About Us

Real Truth Matters is the multi-media resource ministry from Michael Durham and Oak Grove Baptist Church, Paducah, Kentucky. Real Truth Matters is about encouraging a fascination with Christ Jesus. This fascination should involve the mind, heart and will. In too many cases fascination involves one or two of the three, but seldom all three. But the mind, heart, and will must all be engaged! Our pursuit of Christ should not be academic alone, emotion alone, or action alone.

The Word of God makes it very absolute that what we learn of Christ should move the soul to feel deeply, which in turn will lead the heart to act. One of the problems that exists is that truth is often seen separate from its power. Real Truth Matters believes that the truth must be learned and proclaimed in the power of the Holy Spirit for it to have effect on the whole man. We pray we exemplify this New Testament principle and thereby promote the same.


These are some of the basic tenants that guide the Real Truth Matters ministry:

1.  The Gospel is the cornerstone of our salvation and must be accurately proclaimed and defended.  In modern America, the gospel has been replaced with ritualism, both formal and informal.  Whether it is keeping certain rules or rites or repeating prayers, much ‘gospel’ preaching today contains very little of the Gospel presented in the Bible.  We must return to the Gospel and its essential elements without adding to or taking away from it if we are to see true revival and put an end to the parade of false converts flooding so-called churches.

2.  Truly walking with Christ means to daily rest and remain in Him.  Most true Christians live far below the power Christ makes available to us through His spirit.  Christ’s death does more than just free us from hell.  He frees us from wasted lives.  He came to give us life more abundant, and by living desperately dependent on Him, we discover the radical, life-changing power that God gives freely to all his children. 

3.  Through the truth of His Gospel and by resting in Him, Christ, by His grace, will be our greatest treasure.  To treasure Christ is to live a life of adoration and true worship for the Son of God.  In that, he attains the greatest honor and glory, and we attain our greatest joy.

About Michael Durham

Pastor and conference speaker, Michael Durham, has lived and experienced the theme of this ministry. Having being reared in church, he made a profession of faith at a very early age. He entered college and ministerial training with the idea of becoming a clergyman and perhaps one day an evangelist helping others to come to Christ. But only one problem—he had never been truly converted. While pastoring his second church it became very clear to him that he had been a Christian in name only. Seven months later his life changed when something happened that the Bible describes as the “new birth.”

Durham has served as pastor of Oak Grove Baptist Church in Paducah, KY since 1993. He is the founder and speaker of Real Truth Matters Ministries. He also is the editor of the quarterly magazine, The Expositor, as well as conference speaker here in the states and abroad. For more information about Oak Grove Baptist Church click here.