Sunday Psalm: Asking for Grace in an Unexpected Wait
Reading Time: 2 minutes At my home nestled near the mountains on the southwest edge of Denver, we’ve had nearly four feet of snow …
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Two Hopeful Truths about God Healing your Spiritual and Emotional Wounds
Reading Time: 6 minutes Rather than peering into a dark and dangerous future (which it often is), through God’s redemption of my pain, I see hope on each horizon.
Praying Like a Child: A Childlike Prayer for You
Reading Time: 3 minutes Philip Yancey’s book Prayer: Does It make Any Difference? opens with this: “When a doctoral student at Princeton asked, …
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Are You Afraid and Lonely? Pray!
Reading Time: 5 minutes Prayer is to our relationship with God as sex is to a relationship with a spouse. Like sex, prayer can skim along the surface and be about what you get out of it. Or it can be intimate, vulnerable, passionate, diving deep into the mystery of two becoming one.
Simple but Powerful Daily Disciplines for Thriving in this Crisis
Reading Time: 5 minutes The experts say washing your hands and keeping social distance are key to staying physically healthy in this crisis. Amen! But are there less obvious, more abstract daily disciplines that will help us navigate these turbulent and dangerous times?
People and Words Leaving their Mark
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chloe Hawker wrote the stirring poem below about her mother’s, Lisa Hawker, influence on her. The imagery is surprising and …
What if Everyday Was Earth Day? Or Heaven on Earth Day?
Reading Time: 4 minutes I live in Colorado. I’m not bragging. Just sayin’. 19th Century Denver entrepreneur Frederick Bonfils once crowed, “‘Tis a privilege …
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Dealing with Diabetes: Spiritual Living and Physical Health
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Eugene C. Scott My doctor glanced down at my chart. “Did anyone tell you you have type 2 diabetes?” …
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Loneliness and the Lost Art of Deep Friendships
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Eugene C. Scott What do the TV shows “Seinfeld,” “I Love Lucy,” “Cheers,” and “Friends,” all have in common? …
How Running and Living Spiritually Go Hand In Hand: Three Practical Ways To Live Spiritually
Reading Time: 4 minutes Today’s guest blogger, Brendan Scott, is my son and the quasi-instigator of this “living spiritually” experiment. He gave me a journal for …