What’s all the Commotion About?

How would our art and our worship be different if we see both as a genuine response to the God who comes with his own expressions of sight and sound – to the God who makes his own commotion?

If God is in control and needs nothing, why serve God?

The other night in our life group one of the younger men noted that all the people he knew who struggled with Christianity were asking the “big questions.” I’ve noticed that often these “BIG” questions are in the form of If God is …, then why? I…

If God is in control of everything, why pray?

Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. Psalm 115:3  God’s Greater Glory “God’s Greater Glory: The Exalted God of Scripture and the Christian Faith,”  by Bruce A. Ware is a book that had a huge impact on my understanding of…

Are We “Doing Music” Right?

This past weekend I attended The Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference, with my daughter.  To say the worship in music, led by Keith and Kristyn Getty, was beautiful is an understatement.  The music was so delightful in fact that, as I briefly stood in the back with my…

Websites & Women can be Redeemed

This past week our website, Doxology Publishing, was infected with “mal-ware” (malicious code that someone infects your website with in order to do damage).  I found this out when I searched for the site on Google and saw the words, “Warning: This site may harm…

Stereotyping and the Sovereignty of God

If you want to read this, but only have a few seconds, scroll down and start reading at “The point of this blog.” A bit of history Stereotyping, I found out, was originally coined as a printing word.  Before stereotyping, printers used wooden blocks with…

Why is Theology Important to God?

Why Does God Care About Theology? In my last blog, Is Theology Important to God?, I tried to establish that God does care about theology. I focused primarily on the doctrine of God and tried to show that, because God explicitly tells us about himself, it…

Is Theology Important to God?

My original intent for this blog was to reflect on “Why” theology is important to God. But I realized I couldn’t really go there without establishing that theology is important to God. 1 So the more specific, two-part, question I’m trying to answer here is…

Why is theology important to artists and everyone?

What do we mean by ‘theology’? In the Creating Art from Theology curriculum (free on this site), theology is defined as … “‘thinking deeply’ about what the Bible, as a whole, tells us about the Trinity:  ‘pondering’ ways theologians, historically, have interpreted what Scripture reveals about God’…

Paint the Whole Picture

In American when we hear the same story with a different emphasis and from another perspective, we sometimes say of the person who told the “other side of the story” – “that’s not how he painted the picture.”  That’s what happens in theology and in…