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oil and wax and gold 10 x 10 inches in black floater frame This small oil and wax painting encapsulates the Banding poem. The nets of God's love "catching" you for his own.
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oil and wax and gold on panel 16 x 16 inches Let the heavens sing as the Night Watchman who sang them into existence, listens to their praise! He knows each star by name. He watches over them just as he watches over each of his descendants who number as many as the stars.
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12 x 12 inches oil and wax on panel (framed in a black floater frame) We live in the cities of this world and although we know we have "a city eternal in the heavens," God asks us to love our neighbors and "seek the peace of the city." We are to be involved in its daily well-being as stewards, people who know that the "govenment rests upon His shoulders" and Jesus is the true peace-maker.
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24 x 28 inches (framed) oil and wax and gold on panel This oil and wax abstract painting is rich with metaphorical nuances referencing Jesus, the stone of stumbling, the stone rejected by builders who has become the cornerstone mentioned in Psalm 118 : 22 and in the New Testament Scriptures. (Romans 9, 1 Peter 2)
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encaustic12 x 12 inches in a black floater frameEmbedded in this encaustic painting are nets referencing the poem "Banding," which begins -"The nets of God hang in every wild place." Also transfered into the beeswax is text in various languages and a large fish. The Scriptural references are many, but the main theme is the sovereign God who lovingly gathers a people from all nations as his bride for eternal glory. “Thus says the Lord God: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet.” Ezekiel 32:3
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encaustic12 x 12 inchesEmbedded yellow nets released from the hand of Creator God who sings. "I will bring forth My people out with joy, my chosen ones with singing!" Psalm 105:43 In the collection of Westminster Presbyterian Church Minneapolis, MN
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oil and wax 12 x 12 inches in black floater frame The gift is so paradoxical. You must die to live; you must be captured in God's nets to be free. We cannot fathom the love of God before eternity to come to suffer and die to rescue those he came to save. The cross is the glory of God.
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oil and wax and net 12 x 12 inches in black floater frame God's nets are everywhere to catch the unwary migrant. He will guide them through the portal to safety in their pilgrimage through barren land.
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oil and wax and papers 12 x 12 inches with black floater frame The nets of God are symbolized here in the underlying grid in this small painting. The sacrifice of God, the lamb prepared before the foundation of the world.
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oil and wax on panel 12 x 12 inches (in black floater frame) The crowds shouted loud Hosannas at Jesus' entry into Jerusalem a week before his death. Indignant Pharisees were silenced by Jesus' answer. "If these were silent, the very stones would cry out."
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oil and cold wax and gold leaf12 x 12 inches in a black floater frame SOLDThis small painting speaks of pilgrimage. The text is taken from Michael O'Brien's novel, Island of the World. "A voyage is a movement embraced by departure and arrival,
an arc between speaking and hearing.
More it asks of us than we of it.
Look neither to your right nor to your left, my mariner; ..."
