Tag: bible
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King of Hearts
In just a couple of weeks, our sweet baby girl, Melody Joy Skelly, will be here with us. As I reflect on the past year or so, I am unspeakably grateful for the way the Lord has worked to change my heart and my perspective with regards to having children. This post tells the story…
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The Lord Is My Shepherd
Exercising patience, gratitude, and trusting the Lord can be a steep upward climb sometimes, but during a very trying season of life, I woke up one day kindly consoled by God. A peace that surpassed all understanding had been graciously and divinely applied like a salve by the Great Physician… though life still looked the…
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Scratchpad | 1
In my personal daily Bible study, I have been going through the book of Jeremiah. I’m pretty far into the book now and God has finally pronounced judgment upon the people of Judah for their wickedness, their evil, their refusal to trust God, coupled with their insistence on trusting in man, and worshipping false gods,…
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Puzzled
This past Christmas, Fior and I went home to Las Vegas to be with our families for a couple weeks, as we usually do. It was a great time of rest from work and school. Since we were visiting for so long, there was a decent amount of down time each day. My sister-in-law, Gaby,…
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The Bias of the Will
In the middle of the fourth-century Arian crisis — when the full divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ was being denied, weakened, or redescribed in ambiguous ways — St. Hilary, bishop of Poitiers, was exiled in 356 under the emperor Constantius II. It was during that exile in Asia Minor that he composed De Trinitate, one…
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Team Jesus
I have played sports all my life. Growing up, it was mainly baseball, with some basketball on the side for fun, and for the extra cardio. When my baseball career ended, I picked up golf, and I also began to play way more basketball than I ever had before. I started at the UNLV gym…
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The King has Spoken
This article gathers my reflections on a particular approach to apologetics, shaped largely by what I have learned from reading Catholic theologians and Catholic writings. My hope is that this method can serve all Christians —deepening our common witness, for the glory of God and the love of others. Setting the Scene Imagine someone you…
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Daily Thoughts | 1
Every December, my wife and I read through the gospel of Luke for “advent reading.” There are 24 days in December leading up to Christmas, and it happens to be the case that there are 24 chapters in the gospel of Luke, so we read one chapter per day starting on December 1st, and finishing…
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Good Grief
The monstrous clouds had billowed in and brought with them the rain.The forecast promised sunny skies, but those were done away. I saw it not approaching—the thunderous night ahead.Hatches best be battened down lest comfort turn to dread. I sheltered in and lit a fire to wait this tempest out.But soon the gale began to…
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Don’t Blame Jesus
“If Christianity is true why are not all Christians obviously nicer than all non-Christians? … If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man’s outward actions — if he continues to be just as snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before — then I think we must suspect that his…
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One Free Miracle
“Modern science is based on the principle: ‘Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.’” – Terence McKenna I often meet people who are hesitant to affirm or accept the Bible as true and authoritative because (they claim) they cannot get themselves to believe in the miraculous. “Do you really believe that Noah…
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Prayer Changes Everything
Believer, Sometimes prayer changes things with time, and sometimes prayer changes things in a moment, but prayer always, always changes things . What’s more, what prayer changes isn’t always, firstly, our circumstances, but us and our perspective. When I was younger, I had a sincere and well-meaning, but weak, view and understanding of prayer —…
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