This is the kind of situation when people ask what medium I create in - when what I do is defined by the subject.
One person may be a painter, and will paint things beautiful, strange, sad, or practical.
I am a purveyor of the Strange, and will write, paint, sculpt, make games, use any medium, if the subject is strange enough.
This is another type of testimony to what our Creator can do for us when we look a little wider and outside the "box". I hope this can inspire someone.
For 10 years ago I started a non-profit Art & Crafts association in Kungsholmen, Stockholm. Becouse there was little culture in this part of the town. I thougt "Why is it no art or coulture here? Well, make it happen yourself!" We where only 12 artists, so I called it 12 Bridges, becouse it is 12 bridges connecting from Kungsholmen to other parts of the center of Stockholm. Also number 12 has a special meening to me.
Now we are over 50 members and every year we show our art in a "art-walk" during a weekend in september. Our art is exhibit in the lokal galleries and studios. The artwalk has been verry popular and now it is more Galleries and studios that has open up here in our part of the town.
So why do I tell you this?
Well. I know it is possible to change the "climat" in a place. My vision was that more coulture would come to Kungsholmen. Now it has happend! Still much to do, but becouse of doing this with no founds in free time, it has taken time. Now finelly we got a coultural house here in Kungsholmen, only around the corner from my home! On thursday 23/1, there will be the opening of the coultural house!
People in a city, need something creative to do with their hands. Put down their Mobilephones, only for a moment... and start to create, becouse we all are created to create. Maybe you have a garden becouse you live outside the city, well then you have a blessed place, the earth, for your hands to create a garden. There is so manny way to create!
So... let's talk less, and use our hands more for the good of the entire creation.
"To You God in Zion, silence is praise", Psalm 65:1
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(Peaceful bridge, original art acrylic on canvas).
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It's amazing and beautiful to see so many people returning to God's commandments, but there is also a lot of ugliness along the way. We are still human, after all. Whether you call this movement Messianic Judaism, Hebrew Roots, Pronomianism, or something else, everyone has their own idea of what it means and how to live it out. Sometimes those differences can turn into arguments and division.
This is not how YHWH wants his people to be!
Ed Doss joined the Common Sense Bible Study crew for a conversation on Unity in the Kingdom last Thursday night. Check it out here!
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Question 140: Who were the Essenes?
Answer:
A small community of Jews in the time of Moshiach, who led a pastoral life and did not marry. They held their goods and took their meals in common, strictly observed the Shabbat, prayed before sunrise with their faces to the East, bathed daily in cold water, never swore, sacrificed no animals and believed in immortality without a resurrection of the body.
Question 139: Were any of the disciples married?
Answer:
Very little is known regarding the domestic relations of the apostles beyond what is disclosed in the Gospels. Matthew 8:15 clearly implies that Peter was married. Bartholomew is said by tradition to have been the bridegroom at the wedding at Cana and Philip is mentioned by Clement of Alexandria as having had a wife and children. Nothing definite can be asserted concerning the others, although they are generally assumed to have been unmarried.
Question 138: What was the gift of tongues retained by the Apostles until their death?
Answer:
The endowment of the "gift of tongues" was apparently continued to the believers during the apostolic age. Yeshua before His ascension breathed upon His disciples and said. "Receive ye Ruach HaKodesh." Fifty days after the crucifixion, the disciples received special power, when Ruach HaKodesh came upon them. It was to be a sign - to belong to only a few - the apostles and evangelists - and with this gift they went forth to preach to the nations. Later, Paul wrote that he "spake with tongues more than all." In 1 Corinthians 13 however, we see that "tongues" were already ceasing, as belonging to the past. Many times, since then the question has arisen whether the gift of tongues was continued to succeeding generations. The attitude of the early Church, neither to quench nor forbid them (see 1 Thessalonians 5:19), yet not to invite or excite them, was a safe one. If they were of YHVH, the fact would make itself apparent; if they were simply hysterical jargon, they would quickly subside. Throughout Church history, there were many spurious instances. Iremeus wrote of some in his time who spoke with tongues, but Eusebius hardly referred to the subject and Chrysostom mentions it only to discourage what he considered as an ecstatic indulgence of doubtful spiritual profit.