MTN.fire

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
Jim Elliot wrote those words before stepping onto a remote riverbank in Ecuador - a moment that would echo through eternity.

Five men, armed only with faith, answered a call that didn’t promise safety, only obedience. What the world called a tragedy, Heaven called triumph. Their story became a flame that still burns today.

In this episode, Matt dives deep i...

In a world gone quiet, one man refused to bow.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood when others stayed silent, choosing the cross over compromise and conviction over comfort.
His story reminds us that boldness isn’t a personality trait, it’s proximity to Christ.

Through Paul’s words in 2 Timothy 1:7-8, we learn that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the presence of the Spirit: power, love, and self-control.

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Scripture: Matthew 10:32–33

What does it really mean to stand unashamed for Jesus?

In this powerful episode, we step into the fire with two of the early church’s most fearless believers - Polycarp, the elderly bishop who faced Rome’s flames, and Perpetua, a young mother who faced the arena and would not deny her Savior.

Their courage wasn’t found in comfort - it was forged in faith.
Their stories still ask us the same question: “Wi...

When fear stares you in the face, what do you do?
Stephen-the first martyr of the church-shows us what unshakable faith really looks like. As stones were raised against him, he lifted his eyes and saw Jesus standing at the right hand of God. In that moment, fear lost and faith won.

In this episode, we step inside Acts 6–7 and walk withStephen through the clash between fear and faith. We’ll see what it means to stand firm when the...

Being unashamed of Christ isn’t optional - it’s the dividing line. Romans 1:16 calls the gospel “the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.” But in a world that celebrates silence and compromise, the question becomes unavoidable: If your faith was put on trial today, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

In this season opener, we confront the cost of following Jesus, the eternal danger of compromise, and the b...

When the fire clears, the smoke settles, and the storm passes, what comes next? The mountain.

In this Season 2 finale of MTN.fire, Matt looks back at the journey so far, from testimony, trauma, and healing, to storms, anchors, and fire. And now, with the refining behind us, we set our eyes on the climb ahead.

In this episode:

• The faithfulness of God through every season.

• How mountains in Scripture represent testing, revela...

Fire doesn’t just destroy, it refines. Gold isn’t proven in comfort, it’s proven in the flames. In this episode of MTN.fire, we talk about what the fire takes, what it leaves behind, and why it’s proof, not punishment.

I’ll share how God used the fire in my own life to burn away pride, isolation, and false identities, leaving behind a faith that can stand when everything else falls. And I’ll challenge you to look at your own trials ...

Life’s storms will rock you. Fear, loss, lies, and pain can drag you farther than you ever thought you’d drift. I know, I’ve lived it. But Hebrews 6:19 reminds us that we have “a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul.”

In this episode, I share what it means to be anchored in Jesus when every other rope breaks. From the storms that nearly took me under to the hope that keeps me steady now, this is about finding the Anchor who never m...

What name have you been answering to?

Abandoned? Addict? Worthless? Failure?

Pain and people are quick to hand us labels, but those false names don’t define you. In this episode, Matt unpacks the spiritual battle for your identity and how trauma, lies, and scars try to rename you, and how God has already spoken a better word.

Through scripture, testimony, and practical steps, you’ll discover how to rip up the counterfeit ID cards...

Campfires don’t go out in a flash, they fade little by little when nobody tends them. Same with your soul.

On March 31st, Jesus healed me - PTSD, anxiety, depression, all gone. But the next morning I realized something: fires don’t stay lit by accident. If you don’t feed them, guard them, and stir the coals, they’ll fade.

In this episode of MTN.fire, we walk through Paul’s charge to Timothy: “Fan into flame the gift of God.” (2 Tim 1...

You think your past disqualifies you? You think the chain around your neck is too heavy to break? The cross says otherwise.

In this episode we unpack Colossians 2:14–15—how Jesus canceled the record of debt, nailed it to the cross, and disarmed the powers that accused you. We walk through a raw personal moment when old lies tried to creep back in, and we look at the Barabbas exchange as a living picture of substitution: the guilty w...

Breakthrough changes everything. When God heals, restores, or delivers, it’s powerful, but it also paints a target. The enemy will try to whisper, distract, and pull you back into the fear you’ve been freed from.

In this episode, Matt shares the story of how God completely healed him from PTSD, anxiety, and depression, and the moment, just weeks later, when the enemy tried to rattle him with fear again. What once would have sent him...

Nobody wakes up in chains. You walk there, one compromise at a time.

In this Season 2 opener, Matt takes you inside one of the hardest seasons of his life, a relationship wrapped in compromise, betrayal, and the weight of PTSD. But this isn’t just his story. Scripture warns us about the “slow fade,” from James to Galatians to the story of Samson himself.

This episode unpacks:

How small compromises drift us farther than we realize

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🌪 The Whirlwind, the 3AM Encounter, and the God Who Speaks 🌪

After chapters of silence, Job finally hears from God, not in an explanation, but in a whirlwind. In this episode, we walk through Job 38, where God bypasses the “why” and reveals Who He is.

I share my own whirlwind experience, the night I stopped demanding answers and started receiving revelation, and unpack why God’s presence is greater than any explanation. Along the w...

Sometimes the voice you least expect is the one you most need to hear.

Job knew it. I’ve lived it.

In this episode, we step into the moment when a young, unexpected voice, Elihu, speaks life and truth into a scene heavy with silence and hurt. From Job’s story to my own 25-year journey of resisting and finally accepting God’s call, we’ll see that He speaks in more ways than we realize! It can be through whispers, through storms, and o...

Sometimes the deepest wounds come from the people who were supposed to help you.
Job knew it. I’ve lived it.

In this episode, we walk through the sting of bad advice, the weight of well-meaning words that wound, and the even heavier moment when God feels silent. From Job’s friends to my own battles with PTSD, insomnia, and emotional spirals, we’ll uncover the truth: silence is not absence, and God is still at work when you can’t see ...

Job 1–2

“The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

What do you do when the fire hits your life—and you didn’t do anything wrong?

In this raw and personal episode, I walk through the story of Job, a blameless man who lost everything… and still worshiped. I share my own experience with pain that wasn’t punishment—loss, heartbreak, mental health struggles—and how sometimes the fire in your life is ac...

I was broken. Diagnosed. Done. But Jesus wasn’t finished.
This is the moment everything changed—the night the chains fell off, the darkness lifted, and the fire of God hit my life like never before. This is the healing. The vision. The calling. And the undeniable proof that He still moves in power.

“...so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire…”
—1 Peter 1:7 ...

This is the darknight of the soul—the valley. After the chaos of sin and the traumatic event inEpisode 2, this chapter dives into what happened after: the PTSD, the panicattacks, the insomnia, the isolation, and the downward spiral. But even in thedepths, God was watching. This episode is raw, vulnerable, and filled with thepain that came before the healing.

Psalm40:2 (ESV) – "He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the m...