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Catholic Scripture teaching for family discipleship.
Steve Wood teaches Catholic Scripture with a firm urgency, moving through Matthew as a guide for household faith. Recent episodes press hard on grace, youth discipleship, temptation, prodigal children, and the danger of reducing Christianity to moral effort.
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Faith & Family Bible Podcast with Steve Wood is a compact Catholic Bible study built around Scripture, discipleship, and the formation of families. Its recent episodes move steadily through the Gospel of Matthew. The style is direct. Wood names a spiritual problem, brings the biblical text to bear, and then pushes toward a practical conclusion for parents, youth, and Catholic households. The show is especially alert to the danger of turning Christianity into rule-keeping by willpower. In the Sermon on the Mount episodes, the Beatitudes and moral teaching are treated as holy but easily misused when separated from grace. The ladder image matters because the show warns against presenting Christian life as a lonely climb upward. Christ’s grace comes first. Obedience follows from union with him. That same concern shapes the episodes on youth discipleship. Matthew’s account of Jesus calling disciples becomes a challenge to parishes, apostolates, and parents who want young people formed in more than religious information. The show repeatedly argues that parents have a primary role in catechesis, drawing on St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict as supporting voices. It can sound urgent because the subject is urgent: young Catholics leaving the faith, families unsure what else to add, and a culture described as unholy. Yet the program is not only defensive. Its episode on prodigal sons and daughters is warmer, grounded in the belief that people far from faith can still return and become serious Christians. The temptation episode returns to Matthew 4 and presents Jesus’ use of Scripture as the model for resisting deception. The episode on John the Baptist and the Pharisees warns against religious respectability without childlike sonship. Across these topics, the show favors repetition, reasoning, and pointed applications. It is not casual conversation. It is catechetical, insistent, and protective. Listeners looking for Catholic teaching with a family-centered spine will find a show that treats Bible study as a discipline for surviving, repenting, raising children, and becoming disciples.
Made for: Best for Catholic parents, grandparents, catechists, and serious Bible study listeners who want Scripture tied to household faith and youth formation. It suits people who prefer firm teaching over conversational banter.
What sets it apart: The show pairs close attention to Matthew with repeated practical pressure on parents’ role in discipleship. Its strongest mark is the insistence that Christian moral life begins with grace, not private willpower.
Faith & Family is a 15-minute, weekly Catholic Bible study centered on practical application for daily family life. Learn how studying Scripture can help you develop a deep, personal, profound, and life-changing knowledge of God. Applicable for the the entire family!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Steve Wood turns Catholic scriptural teaching into a repeatable method for thinking through faith, family formation, marriage, and eternal life.
Steve Wood treats Bible study as a sequence of answerable questions rather than a cloud of devotional language. He lays out a method that moves from what a passage says to what it means and how it applies, bringing translations, New Testament Greek, cross-references, the…
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A Scripture-led reflection on eternal life that moves from confession and allegiance to Eucharistic communion.
The episode treats eternal life as the last question in a seven-part worldview frame, then works its answer through Scripture, professed faith, allegiance to Jesus, good works, and the Eucharist.
A clear case for moving family radio toward Scripture, interpretation, and daily practice.
Faith & Family marks a new phase for September 2024, as Steve Wood lays out changes to the program's broadcast length and a refocused purpose around its 25th anniversary.
A direct warning that less contact with created reality can weaken the foundations of a child's faith.
Steve Wood's bonus question frames Christian worldview as the ground beneath Catholic education, spiritual formation, and sacramental formation.
A sober case for giving a struggling marriage time.
Steve Wood's Faith and Family takes post-holiday divorce as its starting point, then widens the frame: hard stretches can come in any season, and marriage often moves through uneven cycles where one spouse is steady while the other is worn down, or both are struggling at once.
A format update becomes a practical, family-centered case for reading Scripture with purpose.
This re-air turns a programming update into a focused statement of purpose for Faith and Family. Steve Wood presents the move toward family-based Bible study as a response to several connected needs: scriptural answers in an age of apostasy, Pope Benedict's model of catechesis,…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Steve Wood introduces the new Faith & Family Bible Studies, a 15-minute weekly format focused on practical Scripture application for Catholic families.
Steve Wood discusses how ten verses from Galatians 5 can help overcome pornography addiction, drawing from his extensive library on sexual freedom.
Steve Wood uses Faith and Family episode 495 to answer his seventh worldview question, "How do I obtain eternal life with Jesus?" He frames the answer as "connect with Jesus" and then walks through seven steps, from awareness of sin and Scripture to confession of faith, exclusive allegiance, baptism, confession, and the Eucharist.
Steve Wood launches a miniseries on avoiding post-holiday divorce, noting a 27% surge in January filings.
Steve Wood says Bible study must make the "return trip" from the 1st century to daily family life.
Steve Wood says Faith and Family will begin a new 15-minute broadcast and podcast in the first week of September 2024, with schedule changes for station managers and an email contact for details.
Steve Wood says the way to destroy a child’s Christian worldview is a smartphone at 10 or younger with unlimited screen time.
Steve Wood cautions listeners about misusing the Beatitudes and Sermon on the Mount, using a ladder safety analogy.
Steve Wood discusses strategies for youth discipleship in parishes and apostolates, emphasizing that large group youth programs are not the primary place for discipleship training.
Steve Wood discusses the importance of youth discipleship, emphasizing that Jesus' disciples were teenagers and that reaching youth is crucial for the future of the church.
Steve Wood discusses how Jesus used discipleship to change the world, focusing on Matthew chapter 4 and the calling of the first disciples.
Steve Wood discusses how to resist serious temptation by imitating Jesus Christ's use of Scripture in Matthew chapter 4.
Steve Wood examines Matthew 3, contrasting the acceptance of sinners by John the Baptist with the rejection of Pharisees, and highlights the significance of God's voice at Jesus' baptism.
Steve Wood discusses how prodigal sons and daughters can establish a relationship with Jesus, drawing from his own experience as a prodigal.
Steve Wood discusses how to survive in an unholy culture by focusing on three key words, addressing parents' concerns about children drifting from the faith.
Steve Wood discusses the theme of abiding in Christ in First John, offering a free handout to help listeners understand its 24 references.