The Luther Rose with notes

Central to the Christian life is faith in Jesus Christ, “the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world” (John 1:29). The BLACK CROSS declares: “God made Him to be sin, who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (1 Corinthians 5:21).

This is set against the background of a RED HEART indicating that Jesus shed His blood out of His great love for you and all sinners. And it is not only Jesus’ heart, but the Father’s own heart. Jesus is “the brightness of the Father’s glory, and the exact image of His own nature” (Hebrews 1:3).

Flowering from the Father’s love in Christ Jesus, is the WHITE ROSE indicating that you have been washed clean and made white “in the blood of the Lamb” (Revelation 7:14). By Christ’s atonement you have “neither spot, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing, but are holy and without blemish” (Ephesians 5:27).

The GREEN PETALS remind us that the life given by the Holy Spirit “grows in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man” (Luke 1:21). For the Living God now lives in you by the Holy Spirit of Christ, so that “the life I now live, I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God” (Galatians 2:20).

The rose is set against the backdrop of HEAVENLY BLUE because we are “waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13); and “being justified by His grace, we are heirs according to the hope of eternal life” (Titus 3:7).

All this is RINGED IN GOLD because “according as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:3-4).