Is this your first significant challenge of 2018?
I read a headline this morning that quipped, “New year, same issues.” Is that your first significant challenge of 2018? Are you dragging into the gift of […]
02
Jan
2018
All posts by
James Scott, Jr.
20
Dec
2017
BOOK REVIEW: A book of daily meditations I can recommend as a book, but not for daily meditations …
So many people love a good book full of daily devotional thoughts based on a scripture from the Bible. I, on the other hand, am slow and […]
11
Dec
2017
Free yourself from patterns and habits of irrational thinking …
As a Christian clinical therapist, I practice an integrative therapy that includes key elements from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). At the heart of CBT is a concise understanding […]
06
Dec
2017
A little encouragement for the more senior pastor who’s been doing it right for years …
Nearly all of the attention and encouragement given to pastors in conferences, podcasts, books, videos, or otherwise, is pointed to a stereotype of a younger pastor who […]
05
Dec
2017
Jesus had no tolerance for this …
E-Harmony, a premier online dating service, has a 19-question lie detection scale which is, according to the Wall Street Journal, “designed to weed out applicants who try […]
04
Dec
2017
BOOK REVIEW: “Citizen Newt” is more a career history than a biography …
Of all the political personalities I’ve observed over the last few decades, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is one who captured my attention — perhaps […]
04
Dec
2017
Confused by love …
What might you hear from a small group of Millennials, all close friends, as they sit around a table with various concoctions of coffee and snacks and […]
01
Dec
2017
The error in expecting God to make you happy …
We think of happiness as a great human “right,” after all, in the United States Declaration of Independence we find this great phrase: “We hold these truths […]
29
Nov
2017
Exploring the complexity of anger …
Whenever we think about anger, those thoughts usually aren’t positive. We tend to immediately think that anger is always bad, probably because the majority of our experiences […]
28
Nov
2017
Having a child-centered marriage can lead to marital drift …
The real-life scenario described by the couple who recently sat on a couch across from me isn’t an unusual one. We were in an office in a […]