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ByFire Media Art has always been a doorway; a language of awe. God speaks through awe. By Fire Media exists to carry that. If something stops you, sit with it.

Every piece begins with one question: what does He want to say? It may have been made for you.

There is something that happens when we say yes to God. Not a cautious, hedging yes. A full one. Arms open, hand raised,...
06/13/2026

There is something that happens when we say yes to God. Not a cautious, hedging yes. A full one. Arms open, hand raised, everything on the table.
The figure in this painting is pregnant. Carrying something that was conceived the moment she said yes. That is not an accident. The things God places in us, His purposes, His dreams for our lives, they are conceived by His Spirit and carried to fullness in us. But they require something from us first. The two things we hold onto hardest: our need to control and our willingness to obey.
The wave rushing toward the outstretched hand is not gentle. It is the power of God meeting her agreement. This is what becomes possible when we open our hands.

Expecting More // prints available // link in bio

This painting is about the one thing that actually holds. The figure is face down, hands open, holding a small flame. No...
06/12/2026

This painting is about the one thing that actually holds. The figure is face down, hands open, holding a small flame. Not performing. Not striving. Just surrendered. And that is exactly where everything changes. Because when we stop trying to manage our own lives and simply offer what little light we have, God takes it and does something with it that we never could have. The enemy knows this, which is why doubt and disappointment are his first move. A person who knows they are held is very hard to derail.
The tree on the left is the cross. Surrendered at the foot of his sacrifice, the same power that raised Christ from the dead is the power that makes this kind of living possible. Not grinding your way through faith. Actually resting in it.
Psalm 27
One Thing // prints available // link in bio

This painting is about an exchange. On the left, water drops falling; the weight of grief, loss, disappointment. On the ...
06/10/2026

This painting is about an exchange. On the left, water drops falling; the weight of grief, loss, disappointment. On the right, flowers opening. Not because the pain wasn't real, but because something greater moved in.
There is a lie that circulates quietly among people of faith: that if you're close to God, suffering won't find you. It's not true. You were never promised a painless life. What you were promised is that you will never carry it alone.
We have a God who is not distant from human pain. He entered it. He knows what it costs. And for everyone whose heart belongs to Him, there is an ancient promise still standing; that He will take what broke you and make something beautiful from it. Not around the suffering. Through it.
That's the exchange. That's the gift.
Isaiah 61:3
Beauty for Ashes // prints available // link in bio

The following is what I felt God was saying to me about through painting. "I see you. I see the chaos swirling above you...
06/09/2026

The following is what I felt God was saying to me about through painting.
"I see you. I see the chaos swirling above your head and I know how heavy it is. Some of it you walked into. Some of it found you. Either way, carrying all of it was never your job. You were not made to be your own refuge. I am. When you stop the frantic search for answers and just get quiet, you'll find me there. Not in the way, but on the way. Right there with you in everything you can't control. Ask me. Just ask. I can put the broken pieces back together. You just have to trust me with them."
Meditation // Psalm 18
Blackbird // prints available // message for more info

OvercomerAt one time or another, every one of us has been the person drowning.Not metaphorically. That specific, suffoca...
06/09/2026

Overcomer
At one time or another, every one of us has been the person drowning.
Not metaphorically. That specific, suffocating weight of pain you couldn't outrun, fear you couldn't reason away, hopelessness that had quietly moved in and started rearranging the furniture. We've all been there. Some of us are there right now.
This wave isn't coming to destroy you. It's coming for everything that has been destroying you.
When you get swept up into something this big, this overwhelming, there's a moment of total disorientation — upside down, nothing to hold onto, no way to control the outcome. That's not a crisis of faith. That's what surrender actually feels like. And on the other side of it, you come up righted. Clearer. Seeing things the way they actually are instead of through the distortion of all that pain.
His love is powerful enough to heal any wound. Capable enough to right every injustice. You are not a victim of what happened to you. You are a key character in the greatest redemption story ever told.
The wave is not the end. It's the beginning of becoming an overcomer.
Original and prints available — message me or drop a comment.

Face the SonThere is a way of living that is fully alive. Not managed. Not cautious. Not keeping a safe distance from th...
06/06/2026

Face the Son
There is a way of living that is fully alive. Not managed. Not cautious. Not keeping a safe distance from the things of God because you've been hurt or disappointed or just quietly worn down by the ordinary weight of life.
This painting is about that way of living.
The figure running toward the wave isn't bracing for impact. There's a small hand held in that grip — a child being led, watching every step, learning what it looks like to move toward God instead of away from Him. The fire on the right isn't destruction. It's refinement. The tree isn't dead — it's reaching.
This is what we're called to. Entering in. Letting the presence of God — the baptism of His Spirit, the washing of His word — do the deep work in us that makes us actually useful to the world around us. Not performing faith for an audience but walking it out in the ordinary places, in our homes, in our communities, with the next generation watching.
The kingdoms of this earth are not changed by strategy alone. They're changed by people who have been in the wave. Who carry something real. Who know the difference between religion and encounter and have chosen encounter every time.
Face the Son. Lead the way.
Prints available — message for pricing.

Open HeartVulnerability is not something that happens to you. It's a choice you make.And it might be the hardest one.Mos...
06/05/2026

Open Heart
Vulnerability is not something that happens to you. It's a choice you make.
And it might be the hardest one.
Most of us have good reasons to stay closed. Hurt has a long memory. Disappointment has a way of quietly building walls that feel like wisdom but are really just self-protection dressed up in reasonable clothes. And after enough of that, opening your heart — even to God — starts to feel like a risk you're not sure you can afford.
But look at this figure. Chest open, leaning into the light streaming straight into the deepest part. The sky is still storming. Nothing has been resolved yet. And the choice is made anyway.
That's not naivety. That's courage.
He knows your heart. He made it. He's not surprised by what's in there and He's not keeping score of how long it took you to open up. But He won't force His way in. He waits for the choice — the deliberate, costly, brave choice — to stop hiding and let Him into the places you've kept dark.
It's time. Be brave and trust Him.




Building GardensThere's an old idea that farmers aren't just people who grow things — they're people who get grown. By t...
06/03/2026

Building Gardens
There's an old idea that farmers aren't just people who grow things — they're people who get grown. By the land. By the seasons they didn't control. By the years of learning that you can't rush what's alive.
That's what this painting is about.
If you want to be someone who plants hope in barren places — in your community, your family, the broken corners of the world you inhabit — you don't start with strategy. You start with surrender. You let God work the soil of your own heart first. The long, unglamorous, necessary work of being tilled.
We are called to plant. But we are also being planted.
The people of God who carry genuine light into dark places aren't the ones who figured it out fastest. They're the ones who stayed long enough to be changed by the process. Who let the hard seasons do their work. Who chose, again and again, to trust the One who actually makes things grow.
It is by His Spirit. Not by our striving.
Building Gardens is available as an original and in prints. Message me or drop a comment to bring it home.

The BeginningThis is what the end of yourself looks like.Curled over. Face down. Nothing left to offer and no strength l...
06/02/2026

The Beginning
This is what the end of yourself looks like.
Curled over. Face down. Nothing left to offer and no strength left to perform. Most of us spend enormous energy trying to never end up here.
But this painting is not called The End.
It's called The Beginning.
Because God has never been impressed by our best. He's not waiting for you to arrive cleaned up and capable. What actually moves His heart is this — the broken thing. The contrite thing. The place where all the pretending finally stops and you're just honest about how undone you are.
That's not weakness. That's the only sacrifice He ever asked for.
And the promise has always been that He meets you here. Not after you recover. Not once you've pulled it together enough to be presentable. Right here, face to the ground in the barren place — this is where He starts.
The end of yourself has always been His starting point.
— Psalm 51:17

Mighty ArmyThere's something happening in the chaos. Look at her — seated in the middle of crashing waves, a sky on fire...
06/01/2026

Mighty Army
There's something happening in the chaos. Look at her — seated in the middle of crashing waves, a sky on fire above her, and she's not running. She's not white-knuckling the edge of something safe. She's open-handed. Receiving.
That's not passivity. That's the hardest posture there is.
Most of us bring God our best when we finally have something worth offering. But the invitation here is different. It's: bring me what you have right now. The five loaves. The two fish. The thing that feels embarrassingly small given the size of what you're up against.
He's not waiting for you to get it together. He's waiting for you to open your hands.
Whatever season you're in — the relentless kind, the confusing kind, the kind where the sky looks exactly like this — surrender is not giving up. It's giving over. And He has never once failed to multiply what's placed in His hands.

Mighty Army is available as a print. Drop a comment or send me a message to order.

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