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Dave Wyrtzen truthencounter@gmail.com Dave Wyrtzen,bible teaching,Matthew,Gospel episodic http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:38:27 -0500 8F710BE3-1D84-416F-BF2A-65C34079E132 Dave Wyrtzen Leadership in Christ’s kingdom is not about titles and positions but about dying to selfishness and pouring ourselves out for the benefit of others. 2139 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:56:33 -0500 03D397C3-25A4-4AB3-A9CA-3E5F52D266DC Dave Wyrtzen Ironically, the only way to get a ticket to heaven is to accept a freebee that costs us everything. 2140 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:16:04 -0500 1C4D2148-D72C-4471-828B-EA6AE152932A Dave Wyrtzen Christians don’t hold their marriages together any better than unbelievers. Let’s look at God’s take on : “Is it lawful to get a divorce for any reason? 2514 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:22:13 -0500 4AD2F6A1-915D-461E-BBD5-332FC30479DB Dave Wyrtzen Death is an enemy that money can’t buy off, What does the empty tomb of Christ say to darkness and death? 2031 full http://www.truthencounter.com/%20matthew Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:47:14 -0500 4E4DE930-812C-4423-BE86-A1E7C3617AB3 Dave Wyrtzen What can Jesus’ suffering and death teach us about those situations where we have strong faith, we ask Jesus to deliver, and no deliverance comes? 2264 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:13:36 -0500 895BD11C-FF11-4D05-9DCD-3C0EED1AD8D3 Dave Wyrtzen How can we be sure that the story will end up with the lights on at the end? How can we know that the childhood fairytale ending “They lived happily every after” is not just a fairy tale? 2356 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:45:38 -0500 929919EF-16A5-40CC-9D0D-74B4C9E34D28 Dave Wyrtzen Jesus’ cross is the only doorway to God’s kingdom. It was Satan’s Waterloo. What have you decided to do with Christ’s cross? 2481 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:27:59 -0600 3108D445-639C-4F0B-8B1D-4566F14F9318 Dave Wyrtzen When Jesus asks you, “Who do you say I am?” you can’t duck. Look at the evidence Matthew gives us and make your decision. 2239 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:18:04 -0600 E651766A-7A9B-4BB4-84D9-1DB03A36FCC8 Dave Wyrtzen Why do believers in Jesus Christ feel such a need to feed the multitudes? 1481 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:19:42 -0600 AF973B11-E088-464C-9E34-034DAE790AFA Dave Wyrtzen Name calling can be dangerous so why did Jesus call the Syro-Phoenician woman one of the dogs? 2374 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 08 Feb 2026 07:02:59 -0600 6A779F23-DF9A-4F9D-B5B2-FDB166E8E3F4 Dave Wyrtzen Is ugliness only skin deep? 2267 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 01 Feb 2026 07:52:38 -0600 6402195D-68C9-4E3A-BF09-B23EF5095A92 Dave Wyrtzen What happens to our faith when Jesus commands us to do something and it lands us in the midst of deadly threats? 1858 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:01:25 -0600 A60938F4-79AD-438F-BB7B-BD9C6C4AD03C Dave Wyrtzen Our hope of heaven can easily be “I’m better than most” but the Kingdom of God does not operate on this arrogant, self-sufficient basis. 2380 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:16:43 -0600 E26BD90B-E321-4949-B915-7F27A8E03E26 Dave Wyrtzen Do you ever feel you simply don’t have the resources to meet the need? Before throwing in the towel, let’s ask ourselves what Jesus has in mind. 2194 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 11 Jan 2026 07:36:14 -0600 C5433624-91A7-461E-954A-10044765D804 Dave Wyrtzen If you are shaky about adultery or fornication, why don’t you hold the same views about murder? 2244 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 14 Dec 2025 07:05:24 -0600 4D93EF0D-6933-4C97-9014-C0A709C37D1F Dave Wyrtzen Rejection. When you get rejected you want to drop out. How did the living, biblical Christ handle rejection? 2220 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 07 Dec 2025 07:16:26 -0600 0E711D39-CD05-4786-8E4E-412EFCD06CFF Dave Wyrtzen When we sacrifice for Christ and his kingdom, do we exchange something lesser for something greater? 2258 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:43:15 -0600 BC86B810-0F42-444D-B4D0-DE11EF970BC6 Dave Wyrtzen What does a tiny mustard seed and a large mustard tree have to do with Jesus and his kingdom? 2215 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:59:48 -0600 9A90D615-7776-44A8-9F3A-2C1CDE517306 Dave Wyrtzen DIRT—the stuff we take for granted is our life support system. Think about your own heart and the kind of dirt that describes your internal state. 2653 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 16 Nov 2025 07:42:18 -0600 91BD5832-CDB3-4BEA-8E6E-715781D3CEB7 Dave Wyrtzen Jesus focused the attention of his enemies on the miracle recovery of Jonah out of the belly of the fish. What is the connection between Jonah and Jesus? 2426 full http://www.truthencounter.com Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:01:04 -0600 E30B9736-E405-40C7-91C7-0EBA9DAE846A Dave Wyrtzen Just hear he words “unforgiveable sin” and it raises horrible fear in some or anger in others. Do those words justify walking away from Jesus? 2481 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:36:25 -0600 007203BB-DC58-4C30-983B-AB1FAF65146E Dave Wyrtzen Do you struggle with the rules and regulations of Christianity? What did Jesus mean when he agreed with Hosea that God desires mercy and not sacrifice? 2875 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 26 Oct 2025 07:32:21 -0500 307D1BF9-B8B0-4EA3-8444-DA07841B69CE Dave Wyrtzen Where is your heart today? Arrogant, self-sufficient, able to handle life or in need, burdened and ready to receive the rest that only Jesus can give? 2558 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 19 Oct 2025 07:03:38 -0500 B1027E33-9C28-4A09-AABB-FC9FC960CA88 Dave Wyrtzen This porridge is too hot, this porridge is too cold.” John the Baptist came as a rugged, ascetic, intense prophet, Jesus as a relational socializer. God will use every form imaginable to try to help us receive the good news about Jesus. 2584 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 12 Oct 2025 07:02:11 -0500 1BB2C840-DE95-4B64-A62A-5EE3CB029716 Dave Wyrtzen What happens when life turns tough and it looks like Jesus has failed to come through? 2311 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:44:46 -0500 2B178FE7-A45E-457C-B2CB-983FA974900D Dave Wyrtzen What gave Jesus the right to claim he has a higher priority in our lives than our parents, our friends, than our nation? 2144 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 28 Sep 2025 10:36:23 -0500 42FDC18D-AAA8-4BD0-A043-479F006B0D1B Dave Wyrtzen Do you ever keep silent when you know you need to speak up for Jesus? You can’t let fear and the desire to be safe keep you from doing what God wants you to do. 1596 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 21 Sep 2025 07:28:31 -0500 25C7C0E5-AE78-41B4-BDAA-68C6601CC591 Dave Wyrtzen If you decide to follow Jesus, he gives forgiveness, redemption and eternal life. He will also lead you into conflict. 2284 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 14 Sep 2025 09:25:54 -0500 D097E793-7AF7-43A2-8122-1D4FF8A2E398 Dave Wyrtzen Did you know there was a time in Jesus’ ministry when the only target audience for his teaching was his fellow Jews? 1962 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 13 Jul 2025 02:27:43 -0500 496D0BF4-2455-422B-9E91-25302AD889A2 Dave Wyrtzen Every farmer’s adrenalin begins to flow when the wheat heads out and the combines starts to roll. When Jesus looked at the harvest, he didn’t see wheat. He saw people. Imagine if there are no workers to bring in the harvest.​ 1899 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 06 Jul 2025 10:30:13 -0500 2B3088F5-766E-4FCB-828C-825E7F8135FF Dave Wyrtzen When the curse of weakness invades our own lives, we come face to face with the fact that something is horribly wrong with kingdom earth. Who we will trust to get us through?​ 1634 full http://www.truthencouner.com/matthew Sun, 29 Jun 2025 02:21:04 -0500 CC337046-96D8-40A4-8EA4-4C3BFACC84F8 Dave Wyrtzen There is a time to fast and watch calories a but a wedding reception is not one of them. Jesus gave concrete reasons to dance but religionists of his day (and ours) struggled with this joy and freedom. ​ ​ 2369 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:27:32 -0500 8759242C-6142-4037-B441-07201AD93DAA Dave Wyrtzen How do you feel about people who do things that are smelly and dirty and destructive? Jesus leads us to eat and socialize with those religious people label as evil and detestable. 2295 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 08 Jun 2025 02:56:23 -0500 7258EA50-B4B0-4AEA-AD5B-1F3EBA99E3F7 Dave Wyrtzen What could be so powerful that it can keep a grandfather from seeing his grandchildren, a couple from attending their church, or can dissolve a marriage or a business? 2172 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 01 Jun 2025 07:48:54 -0500 02E3459C-57F8-444F-A260-72F82779DB55 Dave Wyrtzen It sounds like the beginning of a Stephen King horror story, but it is the equivalent of what people in the 1st Century faced on the road that ran along the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee. 2415 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 25 May 2025 06:44:48 -0500 E0E65AE4-4FE6-4186-8BAF-686F4939AE11 Dave Wyrtzen Jesus puts his disciples in a crisis situation.. They ask a question: “What kind of man is this?” How would you answer? 2158 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 18 May 2025 06:34:18 -0500 4648000D-8B8A-4E96-9B5C-A53BEC3E03B8 Dave Wyrtzen How can Jesus’ authority over nature deliver you from fear? 2099 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 04 May 2025 06:25:53 -0500 F2061507-F8B3-4CD3-9D3C-E4B62DBF598E Dave Wyrtzen Blood clots, heart failure, cancer, terrorist bombings. What does the Messiah do when faced with the suffering of disease? 1436 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:14:32 -0500 592CD3EC-5C84-46E1-BF83-9E31554B27AE Dave Wyrtzen Narrow minded—who wants that label? In the most important part of life—the spiritual, we deny truth’s exclusivity. We want to believe the game is played by different rules. 2437 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 13 Apr 2025 06:56:25 -0500 D7C1EBF2-C62D-4146-8880-D0F2CB753062 Dave Wyrtzen Can we trust God to be a generous, giving Father who lavishes his grace and love upon us? Think about your internal relationship with God. Notice how quickly you can begin to distrust his grace. 2635 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 06 Apr 2025 06:54:59 -0500 AFE70656-C66E-4EEB-A7C3-713860017984 Dave Wyrtzen Jesus began this section of the Sermon On The Mount with a broadside against judging one another. This message could literally save your job or even your life. 1568 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 30 Mar 2025 07:09:10 -0500 00366686-CA3D-4C04-B497-68C8E8CB7564 Dave Wyrtzen All of us have been infected with this deadly menace and some of us are consumed by it. The disease is worry and Jesus Christ is the cure. 2488 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 23 Mar 2025 06:46:36 -0500 F8CADF4C-C7DB-413D-8140-D854D2574934 Dave Wyrtzen My mom hated outward show without internal reality. Where did she get this passion for making sure that the outside lined up with the inside? 2393 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 16 Mar 2025 07:34:46 -0500 E38628D1-ED0B-44AF-8AB7-B53407FEFD12 Dave Wyrtzen What does your “yes” and your “no” mean? Can your kids, your wife, your husband, your boss, your friends count on your word? This part of the Sermon On The Mount will make our natural man squirm. Will we have the courage to listen to what our Master is telling us to do and then obey? 2643 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 09 Mar 2025 08:09:08 -0500 3F887F75-BA74-44DC-85CF-03751C462345 Dave Wyrtzen Unresolved anger is leading to violence in our marriages, our family relationships, and even our daily interactions in the marketplace. What does Jesus have to say in his sermon on the mount about anger, lust, and divorce? 2199 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 02 Mar 2025 06:03:40 -0600 EBE58F0F-B953-468C-B661-F082C979BE80 Dave Wyrtzen Salty salt or light? How can your life this week be salty for Christ? How can your life this week turn on the lights for our culture? 2198 full http://www.truthnencounter.com/matthew Sun, 23 Feb 2025 08:01:32 -0600 30443256-EFDE-4676-90E9-88C816E81819 Dave Wyrtzen One day he walked by the Sea of Galilee, spotted four men and commanded them to come and follow him. The incredible good new is that you might not be looking for Jesus, but he is looking for you. 2327 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:46:24 -0600 232844A8-05B0-419F-A7A8-A1D3B5EF9498 Dave Wyrtzen 2327 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 09 Feb 2025 13:27:36 -0600 44572403-4759-4337-8F7B-7264CF59340B Dave Wyrtzen Death stalks us like a panther. This is the decision: Will we turn away from this present world kingdom dominated by human pride and submission to evil? 1357 full http://www.truthencounter.com Sun, 02 Feb 2025 07:05:57 -0600 837CBC54-320F-445D-B3CB-1BB38783574E Dave Wyrtzen We’re up against a supernatural enemy who desires to deceive and murder every one of us. 2653 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 26 Jan 2025 11:15:27 -0600 55B4E1EC-51C1-4781-BB50-88547D2831B2 Dave Wyrtzen There is only one man who has ever gone into hand to hand combat with the Devil and won. He shows us how to overcome satanic seduction. 1538 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 19 Jan 2025 07:58:34 -0600 7F19DA92-5EA4-4D93-8C0B-96CBD31D2931 Dave Wyrtzen Only admitting our inability to clean up our act in our own strength and total reliance on Jesus can guarantee our place in the kingdom of heaven forever. If you have made this decision, have you publicly confessed your personal faith by obeying the Lord’s first command as you follow Him to be baptized? 2324 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 12 Jan 2025 07:02:08 -0600 58930B69-4151-4EE9-9A41-55E8BE7D9A09 Dave Wyrtzen If the President of the United State decided to make a visit to your hometown, you could count on the fact that his advance people would arrive a make sure that everyone would know he was coming. Who was the advance man for Jesus? 2444 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 05 Jan 2025 07:14:16 -0600 079AFBF9-0153-4298-8375-9705A42CF25A Dave Wyrtzen A ruthless king, a midnight flight, the murder of infants…the birth narrative hits us in the face with the threats and tragedies of evil. Nothing causes us to ask, “Where is God?” more than the death of little ones. 2551 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 29 Dec 2024 18:41:39 -0600 19BFE7CB-170C-4566-9FFE-53948819D998 Dave Wyrtzen Among the intellectual elite it is “in” to reject the biblical narrative about Jesus’ birth, life, death and his resurrection. But in Matthew 2 we learn that true wisemen always come to Jesus and they depart another way. 2564 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:23:52 -0600 FC64618C-35EB-4A99-A4C8-765A562D4BD4 Dave Wyrtzen It’s the time we hear Christmas carols and remember nostalgic days before we grew up and discovered that the world was not a place of miracles like the virgin birth, the star, the shepherds and wisemen coming to worship a baby who was God in the manger. What has changed? 945 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 15 Dec 2024 12:07:12 -0600 FFF35D35-B48D-4A0B-8198-20AD095CC21C Dave Wyrtzen Nazareth was a small town and you can bet that the gossip was buzzing when Joseph suddenly ended the betrothal period with Mary and formally had her move to his house. The truth is not always as things appear. 2670 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 08 Dec 2024 07:28:33 -0600 AE7A851C-485E-49AD-AD32-C898530DD42F Dave Wyrtzen Jesus’ family tree…a family tree that makes it clear that the biblical Jesus does not identify with the priestly professional religious types. ​​​​ 1938 full http://www.truthencounter.com/matthew Sun, 01 Dec 2024 06:37:21 -0600 731EC8A6-993F-405B-AACC-5A1562F1ACE0 Dave Wyrtzen In a few days it will be Christmas and millions around the globe will stop and celebrate the birth of a man they claim was and is the Son of God. They will tell the story of His miraculous virgin birth. Is it all just a pious, feel good story? 2707 full