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		<title>Eyewitness Account: Yelapa</title>
		<link>http://cultureshapers.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/eyewitness-account-yelapa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Creativity By Observation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I finished the rough draft of the book-length version of her testimony, but now it’s time to go back through it and make the characters and settings come alive.  So I was excited to have the chance to visit Yelapa – she spells it “Yalappa” in her journal – and to see it for myself.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureshapers.wordpress.com&blog=5498586&post=419&subd=cultureshapers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Encourage Your Contacts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[7. Doing The Assignment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[encouraging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently when I was soaking I sensed that God wants me to take my contact list and hold it before Him when I soak, to see who He might direct me to encourage.

How often?  Maybe once every of weeks.  It takes time to follow through.

For me, this will include a lot of ministers because they are the people I work with as I travel and preach.  In effect, this will be a form of networking.  If your life is more in the arts than in ministry, your contact list will include producers, editors, other artists, marketers, etc.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureshapers.wordpress.com&blog=5498586&post=416&subd=cultureshapers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Artistic Limitations</title>
		<link>http://cultureshapers.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/artistic-limitations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gospelsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Artist As Shepherd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Bible reading this morning took me to Psalm 113:7-8, and as I read it I felt a surge of hope for Christian artists:

    He raises the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the ash heap, that He may seat him with princes – with the princes of His people.

One strategy would tell us that if we want to make our mark with the arts, we must position ourselves with the princes and policy makers of the earth.  Another strategy tells us to choose humility and to lean on God.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureshapers.wordpress.com&blog=5498586&post=414&subd=cultureshapers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Artist As Shepherd</title>
		<link>http://cultureshapers.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/the-artist-as-shepherd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[8. Testimonies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I‘ve just completed a week of ministry in Korea and have come home with fresh vision for Christian artists.  God is calling us to shepherd our generation.

Shepherd and pastor are the same word, but God isn’t necessarily calling artists to drop their work to become pastors of churches...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureshapers.wordpress.com&blog=5498586&post=411&subd=cultureshapers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Marketing Team</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gospelsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Get It Out There]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Most of us will go through a season of having to do all our own marketing, but eventually it is helpful to graduate to the point of having a marketing team. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureshapers.wordpress.com&blog=5498586&post=409&subd=cultureshapers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soaking Testimony:  Learning To Write</title>
		<link>http://cultureshapers.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/soaking-testimony-learning-to-write/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gospelsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[8. Testimonies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I asked God for help; I had never written fiction before.  I read several books about writing; only one was worth the bother.  But I had read a lot of fiction over the past fifteen years. So between the one-on-one times with God when I was soaking and my awareness that some books are better than others, God began to teach me.

There have been too many principles to explain here, but I'll show you the difference.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureshapers.wordpress.com&blog=5498586&post=407&subd=cultureshapers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soaking Testimony: The Promise Of Flow</title>
		<link>http://cultureshapers.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/soaking-testimony-the-promise-of-flow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gospelsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[7. Doing The Assignment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, God was waiting for me to get to this point.  I began to feel overwhelmed yesterday and decided I couldn't take another step forward without soaking first...And as I waited on God, it took about an hour to have a simple encounter that took only a few seconds:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureshapers.wordpress.com&blog=5498586&post=402&subd=cultureshapers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God Wants Storytellers</title>
		<link>http://cultureshapers.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/god-wants-storytellers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gospelsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artists With A Mission]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One night at the Project Light Conference, Mark Thomas and Ralph Winter both spoke.  One of their phrases stuck in my heart and has been stirring me ever since:  “God is looking for storytellers.”

I’ve seen this in the Bible.  The four gospels and Acts give more stories than teachings.  Even when He taught, Jesus often used parables.

I’ve seen it in healing meetings.  Often as one person testifies of what God has just done, someone else receives a miracle.  It can become a chain reaction.

More than once I’ve suspected that my life is a story God is writing. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureshapers.wordpress.com&blog=5498586&post=392&subd=cultureshapers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Film Or TV Audition</title>
		<link>http://cultureshapers.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/a-film-or-tv-audition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gospelsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[8. Testimonies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended the Project Light conference at Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, California; they focused on arts and media.  In the afternoon they gave us several workshops to choose from, and I chose Christinna Chauncey’s workshop on how to audition for a film.

I went on a lark. Three or four people who say they are movie producers have said I would make a great character actor. Apparently I have an intense face; I get the impression that if they need a wacko who starts a food fight at a wedding reception, I have the look they’d want. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureshapers.wordpress.com&blog=5498586&post=390&subd=cultureshapers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Of God’s Presence</title>
		<link>http://cultureshapers.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/more-of-god%e2%80%99s-presence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more we act on the words of God, the more He will make His presence felt in our lives.  This suggests that if you can braid your art and God’s commandments together like the strands of a rope, you will have many encounters with Him.  What might these encounters look like?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureshapers.wordpress.com&blog=5498586&post=387&subd=cultureshapers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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