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Podcast on The Way
by Dale Tompkins
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Episodes
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Matthew 8:23-27
Following Jesus does not come with a promise of easy circumstances. In Matthew 8:23-27, the disciples were doing exactly what Jesus told them to do when a violent storm, described with the same Greek word used for an earthquake, threatened to sink their boat. These were experienced fishermen who...
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Matthew 8:18-22
What does it actually mean to follow Jesus? Two men approach Him with two very different offers, and what He says to each of them cuts to the heart of genuine discipleship. The first is a scribe who boldly declares he will follow Jesus wherever He goes. His enthusiasm sounds sincere, but Jesus...
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Matthew 8:14-17
Matthew 8:14-17 captures a single remarkable evening at the end of what had already been an extraordinarily long day for Jesus. He had preached the Sermon on the Mount, healed a leper, and engaged a Roman centurion, all before walking into Peter's house as the sun went down. What He did next...
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Matthew 8:5-13
A Roman centurion approached Jesus in Capernaum, not for himself, but on behalf of his servant. To the Jewish crowd watching, this man was the face of occupation and oppression. Yet he knelt in the street, publicly humbling himself for someone society had completely written off. When Jesus…
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Matthew 8:1-4
Most people have no trouble believing God is powerful enough to change a life. The harder question is far more personal: would He want to change yours? In Matthew 8, immediately after the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus comes down from the mountain and does something that stops everyone in their…
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Matthew 7:24-29
This study examines the closing words of the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus ends the greatest sermon ever preached not with a summary or a blessing but with a house crashing down. After three chapters of teaching that began with the Beatitudes, Jesus tells of two builders. One builds his house…
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Matthew 7:21-23
Matthew 7:21-23 contains some of the most unsettling words Jesus ever spoke, and they are aimed not at atheists or obvious rebels but at religious people who were completely certain they were right with God. In that passage, people stand before Jesus pointing to prophecy, exorcisms, and miracles...
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Matthew 7:15-20
Jesus placed His warning about false prophets immediately after describing the narrow road to life, and that placement is not accidental. The hallmark of a false prophet is denying that the way is hard. They offer easier paths, avoid the topics of sin and repentance, and say peace where there is…
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2 Timothy
Suffering is something every person faces, yet it often catches us off guard. Second Timothy 2 offers a clear and honest answer to the question of how we keep going when life is hard. Before addressing suffering directly, it is worth examining how we think about our relationship with God. It is...
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Malachi 3:6-12
It rarely happens all at once. Drifting from God usually looks like a series of small compromises, each one feeling manageable on its own, until one day the distance feels enormous and the path back feels unclear. Malachi 3:6-12 speaks directly into this experience, using the image of a people…
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Malachi 2:17-3:5
The people of Malachi's day had returned from captivity with great hope, expecting God to restore their nation, remove their enemies, and bring visible blessing. Instead, they faced drought, foreign rule, and the apparent prosperity of those who worshipped other gods. Their frustration turned…
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Matthew 7:13-14
Jesus closes the greatest sermon ever preached not with a gentle suggestion but with a command. In Matthew 7:13-14, He presents two gates, two roads, and two destinations, and He calls every person to honestly consider which road they are actually on. The narrow gate is narrow for real reasons....
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Matthew 7:21
Matthew 7:12 is one of the most recognized sentences in human history, yet its depth is rarely appreciated. Jesus placed it at the very end of the main body of the Sermon on the Mount, using the word 'so' to gather everything He had taught since Matthew 5 into a single principle. He had already...
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Matthew 7:7-11
Jesus knew that the high standards of the Sermon on the Mount would feel overwhelming, so He pointed His followers to the source of help: prayer. In Matthew 7:7-11, the commands to ask, seek, and knock are not one-time actions but ongoing habits of dependence on the Father. The promise of…
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Malachi 2:10-16
Malachi speaks directly to that experience, and the answer it offers is both uncomfortable and deeply freeing. The remnant of Israel had returned from Babylonian captivity and were going through all the right religious motions. They were showing up, bringing offerings, and weeping at the altar.…
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Matthew 7:6 - Dale Tompkins
Jesus does not stop at telling us to withhold judgment. He immediately follows that familiar command with a call to discernment, and the tension between those two ideas is at the heart of what it means to follow Him well. A critical spirit and true discernment are not the same thing, even though…
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Matthew 7:1-5 - Dr Dale Tompkins
Matthew 7 is not a permission slip to avoid accountability, nor is it a ban on all discernment. Jesus forbids the proud, habitual fault-finding spirit that quietly masquerades as zeal for truth. The log-and-speck illustration makes the point vividly: before addressing sin in someone else's life,...
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Matthew 6:25-34
In Matthew 6:25-34, Jesus tackles one of the most universal human struggles: anxiety and worry. He doesn't dismiss worry as a minor personality quirk but identifies it as a serious theological problem that reveals what we truly treasure and trust. When we worry, we're functionally living as if...
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Matthew 6:19-24
Jesus addresses one of Christianity's greatest rivals - materialism - by asking who truly has your heart. He warns against storing up earthly treasures that decay and can be stolen, instead calling us to invest in heavenly treasures. Money becomes dangerous when it creates spiritual blindness,...
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Matthew 6:16-18
In a culture obsessed with visibility and recognition, Jesus presents a radical alternative: the hidden life of faith. Through His teaching on fasting in Matthew 6:16-18, He addresses a fundamental question that extends far beyond this single spiritual discipline - who is your audience when you...
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Matthew 5:5-15
Many believers struggle with understanding who they're actually addressing when they pray, leading to two fundamental errors that Jesus addresses in Matthew 6. The first mistake involves praying to the wrong audience - like the hypocrites who positioned themselves publicly to impress others with...
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Matthew 6:1-4
Jesus teaches that authentic generosity isn't about the act itself, but about the audience we're performing for. In Matthew 6:1-4, He warns against practicing righteousness to be seen by others, using theatrical language to describe how even good deeds can become self-promotion. When we give for...
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Matthew 5:38-48
In a world consumed by endless retaliation and escalating conflicts, Jesus presents a revolutionary approach to breaking destructive cycles. The familiar principle of an eye for an eye, often misunderstood as barbaric, was actually a progressive legal restraint designed for courtrooms to limit...
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Malachi 2:1-9
In Malachi 2, God rebukes the priests for failing in their role as spiritual thermostats for their community. Just as a thermostat regulates temperature, these priests were meant to influence the spiritual climate around them through faithful teaching and righteous living. However, they became...
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Matthew 5:33-37
In a culture dominated by contracts, legal disclaimers, and elaborate verification systems, Jesus presents a radically different approach to truth-telling in Matthew 5:33-37. He challenges believers to become people whose simple word carries such integrity that the entire system of oath-taking...
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Matthew 5:27–32
Jesus challenges religious thinking that focuses only on external behavior while ignoring the heart. In His teachings on adultery and divorce, He reveals that God cares more about who we are than what we appear to be doing right. Rather than debating minimum standards like the religious leaders…
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Matthew 5:21-16
Jesus reveals that the commandment against murder goes far deeper than avoiding physical violence. In Matthew 5:21-26, He shows that anger, contempt, and calling someone worthless makes us guilty of murder in God's eyes. True discipleship requires four steps: avoiding the act of murder, stopping...
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Matthew 5:17-20
Jesus addresses two dangerous approaches to Scripture in Matthew 5:17-20. The first group treats the Bible as outdated and picks which parts to follow, while the second group focuses on legalistic rule-keeping without heart transformation. Jesus came not to abolish the law but to fulfill it...
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Matthew 5:13-16
In Matthew 5:13-16, Jesus uses two powerful metaphors to describe the role of Christians in the world: salt and light. Speaking to a crowd of broken, marginalized people that society had written off, Jesus declared they were the answer to the world's problems of moral decay and spiritual…
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Matthew 5:7-12
The Beatitudes in Matthew 5 offer far more than inspirational wall art - they provide a comprehensive framework for understanding kingdom citizenship. The structure reveals a beautiful progression: while the first four Beatitudes describe what we bring to Jesus in our need, the final four...
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Malachi 1:1-5
The ancient Israelites experienced spiritual apathy after returning from exile, feeling like God had gone silent despite their expectations of blessing. When they demanded proof of His love, God reminded them through the prophet Malachi that His love is unaltered and continuous, demonstrated...
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Matthew 5:1-6
The Beatitudes in Matthew 5 represent far more than simple blessings to be memorized or displayed on wall hangings. They constitute a revolutionary redefinition of who receives God's favor, challenging every assumption about success and blessing in the ancient world. Jesus delivered these words…
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Matthew 4:17-25
Jesus' central message throughout Matthew's Gospel is that the kingdom of heaven has arrived. When God's kingdom shows up, three transformative things happen: it arrives in the person of Jesus, it forms a community of followers, and it confronts every form of evil. Jesus begins his ministry by...
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Matthew 4:13-17
The story of Jesus beginning His ministry in Galilee reveals God's incredible strategy of bringing hope to the hopeless. When Jesus moved to Capernaum after John the Baptist's arrest, He chose a region that had been spiritually neglected for 700 years. This area of Zebulun and Naphtali had been…
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Matthew 4:1-11
Following His baptism where God declared Him as His beloved Son, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness for 40 days of testing. This period wasn't an unfortunate detour but a necessary part of God's plan to prove Jesus could handle what Adam and Israel couldn't. The testing reveals that...
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Matthew 3:13-17
The scene at the Jordan River was chaotic and messy - hundreds of people standing in muddy waters, confessing their deepest sins to John the Baptist. Tax collectors admitted theft, adulterers confessed betrayals, and soldiers acknowledged brutality. Into this scene of guilt and shame walked…
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Matthew 3:1-12
John the Baptist's confrontational message in the wilderness carries an urgent warning about coming judgment that makes many uncomfortable today. When he calls the religious leaders a brood of vipers, he's delivering a prophetic warning about the reality of God's wrath - not human-like anger, but...
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Matthew 2:19-23
Sometimes the most dramatic changes in our lives happen while we sleep, and we wake up to find everything has shifted. This was Joseph's reality in Egypt, where he had been living as a refugee with Mary and baby Jesus for about a year. They had fled to escape Herod's murderous decree, leaving...
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James 2 - Jonathan Hayashi
A faith gauge measures the visible evidence of our inner spiritual condition through our actions and deeds. James 2:14-20 teaches that genuine faith must be demonstrated through works, not to earn salvation, but to show that our salvation is real. While Paul emphasized salvation by grace alone to...
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Matthew 2:13-18
The Christmas story contains a dramatic cosmic battle that most people miss beneath the familiar nativity scenes. When Jesus was born, an invisible war was raging between God and Satan, with the infant Christ as the primary target. Herod's massacre of innocent children in Bethlehem wasn't merely...
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Matthew 2:1-12
The birth of Jesus Christ demands a response from every person. Matthew chapter 2 reveals four distinct ways people responded to the arrival of the King. Herod responded with hostility, seeing Jesus as a threat to his power and control. The people of Jerusalem responded with fear, paralyzed by...
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Matthew 1:18-25
The Christmas story centers on two divinely chosen names that reveal everything about Jesus' identity and mission. In the ancient world, names carried profound significance—they weren't just labels but declarations of purpose and destiny. When the angel announced that Mary's child would be called...
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Matthew 1:1-17
We all live under various authorities, but Jesus Christ holds ultimate authority as the promised King. Matthew's genealogy reveals Jesus as both the son of David, Israel's rightful King, and the son of Abraham, bringing blessing to all nations. The genealogy traces three movements: Israel's rise...
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Titus 3
Brian Gollery
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Matthew Intro
Discover the masterful structure of Matthew's Gospel and how it reveals Jesus' true identity through five powerful movements. This comprehensive Bible study explores how Matthew crafted his Gospel to systematically present Jesus as the divine Son of God with ultimate authority. Learn about the...
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Why You Feel What You Feel
Your emotions aren't random weather patterns that just happen to you - they're spiritual indicators revealing what your heart truly believes and treasures. The biblical heart has three functions: it thinks, feels, and chooses, working together in a chain reaction where beliefs shape desires,...
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Joshua 24
Discover powerful lessons about God's faithfulness and commitment from Joshua's final challenge to Israel in this inspiring biblical message. Learn how to overcome spiritual forgetfulness and respond to God's grace with wholehearted devotion. This comprehensive study of Joshua 24 reveals five...
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