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The Yellow Ochre Newsletter

For over 13 years, I've been an artist in the Christian missionary world. Learn art and mission ideas to spark your creative engagement every Wednesday. Join like-minded artistic Christians looking for that extra nudge to use your creativity for God's mission.

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The Reconciliation Cycle

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Hey guys! Here are three things to spark your inner missional flame: 💥 INSPIRED BY Sacrificial Attitude As I began my early walk with Christ in the local church during college, I met Vivian. Since the 1960s(ish), Vivian and her husband Hardin had been faithful members of this...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Hey guys! Here are three things to spark your inner missional flame: 💥 INSPIRED BY Arts To Bless, Arts To Curse In the book of Exodus, we see two particular expressions of artistic expression (these aren’t the only ones). The first comes with the tabernacle. God sets apart the...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Sparking your inner missional flame with weekly inspiration, equipping, and sending exhortations. 💥 INSPIRED BY The Power Of Music & Poetry In Pakistan Don McCurry served as a missionary among Muslims in Pakistan. During one of his early furloughs, McCurry sought to better grasp...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Sparking your inner missional flame with weekly inspiration, equipping, and sending exhortations. 💥 INSPIRED BY Arts To Bless, Arts To Curse In the book of Exodus, we see two particular expressions of artistic expression (these aren’t the only ones). The first comes the...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Sparking your inner missional flame with weekly inspiration, equipping, and sending exhortations. 💥 INSPIRED BY Artists Hold Keys to Unreached People Groups In the book, All The World Is Singing, John Oswald briefly shares about his arts and mission work in Asia. He lays forth...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Sparking your inner missional flame with weekly inspiration, equipping, and sending exhortations. 💥 INSPIRED BY Soulcraft Woodworking Apprenticeship Rodney Fickas owns and operates Soulcraft, a woodshop apprenticeship program in Ferguson, MO. If you sign up for a woodworking...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Sparking your inner missional flame with weekly inspiration, equipping, and sending exhortations. 💥 INSPIRED BY Sola God I call Psalm 73 the, “I want what they have!” Psalm. Worship leader, Asaph, battles envy in the first half of the Psalm. He watched “worldly” folk seemingly...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Sparking your inner missional flame with weekly inspiration, equipping, and sending exhortations. 💥 INSPIRED BY What Van Gogh teaches us about brokenness Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear (Van Gogh, 1889) Van Gogh painted numerous self portraits during his lifetime. Russ Ramsey...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Sparking your inner missional flame with weekly inspiration, equipping, and sending exhortations. 💥 INSPIRED BY Redeeming Graffiti to the Glory of God – An Outlet for Artistic Expression and Worship CBN just released this story about Aric Diaz. The segment features Diaz's...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Sparking your inner missional flame with weekly inspiration, equipping, and sending exhortations. 💥 INSPIRED BY What Kinds of Music Should We Use In Our Worship? Are we allowed to use all instruments for praising God? What about dance? How do we navigate the use of certain art...