In Genesis, the Garden of Eden was a lush paradise filled with animals who peacefully coexisted. I always pictured Eden as an overgrown jungle teaming with life. After the first sin, access to Eden is removed – but the beauty of God’s creation is all around us even in this present day!
My original concept for this painting was to show rough waters all around and calm water only under Jesus’ arm. I decided to go with a more focused portrayal though and show just His forearm and it’s shadow and reflection over a calm and dark…
“The key is, once we come into Christ, even though we’re born again on the inside, the window still hasn’t changed. And the window, we still have to clean it. And the best thing to clean the window with is with God’s Word. And so…
I have seen many paintings and sketches (even coloring book pages) of Jacob physically wrestling with God. What I found to be most interesting about this was the fact that they wrestled from night into the morning and how Jacob (or Israel as he is…
