"Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks." John 4 :23

..."offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness." Rom 6:13

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Misty Edwards - You Won't Relent @ Passion for Jesus Conf.

The sound is not the best on this. I chose this "you won't relent", because there are some dancers in the front. I'm assuming it is improv/spontaneous, with the unison parts either oranized just prior, or a kind of "shadowing". Too bad it's hard to see.

Well, it seems to be a new season for me and teaching. For the past 5 years I have been teaching on a very relaxed basis. Meaning, teaching consisted of the occasional workshops and short contracts while being a stay home mama. This year I'm dedicated to the new Masterworks Studio, now under the Great direction of Youth for Christ, and a local Christian School. Although after my day-to-day main focus is my husband and our 2 'littles', and now a 3rd on the way, it is nice to reconnect and be apart of something that requires a little more commitment than short workshops.

A couple of my classes are working on a peice for "You won't relent". I posted a youtube video of the song just above or below (depending on how long it takes to load). I'm totally a sucker for anything Misty Edwards and forerunner music stuff these days. No, I'm not worshipping 'man', just appreciating some worship written by a true worshipper, who does not care about getting signed on by a major record company - but cares only about the fame of her Savior. Not that there is anything wrong with wanting to be signed on with a major record company.

The small list of subscribers to this modest blog is slowly steadily increasing - thank-you - and it is a good encouragement for me to post "a little More Often!" Some of you are experienced dancers subscribing, some have a new desire to dance, passion for worship, and etc. I'd love to hear about thoughts about dance and worship endevors! You can email me at ticvaah@gmail.com or leave a comment!

God, the Great Artist, Bless you with overabounding creativity for the fame of Jesus!

How He Loves Us - Kim Walker / Jesus Culture

I love this song.

Ballet Magnificat solo dance

This fall I have a couple of small teaching contracts. And as I've started to dig through past teaching material I came across one of my all time favorite quotes:



"Art in it's pure for is a reflection of the Lord's nature as the Master Creator. The universe is the Lord's canvas and He delights in the diversity and beauty of His creation. He delights in making every snowflake different, every person different, every day different." (Yet today many churches are) "generally one of the most confined, predictable, boring and void of spontaneity of any institution on earth. This is because of our departure from true worship...

Art, by it's creative nature, must always seek the new, the fresh, and push back the outer limits. Therefore, the artist is often in danger of crossing the line into error...But without the freddom of the artist, we are already captured by the dead form that has no life. When the church has returned to true worship, true art will have also been recovered and promoted as one form of that worship. This is an art that transcends glorifying the creation to that which imparts awe and wonder of the blessed Creator that is reflected through the wonders of His Creation.
The Lord jesus said that ther publicans and harlots would enter the kingdom of God before the Pharisees and other most righteous men in Israel. The demonic religious spirit that worked in the prebailing religion of that day was farther from the heart of God than many of the great sinners of the land. In the same way, homosexuals and radical artists who have fallen to some of the lowest forms of perversion are still in fact much closer to the ture worship of God than many chruches.

It is because of this that Satan will increasingly try to put...art..communities at enmity with the church in order to made the chasm between them much greater. But the Lord is going to raise up Christian leaders with the vision to recapture true art for the church, which is the rightful property of the church. These will have to brave brutal assaults from religious paranoids, but the domain that is retaken is retaken will be worth the price.

...Art..is in a sense, a barometer in society that measures how bright and pute the light of the church that is shining...The true worship of God is fueled by a creativity that will make all perverted art forms pale and uninteresting by comparison." Rick Joyner, The Harvest, pgs. 75-77