Carpenter’s Gallery is all about putting the work of the great Master Carpenter, Jesus, on display.  Look around you.  There is incredible beauty and design in everything throughout nature.  Leaves and insects and birds don’t just happen; they are designed.  People are designed too, Jesus, who is God, is the great designer and the maker

Earlier this year I went to an estate sale.  Someone had passed away and their heirs were selling off the remaining possessions.  It was a lovely home, but nothing that unusual until you went into the back rooms.  Then it became quite obvious that the person who had lived here was obsessed with music.  There

“Ah, you who hide deep from the LORD your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, ‘Who sees us? Who knows us?’  You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, ‘He did not make me’; or the thing

As an engineer, I deal with problems every day.  It can be very tempting to try solutions that seem to contribute to solving the problem, but which don’t get at the root cause.  There is usually one key thing, a primary issue, which is causing the problem.  When you find that one thing, you have

“He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth…”  Ps 135:7a The density of water is .03625 LBS per cubic inch.   Doesn’t seem like much, but multiply that times the 43,560 square feet in an acre and the weight of water covering an acre an inch deep becomes 227,383 LBS.  Now

There are few people in our lives that are truly extraordinary; who touch our lives in significant ways; who are truly great friends.  God blesses us by bringing these people into our lives.  My son in law, Jacob, was one of these extraordinary people.  It is with tears that I write this because at a