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New Spring Church baptized 906 people last weekend.  Just thought you might want to know that.   Read More

Here are two fine pieces by Janee Noble (Southern California artist).  They've been laboriously carved into linoleum; a process that took about 30 hours each.  The first is of Ezekiel eating the scroll. The second, Cain slaying Abel. Read More

Jesus said "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins- and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins" (Mk 2.22).  Here's a contemporary remix of Jesus' ancient words (it's from Hugh MacLeod's "Ignore Everybody" portfolio series and is also found in his new book "Ignore Everybody").  There's lots of wisdom in this for persons with the spiritual gifts of leadership (getting the church on her mission) and faith (vision). Read More

Duccio di Buoninsegna ca. 1255 – 1319. Duccio was born in Siena, where he lived until his death. Not much is known about him, the only sources of information are official records. He was trained in the rigid Byzantine style of painting but succeeded in adding more life and emotion to his work than his predecessors. Many of his larger works are surrounded by smaller tableaux showing scenes from everyday life. Ten of his works have survived the ages.  Here are a few (my blog compresses them a bit to fit onto the page.  Click on the image to decompress):

Christ Before Pilate

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This guy's stuff is sweet.  What do you think of this one?  Is the guy in the "beater" dead and in heaven (the couple behind him seems to be grieving), or is he having some kind of an epiphany?  Or...?  Read More

In Communities of Performance: 

• People talk about grace, but communicate legalism
• Unbelievers can't imagine themselves as Christians
• Broken people are driven away
• The… Read More

This Sunday Christians at Trinity will commune together at the Lord's table.  Here's a little communion art to prepare the way (it's better if you click on it and see it full size; it's a little squished for my blog).  Joos van Wassenhove (a.k.a. Justus of Ghent) was a Renaissance Netherlandish painter who spent the greater part of his career in Italy. He became a member of the Antwerp Guild in 1460, but by 1464 had moved to Ghent. Sometime after 1468 he went to Rome and by 1472 had settled in Urbino. Joos’s only documented work is The Communion of the Apostles (also known as The Institution of the Eucharist, 1472-74),… Read More