The Prayer Experiment: Amy Sits Down With Matt Smallbone (Bonus Episode)
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.9 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Amy sits down with Matt Smallbone, lead pastor of Church of the City in downtown Nashville and author of the new book The Prayer Experiment. Before he was a pastor he spent over a decade touring the world as a bass player with artists including Michael W. Smith, Rebecca St. James, and KING + COUNTRY.
Matt openly admits he once struggled with prayer himself and what happened when he committed to praying the Lord's Prayer every single day for a year will genuinely surprise you…from this The Prayer Experiment was born.
The Prayer Experiment is a book for anyone who has ever felt like they don't pray right, given up because prayer felt dry and formulaic, or quietly wondered if it even makes a difference. Matt weaves together biblical teaching, honest personal stories, and a little Aussie humor to explore each phrase of the Lord's Prayer. It includes a thirty day guide to help you build a prayer practice that actually sticks. The surprising truth? You never outgrow the Lord's Prayer. It is simple enough for a child, deep enough for a theologian, and strong enough to hold you for a lifetime.
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Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy
GUEST:
Matt Smallbone // @matt.smallbone // @cotcdowntown
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.5 | One, two, please. |
| 0:09.0 | If you ever have feelings that you just want some, |
| 0:12.8 | Amy and Kat got you covered like an umbrella. |
| 0:16.2 | Ladies and fellas, |
| 0:17.7 | we just follow in the spirit where it tells us. |
| 0:20.5 | From the real stuff to the chill stuff and the in between. |
| 0:25.6 | Sometimes the best thing you can do is just out and feel things. |
| 0:31.3 | This is Feeling Things with Amy and Kat. |
| 0:33.8 | All right. |
| 0:34.0 | Got a special bonus episode for you today. |
| 0:39.9 | I've got Pastor Matt Smallbone joining me. And Matt, you have been on the podcast before, but not feeling things. You have |
| 0:44.2 | been on four things. So welcome back. Many years ago. Yeah, it's been a minute. And it's exciting |
| 0:51.9 | because Matt has a book coming out called The Prayer Experiment, which we're going to get into all of that. |
| 0:58.2 | And I will say, when I was reading the press kit for your book and being a member of your church or watching you for years. I mean... |
| 1:13.3 | How long have we been family friends for? Ten years, right? |
| 1:16.1 | Probably. I mean, way back before the church moved downtown when it was in East Nashville, |
| 1:21.1 | before the tornado, all of that, going back. But I've known, yes, Matt, for a very long time. |
| 1:26.6 | So to read in the press |
| 1:28.9 | kit, and of course you've mentioned this from the pulpit, but hearing a pastor openly say, |
| 1:35.7 | and I'm paraphrasing, so you can clarify, but kind of like, I don't really know how to pray. |
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