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
3 Truths About Your Artistic Calling
Uniquely Capacitated 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 this for the sake...
September 28, 2022
3 Traits Of An Artist
Exodus 35:30—36:2 is one of the most helpful summary passages in Scripture that reveals a description and role of the artistic specialist in the life of a believing community. Then Moses said to the...
September 21, 2022
3 Protestant 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...
September 14, 2022
The Biblical Role of Imagination and Imaginal Intelligence
It’s helpful to consider what imagination is as put forth in the Hebrew Scriptures. The Hebrew term for imagination is either yatsar or yetser. It is a term that is used, for example in...
September 7, 2022
Rejecting The Modern Idea of Artists & The Arts
Modern culture’s ideas about art seem to designate “artists” as a specialized elite group of art-makers. First, are the elite whose artistic skills are very high. They possess an extreme level of virtuosity—whether people...
August 31, 2022
Is Artistic Expression Essential?
Question How do finite people have a relational interaction with a Divine God? Artistic expression, as observed in the biblical record, is essential to life and Christian ministry—especially the worship ministries of the Church....
August 24, 2022
Discipleship Defined
Discipling is the process of intentionally investing your life in the lives of others on God’s behalf. This definition specifically comes out of two key New Testament passages related to the term disciple, one...
August 17, 2022
3 Habits Disciples Practice
The four Gospels articulate three foundational habits the LORD Jesus Himself practiced and that He advocated for the first disciples. We’ve already discussed companioning in a previous blog post’ “Companioning with God”, but there...
August 10, 2022
Companioning With God
A daily companioning worship walk with God, where prayer and conversation with God are givens and frequent, is essential for anyone leading public worship. It is the first foundational habit of every healthy disciple....
August 3, 2022
Ethnomusicology and Missions
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Ethnomusicologists seek to not only study music from sound and historical perspectives but to look at the music within a culture. Over 12 years, Dr. George Patterson, director of the Honduran Extension Bible...
July 27, 2022
