The Gospel-Driven Church: A Bible Verse for a Coffee Mug

Monday, January 2, 2012

A Bible Verse for a Coffee Mug

When in preaching I am expositing a "non-feel-good" text, I am prone to point out, in Chandleresque fashion, that this is not the sort of Bible verse they put on a coffee mug to sell at the Christian bookstore. There were quite a few of those in our Galatians series, for instance, what with all that accursed-ness and admonitions to self-castration.

Yesterday I received from one of our church members (Amy) one of my favorite Christmas presents ever, pictured below.

The art on the mug is Amy's hand-painted rendering of one of my wife Becky's photographs. Along the bottom of the painting is inscribed a Bible verse. Ezekiel 41:23 to be specific. Because that's not a verse they put on coffee mugs. Love it!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: That's awesome man!; January 2, 2012 at 2:29 PM
David Schrock said...: Nice! A friend of mine once received a pillow with 1 Samuel 15:33 crocheted on it, after making a similar comment.

dss; January 2, 2012 at 3:28 PM
Taylor said...: Haha, awesome :); January 2, 2012 at 5:29 PM
Damien said...: isaiah 3:21 resonates with me:

finger rings, nose rings.; January 3, 2012 at 10:39 AM