Hope Chapel would like to extend an invitation to a special evening with

David Taylor

We will be celebrating the work he has completed on his collaborative book:

For the Beauty of the Church

The evening will include:
Visual art that was featured in the book
Musical performance by Ellen Johnson
An Interview with David Taylor
Book signing opportunity with David
And of course a reception will follow (what is a Hope Chapel event without food?)

Hope Chapel
June 12th, 2010
7:00pm


Please invite your art-loving friends!!



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Lent etc


Pentecost

God often speaks in a still small quiet voice
But sometimes he speaks with fire and wind!

Jesus breathed on his beloveds
And said
Receive embers of the Holy Spirit
Wait 50 days and I will burst you into flame
My words are Father words
Spirit and life

And O
What a firestorm the Father has coming

Why did you come out into the wilderness to see a reed shaken by wind?

Church
You/We are Father’s fire garden

Father
Plant in us your fireseed
That we might become your firefruit

Church
Receive the Father’s fireseed
Nourish in Fatherfire
Flourish as firebush
Til we become Fatherfruit

Church
See what a great fire is kindled by a spark
Speak the Father’s words to each other
Pour them back and forth

Pentecost is the Lord’s passion!
The Holy Spirit’s fiery dance!

Come, O Wind
And blow through our garden!

© Rick Van Dyke




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For the
Easter exhibit we took the Lent panels (see below) outside on Palm Sunday and invited everyone to cover them with paint. We used palm branches and our hands to cover the darkness of Lent.


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The
Lent exhibit consisted of blank canvases hung around the sanctuary with charcoal pencils next to them. People wrote and drew on them according to the following:


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All who depend on the law to make things right are under a curse. Galatians 3


The canvases represent our bodies, our lives.

The charcoal pencils represent this world of sin and death.

You are invited to record those things that are not good and right and true.

We invite you to engrave your losses, your hurts, sorrows, indignations,
unfulfilled dreams, hopes deferred,
all that cries death and despair.

We invite you to scrawl out all those things hanging over your head,
the relentless requirements of a guilty conscience
- failures, offenses, omissions, regrets -
your mountain of debt,
however you conceive it to be.

We invite you to declare on this space all that is owed to you
– confession, apology, acknowledgement, explanation, retribution, restitution –
all that justice demands and longs for.

Write it once. Write it again. Write it over other words.
There are only 2 rules.

Be sensitive to the public nature of this display.
No explicit drawings. No naming names. Use code words or personal symbols to depict that too great for the young or innocent. God knows whom or what you mean.

Keep it personal.
This is a place for your sins and the sins committed against you personally. While we know that the sins of this nation are great – acts of war and arbitrary killing, greed and licentiousness – this is a time for removing the log out of our own eyes.


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If we claim we have not sinned we make him out to be a liar...1 John

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HopeArts is the art ministry of Hope Chapel in Austin, Texas. The fine arts ministry hangs 4-5 exhibits per year; the biennial HopeArts Festival showcases musical, theatrical and literary performances; other creative arts ministry includes community events, special interest small groups, and classes on Christianity and the arts.