Practical Faith Academy - Season 5, Episode 12 - Pasquale Mongarelli, Connecting to God Through Nature

The Practical Faith Academy Podcast from Cecil Taylor Ministries presents guests who have important things to say about putting your faith into practice. Cecil interviews each guest to understand their life stories and their ideas for living a seven-day practical faith.

Pasquale Mingarelli is a photographer who also serves as an author and speaker. His offering is a free daily devotion combining a nature photograph, a Bible passage, and a couple of paragraphs of devotional text. He also assembled a similar, longer form devotional book called Drawing Near to God. In this podcast, Mingarelli talks about the connection between God and nature, our creative connection to God, and tips for living a seven-day practical faith (and also tips for better photography!).

Highlights of the podcast: 

2:48 What does seven-day practical faith mean to Mingarelli

4:37 What led Mingarelli to go deeper into nature to connect with God

8:46 What nature indicates about God

11:16 How are we all called to create?

13:55 How he started developing visual devotions

16:17 Mingarelli’s favorite places and subjects to photograph

21:49 His tips for taking photos

24:36 How to connect to Mingarelli’s work

Photographer, author, and speaker Pasquale Mingarelli’s home page is TheCreationSpeaks.com also https://visualverse.thecreationspeaks.com/, which is where you can find his daily devotion. Learn more about the devotional guide he describes on the podcast at https://visualverse.thecreationspeaks.com/about-drawing-near/. Check out his speaking and other offerings on the same site.  

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