Everything Made Beautiful with Shannon Scott

Shannon S. Scott
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In Ecclesiastes 3:11, we read that God makes everything beautiful in its time. It is comforting to know that nothing is wasted in God's economy, but all of it will be used for our good and His glory. You're invited to join us for poignant conversations and compelling interviews centered on believing for His beauty in every season.

  1. EMB EP67 | Gritty Grace with Ro Elliott

    5d ago

    EMB EP67 | Gritty Grace with Ro Elliott

    Some stories don't fit neatly into a testimony card. Ro Elliott's story is one of them. In this episode, Ro sits down with me to walk through a life marked by unexpected loss, hard-won faith, and the kind of redemption that only makes sense in hindsight. Ro grew up in a tightly-knit Italian Catholic family outside New York City before her father's job transfer landed them in the deeply unfamiliar terrain of East Tennessee where she encountered Protestants, Baptist churches on every corner, and eventually, Jesus. What followed wasn't a neat conversion story. It was a slow unraveling and rebuilding that touched every part of her life,  and yet… Ro kept her grip on the God those communities had distorted, asked him hard questions, and found her way back, not just to church, but to genuine healing and community. This conversation is honest, unhurried, and full of the kind of hope that has actually been tested. If you're in the middle of your own hard story, this one's for you. Ro’s Website: https://www.roelliottconsulting.com/ Ro on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roelliott/

    57 min
  2. EMB EP 66 | Dormancy Is Not Death (Part 3)

    May 25

    EMB EP 66 | Dormancy Is Not Death (Part 3)

    In the South, you can drive down the same road and see both of them… Spanish moss and kudzu… sometimes on the same stretch of trees. Both draped. Both familiar. Both so much a part of the landscape that most people don't look twice. But up close, everything is different. One takes nothing. One eventually collapses what it climbs. One rests and receives. One covers until you can no longer see the shape of what was there. This final episode in the Dormancy Is Not Death series holds both plants in the same hand. And the question I keep coming back to, the one I'm asking myself and asking you, is simple: which one am I tending right now? Because the honest middle most of us are actually living in is that we have some of both. There are places in our lives where we've genuinely learned to rest and receive. And there are places where something has been growing longer than we intended and covering more than we realized. I also want to tell you about the bald cypress, the tree that drops every needle in winter and looks completely, entirely dead, and why it might be the most important image in this whole series for anyone who's standing in their own stripped-bare season right now. This episode ends with three questions. They're not homework. They're an honest invitation to look at your own landscape and tell yourself the truth about what you see. Shannon’s Website: https://www.shannonsuzannescott.com/Shannon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shannonsscott/

    20 min
  3. EMB EP 65 | Dormancy Is Not Death (Part 2)

    May 18

    EMB EP 65 | Dormancy Is Not Death (Part 2)

    If you've driven through the South, you know the image… entire treelines swallowed whole, every individual form buried under a mass of relentless green. That's kudzu. And I think most of us have some version of it growing in the interior landscape of our lives. Here's the part that I couldn't shake when I started researching this: kudzu wasn't snuck in. It was invited. Celebrated, actually. The U.S. government paid farmers to plant it in the 1930s because it looked like a solution to a real problem. By the 1950s it was classified as a weed. By the 1970s, a federal pest. What was subsidized and welcomed became what devoured the landscape. That's the episode. Because the things that do the most damage in our lives are rarely the things we chose in obvious rebellion, they're the things we welcomed in because they looked like solutions. The coping mechanism that made total sense in the season we adopted it. The way of thinking about ourselves that started as protection and became a prison. And here's the harder truth I had to say out loud first. You can deal with the vine all day long. Cut it, name it, make a commitment. But if you don't deal with the root, it simply waits and resends. The kudzu root goes seven feet deep and weighs four hundred pounds. The vine is just evidence. The root is the conversation. This one's a little uncomfortable. But I think it's the kind of uncomfortable that's actually really good for us. Shannon’s Website: https://www.shannonsuzannescott.com/Shannon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shannonsscott/

    20 min
  4. EMB EP 64 | Dormancy Is Not Death (Part 1)

    May 11

    EMB EP 64 | Dormancy Is Not Death (Part 1)

    I was standing outside in Florida looking at the trees when it hit me. That gray, ghostly draping hanging off the branches stopped me in my tracks. And my first thought was: that's dead, right? Wrong. Completely wrong. And what I found out next sent me down a rabbit hole that turned into this episode. What most of us call Spanish moss isn't a moss at all. It's a flowering plant (an air plant) with no root system in the ground, no connection to the tree it rests on, and no need to take anything from what holds it. It draws everything it needs straight from the atmosphere. And those gray threads that look so lifeless? Wet them, and the whole plant turns green. The life was there the entire time. You just couldn't see it in the dry season. I think a lot of us are in dry seasons right now. And I think a lot of us have been misreading them. We look at stillness and call it death. We look at dormancy and conclude something is fundamentally, permanently wrong. We do it to ourselves and we do it to the people we love. So this episode is my case (biblically and botanically) for why that diagnosis is almost always wrong. Dormancy is not death. And I think you need to hear that today. Shannon’s Website: https://www.shannonsuzannescott.com/Shannon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shannonsscott/

    20 min
  5. EMB EP63 | Joining Jesus with Tim Timmons

    May 4

    EMB EP63 | Joining Jesus with Tim Timmons

    Tim Timmons was given five years to live over two decades ago. He is still living with cancer, but he is also one of the most genuinely free people I have ever had a conversation with. You might know Tim from Even If, one of the most honest songs about suffering and faith written in the last decade. What you may not know is that he co-wrote it while actively living the question. Not hypothetically. Not as a songwriter fishing for a good lyric, but as someone who was in it when he wrote it. Now there's a film, I Can Only Imagine 2, with Milo Ventimiglia playing Tim. And one of the most disarming things Tim said in this conversation was what it felt like to sit in a theater, watch someone else suffer as him, and finally grieve things he'd just been pushing through for years. We talk about the X he writes on his wrist every single morning, not a tattoo, a daily practice, as well as what it means to stop building your own little suburb in the kingdom of God and just join what Jesus is already doing.  Most importantly, we talk about what it means to have faith on the days you're only 75% sure any of this is real. Tim's honesty about that alone is worth the listen. Tim’s Website: https://www.timtimmonsmusic.com/Tim on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timmonsmusic/Tim’s Book: https://tinyurl.com/yajmp86nTim’s Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/tim-timmons/161283355Tim on QAVA: https://qava.tv/imagine

    1h 2m
  6. EMB EP 62 | Lost No More with Ashley Martin

    Apr 27

    EMB EP 62 | Lost No More with Ashley Martin

    Ashley Martin is a teacher-turned writer and speaker, and she is not writing from a safe distance. She is writing from the wreckage and the redemption of her own life. I've spent time with Ashley, I've heard her story, and I've now read her book. And I can tell you: this one is real. Ashley's story starts in a seventh-grade pew, feeling completely alone in a room full of people. It winds through almost two decades of using alcohol to fill a hole that was always there, a God-shaped one. And it bottoms out at 3 a.m. in a detox center, suicidal, broken, and finally out of answers. Which is exactly where God showed up. In this conversation, we talk about what young Ashley was really searching for and how alcohol became the answer for nearly 20 years. We talk about the moment she finally surrendered, and what she said to a nurse in that detox center that stopped the room cold. We talk about running from a calling not because you doubt God, but because you doubt yourself. About perfectionism as a spiritual trap. About the difference between managing your life and living it surrendered. We also get into her book Lost No More, built around three pillars she calls surrender, prayer, and service, and what it practically looks like to build a daily path to God that doesn't require perfection to maintain. One of my favorite lines from the whole conversation: prayer is the GPS, not the spare tire. That one hit me hard. And we talk about what God has done on the other side of her rock bottom. Because that part of the story is just as important as the wreckage. This episode is for anyone who has been filling a hole with something that was never meant to fill it. Get Ashley's book, Lost No More, and follow her.  Ashley’s Website: https://ashleymartinministry.com/Ashley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashleymartinministry/Ashley’s Book: https://tinyurl.com/3crf3sz8

    46 min
  7. EMB EP61 | Never Alone with Rachel Faulkner Brown

    Apr 20

    EMB EP61 | Never Alone with Rachel Faulkner Brown

    I've known Rachel Faulkner Brown for close to 25 years. I still remember standing on a sidewalk at a retreat, hearing her casually drop the details of her story, and staring with my mouth open, because Rachel was full of joy as she told her unbelievable story. Here's what you need to know going in: by the time Rachel was 31, she had been widowed twice. But the grief isn't actually the headline. Because underneath all of it was something Rachel had been carrying alone since childhood, a secret she had quietly made a deal with God never to tell. And as long as she kept it, she kept performing. Out-serving everyone. Never fully known, not even by the two men she'd loved and lost. We talk about what it took for that to change, what it means to encounter the actual gospel instead of the performance-based version so many of us were handed, and how a Kroger meltdown cracked something open that two decades of Bible studies hadn't touched. We also get into Never Alone Widows, now the largest Christian widows ministry in the US with chapters in over 90 cities, and her new Bible study Seen: From Desperation to Destiny. This one is for anyone who is grieving, performing, or quietly wondering if anyone actually knows them. Enjoy this vulnerable and freeing conversation! Rachel’s Website: https://www.rachelfaulknerbrown.com/ Rachel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachelfaulknerbrown Never Alone Widows: https://www.neveralonewidows.com/Seen Bible Study: https://www.neveralonewidows.com/seenWidow’s Might Devotional: https://www.rachelfaulknerbrown.com/bookThere is More Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/there-is-more/id1599884540

    53 min
  8. EMB EP60 | The Unseen Battle with Dr. Joel Muddamalle

    Apr 13

    EMB EP60 | The Unseen Battle with Dr. Joel Muddamalle

    I’m so grateful to have Dr. Joel Muddamalle on the podcast. He has a gift for making theology genuinely accessible without dumbing it down. Real scholarship plus real humility. That combination is rarer than it should be. Joel holds a PhD in theology, serves as Director of Theology and Research at Proverbs 31 Ministries, co-hosts the Therapy and Theology podcast with Lysa TerKeurst and Jim Cress, and is the author of The Unseen Battle, which is exactly what we get into today. We start with humble theology and what it actually means to come to Scripture in submission rather than mastery. Then we move into spiritual warfare, and if you grew up in a church that either blamed everything on the enemy or avoided the subject entirely, this conversation is going to reframe a lot. Joel frames spiritual warfare not as individual skirmishes, but as a long-running conflict between rival households: God's family versus a counterfeit one ruled by rebel powers. We also talk about isolation as one of the enemy's most effective tactics, the tension of living in the already-but-not-yet, and how to wait well in the middle of prolonged seasons that just won't resolve. Listen to this episode and then get the book. And go ahead and get the paper copy so you can underline it. Dr. Joel’s Website: https://www.muddamalle.com/Dr. Joel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/muddamalle/Dr. Joel on Substack: https://humbletheology.muddamalle.com/Dr. Joel’s Books and Bible Studies: https://www.muddamalle.com/booksTherapy and Theology Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/therapy-and-theology/id1641587501

    52 min
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In Ecclesiastes 3:11, we read that God makes everything beautiful in its time. It is comforting to know that nothing is wasted in God's economy, but all of it will be used for our good and His glory. You're invited to join us for poignant conversations and compelling interviews centered on believing for His beauty in every season.

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