1059. Why Do You Love Painting And Creativity? | Ask Paul Tripp
The Paul Tripp Podcast
Paul Tripp Ministries, Inc.
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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This week, Paul David Tripp answers questions about creativity - sharing why he loves to paint and how the cultural mandate shapes the way we approach everyday work and life.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, if you don't know, you're about to find out that Paul Tripp loves to paint. I'll not spoil |
| 0:07.7 | his answer for you, so we'll jump straight into today's question. Paul, why do you love to paint? |
| 0:13.6 | Well, a lot of you won't know this. I'm a painter by avocation if I weren't doing this ministry thing that God has called me to, that's |
| 0:21.9 | probably what I'd be doing. I don't even think it's a hobby. I think it is an expression |
| 0:27.5 | of the gifts that God has given me that I need to be a good steward of. I paint large, |
| 0:36.2 | abstract, metallic paintings. |
| 0:39.8 | When I get done with a painting, |
| 0:41.3 | it looks like a beaten-up weathered metal surface. |
| 0:46.3 | There are no objects in my painting. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm not painting a tree or a horse. |
| 0:51.3 | It's non-objective painting. |
| 0:55.4 | And there are people who think that the rise |
| 0:58.4 | of abstract painting is a denial of creation |
| 1:03.3 | and only is the result of the philosophy of secular humanism. |
| 1:07.1 | Let me tell you how I think about that. |
| 1:09.7 | I think the glory of God in creation is so deep |
| 1:14.1 | that it's not just a tree is glorious or a bird is glorious, but the individual elements of |
| 1:24.0 | creation are glorious. Shape is glorious. Color is glorious. |
| 1:29.3 | Color is glorious. |
| 1:31.3 | Texture is |
| 1:33.3 | glorious. |
| 1:35.3 | Light is glorious. |
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