Bible

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There is no book like the Bible. Yet admittedly, sometimes the wonder of hearing the living Word of God proclaimed… doesn’t result in anything too wonderful in our hearts. How can I as a listener help the process, so that I profit more from listening to the Bible being taught?

Scriptures Referenced:
1Thess 2:13

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Jan 7 2024

PP144 Stay Motivated to Read the Bible This Year

Bible, Bible Study

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It’s common to start a new year brimming with motivation to read the Bible, only to have that motivation quickly evaporate as the stress and busyness of normal life return. In this episode, a very special guest (the apostle Peter!) joins Mike and Matthew to give us four motivations that will keep us paying careful attention to God’s Word all year. We need to see the Bible against (1) the darkness, (2) the dawn, (3) man-made myths, and against (4) the backdrop of personal encounter with God.

Scriptures Referenced: 2Pet 1:16-21; Psa 119:105; 1Cor 13:12; 2Cor 4:6

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Nov 27 2022

PP096 Seeing God’s Glory In the First Ever Flash Mob

Bible, Glory of God

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“Try and see God’s glory when you read your Bible.” That’s great advice for every aspiring Bible reader, but how do do it? What does it actually look like to see the glory of God in a Scripture passage? In this episode we show what it might look to see God’s glory in Acts 2. This chapter records the first ever flash mob. Who was behind this flash mob in Jerusalem? (1) Someone who is wondrously shy. (2) Someone who is wondrously kind. And (3) Someone who is wondrously wise.

Scriptures Referenced: Acts 2; John 15:26, 16:14; 2Cor 3:18

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Nov 6 2022

PP093 Basic Bible Hermeneutics

Bible, Bible Study

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How should we study the Bible to make sure we interpret it as God wants us to? Guest contributor Nathan Pratt helps us to answer this question, and also provides solid practical suggestions on how to make our Bible study personal and effective in our lives instead of an exclusively academic knowledge.

Scriptures Referenced:
Psa 19:10; Psa 119:103; 2Tim 3:16; 2Pet 1:20-21

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Oct 30 2022

PP092 What to do when you find the Bible culturally embarrassing

Bible, Christian Living

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Sometimes Christians come across passages in the Bible that they find culturally embarrassing. Passages that talk about slavery or the conquest of Canaan, for example. When we give a secular friend a Bible, these are the passages we hope they skip over on their way to one of the gospels. In this episode we go through 6 steps you can take in reading these passages. And if you take them, who knows? Maybe you’ll go from embarrassment over an OT text to worshipping the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ!

Scriptures Referenced:Nu 5:11-31

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Jul 24 2022

PP078 Mythbusters: Theology Isn’t Practical?

Bible, Christian Living, Theology

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There’s a pernicious myth out there that theology isn’t practical. So Mike and Matthew head over to Acts 15 and draw out three points that expose this myth for what it is: (1) theology is everywhere; (2) theology is life-changing; (3) theology is a war fought with words. Theology isn’t practical? Try telling that to the newly-saved Gentile gents in Antioch!

Scriptures Referenced: Acts 15; Gal 5:1

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Jan 30 2022

PP053 Habits of Grace: Practical Help for Giving

Bible, Christian Living, Discipleship, Giving, Grace

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The Bible doesn’t just give us a theology of giving, it also gives us some how to. The Apostle Paul taught us the law of the harvest that we reap what we sow. In this episode we also learn about our Lord’s principles of giving in his Sermon on the Mount, and touch on matters such as debt, and giving privately instead of publicly.

Scriptures Referenced: 2Cor 8-9; Gal. 6
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Jan 16 2022

PP051 Habits of Grace: Meditation & Prayer

Bible, Discipleship, Discipline, Memorization, Prayer, Spiritual Warfare

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Prayer can be hard work, and we need all the help we can get. One thing that helps is understanding how prayer relates to two other activities: reading the Bible and meditating. In this episode we go through a little poem that explains how it works: Before I read I pray / Before I pray I read / If in between I meditate / My heart knows what to say.

Scriptures Referenced: Jude 20-21; John 15:5; Mat 11:28; Ps 86:11, 90:14, 119:18, 36; Jam 1:19; Mark 2
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Jan 9 2022

PP050 Habits of Grace: Gathering with the Church

Bible, Body, Christ, Christian Living, Discipleship, Discipline, Family, Local Church

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Are you part of a local church, following the example of the early Christians in the Book of the Acts? Churches meet together. Many of the spiritual disciplines are private exercises, but the public activity of gathering together with the church is also a habit of grace. It is how we express our unity in Christ and is also for our own spiritual blessing. We shouldn’t attend the meetings of the church to impress others, but we should look at it as an opportunity to encourage others.

Scriptures Referenced: Acts 2:42-47; 1Cor 11:17; Heb 10:24-25
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Jan 2 2022

PP049 Habits of Grace: Reading & Learning

Bible, Discipleship, Discipline, God, Grace, Growth, Love, Spirituality

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One of the ways we can grow in enjoying and experiencing God’s love is through learning theology. And one of the ways we learn theology is through reading Scripture and books about Scripture. This is the first in a short series of episodes on the spiritual disciplines, what David Mathis calls habits of grace. If your daily quiet time is lacking some sizzle, discover how replacing your devotional book with a good solid work of theology can make a world of difference.

Scriptures Referenced: Jude; Acts 2:42; 1Tim 1:6-7, 4:7; 2Pet 3:16-17; Ps 119:9, 18, 34-35, 160; Eph 4:11-14
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