One of our aims at The Doxology Project is to provide helpful articles that aid in shaping a holistic and biblical worldview. We desire to help people see everything in the world as theological (making statements about God). Every slogan, from Burger King’s “have it your way” campaign, to Nike’s iconic “Just Do it” tagline, and every created product from the iPhone to the Droid makes promises of what it will take to apprehend the...
1 John 3:10-15
Don’t do right? Don’t be of God. More than ever If wronging your brother Who does right? Told from all-start To another Love, love, love Don’t be Cain of Evil One, Killing brother– To what point and purpose? Why Abel? Why kill brothers? Cain lived, ill works (Right Abel’s right) Don’t startle When Cains hate you. (We know we’ve bypassed Death unto living) We love brothers– (That’s...
Why Imagination is Key in Evangelism
A person will not believe what they can’t imagine. So, evangelism has to involve imagination. We have to use our “imaginal intelligence” (imagination) to help the unconverted imagine the reality of GOD, the goodness and love of GOD, the reality of Christ’s payment for our sin, and the benefits of confessing their sin and surrendering their life to HIM. That’s a big order. In fact, for evangelism to happen, a person MUST find their...
1 John 3:7-10
Little kids, be artless, be not naive Listen not to the scoffer’s deceiving tongue. Only right-doers are right, For he who is righteous never does wrong See only wrong-doers are wrong For he known as devil can’t sing our new song From the get-go he sinned, and ever will sin For this God’s Son was unmasked in God’s Play Destroying the works of the devilish one. Those begotten of God never “will sin”...
Art in Christian Missions
Jesus Makes… In Matthew 4:19 Jesus called his disciples to follow and promised them that He would “make them fishers of men.” The Greek word for make, poieō, has some interesting implications. This word can refer to authorship, production, construction, formation, fashion, commerce, and even performance. In the same way that John the Baptist “prepared”—poieō the way for the Lord, so was Jesus planning to prepare these seemingly earthy...
1 John 3:4-6
Each sin breaks a law, each one sinning breaks A code written in marble grave stones: The Law stands eternal, when broken brings death Headstones testify to broken code Yet He was revealed to kidnap our sin And if there is sin, it isn’t in Him. So if you’re in Him, you do not know sin And if you’re in sin, you do not know Him You have not seen Him, nor shown...
What is Greatness?
I don’t know about you, but when I gaze into the heavens, and when I survey the earth and the nature therein, I’m brought to my knees in awe at the wonders of God’s artistry! No human can deny that there is an awe and majesty to our universe. It’s simply dumbfounding. Sadly, however, I have to confess that my response to such encounters with beauty, and the realizations that follow, do not always lead me to a life lived...
1 John 3:3
All who hope in this All who trust in this Truth All faithful in faith In Him, in him, within Purifying, as He is pure Purified,...
Be Still, and Know that I am God
The prophet Habakkuk charged the nation of Judah, and all the earth to be silent before the LORD, resident in his holy temple (Hab 2:20). The context of Habakkuk’s message was the imminent destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian armies of King Nebuchadnezzar. The prophet’s admonition still has currency for the people of God today, as the nations continue to rage against God and each other. As we hush before the Lord in his holy...
1 John 3:1-2
Why don’t people recognize us? Why don’t they see with true eyes? Why, we as sons, drink their spite and Why, daughters, listen to lies? The world and its spies doesn’t know us The world, all its hype, doesn’t see The world, in it’s cr…., never welcomes As long as they slander our King. But we are the sons, we’re the daughters E’en we, eyes in shroud, cannot see What we will become,...
Winston Churchill on Creativity
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.¹ Amongst his numerous writings and teachings can...
1 John 3:1
Open your eyes, awaken and see Gift lavished: Father’s great love How is this love? Why is it grand? Simply by calling us sons, Daughters, He names us. And that we are. Children of...
Evangelism, Imagination, and Artists
No one can believe anything they can’t imagine!! That reality intimately makes artists and evangelism go together. But what about the importance of the content of evangelism, one might ask? Most of you reading this blog agree with me about the content of evangelism: it IS—the objective, existing reality of GOD, the loving work of Christ through which we access the Gospel, and the energizing of His Spirit empowering the Gospel. ...
Paul’s Palindrome: Philippians 1:1-2, 3:7-8
Grace and peace unto you, for pleasure and joy came – each and every kindness of gifts. Favor’s harmonies head your trails. considered it all as nothing just to know you more. more, you know. To just … nothing. As all it considered trails your head – harmony’s favors. Gifts of kindness, every and each came – joy and pleasure for you unto peace, and...
My Worth is Not My Own
One of the greatest struggles we each face is the search for significance. Our 21st-century sense of identity is grounded in individualism, self-entitlement, and narcissism. From whom we marry to what career choice we make to what church we attend to what we think of church music, every choice is geared around what these things do for us. This attitude of consumerism is one of the most prevalent idols in Western culture and has become...
John 1:1-14
The Word. The Word’s how it all began. The Word was. The Word is. The Word will come, for the Word is what he is. He was God & with God before it began. All of it was made through him. Everything. Nothing, seen or unseen, came about without him, for in the Word was life. Deep within him life sourced forth to radiate into the world as glorious light. This thickened, brightened light exposed darkness And Darkness cannot...
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