Most people who are curious about Jesus never start, because they do not know where to begin. Genesis? A random verse? A church they do not know in a town they are only in for six weeks?

Matt LeRoy spent ten years building the answer. Follow Jesus is a 50 day walk through the Gospel of Matthew that takes 10 to 15 minutes a day. A commute. A cup of coffee.

In this conversation, Daron Earlewine and Matt LeRoy break down the discipleship arc hiding in plain sight in Matthew, why Jesus found His first disciples at work instead of at worship, and what it looks like to plant orchards of discipleship among 10 million people in the dirt world who have never seen a church that fits their life.

KEY TAKEAWAYS ⚡️ The whole Gospel of Matthew has a discipleship arc built into it. Matthew 4 is the call, come follow me. Matthew 16 is the cost, take up your cross. Matthew 28 is the commission, go make disciples. Jesus says the last one to the exact people He called in the first one. ⚡️ The margin is actually the center. Jesus consistently goes to people others overlook. Which means the fringe is not the edge of the story. It is where the story has always been happening. ⚡️ Information is not the goal. Transformation is. Every week of Follow Jesus includes an action step, not just a reading, because we already have more information than we can use.

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — The Discipleship Arc Hidden Inside Matthew 05:37 — What Comes After Volume One 11:04 — Jesus Found His First Disciples At Work 16:14 — The Call The Cost And The Commission 21:36 — Why Following Jesus Is Never Individualistic

CONNECT WITH DARON Website: https://daronearlewine.com Coaching: https://roguecollectivecoaching.com Email: [email protected] Support the mission: blackbirdmission.com/give Follow Jesus releases November. Free copies at the Dirt World Summit in Phoenix, and available wherever books are sold.

JOIN THE CONVERSATION What is the one thing that has kept you from reading the Bible consistently? Drop it in the comments. Matt answers a version of that question in this episode, and we read every reply.

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Most of us are chasing a version of success nobody actually defined for us. Bigger platform, bigger title, bigger numbers. And when we get there, it still feels hollow.

In this clip, Ken Primeau, lead pastor of Mercy Road Northeast, offers a definition that reorders everything. Success is becoming who God created you to be, then partnering with him to do what he is calling you to do. He traces it through a chain of small yeses, a plane landing in Indianapolis, two words he never expected to hear, and a wandering desert people who only moved when the cloud moved. If home has always felt hard to name, this will land.

KEY TAKEAWAYS ⚡️ Success is becoming who God made you to be, not out-performing the person next to you. ⚡️ God often speaks in words you would never have chosen yourself. ⚡️ Home is not a place on a map. It is the presence of God.

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A stranger emailed Wayne Jacobson with a claim that sounded like nonsense. The word righteousness is not really in the Bible. It turned out to be a translation problem 500 years in the making. In this clip, Wayne walks through how one Greek word came to be translated righteousness in our Bibles when it is translated justice everywhere else, and what changes when you put it back.

KEY TAKEAWAYS ⚡️ The Greek word behind righteousness is translated justice in every other text of its day, including Plato's Republic. ⚡️ Reading it as justice instead of righteousness reframes nearly every verse where the word appears. ⚡️ The Reformation resolved righteousness through the cross but left transformation unresolved, which is exactly the gap this reopens.

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - A Stranger's Impossible Claim 01:15 - The Word That Means Justice Everywhere Else 03:00 - Why We Should Be Suspicious of Moving a Word 04:45 - What Luther Never Resolved

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Watch the full episode for the complete conversation on the messy middle, biblical repentance, and what to do when God feels distant.

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John the Baptist baptized Jesus. He was Jesus' cousin. He was called the greatest man born of a woman. And he still ended up in prison asking, "Are you really the one, or should we wait for someone else?" In this clip from Episode 207 of The Daron Earlewine Podcast, Daron walks through the emotional weight of John's prison crisis and what Jesus' surprising response reveals about faith when your circumstances don't match your expectations.

KEY TAKEAWAYS ⚡️ Even the strongest believers wrestle with doubt when God doesn't show up the way they expected ⚡️ Jesus didn't rescue John from prison, He sent a message that essentially said trust me anyway ⚡️ The moments you feel most abandoned by God are often the exact invitations to deeper faith

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What if the way you were taught to share your faith is actually the reason people keep pulling away?

In this clip from The Daron Earlewine Podcast, Daron breaks down a model he calls "attack and extract" — find someone who doesn't know Jesus, challenge everything about them, and if they accept, pull them out of their old life into your camp. It sounds bold. It feels righteous. And it is almost never how Jesus operated.

Daron walks through why this model does real damage, what nearly happened to U2 early in their career because of it, and what the actual alternative looks like — building a bridge of trust that can handle the weight of truth.

This one hits different if you've ever felt like sharing your faith had to be uncomfortable or confrontational to count.

KEY TAKAWAYS ⚡️ The "attack and extract" model prioritizes winning an argument over building a relationship — and Jesus consistently chose the opposite approach. ⚡️ U2 nearly quit the band because religious leaders convinced them they had to be extracted out of rock and roll to follow Jesus. What that almost cost the kingdom is worth sitting with. ⚡️ A bridge of trust that can handle the weight of truth is not a soft strategy. It is the strategy — and it requires both courage and genuine relationship.

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Welcome to Summer of Sermons 06:55 Fragile Resilient or Anti-fragile Faith 13:19 The Tension Faith Always Carries 18:18 The Difference Between Lament and Complaint 23:10 The Three Lies and Coming Into Agreement 28:07 When You Feel Alone Look Back 33:30 Knox Kneels Down to Pray 38:35 What Jesus Knew on the Way to the Cross 42:05 The Faith Phase and Communion

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When life hits hard, most of us either crumble or, at best, claw our way back to where we were before. Daron Earlewine wants something better for you. In this Summer of Sermons message from Mercy Road Northeast in Indianapolis, he opens Hebrews 11 and 12 to unpack what it means to build an anti-fragile faith, the kind where pain doesn't break you, it reveals you and grows you. He names the three lies the enemy whispers when you're under pressure, the difference between lament and complaint, and why your identity has to be the foundation before any of it makes sense.

KEY TAKAWAYS ⚡️ Fragile faith crumbles and resilient faith recovers, but anti-fragile faith actually levels up through every setback. ⚡️ The enemy attacks with three specific lies, you're alone, it all depends on you, and you have no purpose, and agreement is what gives them power. ⚡️ Lament moves toward God and complaint moves away from Him, and learning the difference is how you stay honest without faking your faith.

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Welcome to Summer of Sermons 06:55 - Fragile Resilient or Anti-fragile Faith 13:19 - The Tension Faith Always Carries 18:18 - The Difference Between Lament and Complaint 23:10 - The Three Lies and Coming Into Agreement 28:07 - When You Feel Alone Look Back 33:30 - Knox Kneels Down to Pray 38:35 - What Jesus Knew on the Way to the Cross 42:05 - The Faith Phase and Communion

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When life hits hard, most of us either crumble or, at best, claw our way back to where we were before. Daron Earlewine wants something better for you. In this Summer of Sermons message from Mercy Road Northeast in Indianapolis, he opens Hebrews 11 and 12 to unpack what it means to build an anti-fragile faith, the kind where pain doesn't break you, it reveals you and grows you. He names the three lies the enemy whispers when you're under pressure, the difference between lament and complaint, and why your identity has to be the foundation before any of it makes sense.

KEY TAKAWAYS ⚡️ Fragile faith crumbles and resilient faith recovers, but anti-fragile faith actually levels up through every setback. ⚡️ The enemy attacks with three specific lies, you're alone, it all depends on you, and you have no purpose, and agreement is what gives them power. ⚡️ Lament moves toward God and complaint moves away from Him, and learning the difference is how you stay honest without faking your faith.

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Welcome to Summer of Sermons 06:55 Fragile Resilient or Anti-fragile Faith 13:19 The Tension Faith Always Carries 18:18 The Difference Between Lament and Complaint 23:10 The Three Lies and Coming Into Agreement 28:07 When You Feel Alone Look Back 33:30 Knox Kneels Down to Pray 38:35 What Jesus Knew on the Way to the Cross 42:05 The Faith Phase and Communion

CONNECT WITH DARON Website https://daronearlewine.com Coaching https://roguecollectivecoaching.com Email [email protected]

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We treat sin the way Daron treated a herniated disc, by icing the symptoms and hoping the real problem goes away on its own. It doesn't. It grows, it hurts people, and it slowly stops breaking our hearts at all. In this Summer of Sermons message from Mercy Road Northeast in Indianapolis, Daron Earlewine opens 1 Corinthians 5 to talk honestly about church hurt, the danger of treating grace like a credit card you keep charging, and why the people who love us most are the ones willing to call us up instead of just calling us out.

KEY TAKEAWAYS ⚡️ Real healing deals with what's broken inside, not just the symptoms we can see on the surface. ⚡️ Grace was never meant to function like a credit card we keep charging while our sin stops breaking our hearts. ⚡️ A call up culture confronts sin inside real friendship, not from a distance, and it protects against church hurt.

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Welcome to Summer of Sermons 05:09 The Injury That Looked Fine on the Outside 10:50 Reading the Hard Part of First Corinthians Five 16:11 Does the Sin in Your Life Break Your Heart 21:43 The Grace Credit Card Problem 27:05 Our Responsibility to Each Other 32:26 Offended or Healed 37:00 Humble Yourself and Pray 42:29 An Invitation to Follow Jesus

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Most of us treat the Bible like a long text we skim and skip. Too long, didn't read. The cost of that is bigger than we think. When you don't know where you came from or why you're here, you start living like life is random, and that quietly drains your purpose, your work, and your relationships. In this Summer of Sermons message, Daron Earlewine opens Genesis chapter one and the first five words of the Bible to show what it means to be created on purpose and for purpose, and how reading Scripture begins to repair the broken reflection we've been living through.

TAKEAWAYS: ⚡️ The first five words of the Bible, in the beginning God created, reframe your life as designed rather than accidental. ⚡️ Humans don't just reproduce their own kind, they uniquely create the future, because we carry the image of God. ⚡️ We currently see ourselves through a broken mirror, and engaging Scripture is how the missing pieces get filled back in.

TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 — Welcome to Summer of Sermons 02:30 — Too Long Didn't Read and the Bible 08:00 — The Big Questions Only Scripture Answers 13:30 — In the Beginning God Created 19:00 — Can I Speak to the Architect 24:30 — Created in the Image of God 30:00 — What Humans Uniquely Create 35:30 — The Broken Mirror and How Scripture Restores It

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We follow people all day long. Influencers, icons, feeds, and the five voices we spend the most time with. The problem is simple. We slowly become like whatever we follow, and most of us never stopped to ask if those things are worthy of our lives. In this Summer of Sermons message, Daron Earlewine walks through Jesus' shortest and most personal invitation, come follow me, and exposes how Western Christianity quietly swapped imitation for information. We turned discipleship into a golden ticket to heaven instead of a daily apprenticeship that actually changes us. The stakes are real. A life built on the wrong foundation looks fine until the floods come. Following Jesus is the difference between a house that stands and a heap of ruins.

TAKEAWAYS: ⚡️ The word "Christian" appears three times in the New Testament. The word "disciple" appears over two hundred. The goal was never to be a Christian, it was to become like Jesus. ⚡️ Your real beliefs are not what you say in public. They show up in where you actually go for wisdom and who you actually follow. ⚡️ Following Jesus means being with him, becoming like him, and doing what he did. Information alone never makes anyone look like Jesus.

TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 — Summer of Sermons begins 05:00 — The question almost nobody asks 10:24 — The 30 day challenge that stings 19:14 — Three beliefs you do not know you hold 24:30 — The dust of your rabbi 29:59 — Information or imitation 35:00 — Disciple not Christian and the rich young ruler 41:11 — The one life you actually get

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Who is the one voice you follow that you might need to stop following? Drop it in the comments and tell us why. If this challenged you, share it with someone who needs to hear it.

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