There are so many times I want to tell Christians putting out social media content that there is a better way to do things. In the fast-paced world of social media, being skilled at capturing your audience’s attention is the key to success. Yet many Christian content creators, ministries and...
In our first article, we laid the groundwork for a Biblical understanding of culture. In the second article, we introduced the concept of the religious nature of culture - arguing that culture is composed of liturgies (practices), stories (doctrine) and groups (community). In this article, we will...
What is culture? Culture is part of the ‘natural habitat’ we inhabit daily as we live our lives, yet something - like the water fish swim in - that we seldom stop to seriously consider. It’s one of those words we throw around and assumes that everyone knows what it is and what we mean but...
The Reformed Preacher Portraits are a series of portraits of Christian preachers, teachers and authors who have significantly influenced and shaped my faith and understanding of Reformed doctrines. Not all of the men in this series are "confessionally Reformed", but they all share a commitment to...
The Reformed Preacher Portraits are a series of portraits of Reformed Christian preachers, teachers and authors who have significantly influenced and shaped my faith. The desire behind this series is both to honour these men and also to share some of their materials with other Christians and...
The design and art world can sometimes tend to foster a sort of egotism among artists. After all, we need to promote ourselves, brand our artwork, get our names out there and tie it to stunning and quality work! Such is the nature of working as a professional artist and designer. However, the...
You can also listen to this article here: I think many a church attendee over the course of the last two decades has had to endure the sight of a WordArt announcement slide or Clip Art (circa 1994) featured on a church bulletin cover. Or perhaps you’ve struggled to read an ad for a church event...
We’ve covered a lot over the course of this series of articles, and yet we’ve only just scratched the surface. There are innumerable more depths of riches of wisdom and insight to be gleaned from the pages of scripture to ignite our heart’s passions to the glory of God. There’s gold there to be...
UPDATE: The Spanish Brothers animated short has been released! Check it out below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na8lSxnBQm0 In this article, I’m excited to be interviewing Steven R. Martins, the founding director of the Cántaro Institute, author of several books and a good friend of mine....
Our previous article considered how Christ, as the image of God, reveals God to us and embodies His glory. This is great news for us as our idolatrous tendency is to exchange the glory of God for created things. But how does Christ redeem us from our slavery to idolatry as creatives? The Gospel is...