Ephesians 6:16, “In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one.” Verse 16, like the rest of the armor passage, is built around a participle that expounds the manner in which we are to “stand” (v.14). So, “stand…taking up the shield of […]
Luke 1:35, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.” The incarnation reveals the Trinity. Yes, when the Word takes on flesh, He does not only reveal the Father, but He reveals the
Ephesians 2:14, “For He Himself is our peace…” Christ as our peace…..He is peace not only between man and man, and man and God, but also—as Colossians 1:20 tells us—between all things in heaven and on earth. In Christ, all things are reconciled, all things are set at peace. In Him all of creation is
Ephesians 3:19, “…and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” This is the culmination of Paul’s prayer to the Father in Ephesians 3:14-19, and—as I’m sure I’ve said in this journal before—it is stunning in its simplicity and depth. Would we be
Isaiah 16:10-11, “I have put an end to the shouting. Therefore, my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab, and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth.” “Putting an end to shouting,” here refers to the Lord’s judgment on Moab and how it has silenced the glad shouts of harvest that were once heard in their
Matthew 10:33, “…whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father…” Matthew 26:74, “[Peter] began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, ‘I do not know the man.” In light of Matt 10:33, we would expect Peter’s denial of Jesus in 26:74 to have damned him…but the expectation-surpassing grace of
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1 Corinthians 13:7, “Love bears all things…” …even justly deserved wrath.
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Isaiah 19:21-22, 25, “And YHWH will make Himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know YHWH in that day…And YHWH will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to YHWH, and He will listen to their pleas for mercy and heal them… ‘Blessed be Egypt, my people, and Assyria, the work
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2 Corinthians 3:16-17, “But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” The Lord is the Spirit” means—I think—that, post-ascension, the Lord (typically Christ in Paul’s writings) is seen and known and received and communed with
Unlike most of the pictures I create for Full of Eyes, this one is topical rather than exegetical. I was asked to create an image that would weave together the themes of Mephibosheth invited to the king’s table (2 Samuel 9), the Christian as the “crippled soul” invited to the Lord’s feast (Luke 14:12-24,
1 Corinthians 15:21, “For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.” The Resurrection When Paul speaks of the resurrection, he has more in mind than just the resurrection of believer’s bodies (as he makes clear in verses 35-42, and even more so in Romans
Proverbs 9:10, “The fear of YHWH is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.” An Ancient Analogy Many of you probably recognize this, but today’s picture is built on Plato’s famous “analogy of the cave”. Briefly, the analogy presents a cave in which people sit facing the
Matthew 23:38-39, “Behold, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’” The Desolation of Israel What catches my attention here is the “for I say to you…” This phrase is introducing
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“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” – John 14:27
1 Corinthians 1:21, “For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.” This is a paradigmatic verse. Notice that the world did not know God through wisdom, therefore it pleased God to
Romans 5:18-19, “Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many were made righteous.” What is the “One Act of
Romans 8:36-37, “As it is written, ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’ But in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” A Note On Translation First, notice that I translated the word immediately
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Leviticus 16:21, “And Aaron shall lay both of his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins. And he shall put them on the head of the goat…” (See also, Is.53:4-6). The Fulfillment of
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Leviticus 24:15-16, “Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. Whoever blasphemes the name of YHWH shall surely be put to death.” Conforming Theological Imagination To Divine Revelation This is the sort of text that forces me to wrestle a bit with my own theology—which is good! Over the last few years, I
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Hosea 11:10-11, “They shall go after YHWH; He will roar like a lion; when He roars, His children shall come trembling from the west…and I will return them to their homes, declares YHWH.” Matthew 27:50, “And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up His spirit.” John 11:52, “[Jesus died] to
