Letters To A Missionary

A friend of mine sent me the following. Its a pastor responding to a missionary who is losing the Christian faith. There are three letters but I will give them to you one at a time. Some good stuff here...thanks Jamie.

Dear Kendall,

Thanks for your bio. I enjoyed it immensely. One short note of amusement. When I read over your bio the first time, I thought you said that you "led an inner city TORTURING ministry for three years." With what we northerners know about what is said about South and Central America, it seemed especially good preparation. {He had actually said he was leading an "inner city tutoring ministry"}

I was fascinated with what you said about evidence, and not even finding that sort of incontrovertible evidence on the mission field, where it is so often proported to be. Surely nothing that would convince your unbelieving father (who may be looking over your shoulder in your minds eye). But, I think evidence in the Bible is an odd sort of thing. I think everybody at sometime wishes to see the "incontrovertible", but the Bible seems to raise interesting questions about that. The three periods in Biblical history when there were plethoras of (presumably) that sort of evidence, it didn't do any good. The Children of Israel surely saw enough, one would think, to convince anybody, when they came out of Egypt. But apparently, very few believed. It hardly convinced a soul. And, of course the same is true of both the period of Elijah and Elisha. And finally of course, Jesus own visit to earth. One could set it up like this: "If only God Himself would visit us in visible form, converse with us, and display the very powers of a Creator; then faith would follow." Better yet, "I would believe." But everybody knows what the outcome of just that Visit was. He was Crucified, and the nation was HARDENED in unbelief. Just an aside: this is an odd literary way to treat these accounts of evidence if one is trying to persuade. All one can say is it is odd, odd, odd.

There is what amounts to a paradigm case in John 12. A voice speaks to Jesus that the text implies is the Father. But the crowd standing by said that it "thundered", or was an "angel." After that, it says that Jesus "hid" from them. And then..."Though he had done so many signs before them, yet they did not believe in him."

The point that I am making is that the Bible has its own internal "theology" of doubt and unbelief. And unbelief (it is plain as a pikestaff) is not some "modern" phenomena. In fact, one way to read the Bible is that it is entirely a book devoted to speaking to and exposing unbelief as the "normal" state of man. To be able to believe (the Bible seems clearly to state) is itself a miracle, and to not believe is normal, natural state of our spiritual diseasedness.

Pascal says somewhere in THE PENSEES that the true religion would have to be able to account for God's "hiddenness", because it is plain that God IS hidden, or He doesn't exist. (Note above that Jesus "hid" from the people, and it seems a metaphor for God Himself making Himself unfindable.)

If you will permit me to indulge myself a little, I want to repeat some things that I wrote not too long ago. John chapter 12 carries on with the "theology of unbelief", and it is at least worthwhile seeing what the Bible itself says about the matter.

To explain the unbelief, John goes on to quote Isaiah 6, which is Isaiah's call. Isaiah's call is a terrible one. He is called to preach, being told ahead of time that all that his ministry will produce is unbelief. In fact unbelief to the point that God will destroy the nation as punishment. Verses 9-10 of Isaiah 6 are a paraphrases of Ps. 115:4-7 and Ps. 135:15-17. Look them up. Both Psalms then go on to say, "Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them." I.e. if you worship a rock, you will become a rock. Seeing you will not see, hearing you will not hear. Rocks don't see or hear, and neither will you if you worship them.

In the Psalms, those ideas are applied to the heathen surrounding Israel, and this is why they do not see or worship Jehovah. But in Isaiah, this terrible reality is applied to Israel. Israel now worship idols, and now cannot see or hear. God is "wholly hidden." This Isaiah passage is repeatedly quoted in the NT by Jesus, especially in reference to why he teaches in parables (which makes his teaching "hidden"--Matthew 13:14-15). Now, an interesting question to ask is, why does the NT quote these passages in reference to the Jews of Jesus time since idolatry is precisely what they were cured of in the Babylonian Captivity? And the answer seems to be that there is a new and more damning kind of idolatry now than before. The Pharisees perhaps especially, became (in Bonhoeffer's words) "men of conscience". The law was reified, and human effort was exalted. The Jews, in-other-words, became their own source of righteousness, and did not submit to the gift of Divine righteousness. Put simply, the Jews no longer worshiped rocks and blocks of wood, they now worshiped themselves. The effect was that God Himself could stand right before them, and do mighty works of Creation, and they found it impossible to "see" or "hear" anything.

This is strikingly modern. Since the Enlightenment, Western man has progressively deified himself and his own reason and conscience (finding a kind of apogee in Kant). And through this time, God has become progressively more "silent" and "invisible". In fact, the odd thing is that in this condition, the more one looks, the more one listens, the more there is Nothing (and this follows, and is dictated precisely from the Kantian and post-Kantian epistemology). The most "intelligent" see the least. May I suggest, this is precisely the irony that the Bible foretells? And it foretells it as a judgment. Modern Western Europeans and (increasingly) Americans are the modern Jews. "They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written, `Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make men stumble a rock that will make them fall..." (Romans 9:32b-33) Christ Himself becomes the source of unbelief.

Now, I live in Boulder, Colorado, and people seem to know all about Boulder when I travel around. Boulder is an egghead town and is properly named. It is as hard as a rock, and very few here "see" or "hear". I don't do very much evangelism here. I rarely try to win people to faith. Instead, I try to help people "see" that they are in fact dogmatic unbelievers. They will believe almost anything (New Age theology, "angel guides", astrology, Hinduism, Buddhism, as well as old fashioned university reductionism with the University of Colorado being here) before they will believe that Jesus is the Messiah. But there is a great deal of self deception. People here largely want what is promised with the coming of Messiah. They want Messianic results, they want some facsimile of the New Jerusalem (a little more psycho-therapy, a little more grant money---and it will come). People want it all without the Messiah. I sometimes work hard to encourage people NOT to believe, to be clear and honest about their unbelief. It can make people very uncomfortable. When they have to face it, a great deal of other stuff evaporates, and they are left with Nothing. This encourages me, because the promise that Jesus gave is that when the Holy Spirit comes, He will convict people of their sin, "because they do not believe in me" (John 16:9). People sometimes have to stumble very badly over the Stumbling Stone before there is any hope. Jesus has actually won. He has set the whole agenda. Unbelief in the end defines as much as belief does in the believer. It is a backhanded admission that Jesus IS the Messiah. After Jesus, there is Nowhere to go but Nowhere. It is impossible to go back to being a pagan. There is Nothing.

If you will permit me a little impudence, you are on the road to Nothing. You may still believe something, but if you are a careful scholar going the direction you are going, you will very brilliantly end with Nothing, and even see it as a triumph of the intellect. But it is not honest unbelief. It is the unbelief of the reification of the intellect and conscience. It is the unbelief that at the outset already declared that intellect and conscience are autonomous, and therefore BY DEFINITION have no need of God or of Messiah. It is a slight of hand trick. Let me by all means encourage you on your road. Do all you can to prove the text corrupt, mythological, late and unscientific. Carry your reductionisms to the utter end. There is nothing that autonomy cannot explain as autonomy. Good. In the end, you will have no reason to believe in thought or even consciousness (there is nothing there that cannot be explained and explained away by the geneticists, biologists,and sociologists.) But in all likelihood, you comfort yourself by wanting all of the things that Messiah came to bring without the supernatural Messiah. But stop kidding yourself. These are all impulses that can easily be explained by the psychologists, and sociologists. They are Nothing.

Rich
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Whats In A Ritual?

According to many Christians today, the anwser to my title is...nothing much.

But does the Bible make "nothing much" out of rituals or ceremonies?

Do we read our own contempt of ritual/ceremony into the Bible?

Before the High Priest actually went through the ceremony/ritual to become High Priest he dared not take it upon himself to just perform the duties any way...it would have led to his death...

...but after the ritual/ceremony...he was now "set apart" or holy for this task.


The Bible says that fornicators will be judged by God but the marriage bed is undefiled.

Whats the dif...sex is sex right?

Wrong!

God has ordained marriage and the husband and wife relationship point to the greater relationship of Christ and His bride [the Church].

But before the ritual/ceremony you have "two" single people...and after this wonderful ceremony the two become "one flesh"...they are joined covenantally together.

Sex in marriage is blessed of God...and outside of the marriage covenant...sexual union is a curse...no matter how much the couple profess "love" for one another.

The ritual/ceremony of baptism [into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] is what brings a person into a covenant relationship or covenant union with God.

This covenant is two-fold.

There are blessings for faith and the works that flow from that faith.

There are curses for unbelief and the rebellion and disobedience that flow out from it.

Rituals are very important and have much Biblical meaning to them.

Since the people of God are the salt and light to the world...I wonder how much of the common law marriages we see today are not the world learning from the church?

But that is for another day.

Setting The Captives Free

Last night there was a young man, in the prison, who was very receptive to the gospel. He had many good questions...honest questions. We talked for quite a while on how I became a Christian and how God helped me start a new life. He seemed very eager to get together once he gets out. Please pray for this ministry. Many of these young offenders have very little good influence in their lives and plenty of bad influence...may the Lord use us to be a small "good" influence on their lives.

Word Riddle

Other then their "reached" sum, what do the following have in common?

1.ELEVEN PLUS TWO

2.TWELVE PLUS ONE

Home coming

This weekend we travelled to Red Deer to have a family reunion...family of God that is.

Most of these people were very influential in my early years as a Christian...these friendships are the closest and dearest to my heart.

The highlight of our weekend [Bonita and I] was going back to the Church where we met, Grace Community Fellowship.

I wept and wept...it was soooo good to come back home.

We had left 10 years ago...not on the best of terms...and had not been back since.

Pastor Art is a great man and a wonderful pastor, he and his wife poured their lives into ours in those first years of the church.

Their home was always open...the love of Christ was clearly shown and poured out into the lives of the community.

Now add to this some doctrinal differences and a good heap of some young men's [mine] zeal and pride and the conclusion was much hurt and heartache.

But Pastor Art and his wife Marge also showed us the love in Christ in their large and gracious hearts to us....not only forgiving us but taking us back in to the family...loving us, and even giving us opportunity to speak from the pulpit.

I am so glad that they gave me an opportunity to say a word or two because I oh so wanted to be able to share what was on my heart.

I wanted to be able to honor and esteeme a faithful servant of the Lord.

A pastor who really was a shepherd...not just a teacher...not just a guy who was in it for the money.

A man who love Christ's people...a man who was hospitable and patient and gentle and kind.

A man who forgave when offended [like His Lord does].

We had a great time worshiping with all our brothers and sisters there.

Thank the Lord for His grace and mercy...and thank the Lord for restored relationships.

Thank the Lord for godly men and women who are willing to pour their lives into others so that others can grow and mature into the fullness of Christ.

And In This Corner....Weighing In At....

Imagine fighting in a league where you kicked butt every time you got into the ring.

You figured out that your opponents had serious defects in their fighting style.

Because of their defects, you could always find the weak spot and either knock them out with your power or submit them with your style.

Now imagine the league begins to allow new fighters into the ring.

Guys who don't follow the fighting techniques of the other guys.

You find that these new guys don't fall for your moves and at the same time you can't figure out their moves.

Soon you are calling them "cheats" and telling them that they have to fight according to the same style as your other opponents.

But you can't actually prove they are "cheats", you just can't beat them.

For centuries Christians have been using faulty techniques to defend the faith.

In their trying to defend the faith they have actually gone against the faith they were trying to defend.

They acted like the unbelievers mind was not fallen and under the grips of sin.

They acted like the unbelievers mind was not against God and was not actively suppressing the truth.

These apologists came up with philosophically weak arguments for the existence of God...pretending to be neutral [so why were they arguing] and asking the unbeliever to also be neutral, and they began to defend the faith with these weak arguments.

Philosophically "keen" unbelievers saw these "weak" spots and began to pound these Christians arguments down to the canvas.

For the philosophically simple, the cosmological, and teleological arguments seemed very powerful indeed, but for someone who had further philosophical training it didn't take long to bring down these fighting techniques.

But what we need to understand is that Christians who used these arguments...and still use them...are not being honest.

They have "pretended" to be neutral but weren't.

They treated the unbelievers reasoning abilities "as if" they were normal and unfallen even though the Bible says they are neither.

And in the end they keep taking a beating...all the while the confidence of the unbeliever grows and grows [to very arrogant proportions].

The Bible tells us not to be neutral...its says we can't be neutral...neutrality is a myth...a lie.

Another school of defending the faith says if we have presuppositions why try and hide this fact?

If God's word is our ultimate authority why not treat it as such.

God's word just won't be the conclusion we try to bring the unbeliever to, it will also explain to us the "method" we use for doing so.

The Transcendental Argument for the existence of God says that God's Word is the precondition for intelligibility...without it you cannot "consistently" prove anything.

Note that I say "consistently".

Unbelievers do use logic, they use science [which can only work being founded on induction or the uniformity of nature], and they use moral standards...but they do so because they are borrowing from God's world [without asking and giving thanks] and then using these things to try to discount the very thing that makes sense out of them...the Triune God of Scriptures.

The Presuppositionalist Apologist isn't going down for the 8 count because he has learned not to follow the destructive techniques of the Evidentialist Apologist.

The unbeliever doesn't like these "new" techniques [even though they aren't new] so he calls "cheat"...he wants the Presuppositionalist to go back to the old fighting techniques that he has learned to undo.

Those days are over...

Heads And Shoulders Above The Rest

Dr. Van Til was a brilliant philosopher, and yet he told others he merely stood on the shoulders of giants.

If you haven't taken the time to study his works you really should begin now.

I will start you off with one of his lighter works...don't brush off his arguments...they are much more powerful then you might think at first glance.

In the end his whole train of Christian apologetics was
"anti-theism presupposes Theism"

Take a look at one of his articles and enjoy.

Why I Believe in God

No Entry?

A door unopened is merely another wall.

Many stand outside the walls of God's kingdom because they willfully refuse Christ [the only door to salvation and blessing].

Edmonton Loses.

Well, I guess the sports mag in Texas can take a breath of relief...their prediction was correct...Edmonton goes down in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup.

Unbelieving Evidence.

When the scoffer comes to the Christian with scientific, philosophical, and historical evidence is he actually attacking the “root” of the Christian’s belief system...or is he really still agreeing with the Bibles view of things?

Should the Christian be surprised or shocked that the unbeliever can provide “evidences” that agree with his unbelief?

Not at all.

The Bible itself speaks of the unbelief of man. It began very near to the beginning of human history.

Adam and Eve followed Satan’s rebellion and chose not to believe the Lord.

God in His mercy restored Adam and Eve but we see that unbelief and rebellion continued on throughout some of their children, and children’s children, and so on.

The Bible speaks of whole cultures founded upon unbelief. God also shows, that in His timing, how He brings the gospel to a culture to change it and restore it, or else to allow it to continue in its rebellion to the point where it reaches a point [according to God’s view point] of no return and imminent judgement.

Like unbelievers of today, those who did not believe thousands of years ago did not hide in a cave, doing nothing.

They used God’s world, but refused to give thanks to God, and refused to acknowledge God [Romans 1]. These people knew the God who made them, and they suppressed this clear revelation in their sinful, rebellious hearts.

Why would they suppress this clear truth? Well...to acknowledge the Creator God would also be to acknowledge something about themselves. Something they were very unwilling to admit.

When Adam fell into sin he did so because he took Satan’s bait. We wanted to be like God.
He wanted to be a “little god”. He wanted to call the shots. He wanted to be the maker of his own destiny. He wanted to be the judge of what is good and what is evil.

Adam’s corruption has passed down to all his posterity. This corruption of man’s nature effects all mankind until the Lord gives a person a new heart. Even the Christian struggles [but is no longer in bondage in it] against the old nature, and will do so until he is glorified.

So why not confess the Creator God?

Then men would have to confess that they are less then what they think they are. They would have to acknowledge that they are corrupt, wicked, rebellious, helpless, willfully ignorant...things that a “little god” is very reluctant to admit.


Although they would not confess that God is the Creator and Governor of all, they did continue to use His world. They used logic, science and morality although they could not account for how these worked according to their professed, unbelieving systems of thought.

They wrote songs, they painted pictures, they built cities, cultures, nations. They told stories, wrote histories, worshiped idols.

Millions of unbelievers have been born, lived their whole lives against God, and have gone to their graves...and then to the pit...without acknowledging God.

When some “scholars” today find “evidence” of unbelief today it only shows what the Bible already proclaims.

The fool says in his heart “There is no God”.

The unbeliever today diligently searches for other men who also rebelled against the Almighty.

Does he think that finding ancient information about unbelieving, idolatrous religious views takes away from the truth of God’s revelation? Hardly.

Does he think because past cultures “existed” in rebellion that their very existence justifies their rebellious stance? The Romans and Greeks used logic, scientific study, and morality...even religion...but like unbelievers today they could not justify their systems of thought...although at least many of them tried.

Many scoffers today have assumed their unbelief for so long that whenever their beliefs are challenged or asked to be justified they answer like many religious professors, in “blind” faith.

They are good at name calling but very poor in really giving an answer for their unbelief.

But when you make yourself a "little god" you are the one who calls the shots...
ya see how it works, you don't have to justify your beliefs, you can just live however you like, do whatever you want...things you couldn't do "if" you acknowledged the Almighty.

But one day, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Christ as Lord.

Many willfully, many others being forced to do so before they are forever cast away from God's eternal blessings.

To be your own "little god" isn't all its cracked up to be when your eternal kingdom will be the outer darkness.

Big Game!!!

Tonight is "the" night!!

Its do or die.

GO OILERS GO!!!

OOPS!

The following is from an Uncle John's Bathroom reader...quite funny.

Ticonderoga, New York---"A company is trying to erase an embarrassing mistake it made on pencils bearing an anti-drug message. The pencils carry the slogan:
'Too Cool To Do Drugs.'

"But a sharp-eyed fourth-grader in northern New York noticed when the pencils are sharpened, the message turns into 'Cool To Do Drugs' then simply 'Do Drugs.'

"We're actually a little embarrassed that we didn't notice that sooner,' spokeswoman Darlene Clair told today's Press-Republican of Plattsburgh."

Freedom

In the next few days it will be Bonita's and my 12th wedding anniversary...wow...12 years!

The Lord has richly blessed me with a wonderful life partner.

When I look back at these twelve years they have been filled with many events.

We have 4 children,

We have moved numerous times...three of these moves have been to different cities.

We have worked with many great people in different churches,

Have met hundreds and hundreds of people...

Then I think of a friend of mine...he was a close friend when I was an unbeliever.

When I became a Christian in 1991 I had already not heard from him for a year...

A few months before my wedding he was sentenced "life", no parole, for a torture murder.

He has been in prison for the whole time I have been married.

All the things that I have done, all the people I have met...and he has been in jail.

What a sad thought.

I do pray that the Lord would show him the Savior.

Lay Down Your Sword?

Imagine witnessing a battle.

In this battle you observe various smaller fights...soldier against soldier.


Now imagine that in one of these fights you watch as the two soldiers approach one another, swords held out in front.


As they begin battling the one soldier tells the other that for the fight to be fair they should lay down their swords.

The other soldier shrugs his shoulders...and then procedes to lay down this sword.

The first soldier begins taking huge swings at the weaponless soldier.

The soldier without a sword yells at the top of his lungs, "hey we are to lay down our swords!"

To the the other says "this isn't a sword."

This is what happens when the unbeliever tells the believer that he shouldn't presuppose the Bible...just be neutral...lay down your sword.

It becomes apparent very quickly that the unbeliever doesn't intend to lay down his presuppositions.

He likes the way his naturalism and unbelief feel and isn't about to lay them down.

So Christian hang on to your sword...even if the unbeliever taunts to lay it down.

Its always easier to bring down your opponent when he has no weapon.

Answers To Riddles

Even though one of you gave it a good try...I will give you the answer to both riddles.

Riddle # 1 "The difference between granny and the granary?

Answer--One is one's born kin; the other is one's corn bin.


Riddle # 2 "The difference between a cat and a complex sentence?"

Answer--A cat has claws at the end of its paws, and a complex sentence has a pause at the end of its clause.

Cemented Eye Glasses

Liberal scholars are a sorry bunch.

Professing to be wise they become fools.

Their lack of neutrality is so outstanding that they will choose a certain interpretation of a word even if it rapes the context of what is being said.

Why would they do this?

Because they are unbelieving...and the Bible just can't be saying what it is about Jesus.

They are naturalists and come to the Bible with their naturalist presuppositions...and then twist and cut and paste the Scriptures to try and fit their "already" shaped view of Jesus.

In Isaiah 7:14 we read "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel."

Now, enters the liberal...with his "wise", scholarly interpretation.

He clears his throat to get attention.

Then he tells us that the Hebrew word that Christians are using for "virgin" really means "young maiden".

He so wants his naturalism to be true!

He wishes upon a star that Jesus was not supernaturally conceived in a virgins womb by the power of the Holy Spirit!

Oh, please, oh please, may Jesus not be God incarnate.

So in the end, has the Church founded one of its key beliefs [virgin birth] upon a false interpretation of this passage?

Not hardly!

Context is king...unless you are a liberal scholar.

Let's look at the passage with the liberal interpretation in place. And then see if it makes sense in the context of the passage.

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the 'young maiden' shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

The Lord Himself is going to give a "sign"...something that really stands out, a marker, miracle, something out of the ordinary SO THAT people will know that this is of the Lord.

And...what is this "out of the ordinary", marker, miracle that the Lord Himself will do...so that it will really stand out?

ready for the climax...drum roll please...a young woman will have a baby...Wow

And there you have it folks...a young woman will have a child...this doesn't happen every day...oh...wait a minute...I guess it does happen every day...thousands of times.

What part of "sign" do the liberal scholars not understand.

And we also don't hear much about what this baby of normal conception and birth is going to be called...or why.

Here is the traditional interpretation...one that actually reads it in context.

God Himself is going to do something really out of the ordinary a "virgin" [the word can mean virgin or young maiden] is going to conceive via the power of the Holy Spirit [supernatural conception, one of a kind]...and that Son is going to be called "God with us".


Jesus Christ is the God/man.

Riddles 4 Fun

Here are a couple of riddles for you.

I will give the answers in a day or two.


Riddle #1 --What is the difference between a grandmother and a granary?


Riddle #2--What is the difference between a cat and a complex sentence?


Have fun figuring them out.

N.T Wright Takes On Dan Brown

Have a look at what N.T Wright thinks about the Da Vinci Code. Click below.

Da Vinci Busters

New Riddles...Same Old Answer

Over the years I have read the same mistake over and over again.

The author of the "Dead Sea Scrolls Deception" tells us that the Apostle Paul was trying to come up with a "new" religion...that he highjacked the real Christian message and came up with "silly" stuff like Jesus being the God/man.

Now we hear the same drums being pounded out in the DaVinci Code.

Dan Brown tells us that Constantine is the one who came up with the "new" religion...burning all the "real" gospels...getting rid of the real message of Jesus.

And what is the real message again?

Oh yeah...that Jesus was merely human...that He wasn't God and man.

Brown can't even get right what the existing Gospels say about Jesus.

He says Constantines new gospels [the ones we have today] tell of Christ's Divinity and the "real" gospels, that he omitted from the Bible, spoke of His human traits.

One only has to read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to see that Brown has been sleeping at the wheel.

All the Gospels say that Jesus is God and man...they don't take away from His humanity...that is what the Incarnation is all about.

Jesus is fully God and fully human.

How can we tell which Gospels really belong?

Let's go back to earlier revelation.

In the Old Testament, one of the tests for a prophet was that he didn't contradict earlier revelations from God.

Will the real Jesus please stand up.

Isa 7:14 "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel [God with us].

Isa 9:6 "For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace"

Jesus Christ is the God/man!

Satan will continue to pour out his lies against the Lord and against His Church.

Those who love the lie will continue to follow his drum beat.

Tom Sawyer Lives!

We first moved into the home we now live in, five years ago. We didn't want to keep the outside colors the same...so...out came the ol' paint and brushes.

I can remember the first time painting the fence...it took me at least a week...a little bit each day after work.

Five years have past by...and the children have all grown a lot.

As I am beginning to paint I have my children and two of their friends...begging me to paint!

Well...out came some extra brushes and the "team" began to paint...things went fast!

Now, being "dad" I knew the enthusiasm would last around a half an hour...and it did.

But in the time where everyone was painting we got one quarter of the job done...thank you Lord for the extra helpers.

Bonita went and bought some treats for everyone...they feasted...and dadio kept slopping the paint...hopefully it will be done today or tomorrow.