The Lost Coin
Art Medium: Pen and Ink
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Richard DeSpain – A friend sent me the picture that I drew, and the picture, along with the parable in Luke 15:8, inspired me to draw this piece.
Almost Home
Art Medium: Pastel
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Virmarie DePoyster – When I paint with pastel, I am reminded that even though life is fragile, it’s lovely! It is in the dance, between my hand, paper and pigment, where I find my heart. Long conversations transpire at the easel, about love, death, life, and how they all have chaos.
The prodigal lives in all of us in the midst of our chaos…but when we look over the hill and see that we are “almost home,” we see love is waiting, and we move on!
Humbled
Art Medium: Mixed Media Collage and Paint
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Suzi Dennis – He finds himself in a dark place. Bondage. Flith. Squalor. This was his choice and it was a bad one. He knows he has a place to go to escape, and he knows he must go there in humility. So he picks himself up and walks away from the darkness. Immediately the transformation begins. The chains fall off, the path is lighter and as he draws nearer to the loving arms of his father, he knows he is free, the darkness behind him forever. The prodigal returns, forever humbled.
Restoration
Art Medium: Acrylic
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Rex DeLoney – My inspiration for creating this piece came from the lyrics of the popular gospel song, “Restoration,” by the Winans. “What would I know about being restored if I never lost my place? What would I know about His mercy if I hadn’t gotten out of grace……Yet when he (the son) returned, the father received him home and gave him something he never ever had, restoration.” The abstract background and the heavy textural surface are symbolic that our Heavenly Father, God, is always there with outstretched arms providing grace and mercy for all who were lost and now are found.
Prodigal Tetraptych
Art Medium: Acrylic on Masonite
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Rex DeLoney – My inspiration for creating this piece was to capture the essence of the prodigal son parable. The tetraptych four panel style enhances the four main parts of the story. Panel 1 portrays the son’s request for his share of his father’s estate and the greed and wild living that resulted in the squandering of his wealth. Panel 2 portrays the son’s plight during the famine in the land, becoming aware of what he had lost and planning to return to his father. Panel 3 deals with the son’s returning home and the father recieving him there. Panel 4 deals with the grace, mercy, and unconditional love with which the father restored the son.
The Younger Son
Art Medium: Digitally Painted Photography
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Shirley Dawson – The younger brother in the parable of the prodigal son is like many of us who get caught up in chasing after the pleasures of the world and forget our Father until we come on hard times and our worldly friends desert us. Yet, like in the biblical story, our Father is yearning and waiting with open arms for us to return to Him.
The Elder Son
Art Medium: Digitally Painted Photography
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Shirley Dawson – The parable of the “prodigal son” to me, tells not only the amazing love of a father for his sons—a love which depicts God’s incredible love for us, His children—but also represents the struggles and weaknesses each of us may face in our relationship with our Heavenly Father. The elder son seems to be the “good” hardworking son, yet he misses the mark in achieving the love the father has for his brother—a struggle we too often have toward other people.
Step on the Path: The Father Is Waiting
Art Medium: Pastel
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Lois Davis – As I read Luke 15, I realized that even though God freely forgives, we must ask. If the prodigal son had never taken the first step on the road home, he would have missed out on the wonderful plan that was already in his father’s mind. His father was waiting with open arms.
Prodigal Son
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Dorothy Davis – The heavens burst in a celebration of color as the prodigal son returns to the open arms of his father.
Lost Sheep Is Found
Art Medium: Oil on Canvas
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Dorothy Davis – It is obvious from the sheep herd in the far distance that the shepherd has had to travel a great distance through rough terrain to reach the wayward sheep. Unknowing that his life is in danger without the security and love of the shepherd, the lost sheep drifts further away. As the shepherd breaks into the light, he finds the sheep.
My Lost Sheep
Art Medium: Folk Art Sheep: Sculpey Clay with Acrylic Paint on Wooden Base
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Heidi Damron – Each parable in Luke 15 reveals the immense and mysterious love of God. The woman drops everything to search for one of her coins; the father runs, without embarrssment, towards his returning son; the shepherd leaves the many to find the one lost sheep. In all three examples, the person with ownership or attachment looks for what has been lost. The loss is personal and intimate, the search is intense and focused, and the return is cause for great joy and celebration.
Prodigal
Art Medium: Graphite Collage
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Cody Curtis – When I read the story of the prodigal, the part that stuck out to me the most was when he took all of his inheritance and left home to live his own way.
Redeeming Light
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Grace Crall – Hopefully, my painting will help others identify with feelings they cannot express. While his feet remain in the miry pit, the prodigal’s face has turned toward the light, giving him hope of a new life. The single beam of light has three parts representing the Trinity. The power of redemption and the majesty of God’s forgiveness envelops the son.
The Robe, The Ring, and the Fatted Calf
Art Medium: Oil on Masonite
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David Coulter – While we were yet sinners Christ died for us. (Romans 5). While we were in the pigpen, Christ saved us by His grace alone through faith alone. God’s grace gives freely to all who call upon His name: a robe of righteousness, a wedding ring as His Bride and the shedding of blood in the forgiveness of sins to make us His adopted child. Not by our will or works, but by His grace! God opposes the proud in the best of men but gives grace to the humble in a lowly pigpen. Joint heirs with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, yet we have no works in our hand to bring, only to the cross we cling. One day we will hear our Father say, “All I have is thine.” Luke 15:31
Ran, Fell on His neck and Kissed Him
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David Coulter – God so loved me, the chief of sinners, that He ran to me and kissed me while the stench of the pigpen was upon me. What a God of love who would freely run to a repenting sinner and kiss the pig stench away. O sinner, have you felt the kiss of forgiveness upon the nape of your neck? Call upon the name of the Lord, and He will run to you and kiss all your sins away.
