I recently began preaching through 1 John at Kingstree Church. Today’s picture serves as both a ‘logo’ for that series as well as a visual summary of the message of the book itself. The heart of 1 John appears as we consider the relationship between the book’s three central concepts, namely, Life, Light, and Love. […]
1 Kings 10:8-9, ‘Happy are your servants who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom…Because YHWH loved Israel forever, He has made you king.’ These words, spoken by the Queen of Sheba in praise of Solomon’s reign, establish an illuminating principle for us, namely, that a wise and righteous ruler is an expression of
Today’s picture is a bit different than normal in that it visually expounds a *concept* rather than a specific biblical text. The reason for this is that it was created as a gift to a friend upon the completion of his doctoral thesis and the theme of the image is based on the theme of
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Matt. 7:24-27, “Everyone who hears these words of mind and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock…everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the
Matthew 28:20, “Behold, I am with you every day, even to the end of the age.’ /// Having announced the universal authority placed into His nail-pierced hands through His death and resurrection (28:18), and—on the basis of this authority—having called His people to make disciples of all nations (28:19), our Lord sends His disciples (His
Psalm 118:10-14, “All the nations surrounded me; in the name of YHWH I cut them off! They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side; in the name of YHWH I cut them off!…I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but YHWH helped me. YHWH is my strength and my song, He has become
Revelation 22:1-5 /// Today’s image is unique in that it was a commission I made for the cover of an upcoming book, “The Invisible Clearly Seen: Tracing Biblical Symbols in Creation” by Benjamin Marshall. I very rarely take commissions, but when Ben explained that he built his book around Revelation 22:1-5 and wanted the cover
Lamentations 3:33, “He does not afflict from His heart or grieve the children of man.” /// Lamentations is not only one of the most concentrated expressions of agony in the entire Bible, it is also a intricately and densely woven piece of poetry. Jeremiah pours his grief over the destruction of Jerusalem into a strict
Today’s image served as a sort of ‘logo’ for a sermon series on Revelation that I preached in the Fall of 2024. The image encapsulates what I believe is the theological and visual heart of the entire Apocalypse, namely, the whole, seven-fold cosmos gathered in doxological orbit around the glory of God as revealed in
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Isaiah 40:28, “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.” In Isaiah 40, YHWH speaks comfort to His despairing people who, buried in the grave of exile, feel as though
Jn 3:27-30, “John answered, ‘A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven…The one who has the Bride is the Bridegroom. The friend of the Bridegroom, who stands and hears Him, rejoices greatly at the Bridegroom’s voice…this joy of mine is now complete. He must increase, but I must decrease.’”
Revelation 21:1, ‘…and the SEA was no more.’ Revelation 22:1, ‘Then the angel showed me the RIVER of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.’ (There’s also a video version of this description) The Sea is chaotic, rebellious, and without form (cf. Gen.1:2). In this
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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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1 John 4:10, “In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” What is LOVE according to 1 John 4:10? It is that in God which moves Him to send His Son—and moves the Son to harmoniously respond
2 Corinthians 12:10, “For the sake of Christ, therefore, I am well pleased in weaknesses, mistreatments, calamities, persecutions and distress, for when I am weak, then I am strong.” Paul’s definition here of ‘weakness’ is broad, essentially embracing the total experience of mortality in the fallen world. ‘Weakness’ is the curse of Genesis 3, in
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Luke 21:34, ‘But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.’ Jesus equates the ‘cares of this life’ to ‘drunkenness’ and ‘dissipation.’ Both drunkenness and dissipation translate words that relate to literal, physical drunkenness and its
Romans 8:38-39, ‘For I am sure that neither death nor life…will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.’ Death is an enemy; the ‘Last Enemy’ that will be finally destroyed by the unfolding of Christ’s work on the cross at the return of the Lord (1 Cor.15:26).
Colossians 1:15-20 — The Christ Hymn Over the last year or so I’ve been slowly making art for a board book on Colossians 1:15-20. Today I’m able to share the final piece of that project: the cover art for the entire book. Updates on getting this all into print will follow. Most of my visual
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Psalm 19:14, ‘Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O YHWH, my Rock and my Redeemer.’ Verse 14 really functions as a final seal upon all of Psalm 19, so when one of my Patreon supporters asked me to visually exegete this text, I had
Paschal Trilogy – 2024: Resurrection Sunday John 20:19-20, ‘He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.’ What does the Risen Jesus show His disciples in this passage? His nail-torn hands and spear-pierced side…These wounds are the wells of our sin, the gashes of our grief, the
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