February 16, 2018 at 8:48 pm by Scott Roberts
Can you imagine having personal training sessions with one of the world’s leading authorities? Let’s say you were a teenage swimmer, with lofty goals to one day become an Olympic contender. What if by the best fortune you’ve ever been given, you were able to pull in the services of none other than Michael Phelps…
January 23, 2018 at 1:33 pm by Scott Roberts
Memes are stupid. Memes are dangerous. As fun and often humorous as these passed-around images on the internet can sometimes be, memes are one of the multitude of things that are causing society to become more divisive and decay faster into an unrecognizable mass of dung. Why? Well, for starters, hardly anybody fact-checks memes, pics or screenshots of comments or tweets that are shared around social media quicker than…
December 15, 2017 at 12:00 pm by Scott Roberts
The psychological and counseling fields have a dizzying array of phrases and terms which are commonly employed by its practitioners. One such concept that’s bandied about, especially in recovery circles, are four major conditions into which people can fall, putting them into a state of weakness, thereby making them more susceptible to fall back into addiction. These make up the acronym H.A.L.T.. They are Hunger, Anger, Loneliness and Tiredness…
November 28, 2017 at 8:30 pm by Scott Roberts
Married with two young children, I sold off all of my beloved guitar gear to stay afloat financially. The Van Halen-themed and guitar-oriented websites were decimated off of the interwebs. And my dream of ever making it professionally as a musician had sailed away almost a decade earlier. The practice of me performing music was personally dead, yet somewhere deep down in the recesses of my soul I knew that at some point in my life…
November 12, 2017 at 9:00 pm by Scott Roberts
An enormous part of who am I, or at the very least, who I wanted to be at one point, is a guitar player.
I had been severely bitten by the guitar bug somewhere around the tender age of twelve, right at the height of Van Halen’s massive popularity, before vocalist David Lee Roth left the group in 1985.
Read more...November 01, 2017 at 6:35 am by Scott Roberts
When I was a teenager, I was taught by my mom to revere the Bible. It was good that she instilled in me a healthy respect for Holy Scripture, as it is, of course, the inspired Word of God; here is 2 Timothy 3:16-17, which I often quote: “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.” [emphasis mine] In doing so, my mother perhaps took this reverence thing a little too far. She stressed to me to never place other over books physically on top of any Bible. For example, if I were carrying a pile of books or resting them on a table, and a Bible was one of them, then God’s Word needed to always on top and out in front. To do otherwise was to show great disrespect…
October 09, 2017 at 8:45 pm by Scott Roberts
Let’s face a sobering fact: We as followers of Jesus now dwell in a post-Christian world. In Western society, we are no longer the majority, therefore when it comes to related sociological constructs such as marriage, sex, politics, and morality in general, Christians – especially those of us in America – are losing the influence we once had in decades past.
So how are we as believers supposed to interact in society that’s exponentially growing and promoting things that are the antithesis of Christian thought and Christian values? This blazingly wonderful and crucial concept is definitely begging for more coverage in books and sermons.
David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons try to tackle this matter in their book “Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You’re Irrelevant and Extreme.” Do they succeed at giving this crucial topic it deserves? Read on to find out…
Read more...September 13, 2017 at 10:23 pm by Scott Roberts
Quite possibly the single greatest problem that has ever plagued mankind is the sin of pride. The iniquity of taking our focus off of God and applying it to ourselves in the guise of self-love and self-reliance is something that goes literally back to the Garden of Eden.
Adam and Eve were deceived by Satan’s lie that by doubting God and going our own way, Eve could “be like God’ (Genesis 3:5). As a result of this very act…
Read more...July 26, 2017 at 7:05 pm by Scott Roberts
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. – 2 Timothy 3:16-17
If you are in any way a follower of Jesus Christ, digging into Scripture is an absolute must for essential Christian living, and…
Read more...July 25, 2017 at 3:13 pm by Scott Roberts
We’ve all heard sorrowful tales of how certain Christian leaders and congregation members practice hypocrisy, psychological manipulation, shaming, criticism and rejection towards newer church goers.
This feeling of hurt, dejection and betrayal of the most often heard reasons why people leave the church and shun organized religion.
“Wounded in the Church: Hope Beyond the Pain,” by Chris Hayward and Ray Beeson, was written to address these issues.
The book is rooted in Biblical truth and the Gospel, and…
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