Author: Scott

Afraid of a Flood

I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Genesis 9:13 As a child, I remember being terrified of a catastrophic flood – a fear which was likely prompted by Sunday School stories of Noah and the ark. To my four-year-old mind,…
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God Remembers

But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. Genesis 8:1 In my addiction, I went to God, begging for miraculous transformation. I hated what I was doing but I was addicted…
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Don’t Leave Me Alone with Him

Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. Genesis 7:23 I like people, but I like them in small quantities. I do great in small groups, but I struggle at big parties. It’s my own personal nightmare to be made to mingle and make small talk in a crowded room.…
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I Can’t Go to Treatment. I Have a Job.

He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. Genesis 7:23 Enslaved to my addiction, I knew I needed to go to treatment. But how could I just take a month off work? Someone would notice if I simply…
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If I Need to Wear the T-Shirt

And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him. Genesis 7:5 If I wear a Minnesota Vikings t-shirt, you don’t assume that I’m claiming to be a member of the team. I’m simply a fan. If, however, I wear a t-shirt that says ATHLETE, I’m claiming something about myself. Well, it just so happens…
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When the Rain Begins

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Genesis 7:11-12 It’s always easy…
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Be Successful by Doing Nothing

Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.” Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him. Genesis 6:21-22 Occasionally, on TV or the radio, I’ll hear some Christian speaker preach a message that goes something like…
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If You Want the New Life

I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives…
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The Book I Didn’t Intend to Write

And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gopher wood.” Genesis 6:13-14 As you likely know, in 2020, Tristan Publishing released – Freedom in the Fight…
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Feeling Alone?

Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. . . Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. Genesis 6:9-11 Most people who know me, know that I’m quite vocal about my addiction and faith. If my name ever came up in conversation…
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