The morning begins with a whisper of light,
a slow, steady sunrise,
spilling gold across the sky.

The Paris Olympics took place in the summer of 2024. Paris, the city of love and romance and bodily freedom, played host to some of the most fit bodies in the world competing for precious metals. We love the Olympics because they…

Today wraps up our series of praying through Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount found in Matthew 5-7. Tomorrow begins a new series as we continue to pray through Matthew’s Gospel starting with Matthew 8:1-4.

Author and spoken word poet Tanner Olson and singer/songwriter Blake Flattley, have created something truly unique: Evenings of Music & Poetry — intimate gatherings that go far beyond…

I was reading David Zahl’s latest, The Big Relief: The Urgency of Grace for a Worn-Out World, and along the way, I started thinking about what the relief he describes would look like in a local congregation. I resonated with the idea that “The church has been the place I go when there’s no place left to go” for relief…

At CommunionArts, we’ve just concluded our meditative journey on Daily Lectio through Paul’s prayers for the church, and today we begin walking with Jesus through the Sermon on the Mount. Over the next three weeks, Daily Lectio will guide us through Matthew 5–7.

We hear a lot about the prophet Elijah in the church, very little about his successor, Elisha. I find that curious because Elisha’s impact on the narrative of God was enormous. When the prophetic mantle is first being passed, Elisha asks…

Sometimes I think my best art is my journal writing just between me and God. There is no pressure to be liked. There is no fear of being wrong. There is no insecurity about someone else’s art being better than mine. There is no worry that someone might think I’m cheesy or lame or too cynical or too cheerful. I just say what I’m thinking and feeling, and he hears…

The morning begins with a whisper of light,
a slow, steady sunrise,
spilling gold across the sky.

We watched them take you away.
We listened to a crowd curse you.
And watched as they killed you.

How could it be?
That you would do this for me?
Even me?

You’ve always done things differently, and they’ve never failed.

Like the time you turned water into wine.
Or like when you rubbed mud on the blind man’s eyes so he could see.
Or when you healed the paralyzed man because his friends truly believed. And like the time You entered Jerusalem riding on the back of a colt,

Marked with what we will become,
Wearing the weight of where we've been—
The words we've spoken,
The seasons we’ve endured,
The roads we’ve traveled. …

Heavenly Father,
May I find joy
in the ordinary, mundane good works…

As Adam left the Garden
With Eve close by his side,
As inward, hearts were hardened,
And eastward, daylight died…

Disrupting the garden,
He stirred up the ground,
breathing life into the dust:
God’s image became us…

when i feel like
i am
less…

A long time ago, in old Israel dwelling
There lived a man Jonah, whose story I’m telling.
Now Jonah was special, what they call a prophet,
Who spoke with the Lord, not a person to scoff at…

Words & Music by Kip Fox and Matt Arcaini

Hymn text translated by John Mason Neale

Arrangement, additional text & melody by Kristin Schweain

Words & Music by Blake Flattley

Written by
Michael Praetorious
& Blake Flattley

Words & Music by Paul Elliott & Kip Fox

Words & Music by Shelly Schwalm

Performed by Blake Flattley

Music and adaptation by Matt Preston
Words Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
tr. Henry Williams Baker & John Mason Neale

Words: Nelson Koscheski

Music: Ryan Flanigan

Words & Music by Kip Fox

Thomas Helmore & John Mason Neale
Performed by Blake Flattley

For centuries, Christians have used the stations of the cross to meditate on Christ’s journey to His crucifixion. During this Holy Week, we invite you to meditate on the stations of the cross using the artwork of Tim Bauer.