Knisely - Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World

PRAISE FORFRAMING FAITH

As I write this endorsement for my friend Matt, I am also checking Twitter, updating my blog, and reading a magazine article. A book about being present to God? Yes, please.

JON ACUFF, NEWYORKTIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF START AND STUFFCHRISTIANSLIKE

Living out our faith in todays distracted and disrupted world is far more difficult and challenging than most people think. Thats why Matt Kniselys fascinating book FramingFaith is the road map weve been waiting to find. If youre serious about hearing God through the noise of our digital culture, then this is the book for you. Order it today, and start cutting through the clutter.

PHIL COOKE, FILMMAKER, MEDIA CONSULTANT, AND AUTHOR OF UNIQUE: TELLING YOUR STORY IN THE AGE OF BRANDS AND SOCIAL MEDIA

The creative insight and perspective in this book will help you learn to view life beyond the typical day-to-day grind and open your eyes so youre wide-awake to see the extraordinary moments that are all around you.

PETE WILSON, SENIOR PASTOR, CROSS POINT CHURCH, AUTHOR OF PLANB AND LETHOPEIN

FramingFaith is an invitation to capture and embrace lifes unfolding stories and moments that ultimately shape our souls. Matt gifts us with new perspectives and insights into proactively embracing the beauty of life that we far too often take for granted. Slow down and read this book.

CHARLES LEE, CEO OF IDEATION AND AUTHOR OF GOODIDEA. NOW WHAT?

Great photography is about transforming ordinary places and people into extraordinary ones. This book by a great photographer takes that principle and through godly wisdom applies it to everyday life. To see your life as Matt sees it is to be changed by God for good.

THE REVEREND CANON J. JOHN, WWW.PHILOTRUST.COM

Matt Kniselys greatest gift is to frame and capture the beauty of Jesus for our generation and those to come.

ESTHER HAVENS, HUMANITARIAN PHOTOGRAPHER

Capturing the perfect moment is magical. In Framing Faith Matt captures the perfection of art and faith and makes them accessible for everyone. Every creative believer needs the lens Matt provides in this book.

STEPHEN BREWSTER, CREATIVE ARTS PASTOR, CROSS POINT COMMUNITY CHURCH

In a distracted world, this book is urgently needed. Matt puts words to my feeling and shines a light on the clutter thats piled up in my soul. Thanks Matt for making me hungry for more of God and less of this world.

SCOTT WILSON, SENIOR PASTOR OF THE OAKS FELLOWSHIP AND AUTHOR OF READY, SET, GROW

Matt is an artist with an unbelievable lens to capture what really matters. FramingFaith is a long lost prayer for our current distracted culture and reads as if youre having a conversation with a dear friend. The words Matt weaves take root, grow slowly, change our perspective, and point us into a deeper relationship with the Father. As someone who struggles with the anxiety of being overwhelmed, Matts words were of great comfort and hope.

ANNE MARIE MILLER, AUTHOR AND SPEAKER, ANNEMARIEMILLER.COM

This book is more than it seems. Like a good photograph, the more you look at it, the more you find. Matt has captured the beauty, and complexity, of life and faithand given us the tools to navigate them both.

JEFF GOINS, AUTHOR OF THEIN-BETWEEN

I wanted to dog-ear every page in Matt Kniselys Framing Faith . Its a narrative about how to tell ones storyyet more than that. Its about how to live to the hilt. Knisely refers to Chasing Sunsetsa term he uses to describe those times when passion collides with life. Reading this book was like chasing sunsets for memy passion collided with life as I soaked in Kniselys masterful words. Framing Faith is a shining thread in the tapestry of literature.

EMILY T. WIERENGA, AUTHOR OF ATLASGIRL, WWW.EMILYWIERENGA.COM

In FramingFaith Matt Knisely calls us to an undistracted, honest look at the important themes God is writing into our life stories. This unique and creative book teaches us to slow down, capture the beauty in every moment, and open our eyes to see God working all around us. It is sure to shift paradigms and change the way you see the world.

KEN WYTSMA, PRESIDENT OF KILNS COLLEGE, LEAD PASTOR OF ANTIOCH CHURCH, AND AUTHOR OF PURSUINGJUSTICE

Ive always thought of photography as capturing light as a memory so as to never forget. What Matt has compiled here are decades full of light that will shine into all the work you make. May we never forget the lessons that Matt has shared.

BLAINE HOGAN, CREATIVE DIRECTOR AND AUTHOR OF UNTITLED: THOUGHTS ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS

From the start of Matts gripping book, FramingFaith, Ive had a deep stirring in my heart to refocus on what is truly important. Im INSPIRED to put my phone down, hug my wife and son, and live a story worth writing about.

DAVID MOLNAR, MUSIC AND ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHER AND AUTHOR OF IPHONEONLYPHOTOGRAPHY

Are you tired, distracted, over-connected or burned out? Do you feel like your life lacks beauty? You wont want to miss this: the stories, the images, the experience that is curated inside this book. Matt helps us to go deeper, to pay attention, to discover the beauty, meaning and purpose that lies beneath the surface of our lives. Go ahead. I dare you. Dive in.

ALLISON VESTERFELT, AUTHOR OF PACKINGLIGHT: THOUGHTS ON LIVING LIFE WITH LESS BAGGAGE

We all need to have a personal relationship with the Lord. Framing Faith guides us back to the foundation we were meant to live fromthe place of intimate fellowship with the living God, drawing our identity from Him, our joy from Him, our sense of fulfillment from Him. Matt Knisely delivers concise, godly truth that will cut through and help you develop a deeper, loving relationship with God.

JONATHAN MORRIS, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND AUTHOR OF GODWANTSYOUHAPPY

Matt Kniselys book, FramingFaith, is just further proof that the worldand the churchdesperately needs artists. Artists who invite us to go beyond the typical black and white, linear, and comfortable ways of viewing our lives and the world we live in. Bravo to Matt Knisely for giving us a more artful way of recognizing and embracing goodness, beauty, truth, and faith.

SCOTT HODGE, ARTIST, WANDERER, AND PASTOR OF THE ORCHARD COMMUNITY

FramingFaith is a book that encourages you to stop, breathe, and truly digest the moments of beauty God ordains within our lives. Matt encourages one to view faith through an entirely new lens.

JARRID WILSON, PASTOR, BLOGGER, AND AUTHOR OF JESUSSWAGGER

Shaws prophecy was rightart and artists will save the church. Matt is a pirate-captain of this new charge, capturing the heart of a visual generation with the irresistible beauty of the one called Love.

DR. JOHN SOWERS, PRESIDENT OF THE MENTORING PROJECT AND AUTHOR OF THEHEROICPATH

Todays bookshelves and websites are filled with books on story from writers, thinkers, and pastors. But Matt Knisely, as a photojournalist and storyteller, offers us a thoroughly unique and compelling reflection on how we might better see the truth and beauty God has and is still creating in our lives.

JOHN DYER, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, AND AUTHOR OF FROM THEGARDEN TO THECITY

In our world where unlimited information has become a mere distraction and social media often stands in for real socializing, FramingFaith shows us how to live out truly important, meaningful stories with Godstories that cannot be compressed into 140 characters.