More is More

It’s time once again for the Bible Verse Challenge – well…it’s actually a day late.  Thanks for your patience this month.  You can read Challenge details on SCS by clicking here – we’d love to have you join us any time.  The idea is to make a card or page each month featuring a different Bible verse for memorization and meditation/prayer so that at the end of the year you have a completed project either for yourself or for a gift.  I am making 5″ x 3 3/8″ journaling cards to fit into a Provo Craft mini top-loading tin.

Here’s my card for this month.

The verses I chose this month are Colossians 2:6-8

6  So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, 7  rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

 8  See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.

Our worship pastor, Joe Jacobson, preached a message on this portion of scripture (and the following verses) last Sunday.  In my sermon notes I wrote: 

• everything you have learned of Jesus – live in this way – checking ourselves daily against God’s Word. 
• rooted, built up, established – God is doing this for us. Look to God and thank Him with overflowing gratitude
• be convinced ONLY of God’s Word.  Satan does not use the obvious – he uses the subtle – the little things to try to drag us away from walking in the Word.

It’s so easy, I think, to get caught up in the ideas of the world – deceptive philosophy.  So easy to accept ideas (and even sin) that are just flat wrong just because our society has accepted them as the *norm*.  These verses are such an important reminder to me to constantly be checking everything against God’s Word!

 The idea of being *rooted* immediately brought to mind a strong tree and I was thrilled to discover that this image from Lovely as a Tree would fit perfectly on my card.  I stamped the tree directly on the River Rock panel and watercolored it with watercolor crayons.  Then I cut around it with a fingertip craft knife purchased from Taylored Expressions.  It was a lot easier for me to control than a regular craft knife.  I also masked the tree with eclipse tape and stamped the Weathered Background with Close to Cocoa ink.  Then I just slipped in my verse which was printed on vellum with my computer from www.Biblegateway.com .  The tree was then completely covered with Crystal Effects, which doesn’t really show in the photo but looks very cool in person.  I added photo corners and brads and the tab and ribbons.

I’m anxious to see what verses and projects the other Scripture Chicks have chosen/created this month.  Let’s go check them out!

Lori

Taylor

Angel

Nancy

If you are participating be sure to use keyword BVC08 when you upload to the SCS gallery and be sure to check later in the week to see what everyone has uploaded this month – click here.

Thanks for stopping by.