Real Truth Matters Podcast

Send us Fan Mail This is the second of two very special episodes. RTM director Michael Durham is joined in the studio with his two adult sons. They will discuss growing up as PKs (preacher's kids) and their conversion. You will discover biblical parenting insights, whether you are a pastor or not. Also, this will be a behind-the-scenes look at the history and evolution of RTM. 

Send us Fan Mail This is the first part of two very special episodes. RTM director Michael Durham is joined in the studio with his two adult sons. They will discuss growing up as PKs (preacher's kids) and their conversion. You will discover insights into biblical parenting, whether you are a pastor or not. Also, this will be a behind-the-scenes look at the history and evolution of RTM. 

Send us Fan Mail In this final episode on the subject, Killing Sin, Michael Durham explores and explains the final principle: how to be violent toward sin. We are commanded to do this, but we cannot do it without the Holy Spirit's help and power. You can learn what it takes to fight and kill your sin in a very practical and biblical way.  If, by chance, you have not listened to the four prece...

Send us Fan Mail If we are to obey the Scriptures and fight our sin, we must supply the heart with a greater fascination and obsession than the sin we are fighting. The heart cannot equally pursue two opposing desires. The key is to expel a lesser longing with a greater, more pleasure-offering desire. When the heart is offered a superior affection, the lesser affection will pale in comparison. The...

Send us Fan Mail We have thus far shared two necessary principles or biblical strategies for fighting sin. Principle one is an intense desire to be free from the sin. Without this, why would you fight against your sin? Principle two is an intense hatred for the sin in question despite the fact that it has an attraction to the flesh. You not only want to be free, but you hate the sin. This leads us...

Send us Fan Mail In this series, we explore how we can put to death sin. As the Apostle Paul defined it, "the deeds of the body," that is, the remaining impulses of sin that use the natural desires of the mind and body to act contrary to the Holy Spirit. In this episode, Michael Durham states the first two principles of how we can, through the Holy Spirit, kill our sin. 

Send us Fan Mail How do you kill sin? How do you stop sin in its tracks? How do you face temptation and overcome its appeal? Temptation has appeal; it has attractiveness. Otherwise, it would not be tempting. How do you confront it and put the stake through its heart?  In this episode, we will learn where temptation begins and how it starts. This is extremely important when learning how to kill sin...

Send us Fan Mail In this final episode on the assurance of salvation, Michael Durham shares how faith is to fight so that you can know peace with God. What should you believe, and how do you deal with your doubts? If you have not already secured your copy of Michael Durham's book, The Fight of Faith: How a Christian Can Experience Assurance of Salvation , then follow the link provided here: h...

Send us Fan Mail Sanctification is the work of God conforming Christians to the image of Christ, meaning it is the process the Lord uses to make us more like Jesus. But what role does our sanctification play in our having confidence we have been genuinely saved? In this episode, we continue our study of the assurance of salvation by looking at this question. Should we get assurance from our progre...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing our theme on assurance of salvation, today, RTM speaker Michael Durham explains the relationship between confession of sin and assurance.  The two are related and confession plays a vital role in your experience of assurance.  Many express confusion on why the Bible requires confession of sin when all our sin is already forgiven in Christ. It is very true that we are fo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Michael Durham continues to show how a biblically informed mind needs to think for doctrine to become experiential, meaning real and felt. Too many Christians think that learning doctrine is the goal. The more information they learn about God, the more they assume they know God. But that is only half of the process of knowing God personally and spiritually. Please...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we resume our examination of the assurance of salvation. The lack of assurance is from a lack of knowing God on a personal level. Assurance is based, in large measure, on how accurate one's knowledge of God is, and how the doctrine of God is translated into a felt conviction. In this episode, Michael Durham begins to show the mental work commanded in Scriptur...

Send us Fan Mail In this final episode, guest associate evangelist Nathan Freeman and Michael Durham discuss the ongoing work of the Spirit in the believer's life. Is there more of the Spirit for each believer to experience? Please listen and discover that you can have more of His gracious influence in your life.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, join RTM evangelist and director Michael Durham alongside RTM associate evangelist Nate Freeman as they discuss the sealing work of the Holy Spirit as distinct from the baptism with the Holy Spirit. This is the third installment of a discussion between the evangelists on the work of the Spirit, which started as a review of Martin Lloyd-Jones' position on the...

Send us Fan Mail  In this episode, join RTM evangelist and director Michael Durham alongside RTM associate evangelist Nate Freeman as they try to unravel the intricacies of the Holy Spirit's works in the Christian life. The focal point of their discussion lies in Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones's teachings on the baptism of the Spirit and the sealing of the Spirit. Dr. Lloyd-Jones, a renowned the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Real Truth Matters Podcast with your host, Michael Durham! Joining Michael in the studio for the first time is special guest Nate Freeman, RTM associate evangelist, bringing a fresh perspective to the conversation. In this episode, we take a break from the current study of the assurance of salvation and embark on a journey through the teachings of the esteemed Dr. M...

Send us Fan Mail This is part two of our study of the assurance of salvation. In our last episode, we laid down the premise that a great deal of the struggle with the lack of assurance is due to a lack of understanding and belief in justification by faith alone.  If you have not yet listened to episode one of The Assurance of Salvation, go back and listen to last week’s podcast first, and then com...

Send us Fan Mail Many Christians struggle with assurance temporarily; some struggle off and on for years, and others struggle their whole Christian lives.  Michael Durham deals with assurance in a way that diagnoses the cause of assurance struggles. He gets to the root cause of why a Christian grapples with God's acceptance.  In this podcast, the focus is on how distinctly a person's fai...

Send us Fan Mail This episode discusses how to combat and cure our spiritual downturns. As already explained, all Christians suffer this malady from time to time. No one is exempt. Therefore, if we experience it, it stands to reason that we need to know how to see its end and experience recovery from spiritual declension. Please listen and share this episode with other Christians so they, along wi...

Send us Fan Mail We have already looked at some of the causes and the root of not growing in grace but instead digressing. Spiritual declension is defined as any lessening of the heart’s fascination with Jesus Christ the Lord. In this episode on spiritual declension, we continue by learning how to detect it. It is essential to overcome spiritual decline by recognizing it early. What are the tellta...

Send us Fan Mail How is it possible for the child of God to turn away from following the Lord? How do sheep go astray? What makes people who have been loved by God, who has done nothing but good to them, drift in their love for Him? In this episode, RTM founder and director Michael Durham will answer these questions. There is one root from which all spiritual decline grows.

Send us Fan Mail Do you know why you suffer times of low devotion, a weak heart, and lukewarmness? There’s more to it than meets the eye. With this podcast, we begin a new topic we want to dive into for the next few weeks. That topic is spiritual declension. Now, what do those two words mean? Please listen as Michael Durham explains.

Send us Fan Mail There are two approaches to the Christian life that make up the majority of Christians. One is a reliance upon emotionalism, a philosophy that promotes the experience of feeling positive emotions is what is considered vibrant Christianity. The other approach is intellectualism, which believes that the Christian faith is mostly cerebral. It elevates knowledge and equates with it sp...

Send us Fan Mail In our last episode, we looked at 1 John 2:24-28. John says there is an abiding message, which is Christ, who is the Gospel, and this message indwells and abides with you. Jesus equates Himself with His words. If you have the Word of God implanted within, then you have Christ within. But John also says that the Holy Spirit must communicate that Word to us in an experiential way. L...

Send us Fan Mail The next biblical principle to maintain fellowship with our God is very crucial to the ability to experience God anytime. The principle is that you must keep your experience of truth up to date. In other words, you must often experience the power of the truth. You should be feeling its influence and impact on a very consistent basis.  Listen and discover in this first of two episo...