Mud and spittle. Rods and branches. Jawbones, pebbles, and slings. Lamps, pitchers, torches, and trumpets. Milky curds in a lordly dish, a hammer, and a tent peg. Two mites. Five loaves. Two fish. Just a thread. These are some of the things God has employed to accomplish His purposes. At...

Worship is not like going to an Italian Restaurant one week and to a French Restaurant the next to experience the different flavors of each.

Some leaders have monetized faith, exhorting believers to speak material blessings into being, as if The Lord was a genie waiting to grant our every wish.

The problem with a religious frame of reference is that we feel we must make ourselves presentable to God before he will accept us. We need first to accept Christ’s payment for all our sin and repent. Then allow Him to change us through the power of His shed blood.

Matti Sirvio became a Christian at age 14 as a young Finnish man. He is a disciple of Jesus Christ, a pastor, a church planter and a missionary. But besides these he is an artist...a painter whose paintings of the middle east and the gospel in the midst have been...