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Acts 8:6 And the crowds with one accord paid attention to what was being said by Philip when they heard him and saw the signs that he did.
-------------------- dennis kiernan independent artist san francisco, calif, usa Posts: 907 | From: san francisco, ca usa | Registered: Feb 2010
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The hand writing on the wall. Daniel 5:5. A 'dimensional sign' Exodus 34. And last but not least, one written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek. John 19:19-21
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7403 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6712 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Then the LORD said to him ( Moses ), "What is that in your hand?" "A staff," he replied....but, then, he quicly said..."Excuse me, Lord, I meant to say: A malhstick".
Exodus 4:20
So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God ( mahlstick ) in his left hand and his quill on his right hand.
Daniel 4:3 (KJV) How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
-------------------- Michael Clanton Clanton Graphics/ Blackberry 19 Studio 1933 Blackberry Conway AR 72034 501-505-6794 clantongraphics@yahoo.com Posts: 1735 | From: Conway Arkansas | Registered: Oct 2001
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Actually, we're commanded to make signs; Deuteronomy chapter 6: ____________________________________ (Deut 6:7 [KJV]) And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
(Deut 6:8 [KJV]) And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
(Deut 6:9 [KJV]) And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. __________________________________ Yes, I have done this; pics to follow...
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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This one is on plywood, I have another one on barn boards, if I can find it. I was pleased to come up with an unusual method on this one; the lighter spots/highlights on the grapes are done with a stipling method from a book on window painting from the early 1900's. You take a wooden stick, put a ball of cotton on the end, and wrap a piece of cloth around that. it makes a pad on the end of the stick. In the book, it's used to blend wet on wet colors (slowed with linseed oil). On this sign, I looked closely at my picture of grapes, and noticed that the lightest green appeared in spots, not a smooth blend. Here's a link to a page about it; I'll see if I can do a single picture also: Verse mural
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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Here's the one on barn boards. Please forgive any roughness it has. This is for people that have heard something true, but won't acknowledge it.
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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Oh well as long as we're on this subject...here is part of a sign I did for a Catholic school...this is actually the replacement sign...the first one I made was destroyed in a storm...the destruction of that sign was deemed an "act of God" by the insurance agency...but to me it seems more like such things should be called an "act of the devil"...after all isn't he the guy that is supposed to be causing all the bad things to happen in the world.
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Thanks for the complements guys, and same to Rusty and Wayne. As for the question about who makes what happens, I probably shouldn't touch that one, for time's sake at the least. People have been debating variants of the question for centuries. One aspect is: what does God cause to happen, and what does He allow to happen; and why. I've seen several miracles in a week, then next week, something bad; and it's like "Where'd He go?" You have to be calm in your mind, and consider if there's anything you're overlooking. But then again, I've hardly scratched the surface here.
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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Now here we have seen all the reasons why I have been able to do so many things in art without the benefit of formal schooling.
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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James...nice post...let me get a little philosophical for a minute since you bring it up...and I know we cant go down this road very far on our sign site so I'll briefly just say that for me the most relevant and thought provoking word in your post was "why?"...because if someone all loving is in control of everything...yet allows bad things to happen to good people...and conversely bad people have good things happen to them...then the question "Why?" seems very much in order.
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And the Ten Commanments,,,,,,carved signs on stone. "Carved by the finger of God" as said by Moses, played by Charlton Heston, in the movie The Ten Commanments. I think the term a "Sign" from God is more of a verb rather than a noun. When the apostles healed people, the onlooking people took these acts as a sign from God that they were he real deal. When you look up into the sky and see a beautiful sunrise, you take it as a sign that God loves you. At least I do.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3812 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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Somebody has said that it's like we're looking at the back side of a patterned cloth as it's being woven in the loom. There seems to be little pattern, little sense at times; but someday He will flip it over,and we'll see what he was creating. In my life, I know I'm different than I was in my twenties. I don't feel different, I look in the mirror and a 50 something guy is looking back, whoa, I done got older. I didn't realize the transition as it was happening, but I encounter things now that would have shattered my world back then. OK let's deal with it. Isn't it strange to see someone getting bent out of shape over a trivial thing, and think:"Wow, it must be a luxury to be able to devote concern to that." Another thing is that rough things happen because of my decisions. Not necessarily commission, but often omission; I left something undone. Of course this doesn't even begin to answer questions about bad things happening to little kids because of what an adult did; stuff like that. I've pondered it a little, need to more. It's related to freedom of choice; we can't have it both ways. We can't have the extreme freedom of choice that we do in this life, and then want tighter parameters. People ignore what God has revealed about the way people should live, but turn around and say "Hey God, you should constrain this and that." He might start by constraining some things in your life. I don't think people have an idea what it would be like living in a world where absolute moral perfection is expected. God's not the mellow hippie dude on these matters. Man, I read the Bible two times a day, sometimes three, try to live it; but I don't feel ready for that. Good thing Jesus took my penalty upon Him, and extends His mercy daily. I don't mean I rob banks and can't resist stealing purses from old ladies. I mean stuff like wrong reactions based on a lack of facts, stuff like that. Shoot, done got old time preachy. OK, move to the philosophical, back to that woven thing...Here's another of those thoughts I had recently, but haven't had the time to explore it: It appears that scientists are discovering a second code in the DNA helix. I tried to explain it to my kids in a primitive way, by taking a book, and showing them how the text reads. Then, I took the book, and turned it 90 degrees, and said:"Imagine now that there's entirely different message written this way, but with the same text. God is awesome! Now here's the point to ponder: All these people debating things like Calvinism vs free will; what if time itself can be read two ways, by God only. Maybe angels too, but the point is, we're accustomed to seeing the text of time and history as being linear, beginning, middle, and end, which it is. But what if He can move sideways in ways we don't mentally understand?
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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sometime the bad that happens to us is not just for us it may be for someone else to witness how we handle the bad.
God does not test us or do bad things to us that is a result of our own sin. and satan is the instigator to our sin (the father of all lies)
if only one man were to sin then there would be sin in all the world, so we condemn ourselves to bad things happening because we do not believe or follow Gods truth.
it really is simple, but some people seem intent on asking why rather than trusting the one who created us
-------------------- Jon Peterman 200 Summit Loop Grants Pass, OR -------------------- a.k.a. dc-62 success is in Jesus Christ Posts: 434 | From: grants pass or. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I've often mused on the original Ten Commandments, thinking they must have been the highest quality lettering in history. When you read the account, you will also notice that Moses had to carve out the second set of stone panels himself and bring them back up the mountain--how like a Father teaching a lesson: "You broke it. You have to fix it!" I have a mental picture of Moses muttering to himself as he shaped the new tablets, "I will not lose my temper. I will not lose my temper..."
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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HERE IS THE UNABATED TRUTH, ABOUT THE TABLETS:
Pay attention......The key words are: "THE GOLDEN CALF"
A classic explanation is that the tablets, two large sapphire stones, weighed too much to be possibly carried by a single human being.
Instead, the divinely etched letters engraved within them, miraculously lightened them, enabling Moses to carry the tablets. But, when the letters “saw” ( yes, they could see ) "the golden calf", which the Jewish people had made, they were revolted and “flew” ( yes, they could fly, too ) out of the tablets, back to their divine source, leaving Moses with a burden he could not bear, and which he therefore dropped. Thus, breaking the tablets.
So, based on "the facts", it wasn't Moses who messed up......it was the Jewish people, who did, when they sculpted that "golden calf" with their CNC router......They where not listening, when God said: "Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature ( "the golden calf" ) in place of God. "
But, behold!!... Thanks to Moses skills with the chisel, quills and the One Shot paint, he could quickly re-letter another set of tablets again.
There you have it.......Now you know the rest of the story.
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