Personal Development God's Way

Chapter 8: You Were Created to Be God’s Temple.

God’s Temples tells the story of the Gospel message. This story begins with the illustration of a purple house. The color purple usually represents royalty.

We were created to be God’s temples and to be formed into mature sons and daughters of the King of kings.

In the last chapter of this story I gave a brief description of the first three illustrations found in the booklet “God’s Temples”. The last illustration we looked at has a dismal color – black. Remember that black represents the sin which entered the world and consequently has contaminated our lives.

How thankful we are to God that there is an answer to this dilema.

The red house of course represents the Blood of Jesus that was shed for us. He stood in our position and took the punishment we deserved.

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Chapter 7: The First Templos Vivientes Booklet Is Published

The first printing of booklet of the series Templos Vivientes (Living Temples) was published under the same name of Templos Vivientes. I really did not think it would become more than just the one booklet (a series was not yet been thought of).

My vision at the time was that this little booklet would be distributed in the villages of Mexico, especially in the area where I had been working. It was full of illustrations to make it easier for parents to read the story to their children.

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Chapter 6: The Vision Grows

Have you ever been at a place in your life where you just knew you were meant to be in a certain place? After the first several months in Cuernavaca it was time to return to New Zealand to visit my family and friends. I had been away for 2 yrs already.

During my stay in New Zealand, Anna Lee’s husband died (Anna Lee Carlton is the founder of the magazine, Bread For Children, that I was working with) and this created a need for help at the head office in Florida. I was asked to return to Florida for a time, rather than to Cuernavaca. However I had received a very strong impression during my time at home, that was to go to McAllen Texas.

Florida
I returned to Florida where Anna Lee assured me that as soon as it was possible, she would release me to go to McAllen where I could also be supportive to the work of the magazine since McAllen is a city on the border of Mexico.

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Chapter 5: The Parable of the Sower – The Key To All Parables
The parable of the sower is my favorite parable of all the graphic story illustrations that Jesus used in His teachings. I have taught from this parable many times across the years, and even did a series once (in spanish), from which a set of cassettes were made.

An Almost Hidden Key
This parable became my favorite the day I discovered an almost hidden little secret that actually sheds light on all of the parables that Jesus taught in the four gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). When Jesus had finished telling the story of the Sower who sowed his seed on four different types of soil, the disciples took Him aside to ask Him what it meant.

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Chapter 4: My Favorite Parable – The Sower

From Cuernavaca I went back to New Zealand for my first break (known as “furlow”). During this time Anna Lee’s husband passed away (director of Bread for Children) and I was asked if I would consider returning to the head office in Florida to help out there for a time (rather than returning to Mexico).

There I had the opportunity to gain more experience working closely with the printshop, and doing the layout of the English magazine (Bread for Children).

Part of my job description was help with the proof reading but there is such a conflict between the written British English and American English, that I gave that one up and told them to just give me the copy once it was “correct”.

In my spare moments I began “playing” with some ideas for sketches and came up with a series illustrating my favorite parable – The Sower (Mark 4:1-20).

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