It’s that awesome time of the year when we get to reflect. Thanksgiving is powerful stuff because it gives perspective a chance to seep in and set us straight and change our minds about all the worry and negativity we typically tend toward. Get the Rx for all that in this week’s edition of Real Life Matters!
The Milky Way galaxy is over six-hundred-trillion miles across. But our home galaxy is just one of some hundred-thousand-million galaxies seen using modern telescopes. It’s big out there. But there is so much more… Grab the BIG November 16 broadcast/podcast now!
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. In other words, sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is just start. Learn the power of “just start” in this edition of Real Life Matters.
Ever been through the desert of doubt? Ever had a crisis of faith? Can doubt sometimes be a good thing? Mark Scott says YES on this edition of Real Life Matters.
Ever heard someone say, “Wow, she really let herself go!” Sometimes it feels like we’re slipping. How do we keep from letting ourselves go in every area of life—spiritually, physically, educationally, even aesthetically? Learn how in this week’s edition of Real Life Matters.
Jesus often set a course for the wilderness. As did Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Elijah, and John the Baptizer. There’s something about the wilderness that brings you face to face with reality—as God defines it. This week on Real Life Matters, Mark Scott makes the case for wilderness; that seeking it out will make you different, better, stronger, braver, and definitely more appreciative.
Timing is everything. “Every purpose under heaven” has an appropriate season, or duration. In this edition of Real Life Matters, Mark talks about the seasons of life and how to live these seasons through with hope and optimism.
In this edition of Real Life Matters, Mark Scott talks frankly about our “drives” and why they are so difficult to satisfy. Is God some killjoy? Why does God make us with built-in drives only to restrict us from going all-out carte blanche?
What will you do when life inevitably hands you tough times? Some people throw up their hands and throw in the towel. But there are a few who take their hard times and change the world. In this edition of Real Life Matters, Mark Scott takes a look at a few people who chose to see opportunity instead of adversity. Maybe you’re next?
Some don’t like the language of God as “Father.” One reason is that bad dads make this image hard to accept; a second is that some people get all hung up on the gender thing. In this edition of Real Life Matters, Mark deals with his Daddy Issues.
Did you know that the word “thank” originally stems from the word “think”? Mark Scott helps us really think about how powerful thanks is. It, in fact, has the power to change many things. Benefit from the power of think-thank today.
Finding True Happiness, Part 3
What if your every debt were canceled overnight? Your mortgage, car payment, credit card debt, gone. Talk about true happiness! There is actually even better news than that available to you, right now. Listen…
Finding True Happiness, Part 2
Mark talks about a topic that could sound fluffy to some folks. But there is nothing fluffy about the happiness that comes from knowing that you are totally, 100% forgiven. Are you? Listen…
Finding True Happiness, Part 1
What makes people happy? In this edition of Real Life Matters, Mark Scott looks at pop-notions of happiness and compares them with what the scriptures say about happiness. You really can find the truest kind of happiness ever…
When God Feels a Million Miles Away
Ever felt far from God? What we can’t typically see in those times is this basic truth: Far from God is often closer to God than you think and there is usually a powerful reason that God is letting you go through this. This edition of Real Life Matters has been heavily requested because of the powerful encouragement it offers.
Are you ripe for some straight talk on fear? A lot of people live with a sense of it lurking in the background. Others deal with it in the foreground and are immobilized by it. There is a way to deal with fear in a productive way. Learn how on this edition of Real Life Matters.
In this humorous edition of Real Life Matters, Mark Scott takes a look at all of the things out there that promise to satisfy. Do they ultimately measure up? You decide.
Never really stays there. It follows you. It haunts you. It hurts you. Don’t ask me how I know. See, I wasn’t always a clean-cut preacher boy. My band rocked. But what I really learned was that the goods that Vegas-and-the-like are peddling are all empty and ultimately unsatisfying. This edition is timely and relevant.
We count our years at each birthday, but God tells us to number our days (Ps. 90:12). There was an article entitled, “If You Are 35, You Have 500 Days to Live.” The idea is when you subtract the time spent sleeping, working, and other miscellaneous time-stealers, in the next thirty-six years (based upon a life expectancy of 71) you only have five hundred days left to spend as you wish. On this edition of Real Life Matters, get tips on how best to spend these days!
