Being Prepared to Fight Spiritual Warfare with Dr. Karl Payne and The Prayer Experiment with Pastor Matt Smallbone

About this episode

The episode discusses spiritual warfare and the importance of prayer with insights from Dr. Karl Payne and Pastor Matt Smallbone.

Today, we begin "Preparation Week" on Karl and Crew. Are we prepared to fight spiritual battles?  Great discussion and insight with Dr. Karl Payne, pastor, teacher, author, and renowned apologist. He is the author of "Spiritual Warfare: Christians, Demonization, and Deliverance."  Dr. Payne is also the founder of the Transferable Cross Training Foundation .  Lead Pastor of Church in the City (Nashville) and former bass player, Matt Smallbone , talks about his new book, "The Prayer Experiment: How Praying Like Jesus Realigns Everything." He shared his experience of intentionally praying the Lord's Prayer every day for a year.  Finally, our best preparation in battle is the Armor of God! We shared a special resource by texting ARMOR to 800-555-7898. You can hear the highlights of today's program on the Karl and Crew Showcast.   If you're looking to hear a particular segment from the show, look at the following time stamps:  Being Prepared for spiritual battle [0:00] Conversation with Matt Smallbone on the prayer experiment [25:00] Conversation with Dr. Karl Payne on spiritual warfare [35:34] Donate to Moody Radio…

People in this episode

Host: Karl

Guests: Dr. Karl Payne, Pastor Matt Smallbone

Topics covered

• spiritual warfare
• prayer
• Christianity
• preparation
• spiritual battles

Keywords

• spiritual warfare
• prayer experiment
• Armor of God
• Lord's Prayer
• Christian preparation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Transferable Cross Training Foundation, Church in the City

Books & works: Spiritual Warfare: Christians, Demonization, and Deliverance, The Prayer Experiment: How Praying Like Jesus Realigns Everything

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