Painting Good Friday | A Contemplative Art Experience
This session focuses our attention on the story of Jesus’ crucifixion. We remember this horrible event each year on Good Friday. In this session I begin the story with the Tree of Life planted in the Garden of Delight (Eden). I start there because the Gospels tell us that the curtain that separated the world from the Holy of Holies in the Temple was torn open from top to bottom when Jesus died on the cross. The early Christians believed that Jesus’ death re-opened the free access to the Holy Place, the Garden of Delight, the Tree of Life.
What is Glory? A Reflection on the Triumphal Entry in Luke
In this post I reflect on how the Gospel of Luke tells the story of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. The crowds shout “peace in the heavens, and glory in the highest!” What does this mean?
Listen to Him | A Livestream Contemplative Art Experience of the Transfiguration
On Thursday, February 27 at 7:00pm CT I livestreamed on YouTube and Facebook for an hour. The Liturgical calendar brings us to the story of Jesus’ transfiguration in Luke 9:28-36. May this visual meditation help you experience the transfiguration in a new way....
Why Jesus? A Visual Guide to Why We Think God Showed Up in Human Form
Why do we make such a big deal about Jesus? Can’t we just talk about God, or be spiritual. What does a 1st century Jewish Rabbi have to do with life today?