Real Truth Matters Podcast

Send us Fan Mail We all know that the death of Christ is essential to being right with God. However, it is also the basis of our ongoing fellowship with the Lord. Christ's death plays a considerable role in our communion with the triune God. Listen as Michael Durham explains.

Send us Fan Mail We are looking at how to walk and maintain fellowship with God. In last week’s episode, we opened up 1 John 1 and heard the Apostle John say that we can have the same kind of fellowship with God as he and the other apostles enjoyed.  The accessibility of God is an overlooked topic. Fellowship with God is not held out and is only open to God’s elite. No, it is available to you at a...

Send us Fan Mail Is it possible for a person to consistently walk with God? Can they maintain a relationship with God and never lose fellowship with Him? Most answer no because such seems impossible, but it isn't as difficult as it sounds. Christ has removed the impossibility, and He extends to all His followers true friendship and genuine camaraderie.  This episode is the first in a series o...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, George Müller gives an interview, sort of, where he explains his faith and how any believer can grow in faith. Actually, Michael Durham reads a portion from Müller's biography that shares excellent remarks concerning faith. So share this episode with others and listen for yourself.  

Send us Fan Mail We have learned that there are two kinds of faith, the grace of faith and the gift of faith. However, today, we are going to hear that for the grace of faith, there are three degrees or levels of it. No one starts with a complete faith that rests fully in the Lord. Faith must be tested and stressed for it to grow. The disciples were in the school of faith, and it was their Instruc...

Send us Fan Mail How do you know that you trust God? Is there any way to gauge faith, to be sure that you trust Him? There are many biblical examples of people who thought they had faith in God when in the end, it proved that they didn’t. Peter is an example of this. With all of his heart, he believed that he really had faith in Christ and would follow the Lord even to death. But, as most of us kn...

Send us Fan Mail In last week’s podcast, we began a discussion of the fight of faith. The fight of faith is the battle to believe what God has revealed objectively and subjectively. Using Abraham’s Genesis 17 encounter with God, the first two stages of the fight of faith were explained.  In this episode, Michael Durham continues by showing through the significant test of Abraham’s faith the last t...

Send us Fan Mail Does faith make life easy, comfortable, and prosperous? If you have faith, does that mean you will be able to defeat all antagonists and put down all difficulties quickly? And if you should struggle to believe God does that mean you are unbelieving? The answer to these questions is the same. The answer is, no, not at all. There are times when our faith seems to ride high and lift...

Send us Fan Mail How does faith increase if it does increase? Every Christian is genuinely concerned that their faith is vital and vibrant. If it is impossible to please God without faith, then it is a serious concern that our faith is healthy. However, faith is a living thing, and therefore it is not like a product that can be manufactured and spit out of an assembly line. We are not faith factor...

Send us Fan Mail How does faith increase if it does increase? Every Christian is genuinely concerned that their faith is vital and vibrant. If it is impossible to please God without faith, then it is a serious concern that our faith is healthy. However, faith is a living thing, and therefore it is not like a product that can be manufactured and spit out of an assembly line. We are not faith factor...

Send us Fan Mail There are two kinds of biblical faith stated in the Scriptures.  The two kinds of faith are the grace of faith and the gift of faith. In this episode, Michael Durham explores each of these kinds of faith from the Bible. The grace of faith is stated in Romans 12, and the gift of faith is found in 1 Corinthians 12. 

Send us Fan Mail Today, there are many faith teachers with differing opinions about faith. There are almost as many ideas about faith as there are teachers. Radical ideas concerning faith are rampant. Therefore, never has an hour existed where an exact definition of faith is more needed than now. This episode is the final of three, explaining faith and coming to a working definition of faith. Thes...

Send us Fan Mail Today, there are many faith teachers with differing opinions about faith. There are almost as many ideas about faith as there are teachers. Radical ideas concerning faith are rampant. Therefore, never has an hour existed where an exact definition of faith is more needed than now. This episode is the second of three, explaining what faith is to come to a working definition of faith...

Send us Fan Mail Today, there are many faith teachers, and they are varied in their opinions. There are almost as many ideas about faith as there are teachers. Radical ideas concerning faith are rampant. Therefore, never has an hour existed where an exact definition of faith is more needed than now. This episode is the first of three, explaining what faith is to come to a working definition of fai...

Send us Fan Mail What are the evidences of genuine faith? We may not be able to discern the very moment of new life in the sinner, but we can surely be wise concerning faith’s evidences. There are at least three evidences of God-approving faith. In this episode, we will examine all three signs of faith in the Christian. 

Send us Fan Mail There are many different ideas about faith, and many are so misleading. That is why we have dedicated this episode to share with you what are the ingredients or components of faith. There are four elements that come together and make faith genuine. Without all these four ingredients, faith is not biblical. So please listen and learn what makes faith, faith. 

Send us Fan Mail Today, we begin a new series of episodes on faith. There isn’t any more important topic that you can discuss than faith. The entirety of Christianity requires faith, for it is written, “the just shall live by faith.” So, with so much riding on correctly understanding faith, what it is, and how it operates in us, it is good to devote several episodes to the subject. The first order...

Send us Fan Mail If revival is the renewal of healthy New Testament Christianity, then one question remains. How do you experience revival? How can you return to a place of vibrancy in your relationship with the Lord Jesus? In this episode, we outline three biblical mandates that, if believed and experienced, will lead you back to spiritual well-being. Please listen, and then share with family and...

Send us Fan Mail Revival is a return to normal New Testament Christianity. It is to walk in the Spirit consistently. In this episode, Michael Durham considers the indicators that evidence that a believer or a church needs revival. God wants His children to walk in the experience of their inheritance in Christ. But all of us know that we do not always do so. So, listen and discover what the signs o...

Send us Fan Mail We try to find a more biblical view of revival in this episode. One of the prevailing reasons revival is not occurring is the unbiblical attitudes about revival. Some have an idea that revival is a great evangelistic campaign, and others believe in humanistic formulas to be the key to having a revival. And others consider revival a purely sovereign work of God alone. These perspec...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss special moves or outpourings of God on His people. Many call these movements of God’s Spirit working in powerful ways revivals. The word revival has come to mean different things to different people. It is highly imperative that we rightly define the word so that confusion does not reign. It is also essential that we rightly understand the word to exper...

Send us Fan Mail What is that something that many of us know is missing, but we don't know how to express it? Since we have not experienced it, we don't know what it is; we only know something is needed. Many faithful Christians would admit that something is absent from the local worship service, especially during the hour of preaching. That doesn't mean that the pastor or the one d...

Send us Fan Mail We have made the case that one of the reasons preaching is missing in many biblical churches is because teaching is mistaken for preaching. In this episode, Michael Durham shares several necessary characteristics of preaching that distinguish it from teaching. If you want to know what biblical preaching is, this episode will provide you with a clear answer. 

Send us Fan Mail What makes preaching biblical? Why is preaching suffering unpopularity in our churches? And what is needed if preaching is to have an effect? These are some of the questions we are seeking to answer.  The problem of preaching is not that preaching has been rejected in biblical churches. The problem is what's considered preaching is not. Preaching has declined because of teach...

Send us Fan Mail Preaching has come under severe attack from without the church and, sadly, within the church. It seems every generation must contend, not just for the faith once delivered to the saints, but also for the integrity and purity of preaching. Preaching is the main work of the church, and if the enemy can dilute the proclamation of God’s word, he can kill the church’s fruitfulness.  In...