So I believe that the ministry that I have as a painter simply a ministry of bringing into the heart, images of peace and serenity that people to the world as God intended it to be, not the world that man has made it through his destructive, sinful nature. A world that is at peace and in balance and harmonious. My paintings are extremely idealistic and I don't apologize for that. When I got saved, I asked God to use my talents, the whole of me in any way he could, but honestly I was really suspicious that there was no possible way that God could use an artist. I knew he could use a preacher, or if I wrote books, He could use me, or if I was a singer, but I couldn't think of a way that God could use an artist.
Art is kind of on the fringe.
Nobody really is in art anymore. Yet God really used my paintings to change that and to introduce millions of people to the enjoyment of a painting as a tool within the home to enhance the life of the individual and to enhance the lifestyle and the hope and to give people a sense of vision of a better world. You know I didn't plan all of that, but it does bring up the point, whatever talents we may have, even if you think it is the most obscure thing you can imagine that God could possibly use, just commit it Him because we were all pre-packaged at the time of salvation. It is not an accident, the talents, the skills that we have and we have a talent in repairing refrigerators, the chances are that God can use a refrigerator repair man as a minister of the Gospel. He is also a syndicated columnist and international broadcaster.