If cool is your only rule, you are a fool

If I could go back in time and tell myself a few instructive things, one of them would be to stop worrying about looking like an idiot. As John Piper puts it, "risk is right." I wasn't the most daring sort, and by playing it safe I pretty much escaped looking like an idiot. But it also meant that I took way too long to track down my wife and ask her out. So what was I so worried about? Looking silly? The problem is, no risk, no reward - safe is also quite joyless, boring and ungodly.

Ungodly? Really?

Yes, the young man who risks nothing bears a striking resemblance to the fellow who wanted to play it safe by burying his talent. That way he was sure not to lose it. And also sure not to make anything of it. God expects men to be manly. Again, as Piper puts it, "better to lose your life than waste it."

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This is what a dad does

Another illustration from Reformed Perspective.

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Pro-abortion argument countered

Another one I did for my magazine.

Pro-abortion advocates argue abortion must be legal because it is unacceptable for women to lose control of their bodies, which they would if they were, after becoming pregnant, forced to carry the baby to term. What is forgotten here is that men have in the past, when it was a matter of life and death, also lost control of their bodies, being drafted into the military, and sent to defend their country. What would be unacceptable normally, in life and death situations may become necessary.

So the real question, then, is whether abortion is a life and death situation. Or, to put it another way, it comes down to "What are the unborn?" If they are human like you and me, then this is a life and death situation.

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Dental orientation

If all minorities need to be inserted into our Charter of Rights, what about this one?

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If there is doubt...

If there is doubt, you can't kill. That's a fact we only understand - there is no question, but that it would be immoral for this demolition expert to push the plunger before he is certain that there is no human life within. And yet sometimes abortion is defended on the basis of the claim "No one knows when human life begins." But if we don't know, then we can't be certain that the unborn aren't indeed precious human beings. And as long as we have doubts - if we aren't sure then, whether human life lies within - we can't kill!

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Modesty 2

How do you illustrate modesty and immodesty in a Christian publication? You go with stick figures of course! This was a picture I created to accompany an article about modesty in dress.

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Modesty 1

This is an illustration I did for the cover of Reformed Perspective, for an article on modesty. It is hard to illustrate modesty without showing immodesty, so this was a bit of a fun challenge.

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Equal stuff or equal treatment

This is not a funny comic, but this is an important idea expressed succinctly (okay, not that succinctly, but you should have seen the original Hayek quote!). It was an illustration for another Human Rights article in Reformed Perspective and reinforced the thrust of the piece.

Another lesson on cartooning for those who don't know how to draw: This involved using a couple of stock images from my source of copyright free pics - the books in the background, and the professor. The original prof picture is the one in the middle. I then used Photoshop to cut off his right arm, copy his left arm, flip it, and then stitch it into place on this right side and... Viola! Two arms holding the book!

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human rights

This was an illustration for an article in Reformed Perspective about how the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) and its provincial counterparts are abusing religious freedoms. One of the more outrageous examples of this abuse involves a pastor, Stephen Boissoin, who was forbidden from talking about homosexuality. The Bible might make it clear this is a sinful lifestyle, but this Christian pastor was not allowed to say it! For more on this topic, and how to fight this abuse, see HumanRightsCommissions.ca.

     

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Meals on Wheels

Okay, I admit, this comic might not meet the category of being called "Really Good." But if it isn't the greatest comic ever, it is a pretty good illustration - this originally appeared accompanying an article on retirement that suggested retired people volunteer with worthy groups like Meals on Wheels. You can find that article, by Rene Vermeulen, here.

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