Unoriginal preaching …
Where’s the originality in today’s sermons? A disturbing trend I’ve seen among some pastors and church teachers is that, when preparing for a new sermon or sermon […]
18
Jun
2009
Articles by Dr. James Scott, Jr.
Scott Free Clinic Blog
18
Jun
2009
God is not a means to an end …
One of the ways many Christians disappoint themselves — and create a disappointment with God — is putting upon God inappropriate and unbiblical expectations. “If I do […]
16
Jun
2009
Cause no harm …
This evening I saw a dad leaving a store, his son directly behind him. What I couldn’t hear was an obvious disagreeable conversation going on between them. […]
15
Jun
2009
Remember this thing called truth? …
Philosophy is not biblical truth. Neither is “positive thinking” or any of the tidbits routinely thrown out for achieving “success.” Just because you “believe it” doesn’t mean […]
15
Jun
2009
Copy cat …
Give me directions and I can usually find any place I need to go. And if I drive there once, doing so again is usually no problem. […]
15
Jun
2009
Penetrating lives …
More than half of all Christians feel like they are not growing spiritually, according to the results of a couple researchers studying issues Christians face. Bad news! […]
10
Jun
2009
Big sins, little sins …
Keyboards have been blazing with new blog posts and tweets have been flying about the latest pastor who had an affair. Yes, it’s a terrible thing. Not […]
09
Jun
2009
The source of annoyance …
While living in Hawaii I made a visit back to the mainland to the northern California area where I had lived previously. Since I was in the […]
08
Jun
2009
Longevity v. Legacy …
What’s more important, the longevity of a church or its legacy? That was a question posed by a pastor in some reading I was doing some time […]
07
Jun
2009
An option to whacking them in the head …
My emotional desire was to smack my friend upside the head! But I didn’t. Since I moved back to the San Francisco bay area just over a […]