 1904....
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Mark Alan Williams
Sep 5, 20131 min read
eBook Title Survey
Please help me choose the title for my new ebook about life planning! Below are several title samples. Pick the one or two you like most....
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Mark Alan Williams
Aug 29, 20133 min read
My Heroic Great Grandpa And The Pre-Titanic - Part 1
Not many people have heard of the SS Norge disaster of 1904. Some 635 people died in the shipwreck—the worst Danish civil disaster of all...
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Mark Alan Williams
Aug 22, 20134 min read
Five MORE Keys To Stay Happily Married For 34 Years
Carolyn and I were happily married August 4, 1979. During the first year of our marriage, she was in college and I was in graduate...
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Mark Alan Williams
Aug 16, 20133 min read
Five Keys To Stay Happily Married For 34 Years
Carolyn and I celebrated 34 years of joyful marriage just a few weeks ago on Sunday, August 4, 2013. In San Diego on our anniversary. Did...
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Mark Alan Williams
Aug 8, 20133 min read
Do You Destroy Through Dependency?
A few years ago I visited a house church in Mysore, India and was blessed to give the Sunday morning sermon. There were about 25 precious...
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Mark Alan Williams
Jul 26, 20133 min read
Strategies For Hearing From God
I love it when God speaks in a deeply personal way. Recently the Lord spoke to me so deeply my eyes started sweating. (Guys don’t cry,...
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Mark Alan Williams
May 4, 20132 min read
How To Hear From God
After being hunted for his life, 1 Kings 19 tells us that Elijah was frightened (v. 3), discouraged (v. 4) and wanted badly to hear from...
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Mark Alan Williams
Apr 23, 20132 min read
Five Ways God Speaks To Us
Have you ever felt frustrated, wanting to hear from God but feeling like the heavens are silent? CC Image courtesy of Waiting for the...
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Mark Alan Williams
Apr 1, 20132 min read
Six Tips To Relax And Call It A Day
I haven’t always been good at letting go of work when away from work. In years past, Carolyn would sometimes look at me and say, “You’re...
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Mark Alan Williams
Mar 9, 20131 min read
Some Fantastic Podcasts To Check Out
In a blog titled “Don’t Miss the Joy of Podcasts” I wrote about why I love to listen to podcasts. If you are not already a podcasts...
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Mark Alan Williams
Mar 3, 20131 min read
Global Church Planting Sunday Message Video
Check out the message that I did for Global Church Planting Sunday. This message was given at our home church, New Song Church,...
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Mark Alan Williams
Feb 17, 20132 min read
Don’t Miss The Joy Of Podcasts!
One of the things I love most about having a smartphone is listening to podcasts with ease and on-the-go. Prior to owning an iPhone I was...
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