“Hope” by George Frederic Watts (1886) is a painting in the collection of Tate Britain in London. (Public domain) There is always peril in change. The more suddenly the change comes, and the greater it […]
“Sacrifice of Isaac” by Caravaggio (c. 1603) is a painting in the collection of The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. (Public domain) The Bible takes especial pains to assure us of the everlastingness of God’s […]
“Saint Jerome” by Caravaggio (c. 1605) is a painting in the collection of the Borghese Gallery in Rome. (Public Domain) We are not merely bodies. There is a life within our body which continues when […]
“The Baptism of the Eunuch” by Rembrandt (c. 1626) is a painting in the collection of St. Catherine’s Convent Museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands. (Public Domain) We sometimes forget that God has anything to do […]
“The Calling of Saint Matthew” by Caravaggio (1609) is a painting in the collection of the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. (Public Domain) Loyalty to Christ begins in the heart. We must […]
“The Vision of Ezekiel” by Raphael (1518) is a painting in the collection of The Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy. (Public Domain) We owe everything good and beautiful to our visions. They lead us to […]
“Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” by Caspar David Friedrich (1818) is a painting in the collection of The Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany. (Public Domain) We should never be content with a narrow life. […]
The end of Psalm 18 is depicted in the “Utrecht Psalter”, a 9th-century illuminated psalter manuscript in the collection of the Utrecht University Library in Utrecht, Netherlands. (Public Domain) When we look back through the […]
“The Conversion of Saint Paul” is a painting by Caravaggio (c. 1600) in the Odescalchi Balbi Collection in Rome. It is the lesser known of two paintings by Caravaggio on the subject of the conversion […]
“Job’s Despair” is an illustration in William Blake’s “Illustrations of the Book of Job” (1825). (Public Domain) “Your God is far away,” said a heathen man to a missionary, “but our god is sitting here […]
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