Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. What is the most beautiful thing

you've ever seen? Do you say, that's beautiful? so much that the word beauty has lost its significance?

Joey Tomasone will help you discover the theology of beauty in this month's episode of the

Connecting podcast. Joey is a pastor and a painter with a degree from Oxford University,

exploring the intersection between faith, beauty, and life. Quote, he has made everything beautiful

in its time, end quote, Ecclesiastes 311. Here's Paul Tripp with Joey Tomasone.

Well, one of the things that I always do, and if you've watched the podcast, you know that I bring

an object that has some kind of personal meaning or spiritual meeting.

I think the physical world is designed by God to remind us of the spiritual world.

And so that has been a habit from day one. The very first podcast

I brought in four characters from my fairly massive Mickey Mouse character collection.

And the thing that I like about Mickey Mouse is the plots were just

everybody's life. You know, you go on a vacation with your friends and you get a flat tire.

You have plans for a day and they don't work out. And I thought, it just reminds me that

most of us live in the utterly mundane and that God does

his best work in little moments.

So even Mickey Mouse can teach you the gospel.

Well, what I have the day is way more wonderful than Mickey Mouse.

This is actually a painting that was done by our guest today.

It's called Through the Gates.

It's oil on a panel and painted in 2001.

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