You'd Be Proud

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

Did you make your own chalk paint? I have made my own using drywall paste mixed with my paint, and it worked okay. I also have used Amy Howard's brand of chalk paint, and while I really liked it, it was sooo expensive!

This is a thread hijack, but wanted to answer your question.

I've used Amy Howard's wax, have some out in my shop. I don't care for it as much as Maison Blanche Paint Company's chalk paint and soft wax. Really, really like it - a lot! And, yes, it is pricey, but it goes really far. http://maisonblanchepaint.com/

This other stuff I purchased was on clearance. Terrible stuff.

Yes, I have made my own chalk paint with Plaster of Paris. I used it to paint some mason jars for a baby shower event. After chalk painting the jars, I used Maison Blanche's Translucide Glaze in gold which really turned out beautiful. At another event I decorated for, I added glitter glass to the mason jars, bumping them up a level. It isn't a heavy finish like plastic glitter. Really pretty. You have to be careful, as you can cut yourself working with it. It is mainly used in candle making, as you can't use plastic glitter in a jar of wax.

Anyway, the piece is done. I decided not to distress it and just put an acrylic finish on it. Didn't feel like messing with the wax. Just wanted a high sheen on it. I should have just painted it with enamel paint.

[good samaritan]

GS, this is the problem with some people, speaking before they truly study the facts. ALL the facts. You say God never drank beer? The very fact that God stipulated a place Not to Drink Wine, determines that he was not against it rather understood the effects of it.

Pro_31:4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Pro_31:6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

By the way how do you think Jesus got the name Wine Bibber" if he did not drink wine at all.

Just because they called Jesus a gluttonous man and wine bibber means nothing. Jesus fasted 40 days so he is by far not a gluttonous man. We really don't know if it was wine or juice, but let suppose it was real wine. Jesus certainly could not have over indulged and been our savior. With all the responsibility that he bore I highly doubt it would have any alcohol content. We are talking about 2,000 years ago and they didn't have the technology to preserve their fruit to last past their harvest season without fermentation.

We are talking about fruit of the vine though not beer. I tried to look up some beer commercials to make a point of the target audience of beer makers, but it was too bad for me want to continue to watch through. I assure you that the audience that is targeted by the beer makers are not God fearing.

By the way it was not that we would judge that Paul was talking about, rather that our lives would judge, sinners. And there is a big difference between settling civil disputes and judging someone as a sinner.

Paul was telling us to judge within the church about our grievances and don't go before the sinners. I assure you Paul was very concerned about not being a stumbling block to sinners.

2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

If I had gotten into a church with your ideals while I was coming out alcoholism and drug addiction I probably would have been destroyed. If you are a minister and you are a known drinker it is going to be problematic to any that are trying to overcome such vices.

The only thing I can say to the above is that you need to get out more. Because the world as a majority does not view things through such a small window of acceptance like so many religious folks do.

You mean to tell me, looking back at that lady, you would be fine to leave your children with her without knowing her? You are condemning me of being judgmental and close minded for me having reservations about the way the lady looked with horns and sharpened teeth in a previous post. I must say I have not seen anyone like that even on halloween so long as I have been alive. I live in West TN and people don't dress like that around here.

Btw we have goth people around here, but nothing like that woman. Most goths probably are not willing to go to the extreme that lady went to destroying her body. I will take it though, I must be a closed minded, judgmental, legalist.

A story as an example. A month or so ago my wife and I walked to the store close to our house. On our way back home two teen boys were headed towards us. One black the other white, they were dressed in "goth" all black. I believe one even had his ears gaged. My wife started to tense up, (she is still like you, looks to the outside too much) I told her relax. As we started to pass them both stepped of the sidewalk to let us pass and greeted us with a high how you doing and smile.
Now I have found through the years that most of the world view other the way I do. Only a small percentage are like my wife, and mainly because of years of teaching from religious teachers like yourself.

Personally I don't think your last statement was very complimentary. I wouldn't want to view anything like the world.

4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own:but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Only a small percentage are like my wife

Sounds like you may need to listen to your wife.

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

[good samaritan]

Yet you blast people about wine or beer.

I think you should go back and reread my posts and then read yours and shazeeps. I am not blasting out anyone. I may remark of my beliefs, but if you think I go around blasting anyone you don't know me at all.

[Godsdrummer]

Originally Posted by good samaritan

I think you should go back and reread my posts and then read yours and shazeeps. I am not blasting out anyone. I may remark of my beliefs, but if you think I go around blasting anyone you don't know me at all.

I am sorry, did not mean to ruffle your feathers too much. But just the fact that you think you have a right to judge another mans servant, tells me the frame of mind. I am not a novice here, I was born into this, and was just like you for over half of my life. I did not think I was blasting others either, I was just pointing out what I perceived to be their sin. Perceived being the operative word here.

Just some historical facts here, you might want to look up. In the bible days there was no such thing as unfermented wine. Fermentation was the process of purification of grape juice it was all alcoholic. For thousands of years water was the secondary source of liquid drank by humans, wine and beer being the first. You know those Christians that came to America on the Mayflower, their primary source of liquid was beer and wine.

If the discoveries of pasteurization and homogenization had not been discovered we would still be doing the same thing today.

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by Godsdrummer

I am sorry, did not mean to ruffle your feathers too much. But just the fact that you think you have a right to judge another mans servant, tells me the frame of mind. I am not a novice here, I was born into this, and was just like you for over half of my life. I did not think I was blasting others either, I was just pointing out what I perceived to be their sin. Perceived being the operative word here.

Just some historical facts here, you might want to look up. In the bible days there was no such thing as unfermented wine. Fermentation was the process of purification of grape juice it was all alcoholic. For thousands of years water was the secondary source of liquid drank by humans, wine and beer being the first. You know those Christians that came to America on the Mayflower, their primary source of liquid was beer and wine.

If the discoveries of pasteurization and homogenization had not been discovered we would still be doing the same thing today.

Just a note. There certainly was fermented wine in those bible days. The bible talks of it "moving", and the best wine till last means intoxicated people couldn't know the difference.

[Godsdrummer]

Paul was telling us to judge within the church about our grievances and don't go before the sinners. I assure you Paul was very concerned about not being a stumbling block to sinners.

Grievances! Not judging if we think they are sinners.

Sorry sinners don't look at things that way. What they do look at is if you teach against something and do differently. They don't care if you drink or smoke unless you teach against it and then do it in secret.

The world is so fed up with hypocrites, people that teach one thing and do another. People that look one way on the outside but have a bad spirit. and judging others is one of the greatest stumbling blocks the world has against Christianity.

[Godsdrummer]

Originally Posted by mfblume

Just a note. There certainly was fermented wine in those bible days. The bible talks of it "moving", and the best wine till last means intoxicated people couldn't know the difference.

Right back at you LOL

Having made wine the old fashion way. No additives etc. The only time wine moves upon itself is during the fermentation process, and if you drank it you would get sick because the impurities have not been killed yet. When the wine has stopped moving upon itself it is pure and the impurities can be removed and the wine drunk.

[Godsdrummer]

You mean to tell me, looking back at that lady, you would be fine to leave your children with her without knowing her? You are condemning me of being judgmental and close minded for me having reservations about the way the lady looked with horns and sharpened teeth in a previous post. I must say I have not seen anyone like that even on halloween so long as I have been alive. I live in West TN and people don't dress like that around here.

YES! If I went to a church and she was in the nursery or even a SS teacher, I would assume the church would not put her in such a position if her spirit did not check out. The only reason I would not leave my children would be if they had an aversion to her appearance. Most time children sense the spirit of people much better than adults, that have a tendency to judge the outside.

[shazeep]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

You mean, like, all they want in the same night??

"But one that their heart is right can drink all they want and will never cross the line of immorality because it is not in their heart. Alcohol does not do that."

PO, how much do you want to drink in the same night? Do you have a limit that i should observe, some number of drinks that we should make into a law, for others to follow? Surely you have the best of intentions, so what is your number then.

[shazeep]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

This is a thread hijack, but wanted to answer your question.

How does one "hijack" a thread, anyway? Is there some limit on the number of posts that i am not aware of? Am i compelled to read this? So really, what is "you hijacked this thread?" lol. This is central to your beliefs, OP PO. Please hijack my threads all you like; i never knew chalk paint even existed.