Viewing hours: Sundays from 8:30AM – 1:00PM
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As Christians, created in the image of God and filled with the Holy Spirit, we are all imbued with creative power and the ability to make broken things beautiful. Jesus’ glory is what we put on display when we embody His redemptive creativity and artistry. Our culture is saturated by a limited, reductionist, and nihilistic world view, yet the creative arts speak to the transcendent nature of who God is and who we are invited to become in Him. Through creating, we express the grace and redemption we’ve experienced in Jesus as He leads us from darkness to light.
This exhibition brings together paintings, sculptures, and photographs that move between creation and destruction, mortality and eternity, judgment and grace. At the center of these works is the Christian understanding of rebirth: the passage from an old self into a new spiritual life through God’s salvation. Rebirth is not presented here as a simple beginning again, but as a transformation—an encounter with death, surrender, revelation, and the possibility of becoming something new.
Several works confront the weight of the former self. In the painting of a skull accompanied by the words If I Could Start Over, the human longing for another beginning is made tangible through a universal image of mortality. The photograph of a sign listing the plagues and consequences of Revelation turns toward the biblical language of the end times, while a stack of ceramic apples evokes creation, temptation, knowledge, and the first rupture between humanity and God. Together, these works suggest that the desire for renewal is inseparable from an awareness of what has been lost.
Other pieces inhabit a more ominous space. Dark silhouettes, scorpions, and serpents populate a large painting where biblical symbols of danger, sin, and judgment emerge from the darkness. In a painting of a farmer’s field, an apocalyptic flash of light interrupts the familiar landscape, transforming a place of cultivation and growth into a scene of revelation. The field becomes both earthly and prophetic: a place where something is planted, something comes to an end, and something else may emerge. These images draw attention to the paradox at the heart of rebirth—that new life often begins at the threshold of an ending.
At the center of this tension is a sculpture of a large glowing cross, illuminated without an apparent source of power. Its light is both physical and symbolic: a presence that seems to originate beyond what can be seen. Within the Christian story, the cross is inseparable from death, yet it is also the sign through which death is transformed into the promise of resurrection. The inexplicable light of the sculpture functions as a quiet counterpoint to the darkness and destruction found elsewhere in the exhibition.
Seen individually, each artwork offers an encounter with some aspect of beginning, ending, judgment, sacrifice, creation, or transformation. Seen together, however, they form a larger meditation on rebirth. The exhibition moves through the imagery of the old self—its mortality, its failures, its fears, and its endings—and toward the possibility of spiritual renewal. Creation and apocalypse become not simply opposing forces, but parts of a larger passage: from what was, through what must die, toward what may be made new. In this sense, rebirth is not merely the chance to start over. It is the Christian hope that, through God’s grace and salvation, the old life can give way to a new creation.
