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February Reading Challenge Schedule 2025

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It’s “I love to read” month again, and this year we’re working through C. S. Lewis’s classic work, The Screwtape Letters. The book, consisting of 31 short letters from a retired demon to a novice demon, is designed to be read one letter / day for a month. Here’s a schedule if you want to pace yourself and stay in sync with themes covered in the weekly episodes.

WeekDatesSection to Read
1Feb 1-2Letters 1-2
2Feb 3-9Letters 3-9
3Feb 10-16Letters 10-16
4Feb 17-23Letters 17-23
5Feb 24 – March 2Letters 24-31

CHALLENGE DEADLINE: Email us at info@practicologypodcast.com by midnight March 3, 2025, in order to qualify for the prize.

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PP151 Come to Christ Again and Again

Reading Challenge, Rest

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Are you weary of life’s burdens at times? Join Mike & Matthew as they direct us to Christ, to find rest for our souls. And in this episode, not only do we get Mike & Matthew, but J.C. Ryle and Charles Spurgeon as well! (Musical Credits: “Give Me Jesus”, Ken & Nancy Biddington, arr. Jeremy Camp)

Scriptures Referenced: Mat 11:27-30; Mat 23:4

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PP150 The Other Half of Freedom

Freedom, Reading Challenge

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The way our culture prizes freedom gives us a huge opportunity to tell others of the freedom available in Jesus Christ. Unlike modern concepts of freedom, the freedom Jesus offers is not just freedom from, but freedom for. Only in the Lord Jesus can we enjoy both halves of freedom. As John Stott says in this week’s reading, “I have found Jesus Christ to be the key to freedom.”

Scriptures Referenced: Luke 4:18-19; Exo; John 8:31-36; Mark 5:1-20, 8:34

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PP149 Christus Victor

Christ, Reading Challenge

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One of the ways to keep our appreciation of Christ’s death fresh is to learn more about the cross. In this episode we learn that one of the reasons Christ died on the cross was to be our Christus Victor. When we view the story of the Bible from this lens, the incarnation becomes an invasion, Golgotha a battlefield, and the cross becomes the Snake Crusher’s mighty death blow to the head of the serpent. At the cross, Christ not only died for us, but also fought for us. And conquered by dying!

Scriptures Referenced:
Gen 3:15; Acts 10:36-38; Mar 3:27; Col 2:13-15; 1Thess 1:9-10; Col 1:13-14; Rev 20-22

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PP148 One of a Kind

Christ, Reading Challenge, Worship

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Do you know one of the greatest things about being a Christian? It means you are a follower of Christ! And there is no one like the Lord Jesus Christ. Refresh your appreciation of his uniqueness, and how the Christian faith is really all about Christ, in this first installment of our February reading challenge with John Stott’s Why I Am a Christian.


Scriptures Referenced:
Mat 11:28; Php 1:21; John 5:39; Heb 1:1-2

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February Reading Challenge Schedule 2024

Reading Challenge

February Reading Challenge Schedule

This year during “I Love to Read Month,” we will be working through John Stott’s Why I Am a Christian. Here’s a schedule if you want to pace yourself and be in sync with themes covered in the weekly episodes.

WeekDatesSection to Read*
1Jan 28 – Feb 3Ch 1-2, The Hound of Heaven an The Claims of Jesus
2Feb 4 – 10Ch 3, The Cross of Christ
3Feb 11 – 17Ch 4-5, The Paradox of Our Humanness and The Key to Freedom
4Feb 18 – 24Ch 6, The Fulfillment of Our Aspirations
5Feb 25 – Mar 2Ch 7, The Greatest of All Invitations

Reading Schedule for Why I Am a Christian

Remember there is a draw for at least 10 winners of Prints of Peace / Practicology sweatshirts. Let us know when you’ve read the book to be eligible for the draw (see the deadline below), and check out the Instagram reel for a preview of the sweatshirts!

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PP147 February ’24 John Stott Reading Challenge

Reading Challenge

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Attention: the 2024 Practicology Reading Challenge begins now! This February we are reading through John Stott’s brief but compelling case for the Christian faith, “Why I Am a Christian” – a short book of wisdom for believers, seekers, and skeptics. Tune in to hear more or less everything you need to know to join in. There will be a prize draw for those who finish the challenge, with AT LEAST 10 Prints of Peace sweatshirts to be given away. See the Practicology website for a reading schedule!

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PP108 Heaven Is No Let Down

Heaven, Reading Challenge

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We might not want to admit it, but some of us worry that heaven will be a let down. The final chapter of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress can help chase such doubts away and replace them with strong hunger pangs for heaven. Tune in to set your mind on the welcome and wonders of heaven.


Scriptures Referenced: Rev 21:4; 2Pet 1:11; 1Cor13:12


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