On Friday, December 27 I hosted Art Pastor Live, Christmas Edition. Remember, it is Christmas for twelve days! I created a piece of contemplative art that will explores the themes of Christmas. Grab your own art supplies and create with me, or simply allow my creative process to be a contemplative space for you.
Happy New Year!
This week the preacher has choices. Do you focus on the New Year, the Second Sunday of Christmas, Epiphany (which is on Monday), or all of the above?
While we will be in Luke this year, the RCL starts with John this week…in the beginning. That’s a good place to begin the New Year! Blessings on your preaching and teaching this week.
Browse through my gallery of the various artwork I created in 2024. These pieces range from plen air painting, digital illustration, pen and ink portraits, to zentangles. Enjoy!
Merry Christmas! The big day has arrived. It is especially rich this year to tell the nativity story from Luke 2 on Christmas because we are entering the year of Luke in both the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary. I can’t wait to walk through this amazing Gospel with you over the next few months.
In this email I offer resources for both Christmas Eve/Day and for the first Sunday of Christmas. Here are the various resources you might find helpful:
The Christmas Story Bundle Pack. It contains:
PowerPoint/Image pack for Luke 1 and 2
Printable PDF of pages 1 and 2
A bonus PowerPoint that visually annotates the Nativity story in a fun way.
A YouTube video with a voice over reading of the Nativity story set to music and the images above
The standard weekly resource page for Sunday, December 29
On Friday, December 20, 2024 I spent an hour on my Art Pastor Live stream and drew this image. It is a contemplative art piece that explores the themes of the texts for the fourth Sunday of Advent.
We come to the fourth and final week of Advent. This week we celebrate love and life. Two pregnant women meet and rejoice in the life that is growing in their wombs. Elizabeth’s child reminds us of the matriarch Sarah and her son Isaac, when God gave a child to a woman in her old age. Mary’s child reminds us that God can bring life out of nothing, through the Spirit, just like God did in the first verses of Genesis. Mary sings to God and reminds us that God’s love is for all people, bringing down the arrogant oppressors and uplifting the humbled and oppressed.
Light the fourth candle this week and rejoice in the love and life that comes from God.
Download visual resources to help you preach, teach, and study the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary for December 15, 2024.
For the Revised Common Lectionary
Zephaniah 3:14-20
Isaiah 12:2-6
Philippians 4:4-7
Luke 3:7-18
For the Narrative Lectionary
Isaiah 61:1-11
Enjoy this walk through of my latest sketchbook. It has plen air gouache, pen and ink, faces, and zentangles.
On Friday, December 6, 2024 I spent an hour on my Art Pastor Live stream and drew this image. It is a contemplative art piece that explores the themes of the texts for the second Sunday of Advent.
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