The Kingdom Art Life

Episode 31: Build It By Faith Episode 31 looks at how we build, live in, and navigate a Spirit-led art career. Listen to the audio Read the transcript Hello, hello, and welcome to Episode 31 of the Kingdom Art Life podcast. I am Marlita Hill, here to help you flourish in faith, art, and career. Today, we delve into our final mindset to help us build without compromising. When we got saved, we didn't just go through a spiritual transformation. We also went through a transformation in method....

Episode 30: Who's the Boss? Episode 30 explores the decision each artist of faith has to make concerning who has the final say over our art careers; as well as the implications of our decision. Listen to the audio Read the transcript Hello, hello, and welcome to Episode 30 of the Kingdom Art Life podcast. I am Marlita Hill, here to help you flourish in faith, art, and career. We are getting into our last two mindsets to help us build our art career without compromising our faith. In each of...

Episode 29: Where's your ID? Episode 29 challenges us to assess where our identity, as artists, is rooted and how it is being defined. Listen to the audio Read the transcript Hello, hello, and welcome to Episode 29 of the Kingdom Art Life podcast. I am Marlita Hill, here to help you flourish in faith, art, and career. We are continuing to explore mindsets that help us overcome our anxiety about compromising our faith in our career pursuits. Another way of mind that helps us is to keep our...

Episode 28: Word is Bond Episode 28 explores our life as artists on the other side of a 'yes,' and looks at how we build an art life that honors that 'yes.' Listen to the audio Read the transcript Hello, hello, and welcome to Episode 28 of the Kingdom Art Life podcast. I am Marlita Hill, here to help you flourish in faith, art, and career. We're in the middle of presenting mindsets to help us overcome our anxiety about compromising our faith in our career pursuits. The third mindset is to...

Episode 27: It's All About Love Episode 27 dispels the wonky belief that our creative life is only interesting to God if it's "useful," by exploring art for our life, not just our Christian service. Listen to the audio Read the transcript Hello, hello, and welcome to Episode 27 of the Kingdom Art Life podcast. I am Marlita Hill, here to help you flourish in faith, art, and career. In our last episode, we began tackling this idea that we wrestle with about our art career compromising our...

Episode 26: You have a place. Episode 26 explores how our art careers in secular culture are valid, God-honoring ways we participate in Kingdom citizenship and community, make Christ known, and communicate the gospel. Listen to the audio Read the transcript Hello, hello, and welcome to Episode 26 of the Kingdom Art Life podcast. I am Marlita Hill, here to help you flourish in faith, art, and career. In our last episode, we talked about two things that hinder our ability to walk...

Episode 25: The Liberty Blockers Episode 25 explores the unanswered question that hinders us from being able to walk unapologetically as an artist of serious professional pursuit and serious faith. Listen to the audio Read the transcript Hello, hello, and welcome to Episode 25 of the Kingdom Art Life podcast. I am Marlita Hill, here to help you flourish in faith, art, and career. In episode 24, we looked at the second pillar of a healthy relationship between our faith, art, and career; which...

Episode 24: Apologize? For What? Episode 24 explores what it looks like to stop apologizing for being a serious, committed Christian who works in secular culture, and a serious, committed artist whose art life is guided by their faith practice. Listen to the audio Read the transcript Hello, hello, and welcome to Episode 24 of the Kingdom Art Life podcast. I am Marlita Hill, here to help you flourish in faith, art, and career. Over these first few episodes of season 2, I am spending some time...

Episode 23: A Picture of Wholeness, Pt. 2 Episode 23 explores what it looks like to invite God into the secret places of our creative life and let faith play its role in our creative practice and process, and career management. Listen to the audio Read the transcript Hello, hello, and welcome to Episode 23 of the Kingdom Art Life podcast. I am Marlita Hill, here to help you flourish in faith, art, and career. In episode 22, we started painting a picture of wholeness, unpacking what it looks...

Episode 22: A Picture of Wholeness, Pt. 1 In episode 22, we explore what it looks like to take our creative life off the fringes and embrace it as an essential part of our faith experience. Listen to the audio Read the transcript Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to season 2 of the Kingdom Art Life Podcast. My name is Marlita Hill and I am excited to help you flourish in faith, art, and career. Our last podcast was March of 2017. Wow!!! What a year and some change that's been. I only meant to...

Episode 21: Pressing into the Tipping Point What do you do when you’re carrying a vision from God about your art career, and you move on things He tells you to do, but nothing happens? You have to keep doing. You have to keep pressing into your tipping point. Listen to the audio Read the transcript One of the most frustrating things about being an artist in Christ is the journey of attaining this visceral, tangible vision He's given you of your career life. Inside of you, it is so vivid that...

Episode 20: A Process for every Promise We have talked about the inevitability of time in walking out God’s promise for our career life. In this episode, we talk about the inevitability of process, forming us to thrive in the promise as we receive it. Listen to the audio Read the transcript This past Saturday morning, I was taking a break from writing to cook myself some soup; and the Lord said to me, Every promise has a process. Then yesterday, I went to church with a dear sister and her...

Episode 19: A Time for JOY! As artists of faith, we sometimes get nervous when we realize we are enjoying our art too much. Why? In this episode, Marlita Hill explains how our artistry is for enjoyment, as well as service and communion. Listen to the audio Read the transcript I just came back from a beautiful weekend in the Santa Cruz mountains where I spent several days attending the Creative Arts Retreat with the Salvation Army. While there, I got to facilitate two KAI sessions. In the...

Episode 18: How’re you seeing what you see? Perspective is not just about what you see, but how you see what you see. In this episode, Marlita Hill continues the conversation on patience and looks at how perspective helps us successfully navigate patience and fully come into the things God has promised us. Listen to the audio Read the transcript In episode 17, we started a conversation about patience, about what being a career artist looks like inside of the faith process. We talked about...

Episode 17: Patience, Dear Watson As artists in Christ, we experience harmony when we honor the faith walk, our artistic expression, and our career life and ambition. Since the just are supposed to live by faith, we need to understand what being a career artist looks like inside the faith process. In this episode, Marlita explores patience as an element of faith. Listen to the audio Read the transcript Harmony between faith, art, and career is about all parts being accepted and honored,...

Episode 16: All parts honored Harmony between faith, art, and career happens when all parts of you as an artist in Christ are honored and allowed full expression in the same space. Marlita unpacks this harmony and what it looks like. Listen to the audio Read the transcript Well, first of all, Happy New Year! Can you believe we’re in 2017? That is incredible! So much has happened in our world and in my life personally since our last episode in 2016. Before we launch into our conversation for...

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Episode 14: Just be, and be led! As career artists, we work among people of many different beliefs, lifestyles, attitudes, and perspectives. Marlita explores how we, as Christians, should interact with those around us that don’t live as we do. Listen to the audio Read the transcript As Christians with secular art careers, one of the things that we’re constantly thinking about is: How do we interact with the people we encounter on our jobs; many of whom don’t live or believe as we do? The...

Marlita Hill talks to the reality that even though we can't see while we're waiting, things are coming together and they are moving forward.

What does rest look like as a Christian when you're on the career grind as an artist?