DEAD WORKS
A raw punk-sharpie skull grips a wrench in vise-like jaws, metal fracturing under brutal pressure - 'DEAD' etched above, 'WORKS' below.
The image refers to Hebrews 6:1: “Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God.”
C.H. Spurgeon insists these dead works are not mere sins but lifeless religious performances and self-reliant strivings: ceremonies, moral efforts, and formal observances that lack the vital pulse of true faith in Christ; they must be repented from once for all, the foundation laid firmly so the soul presses onward to maturity without ceaselessly relaying the same basics.