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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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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Paschal Trilogy – 2024: Good Friday Micah 7:19, ‘He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities underfoot.’ Micah draws his prophecy to a close with a vision of the eschatological redemption by which YHWH will definitively manifest His identity to the cosmos such that the nations will cover their mouths in
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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
John 20:16, “Jesus said to her, ‘Mary.’” Mary stands weeping outside Jesus’ empty tomb…She weeps over the loss of her beloved Lord, but more than this, in weeping over Christ’s death—in which all the pain, grief, sin, death, and damnation of the redeemed creation are borne—she weeps for all the sufferings of the world. In
Psalm 139:10, ‘…even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.’ Verses 7-10 of Psalm 139 form something of a meditation on the inescapable presence of YHWH. David poetically maps out the heights (‘If I ascend to heaven’), the depths (‘If I make my bed in Sheol’), and the width
Psalm 23:5, ‘You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies…’ A prepared table implies things like peace, security, fellowship, and joyful celebration…none of which would be expected ‘in the presence of my enemies.’ This tension is designed to slow our reading and cause us to question: ‘How is it that YHWH
Revelation 12:1-6 With one week left til Christmas, I wanted to share this year’s new Christmas picture; a visual exegesis of Christ’s birth as found in the book of Revelation… At the literary center of John’s vision lies the ‘great sign’ of a celestial woman in the agonies of giving birth (v.1-2). A seven-headed dragon
Psalm 144:1, ‘Blessed be YHWH, my Rock, who trains my hands for war…’ Psalm 144 is written from the point of view of the Davidic king in the face of adversity. Its entire structure may be mapped onto—and, indeed, is ultimately grounded in—the Crucified and Risen Jesus Christ, who is Himself the true David and
