What is your inspiration in your walk, you know, as a person, as a, if you're a child of God,

you look around and you see creation in a way that is different than the world sees it?

I think of creation around me as really the illustrations that go along with the Bible.

When you read the words of the Bible, you you think about it, you're sitting in the midst

of what God created visually that is screaming out.

What you're reading is true.

Outstanding is a production of the Washington Stand, your source for news and commentary from a biblical worldview.

Welcome to Outstanding, the podcast where we examine the outstanding issues in the news and how they

affect our lives from a biblical worldview.

I'm Jared Bridges, editor-in-chief of the Washington Stand, and I'll be your host for today's

episode in which we'll be talking

about something that's always around us, but we often overlook. We hang it on our walls

and forget it. It's built into our digital interfaces, book covers, architecture, and public

spaces. And we even post the less skillfully crafted versions of it

on our refrigerators when our three-year-old hands it to us and says, look what I made, Daddy.

I'm talking about art, of course. And whether you're an art aficionado or maybe you wouldn't be caught dead near an art

museum, you can't escape this product of human creativity.

And there's more to art than just pretty pictures.

It affects us deeply whether we want it to or not.

Bad art can put us in a bad mood.

Good art can inspire us and even help to deepen our faith in the God who was from the

very beginning creating and making things.

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