Matthew // Pastor Gene Pensiero
70 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingVerse by verse studies through books of the Bible with Pastor Gene Pensiero of Calvary Hanford. In this series titled "The King's Ransom" we learn about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and His extravagant love for His people.
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
Matthew 1:18-25 – I’ll Betrothe For Christmas
December 24, 2023 21:42 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBJoseph faces the choice of either breaking off his engagement with Mary or taking on a life very different than the one he must have planned. Matthew 1:18-25 Christmas 2023 Gene Pensiero Jr
Matthew 28:1-20 – The Commish
April 12, 2017 00:22 - 37 minutes - 30.2 MBMatthew ends his Gospel with Jesus giving His followers what has been called the Great Commission throughout the church age (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 27:45-66 – Come Out, Come Out, Resurrected You Are!
April 12, 2017 00:21 - 34 minutes - 27.2 MBMatthew tells us that when Jesus was crucified graves were opened and afterward many bodies of the saints were raised (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 27:27-44 – Cross My Heart And Choose To Die
April 12, 2017 00:20 - 38 minutes - 30.8 MBJesus chooses to give His life on the Cross out of obedience to His Father and love for us (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 27:11-26 – Notorious B.A.R.
April 12, 2017 00:19 - 34 minutes - 27.5 MBPontius Pilate is stunned when the Jews demand he release to them the notorious criminal bar-Abbas instead of Jesus (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 27:1-10 – Judas Priests
April 12, 2017 00:18 - 37 minutes - 29.8 MBThe chief priests and elders of Israel refuse to help Judas while themselves betraying Jesus to His death (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 26:57-75 – The Witness Pathetic Program
April 12, 2017 00:16 - 36 minutes - 29.4 MBIn order to convict Jesus the Jewish authorities produce a number of false witnesses (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 26:47-56 – From Ear To Eternity
April 12, 2017 00:15 - 35 minutes - 28.7 MBJesus uses the occasion of Peter cutting-off a man’s ear with his sword to show the superiority of the Word of God (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 26:30-46 – The Victory Garden
April 12, 2017 00:14 - 34 minutes - 27.5 MBIn the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus lets us know He is determined to go to the Cross in perfect submission to the will of His Father (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 26:17-30 – Sinner, Sinner, Passover Dinner
April 12, 2017 00:13 - 33 minutes - 27 MBJesus shares the Passover dinner with His disciples as the final lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 26:1-16 – Waste Management
April 12, 2017 00:12 - 34 minutes - 27.9 MBJesus praises a woman whom the disciples accuse of wasting a precious resource (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 25 – Separation Anxiety
April 12, 2017 00:11 - 27 minutes - 22.4 MBAt His Second Coming Jesus will separate all nonbelievers for eternal punishment (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 24:26-51 – Cloudy With A Certainty Of Jesus
April 12, 2017 00:10 - 31 minutes - 25.3 MBJesus proclaims that He will return “on the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 24:15-25 – Looking For Lord In All The Wrong Places
April 12, 2017 00:09 - 33 minutes - 26.8 MBJesus warns the Jews in the Great Tribulation to not be fooled into coming out of hiding by reports He has returned prematurely (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 24:1-14 – Informative Jesus And The Temple That’s Doomed
April 12, 2017 00:09 - 33 minutes - 38 MBJesus sends a shockwave through His disciples when He informs them that the Jewish Temple is doomed to be destroyed (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 23:1-39 – God Only Woes What I’d Be Without Him
April 12, 2017 00:08 - 34 minutes - 27.7 MBJesus decries the hypocrisy of the Pharisees by pronouncing a series of “Woes!” against them (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 22:15-46 – Frequently Masked Questions
April 12, 2017 00:07 - 33 minutes - 26.9 MBJesus answers a series of loaded questions put to Him by hypocrites hiding their sinister motives (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 22:1-14 – My Big, Foretold Jewish Wedding
April 12, 2017 00:06 - 28 minutes - 22.6 MBJesus tells a parable in which He compares the earthly kingdom God promised the Jews to a wedding banquet (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 21:23-46 – Because You’re Mine, I Tend The Vine
April 12, 2017 00:05 - 32 minutes - 25.8 MBJesus tells two parables that remind the Jews God provided all they needed to be His fruitful vineyard (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 21:18-22 – Jesus Is A Fig-Wither Friend
April 12, 2017 00:04 - 32 minutes - 25.8 MBThe disciples marvel that Jesus causes a fruitless fig tree to wither (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 21:1-17 – Donkey King
April 12, 2017 00:03 - 34 minutes - 27.6 MBJesus makes His triumphal entry into Jerusalem as King riding on a donkey (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 20:29-34 – Blind Man’s Blurt
April 12, 2017 00:02 - 37 minutes - 30.2 MBJesus heals two blind men who follow Him shouting for mercy (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 20:17-28 – 33 1/2 Years A Slave
April 12, 2017 00:01 - 33 minutes - 27.2 MBJesus describes His ministry to us as that of a slave serving His Master (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 20:1-16 – Pay It Backward
April 12, 2017 00:01 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBJesus tells a parable in which the owner of a vineyard purposely pays the day laborers he hired in reverse order to reveal his generosity (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 19:16-30 – Goodness, Gracious, Great Call To Follow
April 12, 2017 00:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBJesus emphasizes the difference between human goodness and His saving grace in His call to the rich young ruler to follow Him (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 19:13-15 – No Child Left Unblessed
April 11, 2017 23:56 - 37 minutes - 25.4 MBJesus rebukes His disciples for trying to prevent children from being brought to Him to be blessed (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 19:1-12 – Divorce Thwart
April 11, 2017 23:55 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBJesus puts the brakes on the Jewish practice of divorce for any reason (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 18:21-35 – The Magnificent 70×7
April 11, 2017 23:55 - 37 minutes - 26 MBJesus stuns His disciples by telling them that they must forgive others “up to seventy times seven times” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 18:15-20 – To Boldly Go Where One Man Can Be Restored
April 11, 2017 23:54 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBJesus instructs His followers how to go after a brother who sins in the hope of restoring him to fellowship (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 18:1-14 – I’m A God’s-4-Us Kid
April 11, 2017 23:53 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBJesus instructs us to remain childlike while waiting for Him to return for us (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 17:9-27 – How To Maintain A Love-Wait Relationship
April 11, 2017 23:52 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBJesus continues to prepare His disciples for the wait between His two comings (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 16:24-17:8 – Finders Weepers, Losers Keepers
April 11, 2017 23:51 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBJesus tells His disciples whoever loses his life for His sake will find it (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 16:13-23 – He Will Rock You
April 11, 2017 23:49 - 33 minutes - 23 MBJesus calls Peter a rock, then tells him that believers are the living rocks with which The Lord is building His church in His absence (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 16:1-12 – The Yeastie Boys
April 11, 2017 23:49 - 36 minutes - 20.9 MBJesus warns His disciples that the Pharisees and Sadducees are like yeast corrupting the pure Word of God (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 15:21-39 – Be Aware Of Dogs
April 11, 2017 23:48 - 30 minutes - 17.3 MBJesus surprises everyone by referring to a Canaanite woman who has come to Him for help as a dog (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 15:1-20 – Heart In Mouth Disease
April 11, 2017 23:47 - 29 minutes - 16.7 MBIn a parable, Jesus says it’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles you, but what comes out of it (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 14:22-36 – I Ain’t Portrayed As No Ghost!
April 11, 2017 17:26 - 30 minutes - 17.2 MBIn this study, at first thinking it is a ghost walking on the water, the disciples trust it is Jesus when He speaks to them (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 14:1-21 – Dance Mom
April 11, 2017 17:26 - 32 minutes - 18.9 MBIn this study, Jesus withdraws when He hears that John the Baptist was executed after Herodias had her daughter dance for Herod and ask for John’s head on a platter (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 13:24-58 – Thistle While You Work
April 11, 2017 17:25 - 32 minutes - 18.8 MBIn this study, Jesus informs us that as we are sowing the good seed of the Word of God, our enemy will be at work sowing weeds (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 13:1-23 – The Sew Must Go On
April 11, 2017 17:24 - 32 minutes - 18.4 MBWhen the nation of Israel rejected Jesus, He told the Parable of the Sower to explain to His disciples God’s new program for spreading the Gospel (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 12:38-50 – Signing Off
April 11, 2017 17:23 - 31 minutes - 18 MBJesus tells Israel’s leaders they will get no further sign from Him until His resurrection from the dead (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 12:22-37 – Tying Up Loose Fiends
April 11, 2017 17:22 - 33 minutes - 19 MBJesus’ exorcisms proved He had the power and the authority to bind Satan and hold him captive (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 12:14-21 – Cruisin’ For A Bruised Reed
April 11, 2017 17:21 - 33 minutes - 19.1 MBJesus says hurting people are like bruised reeds whom we should seek out to serve (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 12:1-14 – Back In The Sabbath Again
April 10, 2017 23:23 - 35 minutes - 20.5 MBThe Pharisees twice try to trip up Jesus by accusing Him of breaking Sabbath laws (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 11:25-30 – Different Yokes For Different Folks
April 10, 2017 23:22 - 35 minutes - 20.3 MBYour life is compared to a field that is being plowed by you and Jesus as if you were yoked together (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 11:1-24 – Violence Of The Lambs
April 10, 2017 23:19 - 32 minutes - 18.4 MBJesus tells His disciples they will suffer violence from human and demonic foes who oppose the Gospel (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 10:24-42 – I’m So Excited, I Just Can’t Hide Him!
April 10, 2017 23:17 - 35 minutes - 20.4 MBYour love for Jesus overcomes the fear you might have of losing your life by sharing Him with people who want the truth of the Gospel to remain hidden (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 10:1-23 – Heal Team 12
April 10, 2017 23:15 - 33 minutes - 19.1 MBJesus sends out His twelve apostles on a mission to cast out demons and to heal all manner of sickness and disease (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 9:13-38 – How To Induce Laborers
April 10, 2017 23:13 - 36 minutes - 20.7 MBJesus encourages us to pray that laborers would be sent out into the spiritual harvest (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Matthew 9:9-17 – Life In The Feast Lane
April 10, 2017 23:11 - 30 minutes - 17.7 MBMatthew throws a feast for Jesus and while others are critical of his guests, The Lord defends their celebrating salvation (Pastor Gene Pensiero)