Introducing The Worship Studio, an equipping resource for artists, a hub for creative communities, and a catalyst for creativity around the world, founded by Matt Tomney, an amazing artist with a passion for connecting artists. Matt offers a wide variety of resources and tools through his website. We won’t reveal all of them today! 😉
Books, Blogs & Pages
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #36 — PSALM Facebook Page
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It’s another Facebook Friday! A great way to network with like-minded artists, bloggers & creatives!
PSALM (Prophetic Society of Art, Literature, & Music) is a Facebook group that describes itself as: Continue reading
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #28 — 12 Tribes Ministries
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CIndy Fort has the heart of both an artist and a counselor. Her website 12tribesministries.com has great resources that help you explore your creative side, as well as your heart, soul and spirit through the creative process. I will be posting more from 12 Tribes in future posts, but I wanted to point you towards an exploratory process with circles.
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #21 — Prophetic Artists FB Group
StandardIt’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
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #18 — Adventures in Faith & Art
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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.
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #16 — Authors, Bloggers FB Page
StandardIt’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
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #14 — Fragments of Light
StandardColleen 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.
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #11 — Resisting Temptation
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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.
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #8 — AMOK Arts
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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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Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #6 — Creative Church Conferences
StandardI 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!
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #5 — Jeremy Begbie, art theologian
StandardToday I’d like to introduce you to theologian and musician Jeremy Begbie, the Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School. I first discovered Dr. Begbie while doing research for my book and was caught up by the depth of his thoughts regarding worship and the arts. I loved that a theologian was mining the depths of the arts for the church and its people.
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #3 — Epiphany
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Today is Epiphany. For those of us who’ve been raised in a high-church tradition, we know and understand what this holiday means to us as Christians. Some celebrate this holiday with great joy. Some have lost the joy in the repetition of a seemingly outdated tradition. Some of us have no idea what Epiphany means as our church does not celebrate or acknowledge this religious holiday.
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #2 — Abbey of the Arts
StandardAbbey of the Arts encourages transformative living through contemplative and expressive arts. It is an online global monastery offering pilgrimages, retreats, books and reflections to nurture contemplative practice and creative expression. You can sign up for their email newsletter and other free creative resources on their website abbeyofthearts.com. 
This amazing website, filled with resources, is brought to you by Christine Valters Painter, PhD, a Benedictine oblate and author of many books including The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom. On the Abbey website she states: Continue reading
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #1 — Rory Noland
StandardSeems appropriate that our first creative resource is Rory Noland, Director of Heart of the Artist Ministries at www.heartoftheartist.org.
For me and many other creatives in the church, The Heart of the Artist is the book that started it all! Before reading Noland’s book, the only “art” I thought applied to church was music and a
n occasional drama, and frankly, I’m not even sure I thought of music as an “art.” So much has changed since then! Noland now has four books—all worth reading. He also leads retreats for artists and worship workshops for churches. His site has a link to direct you to a new worship CD he has out. Here’s a quick preview!
Nurturing the Creative Spirit Within 