Faith & Family Bible Podcast with Steve Wood

Episode 477 – Understanding the Eucharist

TAUGHT BY GOD

This is the second episode in a two-part mini-series on a little-known phrase St. Paul gave us in his epistles to the Thessalonians. If you missed the first episode on on how to teach and encourage sexual morality in a post-Christian culture, you can listen to it here.

Today’s episode is a lesson for parents with the key to teaching the Eucharist. Steve knows the challenges facing parents & parishes today. And he knows that there’s an answer to the challenges we face. Once you really understand the Eucharist, you won’t be skipping Mass.

Referenced in this episode:

• John 6
• Thessalonians 4
• Isaiah 54:13
• John 6:35-45
• John 13-17
• Revelation 21
• John 14:20-26
• Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 104 (CCC 14)

Episode 476 – Teaching Sexual Morality Today

TAUGHT BY GOD

We’re doing a mini-series on a little-known phrase St. Paul gave us in his epistles to the Thessalonians. Today’s episode is on how to teach and encourage sexual morality in a post-Christian culture. Be sure to tune in for episode 477 for part 2.

Referenced in this episode:

• Thessalonians 4:1
• Philemon 8-21
• 1 Thessalonians 4:1-5
• 2 Corinthians 3:3
• 1 Thessalonians 4:9
• Isaiah 54:13
• Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 104 (CCC 14)

Episode 475 – Grace that Can Overcome Darkness

GRACE FOR LENT

Enter into God’s rest this Lent with final show in our four-part mini-series all about grace. An extra-special episode today where we’re sharing a dramatization based on the Screwtape Letters. Steve also shares some shocking statistics about pornography in marriage and warns against certain technology for children & teens.

Referenced in this episode:

• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• Revelation 14:8
• Breaking Free and Young Men Breaking Free booklets by Steve Wood

For more information on our special offer to order discounted booklets in lots of 25 for your parish, email us at askthehost@gmail.com. Be sure to mention this offer is from the Faith & Family Radio offer for Lent.

Episode 474 – Grace Heals Addictions

GRACE FOR LENT

Enter into God’s rest this Lent with part 3 of 4 in our four-part mini-series all about grace. If you or someone you know has been on the treadmill approach to addiction recovery, this episode is for you. We must be cautious not to push grace aside and try to muscle through recovery and healing on our own. Enter into God’s grace this Lenten season.

Referenced in this episode:

• Addictions & Grace by Gerald May
• Matthew 11:28
• Hebrews 4
• Breaking Free and Young Men Breaking Free booklets by Steve Wood

For more information on our special offer to order discounted booklets in lots of 25 for your parish, email us at askthehost@gmail.com. Be sure to mention this offer is from the Faith & Family Radio offer for Lent.

Episode 473 – Breaking Free with Grace

GRACE FOR LENT

Enter into God’s rest this Lent with part 2 of 4 in our four-part mini-series all about grace. Steve talks about the grace deficit in many pornography and other addiction recovery programs. Steve has some parting words for leaders of Catholic men’s groups about what the groups really need. 

Referenced in this episode:

• Colossians 2:18-23
• Romans 7
• Romans 8
• Ephesians 5:15-18
• Romans 5
• Luke11
• Breaking Free and Young Men Breaking Free booklets by Steve Wood

For more information on our special offer to order discounted booklets in lots of 25 for your parish, email us at askthehost@gmail.com. Be sure to mention this offer is from the Faith & Family Radio offer for Lent.

Episode 472 – Grace for Lent

GRACE FOR LENT

Enter into God’s rest this Lent with part 1 of 4 in our four-part mini-series all about grace. Steve shares 10 things Saint Paul said would happen in the Christian life if we separate from grace.

Referenced in this episode:

• 1 Corinthians 15:10
• John 15:1-5
• Galatians 3:11
• Galatians 6

Episode 471 – What’s Happening Now?

Last time, Steve talked about how American culture got to the suffering state it’s in. Today, he shares what’s happening now and how looking to the End Times can help us navigate today.

Referenced in this episode:

• Pope Benedict XVI
• Tyconius
• Matthew 13
• Previous episodes 450-453 on the parables in Matthew 13
• Revelation 17-18
• Matthew 17:15
• Acts 20
• 2 Peter 2
• Saint Hildegard of Bingen
• Luke21: Catholic Biblical Prophecy Explained – available on podcast & YouTube

Episode 470 – How did we get here?

It’s no secret that American culture is suffering. Steve shares insight into what he thinks got us to where we are now.

Referenced in this episode:

• Charles Darwin
• Romans 1:18
• Theistic evolution
• Romans 1:24
• Romans 1:26
• Ephesians 6:12
• Revelation 9
• Revelation 20
• Pope Leo XIII & the St. Michael Prayer

Episode 469 – Discipleship for Pre-teens

FAMILY BIBLE STUDY SERIES ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

Dads, this one’s for you! This is the last episode of our family bible study series on the book of Matthew. Before Christmas, we aired episode 468, Discipleship for Catholic Youth. Today’s episode is geared towards parents, especially fathers, of younger children. Steve says parents are the disciplers of their children. With a strong parent-child relationship, kids will have a stronger relationship with Christ.

Referenced in this episode:

• Matthew 28
• Ephesians 6
• 1 Corinthians 4
• Legacy: A Handbook for Fathers by Steve Wood

The Queenship of Mary – Part 2

In honor of the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God on January 1
Today’s episode is part 2 of a 2-part miniseries on the Queenship of Mary that aired on Catholic radio in 2017. We never published it to the podcast until now.