Can You Lose Your Creative Gift?

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The temperature is 40 degrees…indoors…and all year round. At the same time, there’s steam and water spewing at his workstation. He’s suited up in what looks like rain gear from head to toe. Rubber gloves that barely allow his fingers to do his job of operating the steel machine within …

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How to Know God’s Plan for Your Talent in 2012

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This year one of the biggest concerns I’ve heard from many of you is that you struggle with not knowing what God’s plan is for your creative talent. In fact in a recent poll we conducted, nearly 1 out of 5 of you said that this was the biggest barrier …

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Art Abuse

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When (creative) Purpose is not known, ABUSE (“ABnormal USE“) follows. When you don’t know the purpose of your creativity, you abuse it (abnormally use it). How do you “abuse” your creativity? One of two ways:

Your Pain Tells What You Were Born to Do

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Something my pastor spoke about this past Sunday has stuck with me all week. Every time he talks about purpose, I of course see it through the eyes of creative folk. This Sunday he said: “The first stage to purpose is pain.”

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