Jan 28, 2021 | Art, Bible, Christianity, COVID-19, Eugene C. Scott, God Sightings, Jesus, Living Spiritually, photography, Politics, Spiritual Formation |
Reading Time: 5 minutes I believe in poetry. But I’d forgotten. The last few months of our pandemic dominated, politically divided lives made me forget. Then just as it seemed life couldn’t get worse, it did. Our President stood amidst a maelstrom of fear,...
Dec 17, 2020 | Advent, Bible, Christianity, Christmas, COVID-19, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God Sightings, loneliness, photography, Spiritual Formation |
Reading Time: 5 minutesGhosts have haunted many of my Christmases. Not in the terrifying way Charles Dicken’s ghosts haunted Scrooge. But much more subtle, a shadow I can’t quite identify passing over my heart. I think the haunting started on Christmas day in 1957. My...
Oct 23, 2020 | adventure, belonging, Bible, Christianity, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God Sightings, healing, Health, Hope, Living Spiritually, Meaning, Nature photography, Spiritual Formation |
Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of the persistent questions I hear from unbelievers and believers alike is: How can a loving God remain silent in the face of starvation, disease, war, and injustice? Divine silence dictates that God must not care or is not even there. When...
Aug 19, 2020 | belonging, Bible, Christianity, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God Sightings, healing, Jesus, Living Spiritually, photography, Spiritual Formation |
Reading Time: 5 minutes When I hear of famous Christians like Joshua Harris, author of the immature book I Kissed Dating Goodby, and Marty Sampson of Hillsong United have deconstructed and then left the Christian faith, I’m troubled. I’m sad for them. I wonder...
Jun 24, 2020 | Bible, Christianity, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God Sightings, Jesus, Living Spiritually, photography, Spiritual Formation |
Reading Time: 5 minutes Even Jesus’ everyday movements carried a message. “Jesus withdrew from that place,” Matthew, one of Jesus’ biographers, tells us. Jesus had healed a man’s crippled hand. This deformity had thrust him into financial and relational...
Jun 10, 2020 | authenticity, Bible, Christianity, Community, COVID-19, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God, God Sightings, Health, Jesus, Living Spiritually, Nature photography, photography, Spiritual Formation |
Reading Time: 5 minutes Once there was a pastor who was carrying the weight of the world, his congregation, his family, and his own life all in one fallible body. Sunday after Sunday he brought this weight and God’s Word into the pulpit. Until one Sunday. That...
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