The Creative Christian Blog
Growing Intimacy with God: Understanding Intimacy
To grow intimacy with God, we need to understand what intimacy is and how it grows.
How to bring clear ‘resolutions’ into the new year
As you begin a new year, know this: The Holy Spirit wants to help you learn from last year and bring your most important lessons into the new year. If you haven't already, please subscribe to my newsletter so you can download my FREE PDF called "Ready to Grow" that...
How to hang on to God when life really hurts.
When life hurts, it’s hard to hang on to God. Here’s how you can do it, even when life is hard.
How to make 2023 your best year of personal growth EVER
No one drifts into better dreams. What kind of year was 2022 for you? For me, it was a crazy mix of pain, grief, growth, and progress. Don't get me wrong, I'm a piece of work. Just ask Jesus, or my wife, Shauna, and they'll tell you! But this past year, like pretty...
Where are you?
When God wanted Adam and Eve to think through what and how they were doing, he asked them, “Where are you?” So what about you? Where are you?
The Terrible, Awful, Wonderful Blank Canvas
When you face the intimidation of a blank canvas, in art and in life, what can you do?
Why the Spirit-filled Life is the creative life
In my last two posts, I tried to convince you that: Creativity is intrinsic to your identity. Human beings are imagers of a Creative God, and free will is essentially creative power. Creativity is pivotal to your purpose. Everything God put us here to do requires...
Why creativity is pivotal to your purpose
In my last post, I tried to convince you that creativity is intrinsic to your identity. Today, I'm going to make the case that creativity is pivotal to your purpose. The first thing we learn about God in Genesis is that He already existed when the beginning began. The...
Why every Christian is creative, including you
There are two kinds of people: Those that know they are creative, and those that don't. There are no non-creative people. "I'm definitely creative," you might say. "I'm a writer," or perhaps an artist. Or maybe you disagree. "Nope, not me," you protest. "I know lots...
Exciting things in the works for me
I don't know much about my long-term future these days. I thought I did, even just six months ago—but now, it's a blue-ocean mystery to me—a frontier I'm wading into with Jesus day by day. What I do know, as people close to me have affirmed over and over, is that: I...