This work was commissioned by Dr Jan de Jongh van Arkel, a minister and a pastoral psychologist. You may like to read a sermon, in Afrikaans, that he preached on the subject of the man whose friends let him down through a roof to get to Jesus.
Christ and Consumerism
1999
This painting was used for the cover of a book of the same title
Lost in translation, but found nevertheless. So many paths but only one destination. The academic is a terrifying being: men of books to whom Reason is the triumph of man - only to discover that man is the triumph of God. He seems caught in the moment he realises this: "My life is now an open book," he says. I believe him. Those who say that the Bible is a closed document must cringe at such a thought: "What? give the Holy Spirit free rein? Heresy!" Those who believe that their thoughts are harmless because they are private, must think again.