Author: Christopher Scrufari

As you serve our great nation in the military are you embracing your career choice or questioning it? Maybe you’re asking; is this the right branch, the right MOS? How did I land at this duty station, or in this platoon? My brothers and sisters in Christ, I am writing to assure you that you… Continue reading Guardrails from Heaven

I must confess that I have been behaving badly through this election cycle. Oh, come on, why do we minimize our sin? Both in the attitude of my heart and the words that flowed out of it I have sinned against the LORD God through grumbling and complaining during this election cycle. The election isn’t… Continue reading The LORD’s Good Hand in All Our Troubles

Have you ever wondered why life can be exceedingly hard? In the most despairing season of my life I more than once sinfully raised angry fists shaking them at God crying out, “Why did you give me this woman!?!” (For the record, twenty-nine years later we are happily married, and I adore her more and… Continue reading Discipline: Punishment, or Something Else?

Military life offers plenty of opportunities to fear. Without question this world we live in provides endless sources of fear and opportunities to fear; for instance, pestilence, disease, famine, spiders, and snakes; as well as wars, bullets, hidden bombs, riots, and anarchy; indeed, even alleged friends who may be enemies in hiding. It is no… Continue reading In Christ: Fearless

My brothers and sisters in Christ serving in the military I want you to see that our trials can lead us to deeper fellowship with Christ. Trials put the Christian heart under fire. Live fire. Peter writes, “Beloved, do not be surprised by the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as… Continue reading Hearts Under Fire