Christians, going for gold! (I Corinthians 3:12)

Christians, going for gold! (I Corinthians 3:12)

Hi everyone, GM Matheny and my podcast is Christians, going for gold! (Corinthians 3:12) Our purpose is encouragement! We have helpful, uplifting videos, and amazing testimonies of those who have been faithful to our Lord. Enjoy!

Episodes

August 8, 2025 12 mins

Under Communism, for years she prayed without hope for a church. In Romanian language and songs.  

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A Marine with two purple hearts. He was wounded twice in two separate engagements in Vietnam. The second one almost cost him his life, and God looked down from heaven and said, "I want to use you." 

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March 28, 2025 22 mins

      “Burlington Tent Revival” It began in May with a revival service led by evangelist C.T. Townsend at New Hope Baptist Church, pastored by Randy Hobbs and ended on July 29 after 11 weeks of services in Burlington, North Carolina. The meetings were extended and eventually moved into a large tent where there were two services a day, Monday through Friday. Many thousands attended.

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The Church That Was Started in a Welding Shop. At first a few men met for prayer after work, and it grew from there.

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As a baby they threw him against the wall, broke 17 bones, tried to drown him, and as a small boy he endured aftereffects, but God used him.

“For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And ba...

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February 26, 2025 21 mins

A sailor right out of boot camp starts a Bible study on an aircraft carrier and even some of the officers came.  

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I knocked on the door of a man who had literally lost all hope. He had been a naval officer in the Vietnamese navy and his boat patrolled the Mekong Delta. When Saigon fell (Ho Chi Minh City) he fled to the USA awaiting his wife and two sons to join him. It took much longer than he thought...

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The Red Sea crossing by Israel was in front of the Sphinx and Great Pyramid. Yes, it was “Yam Suf” and yes it was deep water, Isaiah 51:10 “[T]he waters of the great deep...”

The Bible says Israel’s Exodus from Egypt was from the west side of the Nile. (Isaiah 11:15-16). As does Flavius Josephus (1st century Jewish historian) Antiquities, II, 15, 1. And Artapanus (Jewish historian, 3rd–2nd century BC) also has Israel leaving from th...

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January 9, 2025 17 mins

CHURCHES IN TRAIN CARS

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December 27, 2024 52 mins

God, get us to Romana. A family of eight take trains across Europe with one calamity after another and a surprise ending. True Story.

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God & Spies. Firsthand account of Operation Ivy Bells, the tapping of an underwater cable in Soviet Territorial Waters.

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Piedmont Rescue Mission. Offering a hand up, not a handout.

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From Communist Belarus to America, she serves God with her family.

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December 3, 2024 17 mins

Gospel Singer Mark Gray, in 185 churches in a year.

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He stuttered and was bullied but God used. And later a successful businessman. 

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You have to put your line in the water if you want to catch fish.

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November 19, 2024 9 mins

Something funny. Scrooge buys his wife a ring!

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US Navy Divers tapping a Soviet military cable in Siberia. Known as "Operation Ivy Bells." Four hundred feet deep saturation dives and breathing Heliox. Considered the most dangerous of the Cold War and the Mount Everest of spy missions. 

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“The first American we saw in our town was a missionary.” 

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Dr. Tom Wallace, he is 94 and in high demand as a preacher 

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