Genesis 2-3 in Spanish!
A member of The Art Pastor’s Network is a missionary in Peru. She offered to translate these pages for me. I’m so grateful and pleased to share them with you.
Is Life a Line or a Circle? | A Contemplative Art Experience
What if the way you measure your spiritual growth is based on a flawed concept of time?
In our fast-paced, modern culture, we are subtly trained to view life as a straight line. We draw charts, track metrics, and calculate progress on an upward, left-to-right slope. We treat spiritual formation like a ladder: you start at the bottom as a struggling novice and climb toward efficiency, agency, and spiritual perfection.
But when Jesus talks about the Kingdom of Heaven, he rarely uses the language of industrial progress or linear ladders. Instead, he talks about seeds quietly dying in dirt, yeast permeating dough, nets cast into mysterious depths, and tiny mustard grains expanding into sheltering trees.
In this Art Pastor Live session, we explored Matthew 13 alongside reflections on how different cultures understand time. By pairing Jesus’ parables with visual art, we paused to ask a fundamental question: Is life a line or a circle—and how does the Kingdom of God grow within us?
Page 1. The Celtic Cross
Page 1. The Norwegian Celtic Cross July 21, 2026medium: gouache This is a replica of a Celtic cross from about 1000 A.D., believed to be the first Christian symbol erected in Norway. It was given to Luther Seminary in 1956 by the Nordfjord Youth and stands in front of...
The Kingdom of Heaven is Like…
This image is from page 9 in A Cartoonist’s Guide to Matthew The Gospel of Matthew collects Jesus’ parables about the Kingdom of Heaven into one convenient package in Matthew 13:1-53. I want to make an observation about how these parables are structured. Jesus...