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...
May 10, 2020 | Bible, Christianity, creation, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God Sightings, Living Spiritually, Meaning, Nature photography, poetry, Spiritual Formation, Uncategorized |
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mom, you were no where near as delicate as the roses you grew. Thank God for that! You were a beautiful but hardscrabble woman. Sometimes a bit thorny too. That combination may have been part of why people walked for city blocks to view...
May 6, 2020 | belonging, Bible, bible conversation, Christianity, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God Sightings, Living Spiritually, loneliness, Spiritual Formation, Uncategorized |
Reading Time: 6 minutes At one time I described myself as fearless. In the way pop culture defines it. I love adventure. I’m a risk-taker. I don’t worry obsessively. I sleep well, mostly. But then I have these memories. I was five. I heard a thunk upstairs. I...
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