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Its the small things really that matter. As a dad a lot of “those” moments come when I’m playing with my kids. Sometimes I can recognize them as they happen and for a second its as if the world stops and everything seems right. Today was an anomaly this Spring which is to say we… Read More
The History channel’s mini-series The Bible has been immensely popular despite receiving generally poor reviews and has confounded the establishment as to why this is happening. I have a theory as to why the The Bible is so popular. People love hidden details and the use of “sanctified imagination.” I can’t remember where I first… Read More
The book of Deuteronomy contain Moses’ last words to the people of Israel and in chapter six he tells the people the teaching he is giving them is so important they should commit themselves wholeheartedly to these commands and repeat them again and again to their children. He also tells them to keep these commands… Read More
The book of Numbers gets its name primarily from the two census’ that are conducted at the beginning and the end of the book. Shortly after the nation of Israel was liberated from Egypt God wanted to prepare them to invade and take the Promised Land. Because of the rebellion of the people they were… Read More
This week’s infographic, The Passion Week, is a chronological timeline of the major events that happened during Jesus’ last week before he died and rose again. Each event is cross-referenced with the gospel(s) it is found in. I have also included major location changes as well as the relative possible timing of the Last Supper,… Read More
In the book of Leviticus five offerings are presented to people of Israel. Beginning at God’s perspective, each offering as a type of Christ is a step closer to us. So when God comes to us in the person of Jesus he surrendered himself entirely (burnt offering), gave himself as a living sacrifice (grain offering),… Read More
The Bible presents the Exodus as a multi-layered and important theme. I originally planned to create an infographic tracing all the scripture references referring to the Exodus but backed away from that fairly quickly as I realized that would be an enormous task since they permeate the entire Bible. One of the things that fascinates… Read More
For this weeks release of the Project 66 graphic I chose to go a bit out of order – or a lot out of order… There were many requests for this graphic depicting the differing views on the end times. The goal for this end times infographic was to summarize the major postions that Christianity… Read More
The Project66 series officially kicks off today! Every week I’ll be creating one infographic for each book of the Bible. This week’s graphic features the work of creation and how it relates to the gospel. Its available for free in two different formats: Poster Size Letter Size Purchase High Resolution PDF’s & Source Files Purchase… Read More
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