Today enjoy artist Kerry Jackson of Drawing to the Rock Ministries at work at he paints to Isaiah 53:
Worship Arts
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #55 — Stations of Cross
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The Stations of the Cross (or the Via Dolorosa), often done on Good Friday, represent a spiritual and physical pilgrimage to commemorate the Passion of Christ. Most often practiced in Roman Catholic Churches, today I will refer you to “The Cross as Journey: The Stations of the Cross for Protestant Worship” by Dennis Bratcher. The article provides historical description and background material, as well as a simple Service of Worship with preparations, supply list, the liturgy and song suggestions.
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #53 — Creative Lenten Worship
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Creative Lenten Worship is a blog with creative worship ideas for the Lenten season, Holy Week, and Easter for pastors, worship leaders and creative arts teams. There are ideas for decorating your altar space for worship (with photos), as well as a reading for four voices for communion. There are also ideas for visual reminders such as Lenten nail pocket reminders and bags with thirty pieces of silver for family devotions. Instructions included for everything offered.
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #52 — Same Skin as Him
StandardLet this spoken word piece by Oraia deepen your devotion, inspire your week, and remind you of His amazing grace!
“Death Could Not Exist in the Same Skin as Him”
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #51 — Creative Ideas for Easter Worship
StandardNeed some fresh ideas for Easter at your church or for your ministry? Here’s a list of Creative Worship Settings and Elements from The Worship Closet: The Place for Creative Worship Ideas. It also includes ideas for Mission Projects. Lots of great ideas! Happy hunting!
worshipcloset.com
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #49 — Worship Films for Easter
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ShareFaith has a variety of videos for use in your Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter worship services. Watch this example:
Resurrection of Jesus
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #47 — Journey to the Cross
StandardFrom now until Good Friday, I will be posting resources and inspiration geared towards Easter. Perhaps you or church will be inspired to do something creative to help others experience the breadth and depth of the Easter season.
Journey to the Cross is an interactive prayer walk focusing on the stations of the cross. It was done by the worship arts ministry of Level Ground Mennonite Church in Abbotsford, BC. The entire service with participant directions, readings, audio and video walk-through instructions is posted on rethink worship.com. If you’ve ever wanted to do Stations of the Cross but wasn’t sure where to start, everything is all laid out for you.
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #42 — The Worship Studio
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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! 😉
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #35 — Worship House Media
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Worship House Media provides media resources for the creative church! You can browse and preview a variety of resources including: mini movies, worship tracks, countdowns, worship backgrounds (moving & still), and church worship software, as well as resources specific to small groups, children, youth, and church seasons. They even have a sale section to purchase resources at a reduced cost.
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #29 — Dancing for Him
StandardToday I want to introduce you to Lynn Hayden and Dancing for Him Ministries. I had the honor of meeting Lynn at a women’s conference on the East Coast a decade or so ago. As we sat down and talked of dance and ministry, I quickly realized that not only was she a wealth of information, she was filled with wisdom!! She was also filled with HOPE and PEACE and JOY! She is absolutely delightful! I treasure that moment in my life!
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #27 — Song Devotionals
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Many of you have been deeply blessed by Matt Redman’s songs. He has a wonderful heart of worship, and I love that his passion for Jesus shines through his work.
He offers many resources but I want to point to two specific resources today. First, he writes and posts song devotionals on many of his most popular worship songs on his website at www.mattredman.com (go to bottom of page to view listing). 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 #17 — Creative Worship with Drums
StandardLet’s get our Monday morning praise on with this video of creative worship from World Outreach Worship featuring StikYard:
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #15 — Vertical Movement
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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.
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #13 — Rockin with the Cross
StandardAs 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.
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #12 — You are Chosen
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You Were Chosen for this Work
Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #9 — Danced Prophetic Word
StandardMarlita 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!
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 #4 — Shaping Worship
StandardAre you a “undiscovered” songwriter? Perhaps a worship leader who’s written songs well-liked by your congregation? A musician who’s written instrumental music for church and liturgical use? Or maybe you develop backgrounds and videos for worship? Are you a small church with a limited budget wanting to take advantage of some free resources to enhance your Sunday morning worship experience? Then I’d like to introduce you to ShapingWorship.com.
Nurturing the Creative Spirit Within 