1 John 3:4-6
Each sin breaks a law, each one sinning breaks A code written in marble grave stones: The Law stands eternal, when broken brings death Headstones testify to broken code Yet He was revealed to kidnap our sin And if there is sin, it isn’t in Him. So if you’re in Him, you do not know sin And if you’re in sin, you do not know Him You have not seen Him, nor shown...
What is Greatness?
I don’t know about you, but when I gaze into the heavens, and when I survey the earth and the nature therein, I’m brought to my knees in awe at the wonders of God’s artistry! No human can deny that there is an awe and majesty to our universe. It’s simply dumbfounding. Sadly, however, I have to confess that my response to such encounters with beauty, and the realizations that follow, do not always lead me to a life lived...
1 John 3:3
All who hope in this All who trust in this Truth All faithful in faith In Him, in him, within Purifying, as He is pure Purified,...
Be Still, and Know that I am God
The prophet Habakkuk charged the nation of Judah, and all the earth to be silent before the LORD, resident in his holy temple (Hab 2:20). The context of Habakkuk’s message was the imminent destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian armies of King Nebuchadnezzar. The prophet’s admonition still has currency for the people of God today, as the nations continue to rage against God and each other. As we hush before the Lord in his holy...
1 John 3:1-2
Why don’t people recognize us? Why don’t they see with true eyes? Why, we as sons, drink their spite and Why, daughters, listen to lies? The world and its spies doesn’t know us The world, all its hype, doesn’t see The world, in it’s cr…., never welcomes As long as they slander our King. But we are the sons, we’re the daughters E’en we, eyes in shroud, cannot see What we will become,...
Winston Churchill on Creativity
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.¹ Amongst his numerous writings and teachings can...
1 John 3:1
Open your eyes, awaken and see Gift lavished: Father’s great love How is this love? Why is it grand? Simply by calling us sons, Daughters, He names us. And that we are. Children of...
Evangelism, Imagination, and Artists
No one can believe anything they can’t imagine!! That reality intimately makes artists and evangelism go together. But what about the importance of the content of evangelism, one might ask? Most of you reading this blog agree with me about the content of evangelism: it IS—the objective, existing reality of GOD, the loving work of Christ through which we access the Gospel, and the energizing of His Spirit empowering the Gospel. ...
Paul’s Palindrome: Philippians 1:1-2, 3:7-8
Grace and peace unto you, for pleasure and joy came – each and every kindness of gifts. Favor’s harmonies head your trails. considered it all as nothing just to know you more. more, you know. To just … nothing. As all it considered trails your head – harmony’s favors. Gifts of kindness, every and each came – joy and pleasure for you unto peace, and...
My Worth is Not My Own
One of the greatest struggles we each face is the search for significance. Our 21st-century sense of identity is grounded in individualism, self-entitlement, and narcissism. From whom we marry to what career choice we make to what church we attend to what we think of church music, every choice is geared around what these things do for us. This attitude of consumerism is one of the most prevalent idols in Western culture and has become...
WMC Podcast, Episode #0192: Lancelot Schaubert, Making A Jesus Culture
William Messenger, Theology of Work Lancelot Schaubert is the husband of Tara Schaubert, the grooviest girl on Earth. He has sold his written work to markets like The New Haven Review, McSweeney’s, The Poet’s Market, Writer’s Digest (magazine and books), The World Series Edition of Poker Pro, Encounter, The Misty Review, Carnival, Brink, and many other similar markets. He reinvented the photonovel through Cold Brewed and was...
John 1:1-14
The Word. The Word’s how it all began. The Word was. The Word is. The Word will come, for the Word is what he is. He was God & with God before it began. All of it was made through him. Everything. Nothing, seen or unseen, came about without him, for in the Word was life. Deep within him life sourced forth to radiate into the world as glorious light. This thickened, brightened light exposed darkness And Darkness cannot...
Artistic Expression in World Evangelization
When an entire village of Bolivian Indian ranch workers came to the Lord awhile ago, some missionary friends of mine were faced with very big questions. What do we do with this entire village of people that now know the Lord as Savior? In what ways do they worship? How do we teach them to study the Bible when most of them don’t read? And when they have no Bible-base music in their own heart-expressions, what do we suggest they...
WMC Podcast, Episode #0191: William Messenger, Theology of Work
William Messenger, Theology of Work The Theology of Work Project is dedicated to researching, writing, and distributing materials with a biblical perspective on non-church workplaces. We collaborate with pastors and churches, faith-and-work organizations, universities, and seminaries to equip workplace Christians for meaningful and fruitful work of every kind. Our offerings include the Theology of Work Bible Commentary, devotionals,...
Four Window Wonders (Proverbs 30:18-19)
Other than two Aspirin, last night murdered me I awoke, grabbed some tea Stepped into the study, ready to write Sitting, I teared up, glancing out About our backyard, about the fields Then it all whisked away Washed away my ribboned eyes from blue to white from night to light In that wash of purity In that veil of tears I lost grip of my desk My pen fell from my hand I left Though I didn’t mean to leave I left...
Diamonds and Coal
Nebuchadnezzar was a powerful King, descending upon the world with great political force—one of great sadness and tragedy, at that. Not only did he use his power to besiege God’s city of Jerusalem(1)–bringing back its treasures and people to be dedicated to his “gods,”(2) even as God granted him favor and power amidst his arrogance(3)— Nebuchadnezzar still tried to seek prosperity and prowess apart from the Lord’s...
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