Our Designs ๐
If every design is meant to help spark conversations about Jesus, then you need to know what they mean! Read below to find out about each design and how to best share the gospel when someone asks.
Bear fruit
When God created the Earth, the very first thing He commanded was simple: โBear fruit.โ
And God is saying the same thing to you!
We created this collection to be a conversation starter โ with friends, family, co-workers, and even strangers you see during the day. Itโs an easy way to break the ice about God while sharing one of the most commonly used phrases by Jesus to His disciples.
So, when someone points to your shirt, you can point them to Jesus.
Soul Anchor
What does it mean that Jesus is our soulโs anchor? Does it mean that the sea will always be calm? Does it mean weโll never be tossed about?
Nope.
Anchors donโt control the water around it. Anchors keep boats safe and secure in times of trouble. Floods, hurricanes, thunderstorms โ if you experience any of these things, it doesnโt mean your anchor is failing. All boats go through troubled waters. But not all boats have an anchor strong enough to keep it from sinking.
Bear Witness
Jesus came into the world to bear witness to the truth.
When Jesus stood on trial before Pilate, He wasnโt thinking about why He was going to die. He was thinking about why He was born:
โFor this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world โ to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.โ
And like the early Christians who went out into the world to bear witness to the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus โ some to their final breath โ so are we to do!
We created this shirt to get someoneโs attention when youโre wearing it and act as an icebreaker. Use that to bear witness to someone today.
Tetelestai
A personโs final words reveal a lot about them. Steve Jobs could only scream in surprised excitement. Truman Capote called out for his mother. And Emily Dickinson composed a poem: โI must go in, for the fog is rising.โ
Jesus used his final breath to exclaim ฯฮตฯฮญฮปฮตฯฯฮฑฮน or tetelestai โ โIt is finished.โ
This sounds like something you would say after a long, hard day of work. And no greater work, no greater love, and no greater humility has ever or will ever match it.
It is finished. Death has died. Peace with God. Eternal life is possible. Believe it and be encouraged.
Stop being dead
โAnd you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.โ
โ Colossians 2:13
LI:II:XIII means 51:2:13โฆ the 52nd book of the Bible is Colossians, the second chapter, the 13th verse.
Death is a funny thing. We are dead to death but we still must kill it everyday. The new creation in Christ is a fighter. Paul says several times towards the end of his life that heโs fought the good fight.
Thatโs what we mean by โStop Being Deadโ. The truth is you were dead. You are alive. So stop acting like youโre still dead.
Move mountains
The smallest faith can move the biggest mountains.
A father came to Jesus early in His ministry with his possessed son. The father was desperate. He had gone to the disciples and his son was not getting better. But Jesus was able to heal him instantly.
Why was Jesus able to do it and the disciples couldnโt?
Because of their lack of faith. Even faith the size of a grain of mustard can make a mountain get up and move.
Let Tractor No. 40.17.20 โ Matthew 17:20, the 40th book of the Bible โ be a reminder: faith makes all things possible.
abide
What does it mean to abide in Christ? Itโs not some mystic metaphor. Itโs realโฆ just as real as the roots in the ground or the branches of a tree.
A branch can only bear fruit if it abides in its vine. We can only bear fruit if we abide in Jesus. And how do we do that? By faith that is rooted in trusting God.
A branch stays attached to a vine so that it can live. Thatโs why we abide in Christ.
Snake killer
From the beginning, there has been a war between our God and Satan โ between the kingly lion with all power and the lowly snake who works to deceive us.
In the Garden, Satan disguised himself as a serpent and deceived Eve and then Adam into disobeying God. As a result, God declares that we would be at war with the snake and that while the snake would bruise the heel of Jesus, Jesus would bruise the snakeโs head and win in the end.
And thatโs exactly what happened! Satan used Judas to โbruise the heelโ of Jesus and have Him sent to the cross. But Jesus was resurrected into eternal life, โbruising the headโ of Satan.
Jesus Christ: Prince of Peace, Son of God, Snake Killer.
Born 2x
Itโs not a misprint. We put the word โbornโ on there twice. But why?
A Pharisee by the name of Nicodemus had the same question when Jesus kept talking about needing to be born again:
โHow can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?โ
Jesus explained that itโs not about being physically born again. It refers to a spiritual birth โ a regeneration of the human spirit from the Holy Spirit.
Donโt be like Nicodemus. The first born is important. But the second born is necessary.
yellow paint
Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most influential artists in all of Western Civilization. The Potato Eaters affirms the inherent dignity of each and every person, even the lowly farmer. The Starry Night was a sort of self-therapy as he painted the nighttime countryside from his room in a mental asylum.
He also thought eating yellow paint was a good idea.
Yellow, he thought, was a bright, vibrant color. It looked happy and made him feel happy when he used it in paintings. Surely, it would make him happy if he ate it.
At first, itโs a bit of a miserable artistic beauty โ Van Gogh was so painfully hopeful that it takes your breath away. But eating yellow paint isn't beautiful. It sounds painful. Itโs the result of a mental illness.
What is your yellow paint? What are you taking in to try and cope with the stress of your life? What is Jesus trying to knock out of your hands right now?
Donโt eat yellow paint. Instead, feast on Jesus.
Spiritual gangster
You may read about preachers and theologians from centuries past and see overgrown mustaches over dusty robes.
I see big, booming preachers and priests who brought the hammer down on church corruption.I see great awakenings and raps about flowers.
I see civil war peacemakers and abolitionists.
Follow in the footsteps of these spiritual gangsters.
good enough
gospel Map
Demas
easy yokes
Good news rainbow
Aliens Pray
don't defend a lion
Alive.*
4 soils
All is grace
beauty for ashes skull
kauchaomai
Clean.
Agape
Count it all loss
Filled up
lion
43316
All Upside Down
Lion + lamb
grace alone
Beauty for ashes flowers
joy
Mercy lamb
God isn't my co-pilot
gospel
goat
Earth's end
Re > pe
sasquatch
Be Still
Not home
romans 9:16
Luther 500
WHo
Fresh prince
Charles Spurgeon was a pastor of the largest church in the world, a writer whose production few have ever matched, and a preacher of more sermons than you can count. He was exceedingly successful but continually humble. His booming voice moved congregants to conviction and salvation right there in their pews.
After his death, Spurgeon was nicknamed โThe Prince of Pastorsโ. Spurgeon would have accepted the compliment had he heard it, but thereโs no doubt he would have used it to point to Jesus โ as he did with nearly everything else in his life.
You see, Jesus is the Prince of Peace. Itโs not a name you hear for Him often โ more frequently you hear Christ, or Son of God, or Emmanuel. But itโs a really important title. Why? Because Jesus restores broken relationships and (more importantly) brings peace between us and God.
The Prince of Pastors was always talking, writing, preaching, and pointing to the Prince of Peace.
Original birdman
St. Francis might have preached the gospel to birds, but he was not a sissy.
He was a world traveler, venturing all the way from Italy to Egypt to try and convert a Sultan so that the Crusades would end.
He was shipwrecked often on his travels to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
He helped rebuild churches and monasteries all over the Italian countryside.
And he still found time to preach the Gospel to the birds of the air.
What an ODG.
thug life
If youโve been following Jesus during any of the past 500 years, you have Martin Luther to thank.
Luther fought a corrupt Roman Catholic Church that preyed on princes and paupers alike in what is now Germany.
500 years of standing up against wrong doctrine.
500 years of fighting exploitation.
500 years of being an ODG.
it never lasts
โThe women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid.โ
โ Luke 23:55
The disciples thought this was the end. Jesus had died. He was being buried in a tomb โ shut up with a giant boulder blocking the way.
But death could not hold Jesus in the grave. Death didnโt last. It never lasts.
Itโs the same with us. Death will not last against us either. Thatโs why we have the Roman numerals for 23:55 in the bottom right hand corner. Treasure this verse in your heart and remember that death didnโt last against Jesus and it will never last against you.
Hello Lazarus
In the middle of His ministry, two of Jesusโ disciples โ Mary and Martha โ discovered that their brother Lazarus had died. He was shut up in a tomb for four days, but Jesus wanted everyone to believe that He was the resurrection and the life. He told Lazarus to come out and sure enough, Lazarus walked right out of his tomb.
And itโs the same with us! We were born dead, but it is Jesus who calls us into new life. He wants to see us live and He has the power to breathe life into our dry bones.
We made this name tag to be a conversation starter. Itโs not everyday you meet someone named Lazarus. Use it to share the story of Jesus raising you from death to life.
Call me lazarus
Did you know that Jesus wasnโt the only person to be raised from the dead in the Bible?
In the middle of His ministry, two of Jesusโ disciples โ Mary and Martha โ discovered that their brother Lazarus had died. He was shut up in a tomb for four days, but Jesus wanted everyone to believe that He was the resurrection and the life. He told Lazarus to come out and sure enough, Lazarus walked right out of his tomb.
And itโs the same with us! We were born dead, but it is Jesus who calls us into new life. He wants to see us live and He has the power to breathe life into our dry bones.
Edwards quote
Did you know that Jesus wasnโt the only person to be raised from the dead in the Bible?
In the middle of His ministry, two of Jesusโ disciples โ Mary and Martha โ discovered that their brother Lazarus had died. He was shut up in a tomb for four days, but Jesus wanted everyone to believe that He was the resurrection and the life. He told Lazarus to come out and sure enough, Lazarus walked right out of his tomb.
And itโs the same with us! We were born dead, but it is Jesus who calls us into new life. He wants to see us live and He has the power to breathe life into our dry bones.