Church and Family Life Podcast

Two things: How should church leaders respond when a person is caught in pornography? And what about family shepherds - fathers, mothers, and single parents? How should they respond? What principles should be followed when someone has been caught in pornography? How should they be treated? What kinds of disciplines are most appropriate? What should be expected of that person?

What is the greatest defense against pornography? How can a person protect himself from the vulnerability? What do we need to be strong?

How do you escape pornography or any sexual addiction? The Bible tells us that there are multiple ways of escape. What are they? How do you put them in place?

How serious is it when I look at pornography? When do we consider impurity? What does the Bible say? Not only is pornography a false teacher that will make you a failure at love and teach you to be a taker, not a giver, but there are also even more staggering consequences. This is a warning.

Everyone wants a happy home. But what does God say about it? In Psalm 128, we find practical wisdom for having happy families. God desires families.

What does the person and work of the Holy Spirit look like in the life of the believer, in the family, and the church? In this podcast, we discuss the filling of the Holy Spirit in church and family life.

What does it look like to know God? We invite you to our conference on Knowing God, where we will examine living illustrations for what it looks like in the lives of men and women of the Bible. Our speakers focus on various personalities in the Bible and how God's incommunicable and communicable attributes impacted them. "…but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great expl...

In this podcast, we interview two pastors in New Zealand who are preaching and praying and shepherding their flocks through the long nights of the New Zealand lockdowns, which are some of the harshest in the world.

My dad was famous for telling lots of other men and me, "Hug Your Honey." What did he mean? Why did he say it? And, why you should do the same as a husband or a wife.

Join us as we show you how to read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation next year, using the "Journey Through the Bible" method of Church and Family Life. Visit read2022.com for more information.

How important are children? How should we demonstrate their importance? Join us as we discuss Jesus' view of children and the implications for the 21st century.

Is your family life a little piece of heaven? What is the aroma of your home? Well, sometimes, it is not exactly heavenly. But how can you inflect your family heavenward? In this podcast, we talk about the sacred design for a family. Of course, the devil is continually working to spoil it. But it does not have to be spoiled.

Is your family life orderly or disorderly? Do you have a frenetic and variable schedule? Is your life characterized by the disorder of irregular sleeping habits and mealtimes? Are you able to keep a rhythm to life? Is your house messy? How important is it to have an orderly home, an orderly life, an orderly schedule? Scott and Jason work through various passages of scripture that speak to the matt...

Co-hosts Jason and Scott have witnessed firsthand the wonderful college campus ministries that Antioch Baptist Church and pastor Malamulo Chindongo have in Blantyre, Malawi. For over a decade, Mala has conducted purposeful, consistent student ministries, and we have much to learn from him. In this conversation, Mala tells us how they do it, giving us a look under the hood of this ministry.

In February of 2021, pastor James Coates was arrested and jailed for conducting worship services in his church in Alberta, Canada. In this podcast, he explains what he learned from the experience.

Bradley Pierce and Phil George have focused significant energy on the effort to abolish abortion in Texas. In this podcast, they explain why they think abolition must be preferred above incremental measures.

When a pastor’s convictions change and grow, what happens in the church he serves? This is part of Carlton McLeod’s story, and the remarkable trajectory of reformation in his church in Chesapeake, VA. In this podcast, Carlton tells the story of his own changing understandings of the church and how he continues to lead his church through progressive sanctification by the Word of God.

What is the mark of the beast? The truth is that no one knows exactly what this will look like, or if it is even a physical mark (remember, Revelation largely uses figurative language).  In today’s discussion, we start off talking through what people have believed was the mark of the beast. Then we define that mark as the mark of the world. We are identified by what we believe and do, where we all...

Drew Davis, a data analyst for a large pharmaceutical company, joins the podcast to discuss Covid by the numbers. When his company demanded that he get a Covid vaccine, he engaged in an aggressive pattern of research to understand the numbers as published by mainstream information outlets like the CDC and others from the mainstream medical community. In the process, he uncovered fascinating perspe...

In this final chapter of When to Disobey Viret urges Christians to be patient under tyrannical regimes. Viret cites several examples we can look to in Scripture in Jeremiah, Esther, and Mordecai. Viret also uses Jeremiah 29 to demonstrate that Christians ought not to respond to tyranny in sullenness, pride, and rebellion, but rather in productivity and fruit-bearing. When difficult times come, it...

When persecution comes, Viret wants us to examine ourselves. In chapter 14 of When to Disobey, He urges us to examine how we have loved one another (or not loved one another) and how we may have sinned against one another. The reality is that God sends trouble to those who have departed from His ways. When we are being treated poorly, we ought to think about how we have treated our neighbors and o...

In our discussion of Chapter 13 of When to Disobey, we encounter four heroes of the faith who are worth emulating. The Bible is full of heroes who would not obey government mandates – perhaps surprisingly, Scripture does not just tolerate these figures, it praises them. First, we encounter the Hebrew midwives in Exodus 1. Second, we see the Egyptian taskmasters who were also Israelites who obeyed...

Join us as we discuss the matter of guarding kids against worldly ideologies and lifestyles. In today’s episode, we cover a range of subjects that parents need to pay attention to in the growing of the affections of their children, what they expose them to, how they expose them to different cultural influences, and the end goal of it all.

Missionary William Carey called himself a “plodder”. In the twentieth century, Warren Weirsbe wrote a book called In Praise of Plodders. We are here to talk about the virtue in plodding through life (in other words, replacing a desire for heroism by doing what you are supposed to do as part of a rhythm of life, without  “freneticism”). The core question: Are you frenetically productive or calmly p...

When can a Christian lie? Can he lie to protect people as Rahab did? We are here to discuss this issue in the book When to Disobey, Case Studies in Tyranny, Insurrection, and Obedience to God, written by Pierre Viret. Today we are discussing Chapter 12: Truth, Tyrants, and our Responsibility Before God. This is a fascinating chapter about lying for a good cause, including Viret’s commentary...