The entrance to 170 has been my focus this week, and it still is not finished. This style of painting with acrylic requires several coats before it begins to look finished. I paint thinly as I dislike ridges of paint, especially if it has been...
A simple mistranslation of a word in 2 Thessalonians 2 could make this chapter confusing and rob us of hope, get it right and the whole chapter makes sense and purifies us with hope. This is how most modern English translations read as here in the...
I have had a much longer break than I intended. The week, just past, has been my ‘back to work’ week. I like a routine, I like music playing, usually some jazz that is not too difficult. I find Philip Glass very good for painting...
I have thought of myself as being a beachcomber of sorts. I imagine some recluse that lives on an isolated beach somewhere, maybe West Coast New Zealand down deep South with just bush and sea. He spends his days just walking the beach and seeing...
The title above is a clue to my initial thirty five year Christian journey. I have mostly read the bible every day as I am a routine sort of guy with an overly anxious sense of obligation to most things. When I was not being...
There is a wave coming, it is on the horizon, it is a wave of very good news and it will sweep through the churches. It is not about us, or any thing we do, it is a wave of the good news of our...
This week I have been busy painting mac-unions, short flare nuts, hex nipples and such like. It helped that I was once a fitter. Other than that I am about to send out my first newsletter where I ask my self some questions and then...
This is a very simple recipe, simple as far as the bread is concerned. I came across this parable in Luke 13, it may be the shortest parable Jesus told; Luke 12:20 ...
It feels good to be painting again. To get this website up and going took more time than I imagined. I like to get a few details established from the beginning , it seems to give me confidence, some forward momentum. Keep an eye on progress by signing up for...
I remember when I was young and reading comics I often came across a picture of Charles Atlas as the epitome of robust healthy manhood, the ‘before’ illustration was a skinny young man having sand kicked into his face by the local bully. This made...