Sundays Coming Yesterday, we read about and celebrated the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. The account is found in Matthew 21:1-9, Mark 11:1-10, Luke 19:28-40, and John 12:12-18. And as we reflected on that moment, we also looked ahead to what happened throughout the course of the next week of Jesus’ … Read more
Light and Dark I hope it is not a secret that I love books and stories. In school, I was never very good at math or sciences, but usually excelled in history and literature. It’s a major reason why I chose to study Scripture at ACU (Abilene Christian University), and also why I rather enjoy … Read more
The Way Forward is Through This week, I have been thinking about the downward journey. The downward journey is a description of what Jesus did in participating in human life by becoming a man and living according to the same rules as the creation (well, kind of at least–I can’t remember the last time I … Read more
Jesus Is Lord The early Christians knew something. Something they passed on to new believers during their lives, and then those Christians passed on to new believers, and on and on it went. And what they knew had power. It had strength. It was a conviction which drove their actions and gave them the endurance … Read more
Peace I have always been fascinated by peace. Fascinated by the concept and fascinated by how Jesus calls his followers to a radical life of peace. In the beatitudes, Jesus encourages his followers saying, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9). For some reason, that has always been … Read more
Giving This last week, Christians all over the world began to prepare for Easter. On the Christian calendar, this is a season known as Lent, and it is a season in which we prepare for the resurrection by trying to understand the cross. By trying to understand our mortality. Mortality that is born from our … Read more
The Wilderness Experience Life has rhythms. We live in seasons. Spring. Summer. Fall. Winter. At Skillman, we are heavily emphasizing the idea of “living by faith” right now. That is our season. And as we seek to live into this rhythm, we know that other rhythms will try to push their way to the front … Read more
Fasting and Feasting Part Two On Saturday, we had the opportunity to participate in a fast together as a church body. Some fasted from food, others from technology or social media, still others fasted from the very idea of fasting! Whatever we fasted from, whether listed above or not, the point was not necessarily to … Read more
Fasting to Grow Closer to God Fasting is not a popular practice. In fact, it is a mostly forgotten practice, or one that is antiquated and out of date. It’s not the kind of thing that people usually look forward to in eager anticipation. But fasting has been a part of the Christian story since … Read more
Faithfulness Faith. In Greek, pistis. It’s a word that we dwelt upon in our family time together yesterday as a church. It’s a word that for hundreds and thousands of years has been something that we, as Christians, have relied upon and has been vital in our understanding of how we relate to God. But … Read more
