Steve Mathewson
Pastor, author, and adjunct professor of preaching (Western Seminary); senior pastor of CrossLife Evangelical Free Church in Libertyville, IL, and co-host of the 2 Guys and a River fly-fishing podcast.
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Nov 3, 2026
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Hi, this is Steve Mathewson, and I've been a pastor for almost 40 years in the United States.
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I spent 20 years in Montana and then the last two decades in the Chicago, Illinois area in the north suburbs.
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Currently, I'm teaching pastor at the Evangelical Free Church of Des Plaines.
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And I also serve as a professor of preaching at both Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and then Moody Theological Seminary here in the Chicago area.
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A lot of people know me for my book, The Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative.
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Now, as far as a sermon series, one of my favorites is a four-part series that I preached a couple of times from the book of Isaiah.