Set Free Stay Free: A Bible Study Podcast with Matt Dawson
Set Free Stay Free is a Scripture-first Bible study podcast that walks through books of the Bible using the SOAP method—Scripture, Observation, Application, and Prayer—helping believers not only be set free in Christ, but learn how to stay free.
Episodes
23 episodes
A Life Worthy of the Calling — Ephesians 4:1–6 | Season 2, Episode 8
Who are you living your life for? And does the way you actually live it match what you say you believe?With one word — therefore — Paul pivots the entire letter. Everything in chapters 1 through 3 was foundation: chosen, adopted...
How Wide, How Long, How High, How Deep — Ephesians 3:14–21 | Season 2, Episode 7
Have you ever felt spiritually weak? Thin on the inside? Exhausted from trying to be faithful when you're running on empty?Paul has a prayer for that — and it's one of the most powerful passages in all of scripture.In this episode...
Why the Church? — Ephesians 3:1–13 | Season 2, Episode 6
Have you ever looked at the church — with all its mess, its hurt, its broken people and broken leadership — and wondered why God would choose this as his plan?Paul has an answer. And it's bigger than you might expect.In t...
No Longer Outsiders — Ephesians 2:11–22 | Season 2, Episode 5
Have you ever felt like an outsider? Like you didn't quite belong, weren't quite included, didn't quite make the cut?That's exactly where the Gentiles stood — and Paul wants to make sure they never forget how far they've come.In t...
But God — Ephesians 2:1–10 | Season 2, Episode 4
Have you ever tried to change something about yourself and found that no amount of effort, resolve, or doubling down could actually do it?Paul has a reason for that — and two of the most powerful words in all of scripture to answer it.
Open My Eyes — Ephesians 1:15–23 | Season 2, Episode 3
What if your greatest spiritual problem isn't that you don't know enough — it's that you can't see what you already know?That's the prayer Paul prays for the church in Ephesus. Not that they would learn more, study harder, or achieve gre...
Sealed — Ephesians 1:7–14 | Season 2, Episode 2
How do you know your salvation is going to last? How do you know God won't take it back? And when life falls apart, how do you hold onto the idea that any of this is part of a plan?In this episode of the Set Free Stay Free Bible...
Chosen Before the World Began — Ephesians 1:1–6 | Season 2, Episode 1
How much of your life is driven by trying to prove yourself? To be good enough, faithful enough, successful enough?What if God settled your worth before you ever had the chance to earn it?Welcome to Season 2 of the Set Free St...
Boast in Nothing But the Cross — Galatians 6:6–18 | Season 1, Episode 14
How do you know you'll finish well? Not just start well — but endure all the way to the end?In this final episode of Season 1, host Matt Dawson brings the Set Free Stay Free Bible study podcast's walk through Galatians to a clos...
Freedom That Restores — Galatians 6:1–5 | Season 1, Episode 13
Have you ever blown it and wondered who would stick around? Or have you ever watched someone else stumble and felt quietly relieved it wasn't you?Paul has something to say about both of those moments.In this episode of the Set...
Two Desires at War — Galatians 5:16–26 | Season 1, Episode 12
Why do you keep doing what you don't really want to do? Why does change feel so inconsistent? And have you ever felt your heart genuinely divided over something?Paul has an answer — and it's not what most people expect.In this epi...
It's for Freedom That You've Been Set Free — Galatians 5:1–13 | Season 1, Episode 11
Are you really free? And if you are — does your life actually look like it?In this episode of the Set Free Stay Free Bible study podcast, host Matt Dawson arrives at the passage this entire podcast was built on. Galatians 5:1 — ...
Two Women, Two Covenants, One Question — Galatians 4:21–31 | Season 1, Episode 10
Are you managing your spiritual life — or receiving it?In this episode of the Set Free Stay Free Bible study podcast, host Matt Dawson works through one of the most creative moments in Paul's entire letter. To close out his argu...
This Isn't About Theology — It's About Love — Galatians 4:12–20 | Season 1, Episode 9
Have you ever tried to help someone grow and instead of leaning in, they pulled away? Have you ever shared a hard truth and suddenly found yourself cast as the enemy?That's exactly where Paul is in this episode of the Set Free Stay F...
Why Would You Choose the Chains Again? — Galatians 4:1–11 | Season 1, Episode 8
Freedom sounds beautiful. But what does it say about your freedom when the people around you still see chains?In this episode of the Set Free Stay Free Bible study podcast, host Matt Dawson moves into Galatians chapter 4 and Pau...
You're Not a Servant Anymore — Galatians 3:15–29 | Season 1, Episode 7
What if the way you've been living your faith doesn't match who God actually says you are?That's the tension Paul lands on in this episode of the Set Free Stay Free Bible study podcast. Host Matt Dawson digs into Galatians 3:15–...
The Weight You Were Never Meant to Carry — Galatians 3:10–14 | Season 1, Episode 6
What if the heaviest thing you're carrying isn't a circumstance — it's a conviction that you're still not enough?In this episode of the Set Free Stay Free Bible study podcast, host Matt Dawson lands on one of the most staggering...
How Did You Begin? — Galatians 3:1–9 | Season 1, Episode 5
How did your relationship with God start? Was it because you tried harder — or because you trusted?In this episode of the Set Free Stay Free Bible study podcast, host Matt Dawson opens Galatians chapter 3 and Paul asks one of th...
When Approval Becomes Your Gospel — Galatians 2:11–21 | Season 1, Episode 4
You can believe in grace and still live like everything depends on you. It happens more than we'd like to admit — and in this episode, it happened to Peter.In this episode of the Set Free Stay Free Bible study podcast, host Matt...
When Unity Costs Too Much — Galatians 2:1–10 | Season 1, Episode 3
Everybody wants unity. Everybody wants to get along. But what happens when unity comes at the cost of the truth?In this episode of the Set Free Stay Free Bible study podcast, host Matt Dawson continues the Season 1 Galatians Bib...
When God Interrupts Everything — Galatians 1:11–24 | Season 1, Episode 2
Have you ever been completely certain about something — and then had God interrupt everything you thought you knew?That's exactly what happened to Paul. In this episode of the Set Free Stay Free Bible study podcast, host Matt Da...
There Is No Other Gospel — Galatians 1:1–10 | Season 1, Episode 1
What if you could be completely sincere and yet still be completely wrong?That's the tension Paul addresses right out of the gate in his letter to the Galatians — and it's just as relevant for the church today. In this first episode of S...