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May 22, 2019 anti-racism•featured•race

Let’s talk about anti-racism: four things I never understood about racism (Part 2) + Psalm 8:3-6 Bible Verse Coloring Page

This is part two of my series about things I never understood about racism. You can read part one here or watch the introduction to the whole series here. My anti-racism resource page is also up and under construction. Today, I’m talking about how I never understood a precise definition of a racist idea. Now, it might seem silly to even have to define a racist idea, but as I read, interact with people on these issues, and examine...
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April 25, 2019 anti-racism•featured•printable•race

Let’s talk about anti-racism: things I never understood (Part 1) + Acts 17:26 Bible Verse Coloring Page

I hope you were able to watch the video of my introduction to this new series on anti-racism in my last post.  I’ve been doing a lot of reading and writing to prepare for these next few posts on the things I never understood about racism.  At the end of today’s post, I’m sharing a coloring page from Acts 17:26 (in English and Spanish), along with some talking points you can use with your kids when starting the conversation...

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April 10, 2019 anti-racism•featured•race

Let’s talk about anti-racism: an introduction and an invitation

Today on the blog, things are a little different! I’m jumping into a new series that I’ve long wanted to write about, but instead of just writing it out in the safety of my thoughts, I felt God urging me to make this one a little more personal. So to do that, I recorded a video introducing this new blog series on racism. The video is below (or HERE if you don’t see it below), but I’ll include the transcript...

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April 3, 2019 Easter•featured•Jesus•lent•Screensavers

Broken for you 1 Corinthians 11:24 phone screensaver in Spanish and English

As some of us celebrate Lent and as Easter Sunday approaches, I want to meditate on a few verses and share a screensaver image for your phone. “For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the...

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March 20, 2019 discipleship•featured

The gaps between knowing and believing + 1 John 4:16 Coloring Page in English and Spanish

I have these gaps . . . between what I know and what I, in fact, believe Does God even like me? . . .  Am I not justified in judging this person? between what I know and what I do Why do I let anger get the better of me? . . . Why is talking to God such a struggle for me? between what I know of Jesus and how much I am like him. How can I have...

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March 6, 2019 discipleship•featured•grace•weakness

Bands of love Screensaver + a poem

“I led them with cords of kindness,  with the bands of love,  and I became to them as one  who eases the yoke on their jaws,  and I bent down to them and fed them.”  (Hosea 11:4 ESV)   sometimes I feel I’m coming loose barely clinging to You a little too much distraction immaturity or plain exhaustion poor in spirit small of faith in courage, a mewling kitten beset by fears vulnerable to snake whispers are the ties...

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February 27, 2019 Easter•featured

Lent & Easter Resources for your family

Do you celebrate Lent with your church family? Our church is Protestant but loosely adopts some of the church calendar, so we celebrate Advent in anticipation of Christmas and Lent in anticipation of, and preparation for, Easter. I thought I’d share a few resources that you might find helpful: These coloring pages are all found free here on the blog. I’ve collected more coloring pages and printables on this Pinterest page. This printable Lent art journal with readings and space...

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February 21, 2019 featured•neediness•trials•weakness

Tuning my heart

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing Tune my heart to sing Thy grace Streams of mercy, never ceasing Call for songs of loudest praise Teach me some melodious sonnet Sung by flaming tongues above Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it Mount of Thy redeeming love I don’t know about you, but my heart easily gets out of tune. We’ve been in a long season of God doing something, but we’re not sure what. I don’t know when or...

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February 6, 2019 discipleship•featured•Screensavers•serving•trials•waiting

God’s goal for you + James 1:4 screensaver in English and Spanish

I don’t know the season you’re facing today. When it’s not one thing, it’s another, right? Waiting. Despairing. Doubting. All the various kinds of suffering possible, and there are many.  The gospel writers don’t skip around this reality: “For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too” (2 Cor. 1:5 ESV). We may not be able to sort out all the intricacies of God’s plans in our suffering, but we do know...

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This episode of The Pictured Word Podcast is Chapt This episode of The Pictured Word Podcast is Chapter 3 of the Jesus Speaks to Women Series on the words Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well, found in John 4:1-42. You can listen on the Marydean Draws Substack page or on most podcast apps. 
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In this study, I examine the common assumptions we often hear about this story, provide important cultural context, and try to understand what the conversation between Jesus and the woman, the longest recorded between Jesus and anyone in the Gospels, is actually about.
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Here is the episode link:
https://marydeandraws.substack.com/p/episode-12-the-jesus-speaks-to-women

❤️Welcome to The Pictured Word podcast, where I look at Scripture through a curious writer and artist’s eyes, draw on the beauty found in the tradition of Christian art, and learn from the insight of Biblical scholarship. Whether you come to the Bible weary, wounded, or wondering, my goal is to help you see the Jesus revealed there. 
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This print in my newest collection of hymn prints This print in my newest collection of hymn prints is a really special one and the first time I've made a horizontal print. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson and his brother Rosamond Johnson was written in 1900 and became known as the “Negro National Hymn” or “Negro National Anthem.” You might recognize it as the song that opens the Super Bowl each year. James Johnson was an educator, lawyer, and author, and his brother Rosamond was an accomplished musician. You can read more about the brothers in the post I wrote about them below.

Here's the link to the print that comes in 8x10" and 11x14":
https://marydeandraws.com/product/lift-every-voice-and-sing-watercolor-hymn-print-with-garden-flowers-and-butterfly

My article about the songs and the Johnson brothers:
https://marydeandraws.substack.com/p/marys-friday-newsletter-21226?utm_source=publication-search
I'm getting ready to record the podcast episode on I'm getting ready to record the podcast episode on the Samaritan woman in John 4. I'm wondering what you've been taught or have assumed about her and the point of her extensive conversation with Jesus. Through studying this story, I've changed my mind about most of my previous assumptions! Podcast episode coming this week on The Pictured Word Podcast!
Planning my upcoming watercolor skills class @frie Planning my upcoming watercolor skills class @friendlycityclay 🥰
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