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Jan 2025
55m 16s

Jesus on Seven Mountains in Matthew

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The Mountain E11 — We’ve learned that mountains in the Hebrew Bible often become a space where Heaven and Earth overlap and human beings must choose between self-preservation or surrender and trust in God. The story builds our hope and expectation for a faithful intercessor on the mountain who can mediate God’s blessings to the people below. As we turn to the New Testament, gospel writer Matthew is ready to spotlight who that faithful mountaintop intercessor is. In this episode, Jon and Tim walk through seven stories in the Gospel of Matthew where Jesus prays, teaches, does miracles, and more—all on mountains.

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Timestamps 

  • Chapter 1: Theme Recap and Overview of Matthew’s Seven Mountains (0:00-17:42)
  • Chapter 2: The Mountains of Testing and Teaching (17:42-29:44)
  • Chapter 3: Two Mountains of Prayer and Feeding, Plus One of Transfiguration (29:44-42:15)
  • Chapter 4: Mountains of Apocalypse and Commissioning (42:15-55:16)

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Show Music

  • “Dreams Come True” by Drips Zacheer
  • “Moonlite” by Nokiaa & Deauxnuts
  • “Go Slow” by little blue
  • BibleProject theme song by TENTS

Show Credits

Production of today's episode is by Lindsey Ponder, producer, and Cooper Peltz, managing producer. Tyler Bailey is our supervising engineer. Aaron Olsen edited today’s episode and also provided the sound design and mix. JB Witty does our show notes, and Hannah Woo provides the annotations for our app. Our host and creative director is Jon Collins, and our lead scholar is Tim Mackie.

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