by Scott Pruitt | Feb 7, 2017 | Youth Minister
My son, Jackson, and I are co-coaching Tyler’s basketball team this season, and it has definitely been an experience. For the past couple of weeks, we have been working extremely hard on layup drills. Although our team is 3-0, we still have plenty of improvement...
by Scott Pruitt | Jan 24, 2017 | Youth Minister
In the office is a popcorn machine. There is something about the smell of popcorn that draws the vast majority of the human race directly to it. I’ve also known some animals that love popcorn, too. When the popcorn is popping and the smell penetrates throughout the...
by Scott Pruitt | Jan 17, 2017 | Youth Minister
This past weekend, we had a small group leaders’ retreat at Hargis Christian Retreat Center, and it was full of energy, adventure, focus, distraction, and a time to create a masterpiece. We sang, got extremely distracted by a mouse running across the floor, attempted...
by Scott Pruitt | Jan 10, 2017 | Youth Minister
We are almost two weeks into the New Year. How is everyone doing with your resolutions? Sometimes we succeed. Sometimes we get knocked down and fail. In the words of Rocky Balboa in Rocky V, “when things get hard, don’t look for someone to blame. Nobody is going to...
by Scott Pruitt | Nov 29, 2016 | Youth Minister
This Saturday, we will meet at the building at 6:00 a.m. to prepare breakfast and load all the backpacks and sleeping bags into the buses to deliver to the homeless in downtown Birmingham at Linn Park. We will return to the building between 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. At...
by Scott Pruitt | Oct 11, 2016 | Youth Minister
It seems like yesterday that Whitney and I were racing to Northside Hospital in Atlanta, GA so she could give birth to our firstborn son, Jackson. In just a few more weeks, our boy will be turning 16 years old. For the past several months, I’ve been diligently...
