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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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.’”
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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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
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
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 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 1:19-20a, ‘For in Him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven…’ [This illustration is for pages 8-9 of the upcoming Colossians board book.] Two life-alteringly beautiful realities are bound up in these few words of the Apostle.
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Psalm 57:8, ‘[I will sing and make melody!] Awake my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!’ The Glory of God is that Body that hangs in terrible beauty upon the cross. That Crucified Lord, that Pierced One, that shattered Heart, that One who gives His flesh as food and His
Colossians 1:18b, ‘…He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the Dead.’ This is the fifth picture in the planned Colossians 1:15-20 board book. When Jesus walks out of the tomb, the New Creation has begun. But Jesus is not raised from the dead *into* the New Creation (as we are now in union to Him
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
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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Here is the one thousandth and thirty-fourth picture in the verse picture series, which is also the third and fourth pictures planned for inclusion in the upcoming Colossians Board Book. This picture will span two pages and the associated text will be Colossians 1:16. ‘For by Him, all things were created, in heaven and on
Colossians 1:15, ‘He is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation, for by Him, all things were created…’ This is the artwork from the first two pages of a planned board-book based on Colossians 1:15-20. I’ve recited these verses over our son almost every night of his life as a way
John 20:28, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Thomas’ confession that the crucified Jesus who is risen is His Lord and His God (echoing the OT titles of YHWH) is an event that takes place in a single moment in time…and yet, simultaneosuly, it is an encapsulation of every moment of the Christian’s life. As Paul
Isaiah 9:6, ‘For to us a child is *born,* to us a son is *given*…’ In the literary structure of Isaiah 9, the eschatological light, joy, freedom, and peace promised in verses 1-5 are entirely grounded upon v.6 and the brith of this child, the giving of this son. Now, the Apostle John certainly read
Job 11:7-9, ‘Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? It is *higher* than heaven—what can you do? *Deeper* than Sheol—what can you know? Its measure is *longer* than the earth and *broader* than the sea.’ Ephesians 3:18-19, ‘[I pray] that you, being rooted and
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1 John 5:14-15, ‘And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have (or ‘are having’) the requests that we have asked of Him.’ The Passage
Matthew 28:9, 10, ‘Jesus met them and said, ‘Greetings!…Do not be afraid…’ These are the first words the Risen Christ speaks in Matthew’s Gospel (and they are also the words depicted in Greek in today’s image). Significantly, the word translated ‘Greetings’ is actually the imperative form of the word for ‘Rejoice.’ It become an idiom
