Welcome! Images from my reality to your eyes. Images to stimulate your imagination and appreciation of the beauty which surrounds us all. A beauty which in the eyes of some maybe perceived as ugly, yet is beautiful never the less. A beauty which is in the eye of the beholder and the non-beholder.
Grab your cuppa of favourite delectation or your goblet of wine, come on in and give a veritable feast to your eyes and imagination. Take the book, as you look at each image, survey the scene, turning the book and observe the image from every angle. Why not get what you observe and put it in a notebook, or on your phone or iPad or tablet? Who knows what inspiration awaits you. A festival feast of over 70 images showing Fauna, Flora, 'Scapes, Skies and Abstracts.
I was born in a small country town about 300 miles north west of Sydney in Australia. I was raised to be a sceptic cum agnostic cum atheist! So coming into my teenage years in the 80s, I decided to go for a bit of danger! So I rebelled, became a Christian and started attending a local Christian Church and became a Christian. I came to the UK for 6 months travel around Europe! That was in 1990! I view it as God having a sense of humour. He knows I don't like rain, cold and in particular - together! He has even given me the most beautiful of women as a wife but she doesn't like hot weather! God sure has a sense of humour! In 2003, I had a minor stroke and I view that as God giving me a clip round the ear to stop being stubborn and to listen to Him for direction. So instead of moving north with my job at Royal Mail, I took redundancy and went off to Moorlands college where I graduated in 2007. I set up Partakers in 2007. I had recorded some audio files as part of a block placement during my 3rd year at Moorlands. 6 months later I looked back on the site and discovered that the 16 audio files had been downloaded several thousand times, mainly in a country where evangelical Christians are persecuted. It was also part of my dissertation investigating if a Virtual Church could be part of the universal church. I based my study on the old maxim: one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. As for the name Partakers, I got the idea straight from Matthew 5:6, which I paraphrase as "Blessed are those who partake after righteousness for they will be filled." I have an accountability team set up by the church we attend, for mentoring, prayer, guidance, advice and accountability. I also have people on Facebook & Twitter to keep an eye on what I say and do, in order to see that those things are within biblical confines. I set up PulpTheology as a branch of Partakers in order that the books are cheap to purchase, quickly published to a great standard and hopefully written simply & clearly in order to help people engage with theology by using both words and image. I currently reside in Bournemouth, travel frequently to speak in about places including the USA and Australia. I have a podcasting site and we have had about 1,500,000 unique visitors so far and about 4,000,000 downloads. I also engage with church online using Facebook, and we are able to go an experience of church primarily to those who are unable to get to church, usually because of health and disability issues.
