In the Beginning
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Lois Giorgis – Through this painting I was trying to depict the incredible knowledge, energy and joy involved in the creation of our earth and solar system.
Hope, In the Cool of the Day
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Jan Gartrell – While preparing to paint this painting, verse 8 spoke to me. The voice of the Lord God spoke to Adam and Eve in the garden in the cool of the day. God’s judgment was upon them, but God left them hope. They were not punished in the heat of the day, but when it was cool and comfortable. I believe there is a great meaning in the time of day, as man was driven out of the garden, God, as always showed compassion. I used cool colors and texture strokes to show how it felt to be in God’s garden in the cool of the day, and to show there is always hope.
Flesh of My Flesh
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Jan Gartrell – These bible verses inspired me to use a spontaneous and self expressive application of paint. The verses about the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and God’s compassion and love in giving Adam a help-mate, the flesh of his flesh, were real to me. God shows His love for us as He did Adam.
Creation
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Jan Gartrell – These verses in the Bible inspired me to paint the energy, movement and spontaneity of creation. I felt that God, being a wise and all powerful creator, would have formed our universe in one cataclysmic explosion, so I attempted to show the power, colors, and textures that would have been formed in that one magnificent event.
Strikes from the Abyss
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Haley Garrett – My chalk pastel represents the fall of man into sin, contained in Genesis 3. In this chapter, Satan took the form of a serpent that was both beautiful and terrible, and used manipulation to cast man into sin. The overall point of this painting is to show how evil will strike from darkness and can appear at any time.
Eve
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Linda Flake – The story of Adam and Eve has intrigued artists throughout history. I have depicted the mysterious Eve many times. Sometimes I see humor in her, or I see her sleeping and dreaming the mortal dream, or playing innocently with the subtle snake. In this painting, she is hesitant, but still flirting with danger as the serpent lurks nearby awaiting her decision on whether or not to pick the apple. In most of my paintings of Eve, we never see her face.
Wedded Harmony
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Michael Don Fess
Satan Had Room for Wings
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Debi Lynn Fendley – Satan was created a beautiful being, and it is in this state that he lures man. Sin is beautiful . . . passionate and appealing. Otherwise, there would be no choice for man to make between those things that are holy and those things that are sinful. Who would inherently choose things that were ugly over things that were enticing? We have a tendency to believe that if we met Christ on the street today, we might not recognize him but that we would surely recognize Satan. I happen to think the opposite is true. More often than not we have difficulty seeing Satan the imposter while we certainly can see those things that come to us from God.
God Spoke Worlds
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Debi Lynn Fendley – God as Master Craftsman. So many times we see images or hear people speak of God’s fingers forming…of course, as humans we relate to God in ways that are sapien-like rather than divine. We forget that merely his breath and his words can form universes and our egocentricities and our small, box-shaped minds often don’t want to think about what things might be past our own planet.
Eve’s Punishment
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Debi Lynn Fendley – Eve’s punishment went far beyond the externals we tend to think about. In her sin, there was a loss of identity and freedom and equality that we only see remedied in Christ’s attitudes towards his women followers. After all, who was the first person to see him after his resurrection?
Birth and Rebirth—Adam
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Debi Lynn Fendley – I have in both panels of this diptych portrayed God as presenting his Adams, complete now and on their own. God does not change much from panel to panel . . . but our perception of him does. He remains steady and solid. Adam, however, in the second panel is obviously the Christ. He comes as completely human and completely divine, his divinity evident in his ability to lay hold of his destiny and master it as no human could. Christ had to be fully human to suffer and be tempted and die and fully divine in order to be a sinless sacrifice as well as a high priest who was able to sprinkle his blood on the mercy seat of a temple not built by human hands.
The Serpent’s Tree
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Loriee Evans – I hiked out of a lush green forest in British Columbia to see this one bare, dead tree cresting a hill. Wisps of sunset-lit clouds made it look as though the tree were on fire. It was such a contrast, the living forest and the flaming tree. I look at this tree and even though it’s just a tree, I still wonder of it, “Why are you on fire? What did you do?”
The Second Day
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Loriee Evans – What I like about this photo of a Canadian lake is how the world simplifies when I look at it. Earth, sky. The light and colors were changing quickly so I had to focus behind the camera. Everything else dropped away, and I was immersed in the sunset as I tried to capture it. I like that I can look at this image now and still feel the world simplify down to two things, the earth and the heavens.
Promises of God
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Melissa Elliott – God’s promises are everywhere you look. No matter what you do, he is a God that will always keep his word. That shows what a true and magnificent God he really is. I can always count on him to come through for me when no one else will.
Reach
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Chloé Eggers – “Reach” There are two choices: One of Satan and one of God, one of eternal suffering and one of eternal life. God gave us His Son, and a promise in 1 Corinthians 10:13, “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer ye to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” What will you reach for, knowing that you stand in front of loving, omniscient, Holy Father who desires a personal relationship with you?
