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Rev. Matt W. Leach preached on these seven subjects for forty years. Each study guide below gathers what he taught on one of them, and links to the sermons themselves.
Who God is, and how he makes himself known. The place to start if you have never been sure what picture of him you were carrying.
The Cross and the Resurrection
What Christ bought and paid for, and why every other thing taught here rests on it.
Praying, and being heard. Listening as well as asking, and what to do when the answer has not come.
Taking God at his word before the evidence arrives, and holding on through the long gap.
The authority Christ delegated to ordinary believers, where it comes from, and why so few use it.
How a Christian actually grows — and why trying harder was never the mechanism.
Glenn Clark’s laboratory for athletes of the Spirit, how its prayer groups worked, and why prayer has to stay at the center of it.
Great Expectations: What My Ministry Will Be Like
Sooner or later a minister has to say plainly what a congregation may reasonably expect of him, and the sooner it is said the better. I do not want anybody disappointed in me, and I
The American Colony, Jerusalem, 1955
On 22 November 1873 the French steamer Ville du Havre was struck by the Loch Earn in mid-Atlantic and went down. Two hundred and twenty-six people died.
The Man Who Opened the Gate: Solomon Mattar of the Garden Tomb
The Garden Tomb sits just outside the north wall of the Old City. In 1955 it lay in Jordan, and a visitor rang a bell and waited.
Chapter 8: The Garden Tomb & a Miraculous Trip Home
Our guide led us to a door in the wall and rang the bell. A key turned in the lock and the door was opened.
Chapter 7: The Mount of Olives, Bethlehem and Samaria
Sunday morning we went by car to the Mount of Olives. We could see the Mount of Olives from our room — across the city, across the temple area, across the Kedron Valley.
Chapter 6: The Temple Area, Bethesda, and the Road Down to the Dead Sea
On the evening of our first day the three of us — Mr. Benton, Ferris and I — walked to the Mount of Olives and climbed to the top.
Chapter 5: Jerusalem — The Walls and the Via Dolorosa
If most people had had the same misimpression that I had, they would have thought of Palestine as the Land of Milk and Honey — the Promised Land of the Israelites, rich in vegetation.
Chapter 4: Egypt — Cairo, the Museum, and the Pyramids
Egypt — a name that is almost synonymous with the beginning of civilization. Here history was nurtured as a baby. Here the Israelites were brought into captivity.
Chapter 3: Nouasseur, Tripoli, and the Way to Egypt
As you know, here in French Morocco, and more especially Casablanca, the town next to the air base, the French and Arabs are having quite a “to-do,” and for that reason we are restricted to
Chapter 2: The Trip Begins — Frankfurt, a C-47, and London
Sometimes I wonder if it isn’t harder to just get away from an army post when one’s leave starts than all the paperwork and red tape involved in getting clearances, passports, and visas for the
Chapter 1: Prayer as an Experiment
As a scientist works in his laboratory exercising extensive, exacting controls as he purposely and calculatingly carries out his experiments, so shall I treat this story, or experiment.
God’s School of Prayer: On Wings of Faith, 1955
In March 1955 he and his friend Ferris Liske went up to Berchtesgaden, in the Bavarian Alps, for a religious retreat. During the war Hermann Goering had built a rest resort there for his pilots;