Following in the food-oriented footsteps of my previous food-oriented LEGO post, let’s take a look at this MOC*, built just over a year ago, an old-fashioned restaurant!
*MOC = My Own Creation
La Corona Restaurant
Chef Délicieux’s Kitchen Build Log
Hello all, this is Guy Mock,* back again, here to detail the building process for good old Chef Délicieux’s grand medieval kitchen!
*MOC, often pronounced mock, stands for My Own Creation
Righteousness Part Three: God’s Solution
“Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?” (Proverbs 20:9). Each of us knows, that, however well we may do when compared to our own defective standards, when compared to the standard of absolute perfection, we fall woefully and willfully short. And would it not be absurd to suppose that a perfect God would not hold all His creation to a perfect standard? How could He do otherwise? But does that mean that there is no hope for rebellious humanity? Thank God, that is not the case! Instead, He has provided a solution!
Chef Délicieux’s Kitchen
When my lord the Grand Duke wants a meal, who does he ask? Why, Chef Délicieux, of course! And today, the Chef is busy carving up an extra-grand and delicious meal… or maybe he’s just posing. Who knows?
Tree Trials: 7 Secrets for Deciduous Trees
Not too long ago we took a look at 8 unique ways to build LEGO palm trees, and today we’re back with seven secrets for building deciduous trees out of bricks! These are pointers I’ve picked up over the course of my building experience. But let me just say at the outset: there are dozens, probably hundreds, of amazing ways to build trees out there, so consider this just the tip of the iceberg!
Clicking on the following pictures will take you to Flickr, where in most cases you can see more of the same creation!
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Righteousness Part Two: Man’s Dilemma
Last week we saw the demand God makes of all mankind: perfect righteousness, perfect obedience to His holy law. This demand is hardly surprising, since a perfectly holy God could not be expected to tolerate imperfection in His creatures, much less the high treason that takes place when any human being decides that he knows better than God and chooses to go his own way. The question then follows: does mankind fulfill this demand? Or does he daily, even hourly, break the law of God and act as a law unto himself?
One of These Buildings is Not Like the Other…
You may not see these two buildings next to each other on a normal street… but in LEGOville, the only thing that counts is that they both be made of bricks!
On the left is the Hotel Española, while on the right we have a very modern style pizza place.
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Righteousness Part One: God’s Demand
A perfect God can require nothing less from His creatures than perfect obedience. Were they to fail even in the slightest degree, God’s perfection would demand that He punish them! What then, will be the punishment for mankind, who has repeatedly offended God’s majesty to His face? How could God possibly pardon man? How could he reconcile a people to Himself? Is there any solution to this dilemma? In this three part series we will look at the Old Testament, where we see God’s demand set forth as He commands righteousness and justice, man’s dilemma explained as He fails to obey, and God’s solution presented as He calls upon His people to base their trust on Him and His glorious plan.
First of all, God’s demand is set forth.
The Switch in Sector 13
Just about everyone knows the first rule of interplanetary space driving on the BlueWay: when you own a five wheeled motorcycle you don’t need to worry about stoplights. Especially if you tote a triple barreled MaxiGun around on the back of your cycle. Then, the stoplights worry about you.
Common sense observation though that might be to most people, yet common sense is not – never has been, never will be – nearly as common as it should. I ask you: does it make any sense that my neighbor, Tony Hartley, who rides a bicycle – yes, literally a bicycle, a relic of the twenty-first century, barely glossed over with the veneer of a space-capacity G resistant cockpit bubble and a hypersonic pedal intensifier – does it make any sense that he should feel himself entitled to pedal on down across the intersection and cause me to come to a screeching halt? Red light or no red light, that is carrying matters too far! Fair exchange and no robbery, he says, and I can’t deny that he got me out of a pretty tight predicament, so maybe he has a right. But stopping at the stoplights is going to annoy me a lot longer, I can tell you!
Geneva D 