This article is meant to be a follow-up to my series entitled “A New & Living Way An Investigation into New Covenant Worship in Spirit & Truth”. In the context of the principles examined in that series, this article approaches the subject of “Gathering” – NOT on how we gather, or where and when we gather, but WHY we gather. The goal is to give some insight into the nature of our collective life in the New Covenant. The “collective
As a call to God-centered art, this article offers Christians involved in the various art forms a foundation for a biblical aesthetic. The attributes of God, revealed in His creation, in His written word, and in His Living Word, Jesus Christ, are the conceptual forms by which we perceive and communicate our expressions and reflections of God. Therefore, the calling of a Christian artist is to communicate through works of art his perceptions of God and His attributes. (26 pages)
Art as an Essential Form of Worship Including some Cautionary Thoughts for Christian Artists Through his works of art, the Christian artist can “magnify the Lord” by “telling of His glory”, often without words, through reflecting on the attributes of God, which are “the radiance of His glory”. This is an essential form of worship which, like other forms or worship and prayer, can act as a bridge – a “Jacob’s Ladder”, as it were – in which a work
The focus of this message is the names that Isaiah used to describe the coming King. And the key to understanding these names is the historical context of the people he is speaking to. Basically, he was telling these people that this coming King was the only One Who had solutions to the situations in which they found themselves. So, we will look at these names – each one a combination of an adjective and a noun – and interpret
