Throne Room Imagery
Genesis 2:23
This, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh… Genesis 2:23 Here we read that the first use of human language is a poem expressing the joy of the one-flesh union of husband and wife. That alone is awesome to consider. However, in Eph 5:32, Paul teaches that, ultimately, the one-flesh…
Resurrection Sunday 2026
O, Grieving Tree, O Tree of Life, O, Tree in Eden bound Beyond the burning sword of Death Where ne’er your fruit was found— Rejoice! For one of Adam’s race Ascends now to your height Rejoice! For He your Harvest is And He your Fruit of Life. Rejoice, O Sea, though in you dwells The…
Good Friday 2026
O, Cross—cruel Tree of agony; O, Cross—Gallows of God; O, Cross—Rack of the Trinity; O, Cross, upon thy rod Of hewen wood doth hang the Lord Who hung the burnings stars, While hands that formed our mortal race Now wear our damn’ed scars. Yet here in dark and silent fear, A mystery is shown— For…
Psalm 46:4
“There is a River whose streams make glad the City of God…” – Psalm 46:4 Psalm 46 envisions a season in which every seemingly stable and dependable reality is overturned-when the world seems to be falling apart. In contrast to the cataclysmic upheavals envisioned in vv.1-3, v. 4 introduces a refuge that remains unshaken…
Resurrection Sunday – Song of Songs 2:10
Song of Songs, 2:10, “Arise my Love, my Beautiful One, and come away…” Arise, my Love, for Night is passed, And Death’s cold reign is done. Your tears to joy have turned, at last, Rise in the Risen Son. Arise, my Flesh, my Bone, my Bride, Blood-washed and Beautiful, Born from and gathered through my…
Good Friday 2025 – John 1:14
John 1:14, “The Word became Flesh…” O, Word high-throned eternally, O, Word beneath the world, O, Word, Great Cosmic liturgy, O, Name of God unfurled. O, Name of God! O, Name of God! Now sounding in our Flesh! Now running red through mortal sod, Down from your pierce’ed Breast. Down from that riven veil, your…
Revelation 22:1-5
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…
The Revelation of Jesus Christ
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…
Colossians 1:15-20
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…
Jeremiah 23:18
Jeremiah 23:18, “…Who among them has stood in the council of YHWH to see and to hear His word…?” Ultimately, the ‘council of YHWH’—the place where His Wisdom and Word are declared with definitive finality—is Resurrection-illumined Calvary. Here is where all of the Lord’s councils and Wisdom find full and perfect expression….here is where every…
Psalm 29:10
Psalm 29:10, ‘YHWH sits enthroned over the flood; YHWH is enthroned as King forever.’ Psalm 29 poetically describes the onset of a violent storm that shakes the earth and splinters the trees and leaves humanity humbled in awe; at every point, the Psalmist is clear that it is YHWH Himself who stands behind and orders…
Colossians 1:17
Colossians 1:17, ‘And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.’ Two brief points: First >> Jesus Christ (precisely as the crucified and risen one), is *before* all things in at least 2 ways: 1) The slain and risen Son precedes all other realities in worth—He is beyond all things in…
Resurrection Sunday – 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.’ Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Each day’s particular illumination draws out certain aspects of the same, infinitely meaning-filled event—the Crucifixion of the Risen Lord. In the final picture we see the crucified…
Song of Songs 3:11
Song of Songs, 3:11, ‘…look upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.’ Now, at first, today’s picture may not seem to fit at all with the chosen text. However, there is a connection that was…
Isaiah 6:2; 53:3
Isaiah 6:2, ‘Each [Seraph] had six wings; with two *he covered his face*…’ Isaiah 53:3, ‘He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men *hide heir faces*…’ In the depths of His agonies, Jesus Christ became as one from whom men hid their…
John 1:23
John 1:23, ‘I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, “Make straight the way of the Lord,” as the prophet Isaiah said.’ John the Baptist’s citation of Isaiah 40 is significant since, in the context of Isaiah, the one whose way is prepared is YHWH Himself. John implies, then, that he is…
Ecclesiastes 1:4-8
Ecclesiastes 1:4-8, ‘A generation goes, a generation comes…the sun rises, and the sun goes down…around and around goes the wind…all streams run to the sea…All things are full of weariness…” According to these first verses of Ecclesiastes, the world is full of soul-numbing weariness, and this is exemplified in the cyclical nature of the world…
Ephesians 3:18-19
Ephesians 3:18-9, [That you] may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Paul does not explain the dimensions that he mentions in this…
Matthew 1:25,21; 2:2; 27:37
Matthew 1:25+21, ‘And he called his name Jesus…for He will save His people from their sins.’ Matthew 2:2, ‘Where is he who has been born King of the Jews?” Matthew 27:37, ‘This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.’ The Magi’s question is never answered in the immediate context. Yes, they find Jesus and worship…
Leviticus 17:11
Leviticus 17:11, ‘For the soul of the flesh is in its blood, and I, I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement concerning your souls, for its blood, by the soul [LXX: ‘in place of the soul’], will make atonement.’ By weaving the intangible soul-life of flesh into inseparable union with…
