{"id":2260,"date":"2013-09-13T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2013-09-13T00:09:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T05:09:14","slug":"art-to-the-glory-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2260","title":{"rendered":"ART TO THE GLORY OF GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ftq7pNlj83Q\/Udm69ctVMlI\/AAAAAAAAAv8\/FZVH5guv-TU\/s640\/294_Which+Is+Better.jpg\" width=\"508\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I met Dave and Gwen McCoy about twenty years ago when I was a pastor. \u00a0Wonderful folks!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave was one of our best Sunday school teachers. \u00a0Dave is amillennial in his understanding of so-called &#8220;end-times&#8221; matters or at least he used to be. \u00a0The church was and remains premillennial. \u00a0I am now &#8220;agnostic&#8221; on how it will all end\/begin anew, but that topic is for another time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Back to Dave. \u00a0Our elders still allowed Dave to teach and several sat in his class. \u00a0Indeed, they told me on a regular basis how much they were learning from Dave.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though Dave&#8217;s training is in the sciences (he holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry), he has a keen interest in literature and the arts. \u00a0I vividly remember seeing several of his works of art on display throughout his home. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Well, what I saw about twenty years ago, you can see for yourself via the marvels of the Internet. \u00a0By the way, the picture above depicts Ecc. 9:4 about how it is &#8220;better to be a live dog than a dead lion.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dr2mccoy.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/dr2mccoy.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Dave and Gwen McCoy about twenty years ago when I was a pastor. \u00a0Wonderful folks! Dave was one of our best Sunday school teachers. \u00a0Dave is amillennial in his understanding of so-called &#8220;end-times&#8221; matters or at least he used to be. \u00a0The church was and remains premillennial. \u00a0I am now &#8220;agnostic&#8221; on how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-bible"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}