We got up Friday morning with plans to see and do everything we couldn’t see and do over Christmas and Boxing Day, driving through and experiencing many of the places we had already been by. We headed up the coast past the old castle at Dunseverick, of which only a single tower remains, the site…
Today we took an hour long drive to the city of Londonderry, where my grandmother grew up. The city was the central location for English expansion into Northern Ireland, and the site of many of the troubles between Northern and Southern Ireland. Upon entering the city we drove around to see where my grandmother grew…
We expected stores to be closed down for Christmas. We even expected most places to be closed on Christmas Eve. What we did not expect was that everything will still be closed the day after Christmas, a day affectionately known as Boxing Day. Now to those of you who are American, and have no idea…
Christmas Day started the way most Christmas Days start, with breakfast and presents. After eating a hearty breakfast, we headed up to the Giant’s Causeway. Usually the National Trust (UKs version of the National Park Service) tries to make people pay to visit the Causeway, something that has caused much controversy among the locals, who…
Today we woke up late, still battling jetlag. Right from the start it we could tell it would be a beautiful day. After a quick breakfast of Irish Soda Farls, we packed up and headed westward to the town of Portrush, a favorite summer vacation destination from my grandmother’s childhood. On the way we stopped…
Well, it finally happened. My family was able to take my grandmother back to Northern Ireland for Christmas. It has been several years since my grandmother has been back and decades since my father has been. For my mother, my brother, and I, it is our first time setting foot on the Emerald Isle. After…
1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. God remembered Noah. In the original Hebrew, the word “remembered” could be understood as “turning His attention to.” God had completed His…
1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. After Noah completes the ark, as per God’s instructions, God then commands Noah and his family to enter the ark. 2 Take with you seven pairs of all…
1 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Coming off of the first of several genealogies, as a prologue to the flood narrative, Scripture…
I live in a college town. I grew up in a college town. I have many friends who go to said college, or who work for said college. And I can often be found hanging around the college campus with friends. As a Christian in a college town, I have many friends who are not…