n this Art Pastor Live session, we wrestle with Matthew 15 and the encounter between Jesus and the Canaanite woman. Stepping away from traditional painting, we experiment with comic layouts in Clip Studio Paint to explore how sequential art helps us slow down, cross boundaries, and pay attention to everyone.
In a world driven by social media algorithms, *Art Pastor Live* slows down to contemplate Scripture through visual art. Explore Isaiah 55 and Matthew 14 as we uncover how God’s abundant feast emerges in the deepest shadows of grief and tyranny, transforming simple fish and loaves into 12 baskets of grace.
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?
