What Business Are You In?
by Byron L. Spradlin He was brilliant. Clearly a child prodigy . . . the pride of Salzburg . . . a performer par excellence. At age five, he wrote an advanced concerto for...
November 5, 2021
Dr. Byron Spradlin - Artists in Ministry & Missions
Artistic Expression & Evangelism
When an entire village of Bolivian Indian ranch workers came to the Lord a few years ago, some missionary friends of mine were faced with some steep questions. What do we do with this...
May 18, 2022
Ministry and Imagination
No one can believe anything they can’t imagine. This reality makes artists and evangelism intimately go together. “But what about the importance of the content of evangelism?” one might ask. Most of you reading this blog agree...
May 11, 2022
The Role of the Artist and the Arts in Life and Ministry
In Exodus 35 we see one of the most helpful summary passages in Scripture that reveals a description and role of the artistic specialist in the life of the believing community. This Old Testament...
May 4, 2022
12 Roles For Artists in Life & Living
Artists Artistically gifted people have been endowed with “unusual wisdom at imaginative design and expression” (the definition of the Hebrew term “craftsman”—see e.g. Ex. 31 or Ex 35). Hopefully these categories will help you...
April 27, 2022
Is Artistic Leadership Necessary?
Artistic leadership in biblical times was necessary for instruction and admonition. Throughout the Prophetic Books of the Bible one sees serious dramatic teaching, instructing, and admonishing. This was done through media (vision), story and...
April 20, 2022
3 Truths About Artistic Specialists
Three Biblical Truths God Reveals About Artistic Specialists There are three biblical truths God reveals about uniquely capacitated artistic specialists. It is God who is the prime mover in all this. And God did...
April 13, 2022
Imagination & Imaginal Intelligence
The Hebrew term for imagination is either yatsar or yetser. Yatsar means to fashion in the mind before forming in time and space. That is, to fashion in the mind also holds in its...
April 6, 2022
3 Concerns With Imagination
Despite the marvelous assets God gave to humans through imagination, Protestants historically manifest three concerns with the human capacity to imagine. One challenge is that this term can be used to underscore wrong or...
March 21, 2022
The Biblical Definition of Art & Artistic Expression
Evangelical author and philosophy professor Dallas Willard writes, “Sometimes important things can be presented in literature and art that cannot be effectively presented in any other way.” Given the way God has designed the...
January 31, 2022
How Imagination & Artistic Expression Relate to Worship
Evangelical author and philosophy professor Dallas Willard writes, “Sometimes important things can be presented in literature and art that cannot be effectively presented in any other way.” Given the way God has designed the...
January 27, 2022
