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Waiting on God in the Doctor’s Office

Dec 16, 2019 | God Sightings, healing, Jesus, Living Spiritually, miracles, story, Writing | 12 comments

I recently underwent a procedure. A prostate biopsy. Looking for cancer. I’m not a whiner, but the words that came to mind to describe it are painful and degrading. And, yes, I’m that old. The nurse asked my name, birthdate, and what procedure I was there for....

God Come Down: A Christmas Day Reflection

Dec 25, 2016 | Art, Bible, Christianity, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God, God Sightings, Jesus, Living Spiritually, miracles, Uncategorized | 4 comments

King David was, as usual, in trouble. Somebody or something was after him. Swords, spears, poison, royal duplicity. Or doubts and devils of the internal kind. Not so different from me, or you I suspect. On any given day we need God now and in force....

My Heart Attack, the Barr Brothers, and Prayer

May 20, 2016 | healing, Living Spiritually, miracles, Uncategorized | 6 comments

The poetry of the Barr Brothers’ song Beggar in the Morning brought me to my knees. It resonates like a rueful modern psalm. The music is a prayer too, pulsing and ringing behind the words like a crippled but hopeful heartbeat crying out to God. Or maybe I hear the...

What Would You Say to a Resurrected Lady?

Sep 27, 2012 | adventure, Art, authenticity, Bible, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God Sightings, Jesus, Living Spiritually, miracles, Uncategorized | 2 comments

When I was in ninth grade, a friend and I climbed over the fence of a drive-in theater to watch a movie. Not because we didn’t have enough money. Because the drive-in was showing a movie we weren’t allowed to see. Allen Funt of the family friendly TV show “Candid...

To See the Stars: A True Christmas Story of a Dying Boy's Final Wish

Dec 14, 2011 | Art, authenticity, bible conversation, care, Christianity, Eugene C. Scott, God Sightings, Jesus, miracles, Uncategorized | 4 comments

By Eugene C. Scott The following is a fictionalized version of a true story I read in one of the Denver newspapers when I was a boy. He was just an electrician, blue-collar, working class. Other men were teachers, doctors, lawyers, important. Making big decisions in...

Harry Potter, Steve Jobs and the Danger of Magical Thinking

Oct 26, 2011 | adventure, Art, authenticity, belonging, bible conversation, Books, care, Christianity, Community, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God Sightings, healing, Literature, miracles, Uncategorized | 6 comments

By Eugene C. Scott I was first introduced to J. K. Rowling and the Harry Potter books by a worried mother in my congregation in Tulsa. “Pastor, what do you think of these Harry Potter books?” This was not a neutral question. “I haven’t read them,” I answered. “They’re...

Eugene C. Scott

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Waiting on God in the Doctor’s Office

God Come Down: A Christmas Day Reflection

My Heart Attack, the Barr Brothers, and Prayer

What Would You Say to a Resurrected Lady?

To See the Stars: A True Christmas Story of a Dying Boy's Final Wish

Harry Potter, Steve Jobs and the Danger of Magical Thinking

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