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All of the Artists in the Venice Biennale

The 57th Venice Biennale, 2017. Photo by Casey Kelbaugh for Artsy.

The 58th Venice Biennale opens to the public on May 11th and runs until November 24, 2019. Here, we share the artists who will be showing in Venice this year, from those who are included in the international exhibition to those who will represent countries in national pavilions in the Giardini, Arsenale, and across the city. (Editor’s note: This article will be updated as new details of the Venice Biennale presentations are announced.)

Artists Showing in National Pavilions at the Giardini

The 57th Venice Biennale, 2017. Photo by Casey Kelbaugh for Artsy.

Australia

Angelica Mesiti

Curated by Juliana Engberg

Austria

Renate Bertlmann

Curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein

Belgium

Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys

Curated by Anne-Claire Schmitz

Brazil

Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca

Curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro

Canada

Inuit artist collective Isuma (Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn, Paul Apak, and Pauloosie Qulitalik)

Curated by Asinnajaq, Catherine Crowston, Barbara Fischer, Candice Hopkins, and Josée Drouin-Brisebois

Czech Republic and Slovakia

Stanislav Kolíbal

Curated by Dieter Bogner

Denmark

Larissa Sansour

Curated by Nat Muller

Egypt

Islam Abdullah, Ahmed Chiha, and Ahmed Abdel Karim

Curated by Ahmed Chiha

Finland

Miracle Workers Collective (Maryan Abdulkarim, Khadar Ahmed, Hassan Blasim, Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Sonya Lindfors, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Leena Pukki, Lorenzo Sandoval, Martta Tuomaala, Christopher L. Thomas, Christopher Wessels, and Suvi West)

Curated by Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, and Christopher Wessels

France

Laure Prouvost

Curated by Martha Kirszenbaum

Germany

Natascha Süder Happelmann (Natascha Sadr Haghighian)

Curated by Franciska Zólyom

Great Britain

Cathy Wilkes

Curated by Zoe Whitley

Greece

Panos Charalambous, Eva Stefani, and Zafos Xagoraris

Curated by Katerina Tselou

Hungary

Tamás Waliczky

Curated by Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák

Israel

Aya Ben Ron

Curated by Avi Lubin

Japan

Motoyuki Shitamichi, Taro Yasuno, Toshiaki Ishikura, and Fuminori Nousaku

Curated by Hiroyuki Hattori

Korea

Hwayeon Nam, Siren Eun Young Jung, and Jane Jin Kaisen

Curated by Hyunjin Kim

The Netherlands

Remy Jungerman and Iris Kensmil, with works by Stanley Brouwn

Curated by Benno Tempel

Nordic Pavilion

Artist duo Maria Teeri & Janne Nabb, a.k.a. nabbteeri, from Finland; Ane Graff from Norway; and Ingela Ihrman from Sweden

Curated by Piia Oksanen and Leevi Haapala

Poland

Roman Stańczak

Curated by Łukasz Mojsak and Łukasz Ronduda

Romania

Belu-Simion Făinaru, Dan Mihălțianu, and Miklós Onucsán

Curated by Cristian Nae

Russia

Alexander Sokurov and Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai

Curated by Mikhail Piotrovsky, The State Hermitage Museum

Serbia

Djordje Ozbolt

Curated by Nicoletta Lambertucci

Spain

Itziar Okariz and Sergio Prego Curated by Peio Aguirre

Switzerland

Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz

Curated by Charlotte Laubard

United States

Martin Puryear

Curated by Brooke Kamin Rapaport

Uruguay

Yamandú Canosa

Curated by David Armengol and Patricia Bentancur

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Natalie Rocha Capiello, Ricardo García, Gabriel López, and Nelson Rangelosky

Curated by Oscar Sottillo Meneses

Artists Showing in National Pavilions at the Arsenale

Installation view of work by by Takesada Matsutani at the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017. Photo by Casey Kelbaugh for Artsy.

Albania

Driant Zeneli

Curated by Alicia Knock

Argentina

Mariana Telleria

Curated by Florencia Battiti

Chile

Voluspa Jarpa

Curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio

China (People’s Republic of)

Chen Qi, Feijun, He Xiangyu, and Geng Xue

Curated by Wu Hongliang

Georgia

Anna K.E.

Curated by Margot Norton

Ghana

Felicia Abban, John Akomfrah, El Anatsui, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Ibrahim Mahama, and Selasi Awusi Sosu

Curated by Nana Oforiatta Ayim

India

Nandalal Bose, Atul Dodiya, GR Iranna, Rummana Hussain, Jitish Kallat, Shakuntala Kulkarni, and Ashim Purkayastha

Curated by Roobina Karode

Indonesia

Handiwirman Saputra and Syagini Ratna Wulan

Curated by Asmudjo Jono Irianto; co-curated by Yacobus Ari Respati

Ireland

Eva Rothschild

Curated by Mary Cremin

Italy

Enrico David, Chiara Fumai, and Liliana Moro

Curated by Milovan Farronato

Kosovo (Republic of)

Alban Muja

Curated by Vincent Honore

Latvia

Daiga Grantiņa

Curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas and Inga Lāce

Luxembourg

Marco Godinho

Curated by Kevin Muhlen

Madagascar

Joël Andrianomearisoa

Curated by Rina Ralay-Ranaivo and Emmanuel Daydé

Malta

Vince Briffa, Klitsa Antoniou, and Trevor Borg

Curated by Hesperia Iliadou Suppiej

Mexico

Pablo Vargas Lugo

Curated by Magalí Arriola

Peru

Christian Bendayán, Otto Michael, Manuel Rodríguez Lira, Segundo Candiño Rodríguez, and Anonymous popular artificer

Curated by Gustavo Buntinx

Philippines

Mark Justiniani

Curated by Tessa Maria Guazon

Saudi Arabia

Zahrah Al Ghamdi

Curated by Eiman Elgibreen

Singapore

Song-Ming Ang

Curated by Michelle Ho

Slovenia

Marko Peljhan

Curated by Igor Španjol

South Africa (Republic of)

Dineo Seshee Bopape, Tracey Rose, and Mawande Ka Zenzile

Curated by Nkule Mabaso and Nomusa Makhubu

Turkey

İnci Eviner

Curated by Zeynep Öz

Ukraine

Curated by Open Group (Yurii Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Stanislav Turina, and Anton Varga)

United Arab Emirates

Nujoom Alghanem

Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath

Artists Showing in National Pavilions across Venice

Phantom Camp VIII, 2014. Kris Lemsalu Temnikova & Kasela

Falling Upward, 2016. Saad Yagan Kiyan Art

Algeria

Rachida Azdaou, Hamza Bounoua, Amina Zoubir, Mourad Krinah, and Oussama Tabti

Curated by Hellal Mahmoud Zoubir, National Council of Arts and Letters Ministry of Culture

Andorra

Philippe Shangti

Curated by Ivan Sansa and Paolo De Grandis

Antigua and Barbuda

Timothy Payne, Sir Gerald Price, Joseph Seton, and Frank Walter; Intangible Cultural, Heritage Artisans, and Mas Troup

Curated by Barbara Paca with Nina Khrushcheva

Armenia

“ArtlabYerevan” Artistic Group (Gagik Charchyan, Hovhannes Margaryan, Arthur Petrosyan, and Vardan Jaloyan) and Narine Arakelian

Curated by Susanna Gyulamiryan

Azerbaijan (Republic of)

Zeigam Azizov, Orkhan Mammadov, Zarnishan Yusifova, Kanan Aliyev, and Ulviyya Aliyeva

Curated by Giovanni Mercurio and Emin Mammadov

Bangladesh (People’s Republic of)

Bishwajit Goswami, Dilara Begum Jolly, Heidi Fosli, Nafis Ahmed Gazi, Franco Marrocco, Domenico Pellegrino, Preema Nazia Andaleeb, Ra Kajol, and Uttam Kumar

Curated by Mokhlesur Rahman and Viviana Vannucci

Belarus (Republic of)

Konstantin Selikhanov

Curated by Olga Rybchinskaya

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Danica Dakić

Curated by Anja Bogojević, Amila Puzić, and Claudia Zini

Bulgaria

Rada Boukova and Lazar Lyutakov

Curated by Vera Mlechevska

Catalonia

David Bestué, Marcel Borràs, Albert Garcia-Alzórriz, Tiziano Schürch, and Dolors Magallón

Curated by Pedro Azara

Croatia

Igor Grubić

Curated by Katerina Gregos

Cuba

Alejandro Campins, Alex Hérnandez, Ariamna Contino, and Eugenio Tibaldi

Curated by Margarita Sanchez Prieto

Cyprus

Christoforos Savva (1924–1968)

Curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti

Dominican (Republic)

Dario Oleaga, Ezequiel Taveras, Hulda Guzmán, Julio Valdez, Miguel Ramirez, Rita Bertrecchi, Nicola Pica, and Marraffa & Casciotti

Curated by Marianne de Tolentino, Simone Pieralice, and Giovanni Verza

Estonia

Kris Lemsalu

Curated by Andrew Berardini, Irene Campolmi, Sarah Lucas, and Tamara Luuk

Grenada

Amy Cannestra, Billy Gerard Frank, Dave Lewis, Shervone Neckles, Franco Rota Candiani, Roberto Miniati, and CRS avant-garde (Carlo Caldara, Paolo Rossetto, and Giovanni Scagnoli)

Curated by Daniele Radini Tedeschi

Guatemala

Elsie Wunderlich and Marco Manzo

Curated by Stefania Pieralice

Haiti

Jean Ulrick Désert

Curated by Giscard Bouchotte

Hong Kong

Shirley Tse

Curated by Christina Li

Iceland

Shoplifter (Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir)

Curated by Birta Guðjónsdóttir

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Reza Lavassani, Samira Alikhanzadeh, and Ali Meer Azimi

Curated by Ali Bakhtiari

Iraq

Serwan Baran

Curated by Tamara Chalabi and Paolo Colombo

Ivory Coast

Ernest Dükü, Ananias Leki Dago, Valérie Oka, and Tong Yanrunan

Curated by Massimo Scaringella

Kiribati

Kaeka Michael Betero, Daniela Danica Tepes, Kairaken Betio Group; Teroloang Borouea, Neneia Takoikoi, Tineta Timirau, Teeti Aaloa, Kenneth Ioane, Kaumai Kaoma, Runita Rabwaa, Obeta Taia, Tiribo Kobaua, Tamuera Tebebe, Rairauea Rue, Teuea Kabunare, Tokintekai Ekentetake, Katanuti Francis, Mikaere Tebwebwe, Terita Itinikarawa, Kaeua Kobaua, Raatu Tiuteke, Kaeriti Baanga, Ioanna Francis, Temarewe Banaan, Aanamaria Toom, Einako Temewi, Nimei Itinikarawa, Teniteiti Mikaere, Aanibo Bwatanita, and Arin Tikiraua

Curated by Kautu Tabaka and Nina Tepes

Lithuania

Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainyte, and Lina Lapelyte

Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti

Malaysia

Anurendra Jegadeva, H.H.Lim, Ivan Lam, and Zulkifli Yusoff

Curated by Lim Wei-Ling Esme

Mongolia

Jantsankhorol Erdenebayar, traditional Mongolian throat singers, and Carsten Nicolai

Curated by Gantuya Badamgarav

Montenegro

Vesko Gagović

Curated by Petrica Duletić

Mozambique (Republic of)

Gonçalo Mabunda, Mauro Pinto, and Filipe Branquinho

Curated by Lidija K. Khachatourian

New Zealand

Dane Mitchell

Curated by Zara Stanhope and Chris Sharp

North Macedonia (Republic of)

Nada Prlja

Curated by Jovanka Popova

Pakistan

Naiza Khan

Curated by Zahra Khan

Portugal

Leonor Antunes

Curated by João Ribas

San Marino (Republic of)

Gisella Battistini, Martina Conti, Gabriele Gambuti, Giovanna Fra, Thea Tini, Chen Chengwei, Li Geng, Dario Ortiz, Tang Shuangning, Jens W. Beyrich, Xing Junqin, Xu de Qi, and Sebastián

Curated by Vincenzo Sanfo

Scotland

Charlotte Prodger

Curated by Linsey Young with Cove Park (artist residency)

Seychelles (Republic of)

George Camille and Daniel Dodin

Curated by Martin Kennedy

Syrian Arab (Republic)

Abdalah Abouassali, Giacomo Braglia, Ibrahim Al Hamid, Chen Huasha, Saed Salloum, Xie Tian, Saad Yagan, Primo Vanadia, and Giuseppe Biasio

Curated by Emad Kashout

Taiwan

Shu Lea Cheang

Curated by Paul B. Preciado

Thailand

Somsak Chowtadapong, Panya Vijinthanasarn, and Krit Ngamsom

Curated by Tawatchai Somkong

Wales

Sean Edwards

Curated by Marie-Anne McQuay

Zimbabwe (Republic of)

Raphael Chikukwa

Curated by Georgina Maxim, Neville Starling, Cosmos Shiridzinomwa, and Kudzanai Violet Hwami

“May You Live In Interesting Times”

These artists are featured in “May You Live In Interesting Times,” the 58th Venice Biennale’s International Art Exhibition at the Giardini and the Arsenale, curated by Ralph Rugoff.

The 57th Venice Biennale, 2017. Photo by Casey Kelbaugh for Artsy.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, b. 1985, Jordan. Lives and works in Beirut.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, b. 1983, Nigeria. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Halil Altındere, b. 1971, Turkey. Lives and works in Istanbul.

Michael Armitage, b. 1984, Kenya. Lives and works in London and Nairobi.

Korakrit Arunanondchai, b. 1986, Thailand. Lives and works in New York and Bangkok.

Alex Gvojic, b. 1984, United States. Lives and works in New York.

Ed Atkins, b. 1982, United Kingdom. Lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen.

Tarek Atoui, b. 1980, Lebanon. Lives and works in Paris.

Darren Bader, b. 1978, United States. Lives and works in New York and elsewhere.

Nairy Baghramian, b. 1971, Iran. Lives and works in Berlin.

Neïl Beloufa, b. 1985, France. Lives and works in Paris.

Alexandra Bircken, b. 1967 Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.

Carol Bove, b. 1971, Switzerland. Lives and works in New York.

Christoph Büchel, b. 1966, Switzerland. Lives and works in Reykjavik and Basel.

Ludovica Carbotta, b. 1982, Italy. Lives and works in Barcelona.

Antoine Catala, b. 1975, France. Lives and works in New York.

Ian Cheng, b. 1984, United States. Lives and works in New York.

George Condo, b. 1957, United States. Lives and works in New York.

Alex Da Corte, b. 1980, United States. Lives and works in Philadelphia.

Jesse Darling, b. 1981 United Kingdom. Lives and works in London and Berlin.

Stan Douglas, b. 1960, Canada. Lives and works in Vancouver.

Jimmie Durham, b. 1940, United States. Lives and works in Berlin.

Nicole Eisenman, b. 1965, France. Lives and works in New York.

Haris Epaminonda, b. 1980, Republic of Cyprus. Lives and works in Berlin.

Lara Favaretto, b. 1973, Italy. Lives and works in Turin.

Cyprien Gaillard, b. 1980, France. Lives and works in Berlin.

Gauri Gill, b. 1970, India. Lives and works in New Delhi.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, b. 1965, France. Lives and works in Paris.

Joi Bittle, b. 1975, United States. Lives and works in New York.

Shilpa Gupta, b. 1976, India. Lives and works in Mumbai.

Soham Gupta, b. 1988, India. Lives and works in Kolkata.

Martine Gutierrez, b. 1989, United States. Lives and works in New York.

Rula Halawani, b. 1964, Palestine. Lives and works in Jerusalem.

Anthea Hamilton, b. 1978, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London.

Jeppe Hein, b. 1974, Denmark. Lives and works in Berlin.

Anthony Hernandez, b. 1947, United States. Lives and works in Los Angeles and Idaho.

Tsuyoshi Hisakado, b. 1981, Japan. Lives and works in Kyoto.

Ryoji Ikeda, b. 1966, Japan. Lives and works in Paris and Kyoto.

Arthur Jafa, b. 1960, United States. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Cameron Jamie, b. 1969, United States. Lives and works in Paris and Cologne.

Kahlil Joseph, b. 1981, United States. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Zhanna Kadyrova, b. 1981, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv.

Suki Seokyeong Kang, b. 1977, Republic of Korea. Lives and works in Seoul.

Mari Katayama, b. 1987, Japan. Lives and works in Gunma.

Lee Bul, b. 1964, Republic of Korea. Lives and works in Seoul.

Liu Wei , b. 1972, People’s Republic of China. Lives and works in Beijing.

Maria Loboda, b. 1979, Poland. Lives and works in Berlin.

Andreas Lolis, b. 1970, Albania. Lives and works in Athens.

Christian Marclay, b. 1955, United States. Lives and works in London.

Teresa Margolles, b. 1963, Mexico. Lives and works in Mexico City and Madrid.

Julie Mehretu, b. 1970, Ethiopia. Lives and works in New York.

Ad Minoliti, b. 1980, Argentina. Lives and works in Buenos Aires.

Jean-Luc Moulène, b. 1955, France. Lives and works in Paris.

Zanele Muholi, b. 1972, Republic of South Africa. Lives and works in Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town.

Jill Mulleady, b. 1980, Uruguay. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Ulrike Müller, b. 1971, Austria. Lives and works in New York.

Nabuqi, b. 1984, People’s Republic of China. Lives and works in Beijing.

Otobong Nkanga, b. 1974, Nigeria. Lives and works in Antwerp.

Khyentse Norbu, b. 1961, Bhutan. Lives and works in India and Bhutan.

Frida Orupabo, b. 1986, Norway. Lives and works in Oslo.

Jon Rafman, b. 1981, Canada. Lives and works in Montreal.

Gabriel Rico, b. 1980, Mexico. Lives and works in Guadalajara.

Handiwirman Saputra, b. 1975, Indonesia. Lives and works in Yogyakarta.

Tomás Saraceno, b. 1973, Argentina. Lives and works in Berlin.

Augustas Serapinas, b. 1990, Lithuania. Lives and works in Vilnius.

Avery Singer, b. 1987, United States. Lives and works in New York.

Slavs and Tatars, Founded in 2006. Based in Berlin.

Michael E. Smith, b. 1977, United States. Lives and works in Providence.

Hito Steyerl, b. 1966, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.

Tavares Strachan, b. 1979, The Bahamas. Lives and works in New York.

Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, b. 1972, People’s Republic of China; B. 1974, People’s Republic of China. Both live and work in Beijing.

Henry Taylor, b. 1958, United States. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Rosemarie Trockel, b. 1952, Germany. Lives and works in Cologne.

Kaari Upson, b. 1972, United States. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Andra Ursuţa, b. 1979, Romania. Lives and works in New York.

Danh Vō, b. 1975, Vietnam. Lives and works in Mexico City

Kemang Wa Lehulere, b. 1984, Republic of South Africa. Lives and works in Cape Town.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, b. 1970, Thailand. Lives and works in Chiang Mai.

Christine Wertheim & Margaret Wertheim, b. 1958, Australia; b. 1958, Australia. Both live and work in Los Angeles.

Anicka Yi, b. 1971, Republic of Korea. Lives and works in New York.

Yin Xiuzhen, b. 1963, People’s Republic of China. Lives and works in Beijing.

Yu Ji, b. 1985, People’s Republic of China. Lives and works in Shanghai and Vienna.

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What the Oscars teach us about significance

In a surprise, Green Book won last night’s Academy Award for Best Picture. Rami Malek and Olivia Colman won for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Leading Role; Mahershala Ali and Regina King won for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

For everyone who won an Oscar, last night’s ceremony was a pinnacle moment that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

For the rest of us, however, the transience of awards like last night’s Oscars is noteworthy. Who won last year for Best Actor? Best Actress? Best Picture? Who won the year before that?

We’ve already had the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Critics’ Choice Awards, and the Grammys. Do you remember who won what? We could ask the same question about past winners of the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Stanley Cup, and so on.

There’s a reason our culture pays so much attention to short-lived successes.

“Wealthy, successful and miserable”

Richard Rorty was one of America’s most influential thinkers. The longtime Princeton and Stanford professor was a leading voice for the relativism that has captured our culture. He claimed: “There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.” He added that “truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”

If we reject the supernatural, the only prism by which to see the world is the natural. And the natural cannot see beyond itself. Like rose-colored glasses that turn everything rose-colored, we assume that all we see is all that exists.

As a result, many live for the moment, for the accolades of the present, because, to them, that’s all there is. But this materialistic, secularistic way of living is not sufficient for our souls.

Nine previous Oscar winners later committed suicide. Robert Kraft, the owner of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, stands accused of soliciting prostitution in Florida. Jussie Smollett’s character has been cut from this season’s final two episodes of Empire.

Writing for the New York Times Magazine, Harvard MBA graduate Charles Duhigg notes that many of his fellow graduates are “wealthy, successful and miserable.” One told him, “If you spend 12 hours a day doing work you hate, at some point it doesn’t matter what your paycheck says.” Many have “an underlying sense that their work isn’t worth the grueling effort they’re putting into it.”

Speaking of the Fall, C. S. Lewis observed: “What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could ‘be like gods’—could set up on their own as if they had created themselves—be their own masters—invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”

When secularization begins

Living for the present to the exclusion of the eternal is a temptation for God’s people as well.

Jesus’ disciples saved their lives by forsaking their Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane. Ananias and Sapphira lied about their charitable gifts to gain the acclaim of their community (Acts 5:1–11). Peter bowed to the Judaizers when he sided against Gentile Christians in Antioch (Galatians 2:11–14).

Francis Schaeffer: “I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.”

When we seek to serve the world more than our Lord, we fail to serve either. We lose what is distinctive about our faith and appealing to many in our lost culture.

Historian Christopher Henry Dawson: “The process of secularization arises not from the loss of faith but from the loss of social interest in the world of faith. It begins the moment men feel that religion is irrelevant to the common way of life and that society as such has nothing to do with the truths of faith.”

“Jesus Plus Nothing Equals Everything”

Temporal success does not guarantee significance. Job’s so-called friends judged his character by his circumstances (cf. Job 22) and faced the wrath of God as a result (Job 42:7–9).

Long life does not guarantee significance. Joseph lived a shorter life than any of his brothers (Genesis 50:26), but whose life was more significant?

Popularity does not guarantee significance. When Jesus cast a demon from a man, his critics claimed: “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons” (Luke 11:15).

What, then, guarantees significance?

John Maisel is a former football star, Purple Heart-decorated Vietnam War veteran, and successful businessman. He founded East-West Ministries in 1993 to reach the most unreached people in the world. East-West has now planted more than 171,000 churches in nearly fifty countries. John has been one of the most significant mentors in my life over the last three decades.

Dr. Mac Pier’s terrific new book about John captures his surrendered heart: All In: Jesus Plus Nothing Equals Everything. I was invited to take part in a luncheon last Friday that was planned to premiere the book by honoring John’s long ministry.

However, the guest of honor intervened. He insisted to me and to everyone who had a role in the luncheon that the focus was not to be on him, but on Jesus. He told our gathering: “Yesterday is history; tomorrow is mystery; today is all there is.” Then he challenged us to go “all in” for Jesus today.

Are you “all in”?

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What the Oscars teach us about significance

For everyone who won an Oscar, last night’s ceremony was a pinnacle moment that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

For the rest of us, however, the transience of awards like last night’s Oscars is noteworthy. Who won last year for Best Actor? Best Actress? Best Picture? Who won the year before that?

There’s a reason our culture pays so much attention to short-lived successes.

“Wealthy, successful and miserable”

As a result, many live for the moment, for the accolades of the present, because, to them, that’s all there is. But this materialistic, secularistic way of living is not sufficient for our souls.

When secularization begins

Living for the present to the exclusion of the eternal is a temptation for God’s people as well.

Francis Schaeffer: “I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.”

When we seek to serve the world more than our Lord, we fail to serve either. We lose what is distinctive about our faith and appealing to many in our lost culture.

“Jesus Plus Nothing Equals Everything”

Temporal success does not guarantee significance. Job’s so-called friends judged his character by his circumstances (cf. Job 22) and faced the wrath of God as a result (Job 42:7–9).

Long life does not guarantee significance. Joseph lived a shorter life than any of his brothers (Genesis 50:26), but whose life was more significant?

Popularity does not guarantee significance. When Jesus cast a demon from a man, his critics claimed: “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons” (Luke 11:15).

What, then, guarantees significance?

Are you “all in”?

The post What the Oscars teach us about significance appeared first on Denison Forum.

source https://www.denisonforum.org/columns/daily-article/what-the-oscars-teach-us-about-significance/

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