The end is near, folks. I’ve only got a few books/weeks left in my nearly 2 year long Word Bible design series. In conjunction with the last few weeks, I’m running 3 separate free print giveaways. This week, I’m giving away 2 prints.

3 John has the fewest words of any book in the Bible, clocking in at 299, all in one chapter. I know John had other things on his mind back then, but would it really have been that hard to do a couple more chapters? I mean, give me a little more to work with, huh?

The end is near, folks. I’ve only got 3 books/weeks left in my nearly 2 year long Word Bible design series. In conjunction with these last 3 weeks, I’ll be running 3 separate free print giveaways, each starting on the Friday I post a new design.

So this week is 2 John and if you measure books by the amount words they have, 2 John is the second shortest book in the Bible (303 words). Two weeks from now, we’ll be on Jude which is the fourth shortest book in the Bible (613). Next week’s book, 3 John, takes the crown for shortest book in the Bible, coming in at 299 words. Why am I mentioning this? I’m glad you asked…

I’m not sure about you, but most of my life I’ve assumed that Jesus came to earth and died so I could enjoy a “Get out of Hell” free card. Maybe he came to show people how to be nice and everything, but it was mainly to get me into heaven. This week’s passage seems to imply that there was at least one other (maybe even more important?) purpose Jesus had in mind. To kick some devil a**.

Last week we saw Peter’s peaceful and tender side. He encouraged Jesus followers to respond to evil with blessing. But just as you think Peter is walking around dishing out flowers, Sweet Tarts and hugs to everyone he meets, we get to Peter’s thoughts on false teachers within the church. Let’s just say they he won’t be sending them a bouquet of roses.

So Peter is the guy who violently defended Jesus by cutting a guard’s ear off in the Garden of Gethsemane. Yet here we find him telling folks in the early church to “repay evil with blessing.” It seems like when Peter saw the way Jesus died, forgiving his enemies, it had an impact on him. Such an impact that he does a 180 and is telling folks that it is commendable to endure unjust suffering.

I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to work with Ligonier Ministries on some images for their online Connect courses. This image is for a course on Biblical Economics.

Thanks to all the folks on my Facebook page who threw out suggestions for my James design. The “tongue” passage in chapter 3 was by far the most requested so I went with that. At first, I thought this design might get a little racy, but after checking it out the verses, I found out it did NOT have to do with French kissing or instructions on how to do that trick where you tie the stem of a cherry with your tongue.

I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to work with Ligonier Ministries on some images for their online Connect courses. This image is for a course on The Christian Family.