We start a bunch of things during our daily lives.  We start a new day when we wake up.  We often start a new task, project or even a new job.  We may start a new relationship or start a conversation with a beloved family member or friend.  Sometimes we have to start treatment for Read more

I recently heard a sermon about the Holy Spirit and the impact it had on early church.  There were a couple of points in the sermon that really spoke to me.  The first point was not an “ah-ha” for me but it did convict me.  The point was that like the early Church, we are Read more

“I ask that we love one another.  And this is love: that we walk in obedience to His commands. As you have heard from the beginning, His command is that you walk in love.” 2 John 5-6 Last year on this day, I launched this website.  I didn’t do this because I was equipped or trained to build a Read more

We have now completed Lent, Holy Week and Easter Sunday.  As always, revisiting Christ’s journey to the cross and out of the tomb always seems to re-awaken, refresh and even deepen my gratitude for the mercy and grace that we have been given in Him.  Once Easter is over, however, I seem to lose that Read more

Over the last week or so, I have been thinking about how the events of Holy Week so clearly reflect the fulfillment of Old Testament prophesies about the coming of a Messiah.  This last Sunday, Palm Sunday, I was reminded of how passionately the Jewish people longed for the fulfillment of those prophecies. Jesus was Read more

As I struggled through the painting process this week, God, in His graciousness, taught me a lesson about His dominion.  It was a humbling lesson, as are most of the lessons that God gently teaches me! According to Merriam-Webster dominion means, “supreme authority, sovereignty, absolute ownership.”  Psalm 24:1 says, ‘The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, Read more

This painting was inspired in part by our recent visit to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.  The Falls are over a mile wide and the water plunges over 350 feet into a gorge.  With recent rains upstream the abundance of water plunging into the gorge was overwhelming and breathtaking. This abundance started me thinking about Jesus’ Read more

“I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys.  I will turn the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into springs.” Isaiah 41:18 God gave the prophet Isaiah the hopeful words above not only for the Israelites centuries ago but also for us.  God’s promise to provide life-giving water Read more

I’m going to start out today on a real cheerful note:  a lot of bad things happen to us as we go through life.  Sometimes the “badness” befalls us simply because we live in a broken world where disease, death, disasters and tragedies are all too common.  Sometimes, our tough times are the consequence of Read more

This week I was feeling discouraged about a painting.  Everything I was trying to do felt like an uphill struggle with little progress made. But in the midst of it, I still knew that God had a purpose and a plan for the painting.  So I kept working.  Sure enough, an image began to emerge Read more