About

Hello, 

I'm sure your thinking ''why does this guy's page look like something out of Internet Explorer circa 1996?'' or ''why am I here'' or even... 

All of these are valid and probably won't be answered but I will try.

I am simply a sinner redeemed by Christ alone, to the glory of God alone, through grace alone, faith alone, and attested to by scripture alone. 

This here is a blog for photography and writing.

My work (if one can call this that) has been shaped by both my faith and has particularaly been concerned with the concept of memory; it's meaning and purpose. 

Why do these moments move us? What are we supposed to do with these? How do they shape us?

These questions eventually come back around to the most basic questions about ourselves that we each must ask ourselves. 

Rarely do we stop and reflect on this in today's culture; I don't need to harp on the saturation of images, ideas, and raw data thrown in our faces everyday. 

Smarter people have pointed this out. 

I am convinced that what I should be producing is material that is well articulated and having the ultimate goal of pointing back to Christ. 

You will quickly find through this blog that I have not always succeeded that end and I have only my shortcomings, attachments to this faded world, blindness to my own sin, and ignorance to explain this. 

My interests are as follows: 

Studying (principally the holy scriptures but also church history, historical theology, and ecclesiology). 

Reading historical non fiction, classic and contemporary literature, and poetry. 

Creative Arts such as photography, writing, poetry, and collage art. 

My Confession of Faith is the 1647 Westminster Standards

(https://thewestminsterstandard.org/the-westminster-standards/)

I do sincerely own and declare the above Confession of Faith to be a Confession of my Faith, and that I own the doctrine contained therein to be the true doctrine.

''Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof:

and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry:

for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these?

for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this'' 

- Ecclesiastes 7:8-10

"I am first a Christian, next a catholic, then a Calvinist, fourth a paedobaptist, and fifth a Presbyterian. I cannot reverse this order" - John “Rabbi” Duncan