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This week on the podcast, Matt and Leslee Holliday recap their study through the "Discipleship Handbook," a 10-week plan from The Increase that examines some of the most important topics encompassing what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus.
If you missed any of the previous episodes, you can find them at the links below.
Still need the handbook? Get your copy here!
“Table Forty” is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network.
If you missed any of the previous weeks, be sure to check them out here:
— Discipleship Handbook Week 10 – Multiply
— Discipleship Handbook Week 9 – Refined Through Trials
— Discipleship Handbook Week 8 – The Greatest Commandment
— Discipleship Handbook Week 7 – New Life Of The Believer
— Discipleship Handbook Week 6 – New Identity Of The Increase
— Discipleship Handbook Week 5 – The Gospel of God’s Grace
— Discipleship Handbook Week 4 – The Problem of Sin
— Discipleship Handbook Week 3 – Knowing the Heart of God
— Discipleship Handbook Week 2 – Made In God’s Image
— Discipleship Handbook Week 1 – A High View of God
As final words often are, some of Jesus’s last words to His disciples before He ascended into Heaven were significant. We should lean in very close to hear and heed the task He left them (and us) with, until His return.
These final words of Jesus are often referred to as the Great Commission, and as a follower of Jesus, it truly is the greatest mission we get to be part of. There is nothing more exhilarating and life-giving than to love and care about others so deeply that you are willing to lay aside your agenda, comfort, reputation, or even safety to bring the life-changing love and Good News of Jesus to others.
We are called to "multiply" and make disciples. Sharing our faith with others can be intimidating, though, and we often doubt our ability to do it. This week on "Table Forty," Matt and Leslee Holliday discuss how we as Christians are always representing Jesus, whether we're in church or at the grocery store. The life that happens in between presents plenty of chances to display God's love and to multiply our faith by sharing the hope of Christ with others.
This is the final week of our study through the "Discipleship Handbook," a 10-week plan from The Increase that examines some of the most important topics encompassing what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus.
Still need the handbook? Get your copy here!
“Table Forty” is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored by Operation Christmas Child.
If you missed any of the previous weeks, be sure to check them out as well:
— Discipleship Handbook Week 9 – Refined Through Trials
— Discipleship Handbook Week 8 – The Greatest Commandment
— Discipleship Handbook Week 7 – New Life Of The Believer
— Discipleship Handbook Week 6 – New Identity Of The Increase
— Discipleship Handbook Week 5 – The Gospel of God’s Grace
— Discipleship Handbook Week 4 – The Problem of Sin
— Discipleship Handbook Week 3 – Knowing the Heart of God
— Discipleship Handbook Week 2 – Made In God’s Image
— Discipleship Handbook Week 1 – A High View of God
Faith is often a struggle. It can be a battle to hold onto faith when there is so much hardship and suffering in this world. The various trials we all face in life present us with unique temptations to lose faith. Where the enemy wants to use trials as opportunities to devour our faith, God wants to use them to refine and strengthen it.
As believers, we can cling to the truth of Hebrews 11:1, which says, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” This week on "Table Forty," Matt and Leslee Holliday examine what it looks like to have our faith grown stronger in the midst of the hard seasons of life.
This is Week 9 of a study through the "Discipleship Handbook," a 10-week plan from The Increase that examines some of the most important topics encompassing what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus.
Still need the handbook? Get your copy here!
“Table Forty” is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored by Operation Christmas Child.
If you missed any of the previous weeks, be sure to check them out as well:
— Discipleship Handbook Week 8 – The Greatest Commandment
— Discipleship Handbook Week 7 – New Life Of The Believer
— Discipleship Handbook Week 6 – New Identity Of The Increase
— Discipleship Handbook Week 5 – The Gospel of God’s Grace
— Discipleship Handbook Week 4 – The Problem of Sin
— Discipleship Handbook Week 3 – Knowing the Heart of God
— Discipleship Handbook Week 2 – Made In God’s Image
— Discipleship Handbook Week 1 – A High View of God
Having established that children of God get to bear the family resemblance to our Heavenly Father by the power of the Holy Spirit, how might we summarize what that resemblance most purely and simply looks like? Asked a different way, is there a “greatest commandment” in the Bible?
Thankfully, we have such a question and response recorded for us in Matthew 22: Love God and love others. This week on "Table Forty," Matt and Leslee explore that great commandment and how it compels us to love God and others.
This is Week 8 of a study through the "Discipleship Handbook," a 10-week plan from The Increase that examines some of the most important topics encompassing what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus.
Still need the handbook? Get your copy here!
“Table Forty” is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored by Operation Christmas Child.
If you missed any of the previous weeks, be sure to check them out as well:
— Discipleship Handbook Week 7 – New Life Of The Believer
— Discipleship Handbook Week 6 – New Identity Of The Increase
— Discipleship Handbook Week 5 – The Gospel of God’s Grace
— Discipleship Handbook Week 4 – The Problem of Sin
— Discipleship Handbook Week 3 – Knowing the Heart of God
— Discipleship Handbook Week 2 – Made In God’s Image
— Discipleship Handbook Week 1 – A High View of God
Last week we looked at our new identity as children of God. However, even with a new nature and identity, we will still battle against sin and our “old nature.” A work of change and transformation (called sanctification) needs to be done where we become more and more like Jesus, and this is a lifelong process.
God begins a good work in us that we are called to participate in through the submission of our will with His. He empowers and sustains us with His Spirit and grace, and calls us to cooperate with Him in this transformation work. This week on "Table Forty, Matt and Leslee Holliday explore what a new life for a believer looks like.
This is Week 7 of a study through "Discipleship Handbook," a 10-week plan from The Increase that examines some of the most important topics encompassing what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus.
Still need the handbook? Get your copy here!
“Table Forty” is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. This episode is sponsored by Operation Christmas Child.
If you missed any of the previous weeks, be sure to check them out as well:
— Discipleship Handbook Week 6 – New Identity Of The Increase
— Discipleship Handbook Week 5 – The Gospel of God’s Grace
— Discipleship Handbook Week 4 – The Problem of Sin
— Discipleship Handbook Week 3 – Knowing the Heart of God
— Discipleship Handbook Week 2 – Made In God’s Image
— Discipleship Handbook Week 1 – A High View of God
When you come to Jesus in trust and surrender, the Bible says you are a new creation with a new heart and a new identity. Where your heart was once unresponsive to God, it is now responsive and alive to Him. Where you were once alienated from God as an orphan you are now born of God into His family, with Him as your perfect Father and other believers as your spiritual family.
How have you seen the transformative power of God in your life? What “old” has gone and what “new” has come? That's the focus this week on "Table Forty." Matt and Leslee Holliday press on to Week 6 of the "Discipleship Handbook," a 10-week plan from The Increase that examines some of the most important topics encompassing what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus.
Still need the handbook? Get your copy here!
“Table Forty” is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network.
If you missed any of the previous weeks, be sure the check them out as well:
— Discipleship Handbook Week 5 – The Gospel of God’s Grace
— Discipleship Handbook Week 4 – The Problem of Sin
— Discipleship Handbook Week 3 – Knowing the Heart of God
— Discipleship Handbook Week 2 – Made In God’s Image
— Discipleship Handbook Week 1 – A High View of God
Last week we discussed the problem of sin and what that does to separate us from God. The good news is that, through Jesus' death on the cross, we as Christians get to experience grace. As Romans 5:8 says, “God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
Where we could never get back to God on our own, God made a way.
The Gospel is the good news that Jesus – God the Son, fully God and fully Man, the long-awaited and promised Messiah – died on the cross to pay the price for our sins so that we might be reconciled to right relationship with Him – completely forgiven, set free from the penalty and power of sin, and given a new heart that can turn away from sin and enjoy the presence of God. He was raised from the dead on the third day, defeating death, sin, and Satan, so that all who believe in Him and call on His name shall be saved (John 3:16, Romans 10:13). We are saved by grace through faith in Christ.
This week on "Table Forty," Matt and Leslee move on to Week 5 of the "Discipleship Handbook," a 10-week plan from The Increase that examines some of the most important topics encompassing what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus. This week they dive into the Gospel of God's Grace.
Still need the handbook? Get your copy here!
“Table Forty” is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network.
If you missed any of the previous weeks, be sure to check out as well:
— Discipleship Handbook Week 4 – The Problem of Sin
— Discipleship Handbook Week 3 – Knowing the Heart of God
— Discipleship Handbook Week 2 – Made In God’s Image
— Discipleship Handbook Week 1 – A High View of God
How do you define sin?
The word “sin” in the Bible means to miss the mark or fail to fulfill a certain goal. On a fundamental level, sin is failing to love and honor God and others as we were designed to. It distorts our view of God.
Sin is not just doing bad things (that is the fruit of sin), it goes deeper into the root of our hearts. Sin is a fundamental disorientation of our hearts turned away from God. It deadens our hearts and blinds our eyes to God and all His goodness and beauty. Sin is the selfish impulse to serve ourselves first, even at the expense of others.
This week on "Table Forty," Matt and Leslee Holliday move on to Week 4 of the "Discipleship Handbook," a 10-week plan from The Increase that examines some of the most important topics encompassing what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus. This week's focus is on the problem of sin.
Still need the handbook? Get your copy here!
“Table Forty” is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network.
If you missed any of the previous weeks, be sure to check them out as well:
— Discipleship Handbook Week 3 – Knowing the Heart of God
— Discipleship Handbook Week 2 – Made In God’s Image
— Discipleship Handbook Week 1 – A High View of God
The week we move ahead to Week 3 of the "Table Forty" study through the "Discipleship Handbook," a 10-week plan from The Increase that examines some of the most important topics encompassing what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus. This week we look at what it means to know the heart of God.
The most important thing about any person is his or her view of God, for it shapes the entire course of one’s life. And yet, God is so utterly distinct from and above us that we can never fully comprehend Him or know who He is according to our own reason or speculation.
So how then can we know Him? Listen in as Matt and Leslee dive into this week's study.
Still need the handbook? Get your copy here!
“Table Forty” is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network.
If you enjoyed this conversation, we know you'll enjoy these as well:
— Discipleship Handbook Week 2 – Made In God’s Image
— Discipleship Handbook Week 1 – A High View of God
— Matt & Leslee Holliday – Discipleship Study Introduction
We're into Week 2 of the "Table Forty" Podcast study through the "Discipleship Handbook," a 10-week plan from The Increase that examines some of the most important topics encompassing what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus. This week we look at what it means to be made in God's image.
In Genesis 1:26-28, we see that God created man and woman in His image, after His likeness, and gave them dominion over the earth. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it…” So what does it mean to be made in God’s image?
Dive in this week as Matt and Leslee Holliday discuss.
Still need the handbook? Get your copy here!
“Table Forty” is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network.
If you enjoyed this episode, we know you'll enjoy these as well:
— Discipleship Handbook Week 1 – A High View of God
— Matt & Leslee Holliday – Discipleship Study Introduction
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