Hello – An Animation
This short film, feature music from Twenty One Pilots, considers Christ’s descent into our darkness and the saving “Hello” He speaks to us from the Tree.
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John 1 + Genesis 1
In today’s picture, I’m offering a suggestion on how we might follow John’s textual markers so as to read Genesis and the Gospel in parallel. You can read a *brief* overview in the points below. For a longer explanation, see this video. Day 1 [Gen.1:3-5] Light; division of light and darkness / [Jn.1:1-28] The
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Holy Saturday 2024 – Genesis 2:3
Paschal Trilogy – 2024: Holy Saturday Genesis 2:3, ‘So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it, God rested from all His work that He had done in creation.’ In context, these words refer to YHWH’s creation of the cosmos in six days and His ‘rest’ on the seventh. However, read
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Holy Saturday – 2023
This year’s Holy Week Trilogy is a series of three visions of the crucifixion, each primarily illumined by one of three different ‘light sources’: Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Resurrection Sunday. Each day’s particular illumination draws out certain aspects of the same, infinitely meaning-filled event—the Crucifixion of the Risen Lord. In part 2 of the
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The Days of Creation
Here’s a new piece based on the Creation account in Genesis 1. The New Testament teaches us that all things were created in, are sustained by, exist for, and are communicative of the crucified and risen Jesus Christ (Col.1:15-17). I’ve tried to visually exegete that vision of cosmological origins in this image. I made this
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Genesis 50:20
Gen 50:20, “…you *meant* evil against me, but God *meant* it for good…” Don’t miss the parallelism in this statement. It is not that Joseph’s brothers *meant* evil, and that God *used* their actions for good, it is that—in the very same action—the brothers meant evil and God meant good. There are at
Genesis 32:11, 33:4
Gen 32:11, “Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me…” Gen 33:4, “But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.” In 32:11, Jacob has every reason
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Genesis 5:29
Genesis 5:29, “Out of the ground YHWH has cursed, this one shall bring us relief…” These are the words spoken over Noah at his birth, and Noah in some sense fulfills them in that he goes on to grow vineyards, tangibly bringing a source of relief up from the cursed earth (Gen. 9:20). However,
Genesis 11:4
Genesis 11:4, “…let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” Here are the roots of Babylon—the “world-spirit” that will oppose YHWH and His people until the end of history. Notice what is at the heart of the spirit of Babel: a desire to put
Genesis 6:18-19
Genesis 6:18-19, “But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark…and of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you.” The connection between the Ark and Christ is a longstanding one. Peter has already
The Gospel – III – Rebellion
This third picture in a seven picture series is taken mainly from Genesis 3:6, but also has elements of Jeremiah 2:13. Humanity was created to enjoy and so to declare the excellence of the Triune God. That is what every longing in our heart, mind, and body exists for—as mediums through which to know and
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The Gospel – II – Creation
This one is based on the Creation account, especially the creation of humanity in Genesis 1:26-27. God, who eternally enjoys the fellowship of Himself within Himself through the reciprocal love of Father and Son in the Spirit, now creates a universe through which He will externally communicate the excellence of His own internal life. All
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Genesis 2:3
Genesis 2:3, “So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all His work that He had done in creation.” So too after the great work that would achieve New Creation, God the Son rested from His labors on the Sabbath.
Genesis 3:12 + Galatians 3:13
Genesis 3:12, “The man said, ‘The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate…” Galatians 3:13, “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us–for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree…’” The
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Genesis 2:7 + Luke 23:46
Genesis 2:7, “Then YHWH God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life…” Luke 23:46, “And having said this, [Jesus] breathed His last…” In the Garden, God’s breath creates humanity, at the cross His breath re-creates it.
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Genesis 2:3
Genesis 2:3, “God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all His work that He had done…”
The Word of the Cross
Discussion Guide: English | Português | Español | Interactive (English) Audio Español: Creation In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1) …And God created mankind in His own image ….in the image of God he created them, male and female He created – us (Genesis 1:27). What can be known
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Genesis 3:24
“He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.” – Genesis 3:24
Genesis 49:10
Genesis 49:10, “The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his.” Genesis 49:10 is just another of many reminders that the crucified and risen Jesus is the harmonizing note of all