by Rich Timmons | Jul 29, 2022 | Encounters with Jesus
John 8:2-11 2 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle, 4 they told him, “Teacher, we...
by Rich Timmons | Jul 29, 2022 | Passion Week
John 18:33-38 33 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” 34 Jesus answered him, “Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?” 35 Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your...
by Rich Timmons | Jul 29, 2022 | Crucifixion
But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the...
by Rich Timmons | Jul 25, 2022 | Angelic Visitations
The moment when Gabriel tells Mary that she will bear a child named Jesus of the Holy Spirit has been depicted countless times in art history, especially in Medieval and Renaissance art. In those paintings, Mary is almost symbolically depicted as a queenly,...
by Rich Timmons | Jul 25, 2022 | Parables
This is an intriguingly simple painting of Jesus. It is more of a landscape than a portrait with the large looming backdrop of the great purple shadowy side of a mountain. The composition seems at first as casual as a snapshot and there are no other figures or...
