The Biblical Stations of the Cross – pen and ink
I don’t write a full script when I preach unless I have to, but I love to preach from some kind of mind map or picture-word combination. As an experiment I neatened up one from last night to see if it would be a useful or beautiful thing for people to see. The result is below.
The sermon drew on two artworks, also below (the first is from a stained glass window in Queen’s College Chapel, Oxford, and the second is a painting by Daniel Bonnell).
Psalm 8 was set for morning prayer today, so here are two illustrations for it – one old, one new.
The psalm set for the daily Eucharist today is Psalm 1: the tree planted beside the water. So here’s a doodle to go with it, which may end up being the sketch for a painting I’m doing for a friend over Christmas… Two versions: one with the words and one without.
When I read the parable of the wise and foolish builders, I find myself wondering how the metaphor of a house that can stand firm against the storm, ensuring the safety of the house-builder, jives with the command to be hospitable. There is work to be done, here, I think, about the relationship between metaphors of judgement and practical care and humanity, but for now, here is today’s doodle, which offers the strong, rock-founded house as a place in which kingdom-hospitality might be offered.
From Matthew 7:21-25
‘Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord”, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only one who does the will of my Father in heaven. ‘Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.
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