Practicology Podcast

Now that I’m a Christian, I don’t need to fear punishment for my sins… right? So why does Scripture still speak of judgment for believers? Guest contributor Nathan Pratt joins Matthew to help us understand three judgments in relation to believers. Scriptures Referenced: 1Cor 3:10-15; 1Cor 9:29; 1Cor 11:27-32; Heb 12:3-15; 1Pet 2:24 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com for more episodes.

James invites us to take a new perspective on trials—to see them as occasions for joy. Yes, easier said than done. But to help us take this counterintuitive approach to life’s hard stuff, James points us to something we need to know, pray, and see. Scriptures Referenced: James 1:1-8 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com for more episodes. Follow the Practicology Podcast on Twitter at https://twitter...

In our concluding episode from the Book of Nehemiah, Mike & Matthew bring us the chapter’s challenges to our heart concerning our trust and our separation. What is Biblical separation? How is it a gospel issue? And how does it relate to Nehemiah pulling out people’s hair? Scriptures Referenced: Nehemiah 13; 2Corinthians 6:14-18 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com for more episodes. Follo...

Just because you’re a Christian doesn’t mean you’re immune from doubting God’s love. And an insufficient grasp of God’s love for us can lead to a host of other problems in our walk with the Lord. Malachi 1:1-5 can help. There we discover God’s burden to reassure us of his love, and to do so by giving us a pair of gospel contact lenses. Will you put in your gospe...

Has God done some special things in your life, or in the life of your local church, that should be specially commemorated? Is there wisdom in marking milestones in your family? Matthew & Mike give us some more contemporary practical applications from the Book of Nehemiah. Scriptures Referenced: Nehemiah 12 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com for more episodes. Follow the Practicology Podcast on Twit...

A bully habitually insults, threatens, intimidates, or tries to manipulate another person. Have you ever encountered it? Nehemiah did, and in this episode we learn from his wisdom, righteousness, courage, and Christlike approach in dealing with bullies. Scriptures Referenced: Psalm 112; Nehemiah 6 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com for more episodes. Follow the Practicology Podcast on Twitter at https:...

Want to be wiser than your enemies and more insightful than your teachers? In this fifth back-to-school episode at Practicology, Mike and Matthew look at a Scripture passage that tells us how. And at the end of the episode, they demonstrate a simple method of daily Bible reading for busy students. Scriptures Referenced: Psalm 119:97-100; John 1:1-3; Mark 7:20-23; 2 Timothy 3:14-17; Luke 2:41-52 Vi...

In Ephesians 2 the Holy Spirit gives us two sets of before and after pictures. The first set is taken in portrait mode; the second is taken in landscape mode. But both highlight the difference God’s grace has made for us in Christ. As we look at these before and after pics together in this episode, may the Holy Spirit fill our hearts with joy, worship, and harmony with one another. Scripture...

In our generation, more than accumulated things, many people are craving special, personal experiences – like the all access pass. Well that is exactly what the Father gives us, through Christ, by the Spirit. “The highest and fullest achievement of the peacemaking Christ is the trinitarian access of the people of God, as through him and by one Spirit we come boldly to our Father,&#8221...

After the Lord Jesus was exalted to Heaven, he created something new and wonderful – the Church. And since Christ has torn down the wall of hostility between Jews & Gentiles, we should not be rebuilding walls based on racial and ethnic differences. Have you searched your own heart for this sin lately? Scriptures Referenced: Epehsians 2:11-15 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com for more episode...

In Christ we have the best seats in the house to the greatest show in the universe: God’s eternal display of dazzling grace. Ephesians 2:6 teaches us the awesome truth that every believer in Christ is presently seated with him in the heavens. Join us as we try to wrap our minds around this amazing reality, and wrap our hearts in it too. Scriptures Referenced: Ephesians 2:6-10 Visit Practicol...

Have you experienced a miracle? If you are a Christian, you have. And the phenomenal miracle of grace that God has worked in you, He can do for others too. Also, catch Mike & Matthew’s discussion of human depravity and of the three enemies of the Christian and how they are instructively pictured together for us in the Old Testament. Scriptures Referenced: Ephesians 2:1-5 Visit Practicolo...

Whether you struggle with a sense of misalignment between your body and your inner self, or know others who do, the Bible is ready to help. It offers us direction when we have lost our way, clarity that cuts through our chaos, and hope when all other hopes have let us down. Part I: The Bible gives us a map to reality Part II: The Bible clears up confusion (1) How many sexes? (2) How do our inner s...

Some walls need to be torn down in our lives, but some walls need to be built up. There are walls that God wants us to build and rebuild for the spiritual protection of ourselves, our marriages, our families, and our local churches. Scriptures Referenced: Nehemiah 4 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com for more episodes.

Announcing our FIFTH August Summer Challenge! Mike and Matthew talk everything you need to know for this year’s memorization challenge in Ephesians 2. Scriptures Referenced: Ephesians 2 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com for more episodes. Follow the Practicology Podcast on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MandMsPodcast

Nehemiah had a real passion to do a great work for God – but he couldn’t do it on his own. What can we learn from him about how to share our passion with others and encourage them to share the burden with us in the work of the Lord? Scriptures Referenced: Nehemiah 2-4 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com for more episodes. Follow the Practicology Podcast on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Mand...

Do you want the children and youth in your life to love reading? Everyone in the church should have a vested interest in raising readers. Mike and Matthew discuss 7 ways to help it happen. (Bonus content: this episode was recorded while a mechanical contractor installed equipment in the background. House pets also feature.) Scriptures Referenced: Eph 3:4; Ps 103:14 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com fo...

Young believers often wonder whether they can really serve the Lord, and if so, how? Guest host Nathan Pratt is back to give us 8 excellent principles that help us in relation to using our spiritual gifts to serve the Lord. Scriptures Referenced: 1Pet 4:10-11 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com for more episodes. Follow the Practicology Podcast on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MandMsPodcast

What should you read this summer? Matthew & Mike have some ideas for you! There is no book like the Bible but we all learn from the ministry of others, including ministry that comes to us in written form. In our seventh instalment of Cloak, Books, and Parchments (2Tim 4:13), we share brief reviews of ten books for your reading delight: – Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I? by Timothy Ke...

Do you ever feel like you need your spiritual fire set ablaze again? You want to serve God, or at least you want to want to – but the fire isn’t burning very hot? Or maybe you sense some spiritual weakness around you, but nobody seems to be doing anything about it? Nehemiah has something to say to help you. Scriptures Referenced: Neh 1-2 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com for more episodes....

Even though the baptism in the Spirit happened a long time ago at Pentecost, it has massive significance for Christian life today. Because the Lord Jesus Christ poured out his Spirit on his people 2,000 years ago, every Christian has the Holy Spirit living inside them as a permanent reality. And one of the things the Spirit does is help all of us—male and female, young and old—to be witnesses of C...

What famous Christian wrote, “When I turn my eyes within,
 all is dark, and vain, and wild;
 Filled with unbelief and sin,
 can I deem myself a child?” And could someone who struggled with doubts like that ever produce theologically profound poetic verse that would encourage Christians for centuries? Scriptures Referenced: 1Sam 2:12; 1Cor 15:33; Heb 13:5-6; 2Pet 3:9 Visit PracticologyP...

Praying can be difficult at any time, especially when we’re praying out loud with others. But God has given us his Spirit to help us. The Holy Spirit convinces us of who we are in Christ, corrects our prayers before they reach the Father, and initiates the conversation through his inspired Word. The Spirit is the reason Johnny (and Jenni) can pray. Be sure to stick around till the end of the...

In our last episode, we looked ahead to the coming King and how that anticipation can embolden us in a world that rejects Christ. But what will the world look like when Christ IS King? In this episode, we are joined by guest host Nathan Pratt to explain to us six marks of the coming kingdom under the reign of Christ. Scriptures Referenced: Ps 72 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com for more episodes. Fol...

The times we live in feel particularly challenging for many. We are grieved by a culture that continues its descent down a slippery slope. Tariffs roil the world order. And the threat of armed conflicts in our world seems to be increasing. Is there a government that can step up and fix this? Yes, there is. Scriptures Referenced: Ps 2 Visit PracticologyPodcast.com for more episodes. Follow the Prac...