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VergeNow VergeNow
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5.0 • 12 Ratings
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The VergeNow Podcast is designed to give encouragement, inspiration and guidance to creative and innovative ministry leaders. Over the last twelve years as an experimental “arts church,” Convergence: A Creative Community of Faith has come to believe that a vibrant spiritual imagination and skillful, disciplined creativity are the keys to faithfully meeting the challenges facing our churches, our communities and our world.
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The Wise-Hearted Ones Ep. 4: Ministry of Imagination
Join Rev. Lisa Cole Smith from Convergence for a four-part study exploring the spectacular effort of God’s chosen people in an art project of magnificent scope. It takes the entire community of makers, craftspeople, leaders, administrators, teachers and patrons all working together under the leadership of artists to fulfill God’s command: Build a dwelling place for the Spirit of God. Neither Moses nor priests, warriors nor politicians were qualified to lead the task. This time, artists are called by name, filled with the Spirit, and charged to lead God’s people. Come discover the original call of the artist and re-consider your creative gifting in light of the “wise-hearted ones.”
The Wise-Hearted Ones Ep. 4: Ministry of Imagination
Written and Narrated by Lisa Cole Smith
Produced and Engineered by Dan ABH
Original Music by Jay Smith www.jmusic.us -
The Wise-Hearted Ones Ep.3: Idols and Altars
Join Rev. Lisa Cole Smith from Convergence for a four-part study exploring the spectacular effort of God’s chosen people in an art project of magnificent scope. It takes the entire community of makers, craftspeople, leaders, administrators, teachers and patrons all working together under the leadership of artists to fulfill God’s command: Build a dwelling place for the Spirit of God. Neither Moses nor priests, warriors nor politicians were qualified to lead the task. This time, artists are called by name, filled with the Spirit, and charged to lead God’s people. Come discover the original call of the artist and re-consider your creative gifting in light of the “wise-hearted ones.”
The Wise-Hearted Ones Ep. 3: Idols and Altars
Written and Narrated by Lisa Cole Smith
Produced and Engineered by Dan ABH
Original Music by Jay Smith www.jmusic.us -
The Wise-Hearted Ones Ep. 2: An Artist Ordained
Join Rev. Lisa Cole Smith from Convergence for a four-part study exploring the spectacular effort of God’s chosen people in an art project of magnificent scope. It takes the entire community of makers, craftspeople, leaders, administrators, teachers and patrons all working together under the leadership of artists to fulfill God’s command: Build a dwelling place for the Spirit of God. Neither Moses nor priests, warriors nor politicians were qualified to lead the task. This time, artists are called by name, filled with the Spirit, and charged to lead God’s people. Come discover the original call of the artist and re-consider your creative gifting in light of the “wise-hearted ones.”
The Wise-Hearted Ones Ep. 2: An Artist Ordained
Written and Narrated by Lisa Cole Smith
Produced and Engineered by Dan ABH
Original Music by Jay Smith www.jmusic.us
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The Wise-Hearted Ones Ep. 1
It is a call as active and real today as it was thousands of years ago. Artists are invited to come at God’s behest to co-create the environments and cultures that will (re)shape us for the future. Perhaps now is a moment for artists of faith to reclaim and find strength in their heritage as “Wise-Hearted Ones.”
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Created To Create: Finish It!
If we live in a constant state of wishing for "do-overs" we are unlikely to turn in any kind of audience-worthy performance at all.
In this original video series from Convergence: Created to Create, we are invited to consider our responsibility to curate and create culture not only in our churches but in our world.
Production/Editing: Dan ABH
Script/Narration: Lisa Smith
Music: Hayden Arp, www.haydenarp.com
Jay Smith, www.Jmusic.us
Featured Images: Laura Lyon, www.lauralyonphoto.com
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Created To Create: Art Is Order
The mystery of God requires us to experience and trust something that needs more than intellectual understanding. Art is not luxury. Art is order.
In this series, Created to Create, we are invited to consider our responsibility to curate and create culture not only in our churches but in our world.
www.vergenow.org
Production/Editing: Dan ABH
Script/Narration: Lisa Smith Original Score:
Jay Smith - www.jmusic.us
Customer Reviews
Imaginative and Meaningful
This podcast is both imaginative and meaningful. The blend of written creativity, knowledge, music and production spark my imagination. It’s meaningful in its content as it provides both meditative/prayerful space as well as some practical thoughts about how art intersects with meaning. I especially enjoyed the Wise Ones series.