Pastor Matt shares a frontline glimpse of the persecuted church in Nigeria—smiles, songs, and stubborn joy—and lessons from teaching 40 hours at West Africa Theological Seminary. He addresses a student’s piercing question, “How do I love the man who killed my brother?”, unpacks why Scripture—not dreams or feelings—is our final authority, and offers a pastoral critique of Word-of-Faith claims (“Faith doesn’t move God; God moves faith”). Woven through travel trials, worship with a Global Methodist church, and stories of God’s timely provision is Philippians 4’s “secret” of contentment: obedience births joy, and God supplies what he commands.
