*This Episode was originally published on 08/12/2019.
This week I welcome Matt Smethurst to the podcast for a conversation about rightly approaching the Bible.
Matt Smethurst
Matt Smethurst serves as lead pastor of River City Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. He also cohosts and edits The Everyday Pastorpodcast for The Gospel Coalition. Matt is the author of Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel(Crossway, 2025), Before You Share Your Faith: Five Ways to Be Evangelism Ready (10Publishing, 2022), Deacons: How They Serve and Strengthen the Church (Crossway, 2021), Before You Open Your Bible: Nine Heart Postures for Approaching God’s Word (10Publishing, 2019), and 1–2 Thessalonians: A 12-Week Study (Crossway, 2017). He and his wife, Maghan, have five children.
