I was reading an article about Joey Reihman’s book, Thinking for a Living. Reihman describes being creative as having four stages. Investigation–Detect, study, explore, gather Incubation–The longest stage, quantity over quality, can involve blending, traveling, polarizing, walking, meditating, praying and sharing Illumination–The editing of stage two, illuminate the big idea, the “Aha!” moment Illustration–Portray and personify the big idea, design, create   I read this process and immediately thought, this sounds very much like the process I try to follow when writing a sermon.  It is a fitting general prescription for Bible reading as well.  I had never really thought about my general Bible reading as a creative process, but really it is. Each time we read we should strive to manifest the word as a living reality in our lives. That is truly … Read entire article »