This podcast is a labor of love and curiosity from two siblings who seek to fully devote our lives to Jesus. We want to use it to process life with Jesus alongside each other.
Matt and Sylvia are back after a brief hiatus over the last couple of months! This episode, the two dive into the topic of spiritual formation and the topic of the soul. Do we have souls? Or maybe it's the case that human beings are souls. . . Listen in to wrestle with these topics for yourself! Enjoy!
21 Jul 2025
Coaching Sports and Spiritual Formation
In this episode, Matt and Sylvia get off on a random topic: coaching high school sports. Matt processes his recent involvement in high school soccer, including what he's learned and how he navigates being Christian. The conversation turns toward spiritual formation and how everything we do impacts our formation. Thanks for listening!
6 Jul 2025
Privilege, Power, and Politics
Matt and Sylvia are back with another episode this week talking about social justice, the nature of the Kingdom of God as political but not partisan, and their evolving ideas of privilege and power (because the world needs more amateur podcasters talking about politics!). The hope is to share our own processing about these topics and how to be Christian in today's world. At the end, Sylvia wraps up the episode with a piece of Scripture that has been on her mind.
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2 May 2025
The Role of Rest In The Christian Life
In today's episode, Matt and Sylvia talk about the role of rest in living the Christian life. What is rest? How do we balance a life of rest with work and active ministry? How do we adopt rest as a posture and work from that? We hope you enjoy!
8 Apr 2025
What Do We Do With Pain
This week, Matt and Sylvia have a raw and difficult conversation about some heavy news Matt received this weekend involving the loss of a friend. They talk about pain and suffering in life, and how we're supposed to operate with our pain. The conversation touches on the idea of how cruciformity will naturally lead us to pain.
30 Mar 2025
Is God in Control?
Today Matt and Sylvia sit down to talk about God's sovereignty. Is God in control? What does that actually mean? Why should we even think about it, and does it have any implications for us? We walk through pieces of scripture to help guide our conversation and, as always, would love any feedback. Enjoy!
18 Mar 2025
Plant the Seed and Go to Sleep
This week we return to the topic of ministry! We continue with the faithfulness vs. effectiveness conversation and begin to ask the question "What is successful ministry?" We walk through a couple of Jesus's parables on the nature of the Kingdom of God to guide our conversation. We also touch on the difference between fruit and outcomes in ministry, and which one we should be aiming for. Enjoy!
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25 Feb 2025
Faithfully Effective
When we talk about ministry, what's more important, to be faithful, or effective? What do these things mean in a ministry context? Is there even a difference? What is the Bible's logic about it? Matt and Sylvia dive into these questions on today's episode. They also talk about New Creation dynamics versus Old Creation dynamics, what they are, and how they play a key role in how we answer these questions. Hopefully this conversation can open up further conversation for listeners as well!
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18 Feb 2025
The Wilderness
In today's episode, Sylvia and I explore the experience of being in the "wilderness" - a space where it feels like God is not near to us or speaking to us. We walk through the idea of testing in the Bible, and go through a couple Biblical examples of figures being tested and experiencing the wilderness. What does it mean for God to speak to us? Should we hear an audible voice? Hopefully this conversation is one in which you can relate, and encourages you to meditate more deeply on the process of walking through the wilderness with our teacher, Jesus.
21 Jan 2025
Salvation as Embodied Participation
Today we talk about salvation! Jump scare! Sylvia brings up a question she has about Philippians 2 where it talks about us "being saved??" We discuss how the Bible talks about salvation as embodied participation in New Creation. What does that mean? How does this fit into the larger narrative of the Biblical story? Hope you enjoy!
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14 Jan 2025
What About Emotions?
Today we talk about the role emotions play in the Christian life. We go over emotions being our servants, not masters, and how it's essential that we distinguish between our moment-to-moment emotional states and the constant companionship of the Holy Spirit. We touch on the nature of faith, hope, and love, and how to rule over our emotions, rather than letting them rule over us. As always, we would love any feedback!
6 Jan 2025
Who Has the Good Life?
Welcome back to Podding Through Life! In this episode, we look at the Beatitudes in Matthew 5. The Beatitudes are striking in the upside-down way Jesus highlights the people of His Kingdom. Join us as we discuss this and talk about why this drew us to Jesus and his teachings!
30 Dec 2024
Introduction & Talking Boundaries
Join us for our first episode! We start with an introduction and then get into a discussion about healthy boundaries, how they affect people, and what Jesus said about them.
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