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Why True Christian Art is Largely Missing Today
There is a fundamental shortcoming in what we do in the church in our attempts to create art. It has to do with our understanding of what Christian art is.
Not Just a Plan – God Has a Creative Calling for You
The other day, someone asked on Facebook, How do I discern God’s will? Is it as hard as it seems or do I make it hard? Here’s my thoughts on the subject, which is connected to our creative calling.
4 Reasons We Stop Creating
There are four reasons we stop creating. All four are based on a desire for comfort. In each case, we retreat from the work, and tell ourselves we’ll get to it again. But the reality is we avoid it.
Living Life by Work and Leisure is All Wrong
Leisure is a lie. It doesn’t last. Defining life by work and leisure are poles set in place by a broken world. Life is actually built around making and resting.
6 Options For When You Grow Up
Here are six messages I hear about what will happen when you grow up. These options are the end game of our creative dreams.
Make a Mark on Your Growth Chart This Week
When we become adults, most of us stop making our mark on the wall, and in the world. We adopt a fixed mindset about our identity. But God has a bright future for us, which we discover as we un-learn how to conform to the world and rediscover our innate creativity.
3 Tips on Making an Important Life Choice
Recently, I faced a life-altering choice between two career options. Here are the three things I did that most heavily influenced my final decision.
The Best Way to Reclaim Your Creativity Is To Love
Loving as God does and God encourages us to do, with our entire heart, mind, soul and strength, is how we recapture our creativity. The reason love is the key to creativity is because it’s the essential character of God the Creator, from whom all creativity flows.
Hearing a Word from the Lord: My Review of Jesus Speaks by Leonard Sweet and Frank viola
In the introduction, the writers say, “Jesus is always speaking to His followers. It is up to us to learn to recognize His voice.” The writers’ goal is to help us with this task. They succeeded. Jesus Speaks is one of the most useful books about following Jesus I have ever read. Here are 20 quotes from the book.
C.S. Lewis and the Role of Imagination in Making Meaning
C.S. Lewis helped the Christian community rediscover Christian imagination, and that imagination isn’t in conflict with reason. If the imagination leads us in an irrational direction to an ultimately irrational area, it is a failure of the imagination as well as a failure of reason.