Practicology Podcast

Hospitality means “love of the stranger.” In all likelihood there are people who show up at your church gathering who feel like strangers because of social, ethnic, or cognitive differences. How can we support families who have a child with special needs? Or go beyond perfunctory nods and smiles to the newcomer from another culture? In this practical episode, Vince is back on the show to teach us how to widen our hearts to the marginalized.

Scriptures Referenced:
2Cor 6:11-13; 1Cor 3:3; Jam 2:1-6; Rom 12:16

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Vince Kember joins us again, this time to talk about the practice of showing hospitality. What is hospitality? What does it do, and what does it look like in real life? In a grace-based way, Vince encourages us to start now in showing hospitality.

Scriptures Referenced:
Gal 6:9-10; Eph 4:3, 28; Titus 1; 1Tim 6; Heb 13:16; 1Pet 4:9; 2Cor 6:11-13; Jam 2:1-6

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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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In this final episode on C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, we tackle the pervasiveness, problem, and cure, of Inner Ring idolatry. Tune in to hear how the pull of the Inner Ring is illustrated in the second Inside Out movie, and to learn how to turn cliques in the church inside out.

Scriptures Referenced:
Luke 10:19-21

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One of the great things about the Christian faith is how even simple, physical activities – like eating – have spiritual significance and can be done to the glory of God. But our habits at the table sometimes reveal sins that we often overlook. Let’s take a brief, honest assessment and evaluate whether we are allowing the gospel to meet our dinner plates.

Scriptures Referenced:
Prov 23:20; Ezek 16:49-50; 1Cor 6; 1Cor 10:31; Php 3:19; 1Thes 5:23; 1Tim 4:4

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“Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” C. S. Lewis may not have said those exact words (Mike misattributes the quote to him in this episode), but they certainly express what Lewis taught. In this third episode going through The Screwtape Letters, we explore what true humility is, how one goes about getting it, and how to receive a compliment.

Scriptures Referenced:
Php 2:1-11

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Life is full of ups and downs, and Satan and his emissaries want to seize upon us in our low points to turn us from the pathway of faith. But God is using those same trials to further his good work in us – to make us more like Christ.

Scriptures Referenced:
Rom 8:17-30

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It’s hard for us to believe in the supernatural because our modern world casts the spell on us of “nothing-buttery.” We’re convinced that ordinary and familiar things are nothing but molecules in motion. Tune in to hear of a powerful counterspell that can free us from this evil enchantment.

Scriptures Referenced: Mk 6:1-6; Ps 19

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In this episode we field a question from a child: “What do angels do?” We answer (with a little help from Tim Chester): angels are God’s postal service, police force, and praise choir, for the aid of every believer in Jesus Christ.

(Note: We also talk about the upcoming February reading challenge. Remember to get your copy of C. S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters”!)
Scriptures Referenced: Dan 10:10-14; 1Pet 1:12; Gen 3:24; Exod 14:19-20; 2Ki 19:35; Zech 1:10-11; 1Ki 19:5-6; Heb 1:14, 13:1-2; 2Ki6:16; Mat 26:53; Job 38:7; Ps 103:20-21; Rev 5:11-12; Heb 12:22-24

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It’s a new year! And it’s a good time to get a refreshed perspectve. It is so easy to get bogged down with the responsibilities and pressures of life that we forget the Lord is coming. The Lord is certainly not ignorant of our struggles in life, but one of the ways He encourages our hope is to remind us again and again of his soon return. But will it actually be soon? Could this really be the year of the Lord’s return?

Scriptures Referenced: John 14:3; Php 3:20-21; 1Thess 1:-9-10; 1Thess 4:17; Heb 10:37; Jam 5:8; 2Pet 3:8-9; Rev 22:20

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