These are the words of David in response to God’s great promise of lovingkindness and an enduring house (2 Samuel 7.15-18).   What precipitated this gracious promise was David’s expressed desire to build God a house (2 Samuel 7.1-2).   In simple terms, David states that he is going to build a house for God, and God responds, “No, I will build a house for you.”  And this house, this Davidic dynasty, will endure forever.   “Death does not annul it; Sin cannot destroy it; time will not exhaust it” (2 Samuel 7.12-16).   …

I thought you would enjoy this article written by my son Sam…

Throughout the history of Christianity, many great apologists and philosophers have attempted to develop logical arguments to rationally demonstrate that God exists. One of the most notable of these attempts is that of St. Thomas Aquinas, who laid out several persuasive arguments for God’s existence in his multi-volume work Summa Theologica. No argument can really prove God’s existence, but cumulatively they can be very compelling and persuasive. One of the less well known of them but one I …

Here is a quick letter I wrote to a young man turning of age…
Jackson, I always loved that name… Jackson. It just seems to me to be a Man’s name… Jackson. Like Jackson Hole, or Jackson Wyoming. Places where men are still men.

You know, you probably don’t even remember me. The last time I spent time with you, you were just a toddler. And toddlers don’t remember much… unfortunately.

Your dad has asked me to give you an analogy; an analogy of the attributes of a Leatherman …

Here is another story for my kids….
My family did a lot of skiing at Mt. Bachelor in Bend, Oregon.  I have such great memories of those weekends.  As good Catholics, we could not miss mass on Sunday without committing a mortal sin, so we would all march in to the local parish church for the early service with our “clodhopper” ski boots on and our shabby ski outfits,  ready to hit the slopes right after the 42 minute service.
On Saturday nights, in the old town of Bend, we would go …

“In the beginning God created man in his own image, ever since we have been returning the favor.”
God is different from us.  Let’s get that straight. We are not God!
Let me give an illustration how different God is from us.  In Romans 12.19, Paul commands us to not take revenge, but to leave room for the wrath of God, and he quotes Deut. 32.35:  Vengeance is mine, I will repay.
What I get from this is that God, because of his infinite perfections, can act righteously in actions which we are …