Transformed is a Bible study that is rooted in Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will.
God is the creator and sustainer of all of life and His power to Transform is active all around us every day. If we allow the Holy Spirit to fill our minds daily with God’s Word and His power, then our lives will experience not just information, but Transformation into the person that God designed us to be.
We live in a world where the battle for our minds is an everyday activity. If we allow the world’s darkness to feed our minds and control our thoughts, then our lives will take a path that leads us away from God and from making decisions based on His wisdom and perfect will for us as our loving Father and Creator. If we stay close to God everyday and focus on what He is saying and doing, we will not only understand what is going on in our world, but we will also understand who we are to God and what our part in His plan is. Knowing Him allows us to know truth and live in His light where we will not be defined by the world’s lies and darkness. The caterpillar in this Transformed painting represents a small creation of God that though it seams insignificant and powerless, over time God develops into a beautiful butterfly that has the power to fly wherever it wants. When I see a beautiful butterfly, I am reminded not only of God’s joy and amazing ability to create beauty all around us, but of the fact that God wants to Transform each one of us into a person who is full of joy and power, who brings Him glory by showing our beauty to the world. I hope you will find encouragement and purpose through your relationship with Jesus when reading our Transformed Bible study booklet and looking at Krel’s painting of called Transformed.
The story behind Transformed
Krel was asked to paint and share a message of hope for a group of high school students in a detention center and then for a group of ladies at a jail. During this same time, Krel was teaching an art class to paint a picture of a butterfly springing from its chrysalis. When praying about what to paint and share with these groups, the idea of the transformation of a butterfly came to Krel combined with Paul's writing in Romans 12:2 about being Transformed. Krel continued to develop this message into a Bible study over several years of painting this picture and sharing the Transformed message with various audiences. With this booklet, we have only scratched the surface of God's power to transform our lives in so many ways. As all of Krel's projects, Transformed will continue to unfold as God shows us new and fresh ways that His Holy Spirit works in our lives to transform us into the person that God has designed us to be. It is an exciting and beautiful life to live.
Our Process Begins with Bible Study
Like all of our projects at K. L. Buckelew, our process of creating always begins with Bible study. After developing a topic that God is leading us to present to our audience, Krel and Kathy write the Bible study. Krel then paints the artwork, most often oil paintings and sometimes acrylic paintings, to illustrate the Bible study. All of this creative work is handed to our design team to develop the materials into products that we can produce in our own studio. We print our booklets, and print and frame our canvas prints all inhouse from raw materials to the finished products ready to share with anyone who has a desire to learn, teach, and enjoy God's Word where they are. We are in full time church ministry and work to develop Bible studies and other products that we can use in our church to teach God's Word before we ever pass them on to anyone outside of our community.
Framed Fine Art Canvas Prints
Krel Buckelew has been an artist since his career began in high school forty years ago when he got his first job as an artist for a printing company. He later purchased picture framing equipment and learned to frame his paintings himself and opened an art gallery and custom frame shop. After becoming a pastor in 2014, Krel and Kathy turned their attention from selling fine art, to producing Bible study material for the churches that they serve. This ministry has grown to include creative Bible study booklets as well as high quality framed canvas prints that Krel paints, prints on canvas, mounts onto a durable wood panel, finishes by hand with a thick textured coating that dries to look like the original painting, and then frames each print all in our studio frame shop.