To be sincere isn’t enough …
Loading your mind with positive sayings and happy platitudes will not transform your life. That fact has brought about a lot of disappointment to many people. They […]
16
Jul
2015
All posts by
James Scott, Jr.
15
Jul
2015
Are you as stubborn as a horse with God?
Stormy was a beautiful, spotted Appaloosa stallion my dad owned for a while when I was a kid. He was everything you would think of about a […]
14
Jul
2015
A student learns the church has dropped the ball …
It’s now seven weeks into the eight-week online “Relational Evangelism” course offered through Hope International University. One of the students read a threaded discussion question that asked, […]
12
Jul
2015
Better than a spiritual sherpa …
You may have read about how in May, 1953, two men became the first in history to climb to the top of Mt. Everest; Edmund Hillary, a […]
11
Jul
2015
The power of decision …
Real change doesn’t happen until we make a decision. A decision to believe. A decision to trust. A decision to accept. A decision to embrace. A decision […]
10
Jul
2015
Why God commands …
God doesn’t make suggestions, He gives commands. Jesus — God in the flesh — also gave us commands. For some reason, it seems to “freak out” many […]
07
Jul
2015
How to lack nothing …
Math was my worst subject in school. Since then, I’ve discovered mathematics to be far more fascinating than I ever thought back then. I still stay far […]
02
Jul
2015
Fixing your thoughts …
Every shot I took missed the intended target. Recently I spent a week at a campsite in the middle of nowhere outside of San Diego. Because it’s […]
01
Jul
2015
Replacing the urgent with the important …
Some “old sayings” become old because they have an enduring nugget of truth in them. Take, for example, the old saying, “Can’t see the forest for the […]
30
Jun
2015
God of the conversation …
On my Twitter feed today a person professing to be a Christian posted a picture of a rainbow flag on fire and suggested such flags be burned. […]