"Revelation Flash"

Thought I would share a very helpful illustration from our church notes on Sunday.






“Revelation Flash” by Michael Winters



Romans 11:33
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!


A single flash blows out a brilliant flowering tree in the dark of night. This isn’t a high quality
photo, but the represented subject – the flowering tree – is obviously a marvelous creation in
its own right. The low technical quality and the power of the camera flash begins to create
a metaphor about how God’s revelation of himself works if you equate the flash of light
with his revelation. Without the flash of revelation, the image would be black. Our eyesight,
or the lens, could be equated with our fallen humanity, blurry and only capable of taking
in a limited view. The revelation flash enables us to see a brilliant, a dim, an incomplete, a
powerful vision of God’s imagination. We can respond in praise!

the swing

Well, most of you know that Sal and I have had the opportunity to build some fairly strong relationships with our neighbors here in Louisville. We live on, what we often refer to as, the "5th Bloc." Anyway, we have decided to dedicate our porch swing to taking part in our efforts to love our neighbors. We are now the proud owners of a digital camera (finally up with the times) and we plan to use our camera to photograph those people who come over and sit our swing, as this has included a fairly wide range of folks. We hope to take those pictures and then create some sort of artwork that would represent our passion and hope for taking the Good News to the "5th Bloc." So...in light of that, I thought this would be a great time to ask each of you to share about your neighborhoods and the relationships that you have been able to build with those living on your block and on your street...So...who will be first to share?