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2024-02-09T12:47:20-05:00

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10 Bible Passages for Creative Ministry

Last updated on: February 9, 2024 at 12:47 pm   By David Weiss

It is imperative that we who desire to serve the Lord with our creative gifts remember is that it’s ministry and ministry needs to be biblical. Here are ten Bible passages that are crucial to anyone involved in creative ministry. All these passages come from the ESV. 1. Genesis 1:1  In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Did you realize the first thing we learn about God in the Bible, perhaps beyond His eternal nature, is the... Read more

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2024-02-09T06:49:57-05:00

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9 Ways to Get to Serve Your Church With Your Gift

Last updated on: February 9, 2024 at 6:49 am   By David Weiss

In this column, my purpose is two-fold. To help the church to embrace creative people and to help creative people to embrace and serve the church. With that in mind, here are nine ways to get to serve your church with your gift.  Thinking back to when I first began using the arts in ministry, outside the obvious use of musical gifts, it was not always easy for practitioners of other art forms to find opportunities to serve. It can... Read more

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2024-02-15T18:04:05-05:00

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9 Ways to Involve Visual Artists In Your Church Tomorrow

Last updated on: February 15, 2024 at 6:04 pm   By David Weiss

As you may have seen in my previous article, the entire course of my life was changed when a pastor found a use for my artistic talents in the local church. It was a relatively small project, but it opened doors, which revealed other abilities, which led to a very fulfilling artistic life of ministry. I am convinced I am not an anomaly. I believe there are frustrated artists all over the body of Christ, who would love to serve... Read more

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2024-02-15T11:11:50-05:00

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Whatever Gifts: How My Imaginative Church Journey Began

Last updated on: February 15, 2024 at 11:11 am   By David Weiss

The Origin Every great comic hero has an origin story, so why not me? My whole life, for as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to be an artist. I had an amazingly supportive grandmother who put crayons in my hands before I knew what to do with them and from there, I was off to the races. It’s not surprising. After all Pablo Picasso once said, “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist... Read more

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