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Category Archives: truth-seeker
Heaven
A couple weeks ago, the Children’s Director for our branch of Community Bible Study asked me to bring my art supplies in and paint a picture of Heaven for the children. Normally they try to act out the story for … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylics, art, art with God, art with toddlers, heaven, kale, tree
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Document
I’m doing the Documented Faith project this year, which so far means taking some time during the weekend to journal about what I’ve been thinking/praying about and do some intuitive-ish art. I’ve been posting to the facebook group, but I … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylics, art, documented faith, failing fast, faith, intuitive painting, new projects, printmaking, prothalamion
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Unraveled
Recent events have brought to light yet another set of lies and hurts that have been lurking in my brain and holding me back. This one was started by a teacher in elementary school (this teacher was a bit overbearing … Continue reading
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Tagged art, failing fast, freakonomics, God, healing, housekeeping, intuitive painting, prayer
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Resurrection and Nihilism
My family has a new tradition!! As Messianic Jews, we celebrate Passover every year, and not Easter. The traditional Passover seder includes several elements that represent Yeshua (not that that’s the traditional explanation, but it’s hard to imagine what else … Continue reading
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Tagged afikomen, creative thinking, easter, eton mess, fire, messianic judaism, passover, resurrection, symbolism
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Hebrews 11
At CBS last week we got asked to define faith in our own terms. (This was part of a study on Hebrews 11, naturally.) The first thing that came to mind was this blog post about this research paper about … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, cognitive development, faith, Hebrews, messianic judaism, programming, worldview
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Green
Send Your rain, Lord Send Your rain to wet the ground and make the yellow blossoms glow bright. Send Your rain Lord Bind us together and drench us in Your rain Send rain to penetrate to the roots To make … Continue reading
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Tagged poetry, prophecy, rain, softening, speaking in tongues, speaking truth, words of knowledge
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Radiation
Messiah Conference is in a week, which means the leaders for the teen program, including Hero, are hard at work getting stuff done. This includes making posters to advertise various events, a task which Hero has wisely outsourced to me … Continue reading
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Tagged art, collage, melted crayons, Messiah 2012, posters
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Unleavened
I get in trouble a lot during Passover. I’d say it was’t my fault, but none of you would believe me. You’re quite right; it is. The problem, you see, is the variety of foods that can be considered chametz. … Continue reading
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Tagged grace, legalism, messianic holidays, messianic jew, messianic judaism, passover, renewal, tradition
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Surnamed
For that reason God is not ashamed to be surnamed their God – the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob… ~Hebrews 11:16 This caught my eye recently. Hebrews 11, of course, is the “Faith Hall of Fame,” a list … Continue reading
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Tagged faith, faith vs works, Hebrews, messianic jew, messianic judaism, patriarchs, reputation
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KJV
You know what really annoys me? People who insist on the KJV as the best or only translation of the Bible. It isn’t, obviously. It isn’t even a good translation of the Bible, compared to what we have today. The … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, bible study, crazy community, finding truth, kjv, pet peeves
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