Maynardville Fellowship Podcast

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You’ve probably heard the phrase: straining at a gnat, swallowing a camel. We use it to describe people who major on the minors and miss the point. But what if I told you Jesus said it first — and He used it to warn of judgment? In this message, Pastor Matt shows why that warning was the very reason Jerusalem fell in 70 AD.

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Here we face the great threat to the Christian faith, at least according to the atheist or blue haired lunatic. In actuality the discussion of the presence of evil in light of a good and all powerful God is one that brings the Christian confidence and solicits praise.

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How are we to understand swearing, vows, and oaths? Didn’t Jesus say not to swear at all? Yet Deuteronomy commands, “You shall fear only the Lord your God… and swear by His name.” How do we reconcile these texts?

The Scribes and Pharisees embraced a loophole-laden system of vows — silly as children crossing their fingers, but deadly in its power to defraud. Listen as Pastor Matt unmasks the absurd logic and damning consequences of blind guides in high places — and points us to the only Shepherd who swore truthfully, kept every vow, and bore the covenant curse so His people could live in the unshakable light of His Kingdom.

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In this lecture Pastor Carr considers five attributes of God: Righteousness, Jealousy, Hatred, Wrath, and Holiness.

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How should we think through defining and understanding God’s attributes? That question is addressed in this lecture as well as God’s attributes of goodness and love as found in Scripture.

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Pastor Carr gives a grave call toward the personal and corporate holiness that should mark the Church and her people.

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In this lecture, Pastor Carr explores the third way God reveals His Lordship— as Father. Discover how Scripture defines the Patriarchal nature of the Kingdom, and what it means for God to be Father.

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Is. 49:6–7 I’ll also make You a light of the nations So that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth. Kings will see & arise, Princes will also bow down.

The scribes & Pharisees postured as those very messengers—God’s agents summoning the nations into covenant blessing through the coming Messianic King & royal conqueror. They came bearing the terrifying texts—of a King who would subdue the nations, break rebels with His rod, shattering them like clay pots. What a message—take the carrot, or get the stick. The combined fear, & prophetic expectation would make a man skip line at the circumcision booth!

But it only looked like evangelism.  Underneath the robes & rituals was hunger for influence—& income. Each convert meant another tither. Another disciple of the system. Another soul under the thumb of rabbinic control. They weren’t shepherds seeking the lost. They were salesmen securing revenue. The Great Commission was nowhere in sight—but the great commission check? That was cashed.

Listen as Pastor Matt unmasks the devil’s evangelists showing why Christ’s harshest words weren’t for pagans, but for false preachers.

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What does it mean to live under the rule of the One True King? In this lecture, Pastor Carr explores the second way God reveals His Lordship—through the Kingdom. Discover how Scripture defines the nature and timing of that Kingdom, and what faithful citizenship looks like in light of it.

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Listen as Pastor Matt uncovers the horrifying irony of those who wore the robes of shepherds while devouring the most vulnerable sheep. Each of the synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke, reveals the same chilling indictment: religious hypocrisy dressed in pious theater, preying on widows and the weak.

Listen in as Jesus thunders judgment from Ezekiel and Zephaniah, declares covenantal divorce on a corrupt nation, and warns all who dare pose as Shepherds for personal gain: “You will receive greater condemnation.”May we all take refuge in the True Shepherd—the One who doesn’t devour His sheep, but lays down His life for them.