Kevin Skillern

What has always struck me as central in Jesus’ words in scripture is his call to “follow me”, “learn from me”, “go and do likewise” etc. By all means, search out where you believe the Church is in its fullest expression. But don’t just larp as a genuine follower of Christ. “But be transformed…” †

21.05.2025 03:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But in real life you’ll find a lot of genuine believers across these traditions just trying to hold their best convictions about true, proper worship amidst a divided Church. And it occurs to me that a person can be in any one of these traditions and be larping as a genuine disciple of Jesus Christ.

21.05.2025 03:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If you spend a little time in the internet debates around the “One True Church,” you’ll notice a lot of talk about “larpers.” For instance, Eastern Orthodox will say that Western-Riters are just Catholics larping as Orthodox. Or Catholics will say that Anglo-Catholics are just larping as Catholics.

21.05.2025 03:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

One evening a couple weeks ago, my daughter grabbed the BCP and proceeded to read the entire liturgy of the Eucharist to us. She knows a lot of it by heart now.

When she was done, she closed the book and said, “I’m the Anglican of this church!”

27.02.2025 15:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

@acskillern.bsky.social , me, and the kiddos are taking advantage of this 60° weather out here in CO. Happy St. Matthias feast day to you all 🙏

24.02.2025 23:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Sharing for those who need a good laugh in these times. Another fun theological convo my girls initiated about Mary today.

“So, God has a mom?”

Me: “Well, yes and no. Jesus has an earthly mom.”

“But Dad, Mary’s in the Apostle’s Creed!”

😂One thing’s sure, they're firm on Jesus divinity. He’s God!

21.02.2025 03:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@acskillern.bsky.social has a great immune system. Which also means, when sickness hits our house, she gets stuck doing a lot of the hard work, especially caregiving for our oldest.

Watching her do the unseen work, the work our Lord sees, is just one of the many reasons I love and admire her.

07.02.2025 22:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I preached on Luke 4 yesterday, when our long-awaited King comes to the synagogue, reads from the prophet Isaiah, and addresses the people. We talked about being born again through faith and baptism into a new people, and what it looks to be his unique people in our time, set apart from the nations.

03.02.2025 16:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Amen and amen.

22.01.2025 00:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My six year old said to me this morning, “Dad, is God one God in three persons?”

Me: Yes

“Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?”

Me: Yep, exactly!

Then off to finish some cereal. Just a casual morning convo.

04.01.2025 16:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think more significant for me than the New Year was the beginning of the Church year, as this Advent at our church plant was our first Advent back in a proper church setting since before the pandemic. What a testament it is to God’s faithfulness to our family this past year. Happy New Year friends

01.01.2025 04:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

One from the brothers at Westmalle Abbey in Belgium. Is my Bluesky account gonna be for posting nerdy, churchly stuff? You betcha!

31.12.2024 03:57 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0