Scarritt Bennett Center Blog

Live Your Life This Way!

Posted 8.28.20 - Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection, outdo one another in showing honor. Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord....

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Courageous Women

Posted 8.21.20 - The King of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him, but...

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Persistence and Faith

Posted 8.14.20 - Jesus went to the regions of Tyre and Sidon. A Canaanite woman from those territories came out and shouted, ”Show me mercy, Son of David. My daughter is suffering terrible from demon possession.” ...

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Walk on Water

Posted 8.7.20 - Very early in the morning Jesus came to his disciples walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified and said, “It’s a ghost!” They were so frightened they screamed....

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Give Them Some Food

Posted 7.31.20 - When Jesus arrived and saw a large crowd, he had compassion for them and healed those weho were sick. That evening his disciples came and said to him, “This is an isolated place and it’s getting late....

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God’s Love Is Ever With Us

Posted 7.20.20 - Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or swords? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep...

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Sowing Seeds of the Gospel

Posted 7.10.20 - Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up...

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Comfort and Rest

Posted 7.3.20 - Come to me, all you that are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your...

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A Lament For Our World

Posted 6.26.20 - How long will you forget me, Lord? Forever? How long will you high your face from me? How long will I be left to my own wits, agony filling my heart? Daily? ...

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Hagar And God’s Promises

Posted 6.19.20 - Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac. So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit...

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