This week we are focusing on journaling. Today’s post is geared specifically towards writers and shows how journaling can help you with your writing process.
Mary Jaksch on Write to Done has two articles to help encourage the writer in you: Continue reading
Not only do I love how creatively this blog is designed, but the author Eren McKay gives lots of great ideas and practical resources for your journaling journey, as she discusses how to keep a prayer journal. She offers free printables and discusses why journaling is important for your life as a Christian and your study of God’s Word! Continue reading
Continuing our look into journaling this week, posting two articles today which reveal a different look at journaling. If yesterday’s ideas of journaling were a little too “loosey-goosey” for you, today’s are a bit more structured and organized. Ultimately, you have to find the style that works best for you, your ministry, and your creativity! Continue reading
We’ll spend the week looking at expressive writing, specifically through journaling. Perhaps you’ve thought about keeping a journal but never got around to it. Hopefully this week will inspire you to do so! Journals are good for artists of ALL genres!
It’s Facebook Friday!! Facebook is a great way to network with like-minded creatives and artists!
The Prophetic Artists Guild is a Facebook group administered by prophetic artist Sharron Jones who has such an encouraging heart for artists. The group description reads: Continue reading
CaraMayan was developed by my friend Mary Jones, founder of International Christian Dance Fellowship. CaraMayan is a way of combining simple movement with scripture. This way of moving is sometimes called “embodied prayer,” and I’ll post more about that subject in the future. CaraMayan is very calming and meditative in nature and a great way to help you memorize scripture as the movement often helps the words become more a part of your being.
Bringing you a TED Talk today from Julie Burstein entitled “4 Lessons in Creativity” — worth the watch!
Manuel Luz is the Creative Arts Pastor for Oak Hills Church in Folsom, California. Today I want to refer you to his blog, Adventures in Faith & Art. He posts reflections that help stir the heart of the creative soul. You can follow his blog or like his page on Facebook to keep up to date with his posts.
Let’s get our Monday morning praise on with this video of creative worship from World Outreach Worship featuring StikYard:
It’s Facebook Friday!! Facebook is a great way to network with like-minded creatives and artists!
Authors, Bloggers, Writers, Readers and Books is a Facebook group with over 10,000 members. Their description reads: Continue reading
Vertical Movement offers contemporary based workshops across the United States where the main focus is to use dance as communication to God and others. Workshops are held Friday evening and all day Saturday and often end with a showcase of worship through dance.
Colleen Briggs is an artist who shares her work and life with beautiful transparency on her blog Fragments of Light. For example, in her post, Lunge for the Light, she shares that it is “for the days when leaning for the light is not enough,” referencing a previous painting entitled “Lean for the Light” posted two weeks earlier with a short poem of ragged intensity.
As a musician and worship leader, quick access to chord charts, tablature and lead sheets is a must! Rockin’ With the Cross has provided Christian chord charts and tablature for guitar, piano, bass and horn for over 13 years! There is a small fee of $3.95/monthly.
As an artist or creative, have you ever felt like you didn’t fit in? Like others just don’t “get you” or your ideas? Have you ever felt peculiar? Then you need to listen to this podcast devotional on 1st Peter 2:9 entitled “You Were Chosen for this Work” from Tamika Hall Ministries:
Field Guide to Resisting Temptation
http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/field-guide-to-resisting-temptation/
Today’s post is a perfect example of how an artist (in this case a writer of prose and poetry) can use his or her gift to help bring restoration, redemption and healing to others through their art form. In her piece entitled “Field Guide for Resisting Temptation,” Sarah Wells risks exposure of her own faults and failures to explore the fine line between flirtation and affair.
Tracy Verdugo is an artist from Australia who’s paintings are bright and vibrant and speak life, beauty and joy!
“Tracy is an inspiration instigator, prolific painter, singer/songwriter and lover of the written word, smitten traveller and soaker up of all that is beauty-full. She teaches her Paint Mojo and other creative workshops all over this amazing planet and reminds her students of the wonder that already resides within them.” (tracyverdugo.com)
I wanted to point specifically to one of Tracy’s workshops—one that is highly-accessible to all.
Marlita Hill is a dance minister, a dance educator, a choreographer, and author of Dancers! Assume the Position, a Biblically-rooted examination of the dance minister’s purpose and role as artist.
Watch as she dances an excerpt from her book. And note that it is SO MUCH MORE than just an excerpt. It is a prophetic word to ALL ARTISTS and CREATIVES! If you only have 5 minutes today, watch and listen and be released as priests of God’s glorious praise!
Introducing my creative friend Dave Weiss of A
MOKArts —devoted to helping creatives in the church and helping churches to be more creative! Dave is a pastor, an artist, a storyteller, a blogger, an author*, and a wonderful proponent of the arts in our churches. Dave visited our church last Spring for our Sunday morning service. As he painted he told wonderful stories of God’s redeeming love and amazing grace. He also shared a part of his testimony and the saving message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was very powerful! This is some of his artwork hanging in our church: 
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Love the work of cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg, using film to help people consider the world around them. According to the Moving Art website he is “the only filmmaker in the world who has been shooting time-lapse 24/7 continuously for well over three decade. Schwartzberg is a visual artist breaking barriers, connecting with audiences, and telling stories that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people and places.”
I hope one of your New Year’s resolutions was to attend a conference this year. If not, you should! Conferences are a great way to grow as a creative, to meet other like-minded worshipers and artists, and to re-imagine your ministry!
Nurturing the Creative Spirit Within 