Manna on the Mountain
Dr. Curtis McClane is a Bible scholar with many years experience as a teacher, minister, and Christian counselor with a passion for the Lord and people who want to know God. These lessons on the Bible and Christian life average 30 minutes in length and drop once a week.
Episodes
126 episodes
Matthew Lesson 54: Parable of the Soils
Matthew 13:1-9 and 18-23 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Parable of the Sower/Soils."This is in one of the teaching sections of Matthew’s gospel. Jesus shares the parable to illustrate how people receive God's word. The setting h...
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Season 2025
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Episode 39
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33:14
Matthew Lesson 53: Family of Jesus
Matthew 12:46-50 is the text for this sermon entitled, "The Family of Jesus."In this final paragraph of Chapter 12, Matthew describes a time when Jesus was sitting with disciples and his birth family came asking to speak with him. Someo...
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Season 2025
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Episode 38
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28:04
Matthew Lesson 52: Return of the Unclean Spirit
Matthew 12:43-45 is the text for this sermon entitled, "The Unclean Spirit."Introduction - What is the unclean spirit?•The "unclean spirit" symbolizes evil and spiritual uncleanliness, with roots in Old Testament concepts of defilement....
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Season 2025
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Episode 37
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28:51
Matthew Lesson 51: Demanding a Sign
Matthew 12:38-42 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Demanding a Sign."Curtis begins this lesson with a look at two parallel gospels (Mark and Luke) that add additional details and perspectives about this event in the life of Jesus. ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 36
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34:00
Matthew Lesson 50: Good Fruit and Good Words
Matthew 12:33-37 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Good Fruit and Good Words."The book of Matthew records Jesus' teachings as focused on words 20-30% of the time. That underscores the importance of understanding how our words refle...
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Season 2025
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Episode 35
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33:48
Matthew Lesson 49: The Unforgivable Sin
Matthew 12:22-32 is the text for this sermon entitled, "The Unforgivable Sin."Jesus attributes the healing and exorcisms He performs to the power of the Holy Spirit, emphasizing the Spirit's divine role in His ministry. Interesting how ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 34
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29:52
Matthew Lesson 48: The Chosen Servant
Matthew 12:15-21 is the text for this sermon entitled, "The Chosen Servant."Jesus came to earth on a mission! Have you ever thought about writing your personal Life Mission Statement to see if it aligns with God's purpose for you? ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 33
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29:10
Matthew Lesson 47: Lessons from Grain & Withered Hand
Matthew 12:1-14 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Lessons from Grain and a Withered Hand."Matthew moves from teaching section to ministry action, but still teachingwithin the action! This interaction between Jesus and the Phari...
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Season 2025
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Episode 32
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34:21
Matthew Lesson 45: Woe to the Unrepentant Cities
Matthew 11: 20-24 is the text for this lesson entitled, "Woe to the Unrepentant Cities."There is a significant difference between Jesus’ words about repentance and judgment. The purpose of today’s lesson is to understand and live by thr...
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Season 2025
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Episode 31
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31:27
Matthew Lesson 44: John the Baptist as Elijah
Matthew 11:1-19 is the text for this lesson entitled, "John the Baptist as Elijah."1. John’s Faithfulness to God's CallingJohn the Baptist was dedicated to his calling in a prophetic role, faithfully preparing the way for Jesus. Des...
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Season 2025
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Episode 30
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28:31
Matthew Lesson 43: A Sword, Cross, and Cup
Matthew 10:34-42 is the text for this sermon entitled, "A Sword, Cross, and Cup."This passage offers today's Christians three powerful metaphors of discipleship. Here, Jesus continues His instructions to disciples for what is sometimes ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 28
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28:09
Matthew Lesson 42: Lifestyle of a Disciple
Matthew 10:24-33 is the text for this lesson entitled "Lifestyle of a Disciple."Here, Jesus continues his instructions to the 12 apostles following his delivery of what is sometimes called "The Limited Commission." His directives paved ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 27
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30:48
Matthew Lesson 41: The Mission of the Twelve
Matthew 10:1-23 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Mission of the Twelve." This chapter in Matthew's gospel details Jesus' instructions to the 12 apostles as he sends them out on what is sometimes ref...
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Season 2025
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Episode 26
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33:47
Matthew Devotional: Hold to God's Unchanging Hand
The words of the hymn "Hold to God's Unchanging Hand" inspired this sermon of the same name. We start with Matthew 22:16 where scripture tells us Jesus was not swayed by the opinions of people, but was unchanging in truth.The world is c...
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Season 2025
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Episode 25
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27:01
Matthew Lesson 40: Heart of a Harvester
Matthew 9:18-38 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Heart of a Harvester."John 16:33, ““I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 24
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32:09
Matthew Lesson 39: Fasting and New Wineskins
Matthew 9:14-17 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Fasting and New Wineskins."John’s disciples come to Jesus to ask important question. They realized he was the source for answeringtheir religious question. The practice of fasti...
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Season 2025
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Episode 23
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30:13
Matthew Lesson 38: Jesus Calls Matthew
Matthew 9:9-13 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Jesus Calls Matthew."The calling of Matthew, the tax collector, as one of his own disciples in a most intriguing insight into Jesus’ mindset about discipleship. E33This is also a mod...
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Season 2025
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Episode 22
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25:23
Matthew Lesson 37: Jesus Heals a Paralytic
Matthew 9:1-8 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Jesus Heals a Paralytic."The lesson opens with reading the all three gospel accounts of the paralyzed man brought to Jesus by his friends who lowered him through the roof so he could ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 21
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33:06
Matthew Lesson 36: Jesus Calms the Storm
Matthew 8:23-27 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Jesus Calms the Storm."In this passage, crowds still figure into Jesus’ active ministry. One of the most poignant and powerful stories in the gospels about the relationship be...
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Season 2025
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Episode 20
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31:00
Matthew Lesson 35: Following Jesus
Matthew 8:18-22 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Following Jesus."This section of Matthew recounts two potential disciples who approached Jesus with declarations that they each intended to become his disciples. Jesus, who could re...
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Season 2025
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Episode 19
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26:37
Matthew Lesson 34: A Leper, Centurion, and Mother-in-Law
Matthew 8:1-17 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Leper, Centurion, & Mother-in-Law."Chapters 8 and 9 of Matthew show us Jesus' "Framework for Ministry." At the end of chapter 9, the author summarizes these two chapters by spell...
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Season 2025
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Episode 18
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25:35
Matthew Lesson 33: Doing Jesus' Teachings
Matthew 7:24-29 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Doing Jesus' Teachings."Remember the old Vacation Bible School (VBS) Song, "The Wise Man Built His House Upon a Rock"? Here are the words to the song:Verse 1The wise man...
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Season 2025
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Episode 17
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29:10
Matthew Lesson 32: Good Fruit or Bad Fruit?
Matthew 7:15-23 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Good Fruit or Bad Fruit."This part of the sermon on the Mount warns against false prophets and prophesying. One of the greatest litmus tests for determining if someone is a false pr...
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Season 2025
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Episode 16
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30:01
Matthew Lesson **: Jesus Our Helper
Note (this episode is out of order to accommodate a routine request and the series number will be updated later).Matthew 11:28-30 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Jesus, Our Helper."What happens when a foot slips? There's n...
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Season 2025
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Episode 15
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26:20
Matthew Lesson 31: Ask, Do, Enter
Matthew 7:7-14 is the text for this sermon entitled, "Ask-Do-Enter."This section of the Sermon on the Mount focuses on Prayer Life, Community Life, and Kingdom Life. Following Jesus into all aspects of our life--we have the image that h...
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Season 2025
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Episode 14
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33:56
