Walking and communion with God are not automatic. How then do you experience the reality of a personal relationship with God, or read your Bible and experience God’s presence? Put simply, how do you know God? These are huge questions that need serious discussion. Every Tuesday, Michael Durham of Real Truth Matters Ministries will lead in such a conversation. This podcast tackles the experiential side of Christianity with teaching, interviews, and question and answer episodes. If you want to grow…
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Send us Fan Mail You have driven home from church more than once wondering whether anything actually happened up there, or whether you simply performed a well-constructed talk. You cannot always tell the difference between a sermon and true preaching — not from the pulpit, and sometimes not even in the moment. This is the ache no seminary prepared you for. In this concluding conversation on…
Send us Fan Mail You have heard good preaching — careful, faithful, doctrinally sound. But you have never been in a service where no one moved afterward. Where the silence was not awkward but holy. Where God was so present that the man who preached simply sat down, and the room knew something had happened that no one had planned. In this second conversation, Michael Durham and Mack Tomlinson press…
Send us Fan Mail You have sat under Bible teaching for years — careful, accurate, well-organized Bible teaching — and yet something is missing. The word has informed you. It has not undone you. And you are beginning to wonder if that is simply the way it is, or if something has been lost. In this first conversation between Michael Durham and his longtime friend, Mack Tomlinson, the two men put…
Send us Fan Mail You have been trying to manage your sin, improve your habits, and strengthen your resolve — and it is not working. It was never going to work. What God is after is not a stronger version of you. He is after the end of your confidence in you altogether. Continuing in Romans 5, Michael Durham presses deeper into the question he raised in Part 1: why does God delay our perfection?…
Send us Fan Mail You have been a Christian for years, and you are more aware of your sin today than the day you were saved. That is not a sign that something has gone wrong. It may be the clearest sign that something has gone profoundly right. Opening in Romans 5:20–21, Michael Durham takes up one of the most disorienting questions in the Christian life: why would a God who justifies us in a…
Send us Fan Mail You haven't walked away. You still show up, still pray, still read — and that's exactly what makes this so dangerous. Lukewarmness doesn't announce itself. It simply makes you comfortable enough to stop fighting for what you once couldn't live without. Episode Summary In this second message on the Laodicean church, Michael Durham presses into the anatomy of spiritual drift — not…
Send us Fan Mail You haven't walked away. You haven't denied the faith. You still attend, still serve, still read. But somewhere along the way, the ache went quiet — and what frightens you most is that you've grown comfortable with its absence. Lukewarmness doesn't arrive with a warning. It arrives looking like stability. Episode Summary In this message from Revelation 3:14–22, Michael Durham…
Send us Fan Mail In A Lost Sheep, A Lost Coin, A Lost Son, Part 2 , RTM founder and director Michael Durham explores the startling contrast between two kinds of lost people: the openly rebellious sinner and the outwardly moral, self-righteous sinner. Through Jesus’ powerful parables, this message exposes the danger of trusting in religious performance while revealing that both the prodigal and the…
Send us Fan Mail In A Lost Sheep, A Lost Coin, A Lost Son, Part 1 , RTM founder and director Michael Durham opens one of Scripture’s most beloved chapters to reveal the astonishing heart of God toward sinners. Through three unforgettable parables, Jesus answers a question that still troubles many hearts: Can God truly receive those who have wandered far from Him? This message exposes the tragedy…
Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to truly believe in Jesus Christ? In One Thing Necessary, Part 2 , Michael Durham confronts the shallow, intellectualized faith that fills many churches and calls listeners back to the heart of genuine Christianity: devoted trust in a living Savior. This message exposes the danger of knowing doctrine without truly knowing Christ, and challenges the listener to…