Mark shares testimonials that show the lasting impact of God's love and how the Lord is using First Loved Ministries to make disciples of Jesus.

Mark shares his experience at a recent concert and how the importance of caring "for the widows and orphans" was highlighted.

Mark shares stories from a recent First Loved to Love weekend at Asbury Grove in Hamilton, MA.

After teaching FLM's "Getting Along" curriculum at the Vida 220 Discipleship school in Costa Rica for the sixth year in a row, Mark shares about his latest trip and gives a brief overview of the first part to initiating a healing conversation with someone who has hurt you or whom you have hurt.

In this episode of the First Loved podcast, Mark challenges us to question whether or not we are in an "old familiar rut" and how to get out of that rut to enjoy the "newness" in Christ. Sharing scriptures about the new covenant, Mark examines where Jesus declares the new covenant at the last supper and speculates how the Apostle Paul would have reacted to the question "so what's new?"

What is at the heart of the "First Loved to Love" lifestyle? Mark answers this particularly how it relates to our hearing, understanding and OWNING Jesus' new command. Ultimately the goal is for us to grow in our relationship with the Lord to the point where we can't wait to spend time with Him . . . where we long for him and anticipate being in His presence every day.

When God called Mark out of pastoral church ministry to bring His message of love through First Loved Ministries to the world, the Lord quickly revealed His faithful provision in what Mark calls a "faith infusion." Mark shares a number of stories of God's provision along the way in this episode of the First Loved podcast.

In this episode of the First Loved podcast, Mark challenges us to look at Jesus' love and ask if our experience with His love is "informational" or "relational". In the scriptures we see Paul's relationship with Jesus to be strong, real, personal and intimate. How did this happen? How is Paul willing to "face death all day long" and "consider all things loss" in order to fully love Jesus?

Many of us know the familiar passage from Matthew 28 known as The Great Commission: "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing . . . and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." This passage became fresh and challenging to Mark at a recent conference. How is the Lord using you to make disciples?

On this episode of the First Loved podcast, Mark looks at Philippians 4 and 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 where the Apostle Paul writes about rejoicing always. How do we do that? Does this mean we are always supposed to be joyful? Is there a difference between rejoicing in our circumstances and rejoicing in the Lord? Scriptures like these are there to help train us to be more like Jesus. Take a listen...