III

watercolor #3 (3/30/10) "clouds"

[painted after Eurri rejected watercolor #2 - Wasn't something she was interested in. haha!]

-edward

The Cost

hungry

The expository preaching of sound doctrine leaves me so hungry for more. I can write forever about what I've learned and how my life is beginning to be even more transformed than before through all these revelations, convictions, etc but I simply do not have the time. All I can say is sound doctrine has ignited in me a passion for a continuous study of God's word not to the likings of my ears being tickled, but rather quite the opposite, my toes being stepped on. All the more, the truth, without being sugar coated or devalued by accommodating to the "felt needs" and desires of this world's demands as well as our own wanting, only leaves me with an ever-growing hunger for the sufficient, inerrant, and absolute truth that God has poured out to me(us) through His word. 


"I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires and will turn away their ears from truth, and will turn aside to myths." - 2 Timothy 4:1-4

gifts/passions

When I see architectural projects like this: The METI school in Bangladesh with long-lasting implications on the community's education system and standards of living through the intervention/collaboration of architecture, I cannot help but feel a certain pull towards such work and its purpose. Sure, one can feel sorry and sympathize with the locals who are in much need, but the beauty of architecture in my eyes is preciously the tangible consequences of formulating space. What do I mean by that? Millions of people can spend thousands of dollars to donate aid through food, clothes, and other necessities (and I truly believe that is wonderful) but not everyone can design architecture, essentially "shelter," for a community: introducing new techniques and uses for old building materials; utilizing local materials native to the specific people group; etc. It is such a marvelous gift, this skill which is easily manipulated for one's own prosperous ambitions.

METI school in rudrapur dinajpur, bangladesh 

sunlight and ventilation can be regulated through the use of shutters

a view into the classroom

all photos courtesy of Kurt Horbst