Gregg's Rest Stop (Canvas and a Brush)

Published: Mon, 06/04/12

Gregg's Rest Stop
June 4, 2012
  Journey in Christ
    Canvas and a Brush
 
I am indebted to Mike Daniel of Stone Life Ministries in San Antonio, Texas for the biblical truths in this Rest Stop.  I met Mike at a recent ministry conference. His ministry website is Stonelife.org
 
Mike was a brush in the Master's hand painting the truths in this Rest Stop on the canvas of my heart!  Now I want to be a brush in the Master's hand for His painting these truths on the canvas of your hearts, too!
 
PORTRAYING HIS WORK
The Canvas
Ephesians 2:10 says that we are God's workmanship.  The Greek word for workmanship in the original biblical text is poiema, where we get our English word poem.  Therefore, this word workmanship literally means that we are God's poetic masterpiece!
 
Through the cross and resurrection, God has made us a completed masterpiece in Christ!  And He has re-created our minds and emotions with a canvas.  We are God's canvas to receive His grace -- His personal and artful working in our minds and emotions to grow us in relating to Him.  
 
So, we are called to portray God's grace through the canvas of our personalities.  We don't receive God's grace just to work for Him.  We receive God's grace to portray to the world His work in and through us!
 
 
PROCLAIMING HIS WORD
The Brush
Each of us are indeed God's masterpiece!  However, God is not creating paintings just to hang on the wall.  He is also creating you and me as finely crafted instruments He can use for His working masterpieces in other people.
 
Sometimes we're God's canvas, sometimes we're His brush.  He paints His Word through us as His brushes for others to see the beauty of Christ who is the Word of God!
 
So, as we remain surrendered in the hands of God the Master Painter, as His brush we proclaim His Word to others.  Proclaiming His Word in all of its beauty in our daily lives is the good works God has prepared for us!
 
 
CLOSING
To the praise of the glory of His grace!
It is the grace of God to each of us as His canvas that will be His glory through each of us as His brush! Let's believe and walk in these truths together!
 
    
  
 
    PS
 
 
The following link is to Mike Daniel's insightful and passionate sermon based on the text from Ephesians 2:10!
 
 
 
 
 
TESTIMONY
Freedom from pornography
by a man in South Carolina
 
Journey in Christ has helped me see who I really am in Christ and has helped me pursue my hunger for God's Word and righteousness.  Just having someone I could entrust my deepest hurts and concerns to has been so freeing.  I have felt condemned for so many years. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Michael Chalmers
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Kellie Boggs
Fellowship Director
 
Joy Gibbons
Ministry Assistant and women's ministry coordinator
 
Carole Blyth
Board member and women's ministry coordinator
 
Randy Garrick
Board member and Elder Holly Ridge Baptist Church
 
Paul Crews
Board member and Pastor Mountain Creek Baptist Church 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Partnership 
I believe with all my heart that ministry is through relationships.
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you for your partnership in the gospel (Philippians 1:3, 5).
 
Links to my recent ministry newsletters that describe my heart for partnerships:
 
 

YouTube link below of my ministry commissioning service that included testimonies from several partners, including Bobby Richardson, former 2nd baseman for the NY Yankees.
 
 
Please contact me to learn more about partnering with me.  I'd love to hear from you!
 

 
 
 
Ministry News 
Next 8-month Advanced Discipleship Training to start January 2013.  Click link below for details of the 2012 ADT!
 
 
Gregg teaches freedom from anger through Christ at the Haven of Rest mission in Anderson, SC Mondays 6:00-6:45 pm. 
 
Gregg is mentoring men and couples in an office provided by Holly Ridge Baptist Church in Simpsonville SC.
 
Michael is mentoring men and couples in an office provided by Mountain Creek Baptist Church, Pendleton Street Baptist Church,
and Earle Street Baptist Church
all in Greenville SC. 
 
Journey in Christ is in the final week of a 12-week on-the-job discipleship training class for women at an equipment manufacturing industry.
 
Gregg will be speaking at Washington Baptist Church in Pelzer SC on June 6 along with two boys home teenagers who Gregg has mentored.
 
   

 

   

 
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