Is this a season of omission for the church?
A common complaint about the church from many of its members is that leaders keep congregants too busy in an endless parade of programs, not allowing enough […]
11
Jun
2017
Articles by Dr. James Scott, Jr.
Scott Free Clinic Blog
10
Jun
2017
Purpose, destiny, and answering the big why …
What is my purpose? What is my destiny? Why do I exist? Those are the monumental questions to the human experience. Referring to the right source for […]
09
Jun
2017
He restores our souls …
There’s no greater experience a human can have than that of being saved from sin by His Creator … “For he has rescued us from the kingdom […]
09
Jun
2017
Choosing your attitude …
It was Viktor Frankl, the Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who endured the horrors of a concentration camp as a Holocaust survivor, who said, “Everything can be taken […]
07
Jun
2017
Why I think bi-vocational ministry is a bad idea when it isn’t necessary …
A new idea gaining some traction in vocational ministry these days is purposely choosing to be a bi-vocational minister when making that choice isn’t necessary. I think […]
06
Jun
2017
Bad medicine …
You may have read about how, in 1982, seven residents of the greater Chicago area made an assumption that proved fatal. They all took a dose of […]
02
Jun
2017
Tagged by Jesus …
If, as a child of God, you overcome all this world has to throw at you, then Jesus will have a unique reward for you! Do you […]
01
Jun
2017
BOOK REVIEW: “The Inkblots” is a dual biography drowned in excessive context …
In my more than 30 years as a clinical therapist, I’ve never used inkblots as a personality test. Like most people, I was familiar with the blotted […]
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May
2017
When you think you understand — but you really don’t understand …
An article I read this past week claims that about forty percent of Millennials get their news from Facebook. While reading that, I had to wonder if […]
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May
2017
What to do when a minister has mentally and emotionally checked out …
I stumbled across an odd little story that didn’t have an identified source, but the subject matter caught my attention … “Then you don’t think I practice […]