Christian Graphic Design

Hi there. Things round here at Pure Christian Graphic Design have been rather slow of late. You may have noticed that I moved this site from its old URL (at www.PureChristianGraphicDesign.com) to this one (http://www.andrewkelsall.com/christiangraphicdesign). I have done this because I’ve had little time to run this site on a weekly basis, so it made sense for me to move it over as a sub-site of AndrewKelsall.com for now. This way, this blog can benefit from my traffic rank and popular status in Google.

Future Plans

I plan to blog a lot more for Pure Christian Graphic Design. If I get my working schedule sorted out properly, I may end up posting every week on this site and end up moving it back to the www.PureChristianGraphicDesign.com URL.

In any case, I plan for this site to have a great future, but please bear with me while it gets on its feet. Appologies if you’ve left a comment and I haven’t replied. I’ll sort through my posts at some point and reply to every one.

God Bless you all,

Andrew

I’m a big fan of Twitter…Big fan. I heard of a new “Christian Twitter” lately, aptly named Gospelr. I think the site may still be in Beta testing, as there is absolutely no information on site about how the service is used—nor what it’s for.

However, if you head over to the site of the people who created it at Human3Error.com, there is an explanation as to its’ intent. It also links to the sites’ [invisible] FAQ page, which displays information about the nature of the service, such as:

★ Spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ
★ Encouraging others through community and communication
★ Keep friends, staff, ministries, family, and others updated through microblogging
★ Innovate and collaborate with others to discuss and brainstorm how we can best use web technology effectively for His Kingdom.

I’m all up for spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ, however, I can’t see myself using it. The great thing about Twitter is that you can engage with non-Christians if you want, or just set your account to private and invite just Christians. I don’t really see the need for Gospelr, although if it helps to spread the Word of the LORD, I will support it. If you think you may be interested in Gospelr and fancy giving it a try, head over there and sign-up.

What do you about Gospelr? Are you already a user—would you recommend it over Twitter?

I was both rather shocked and amused to hear that here in England, No Smoking signs have to be displayed inside Churches. It’s no joke. Apparently, to conform with the new ‘smoking-ban in public places rules’, even churches have to have them.

Rev Colin Slee, a senior cleric from the Dean of Southwark ignored the new rules― and stated that the local council threatened to close his church if he didn’t comply. Has the world gone mad?

He continued:

We’re going to have the ridiculous prospect at the next coronation of the sovereign solemnly entering Westminster Abbey past a “No Smoking” sign.

I would have thought No smoking in churches would be obvious. No wonder people are “fuming” (sorry, I couldn’t resist the pun)

Happy Easter 2009! It’s great to eat chocolate eggs and maybe go to relatives for dinner and all. But let’s not forget the true meaning of this holiday. It’s all about what Jesus did for us of the Cross at Calvary. Because he dies for us, out sins are now forgiven and we can have a personal relationship with Him. Amen!

On the subject of Easter, I would like to talk about the great 40 year mission of evangelist, Arthur Blessitt. The story of this man’s life is very long, so much so, that a new movie has been made about his life entitled The Cross.

Basically, Arthur has been walking the world for 40 years with a giant cross. His mission has led him into danger and war zones, but has also enabled him to preach the Gospel to the world. On his travels, he has met Yasir Arafat, George W.Bush and the Pope. After walking 38,102 miles through 315 countries, he finished his walk in June 2008.

Why did he do this? Arther states:

At 5am one morning, Jesus spoke to me. He said, ‘Arthur, take the cross off the wall of your building, carry the cross on foot. Identify my message on the highways and roadsides where the people are.

Arthur recalled that his most memorable journey was taking the cross from Jerusalem to Calvary on Easter Sunday.

I wondered how I would feel. Would I be sad, walking in the footsteps of Jesus? No. I was filled with joy. Christ had suffered all the agony for me 2,000 years ago.

I would like to commend Arthur on this fantastic achievement which he did for God. Reading of this story has inspired me by the dedication he has shown the the Lord.

You can read a full article on the story of Arthur Blessitt here. Have you heard about Arthur’s travels before? What do you think of the great journey he has taken?

Nearly there. Pure Christian Graphic Design is going ahead―that’s for sure. I have some subscribers already―and if you’re one of them, thanks.

Constantly being side-tracked by design projects and firstly sorting-out my other blog, AndrewKelsall.com, this blog has been in a half-designed site with three little articles to it’s name. I’m sorry.

Within the next couple of weeks, I should have PCGD in full swing, with at least one article per week for starters―and I’ll see how it goes.

So, thanks for your patience, please spread the word―and all-going-well, this is going to be a great site full of Christian Design inspiration and topics.

Yours Faithfully, Andrew Kelsall