Adding To Your Faith
Adding to Your Faith is all about helping you understand biblical principals and workshop biblical practices in a way that shapes and forms us into the image of Jesus Christ.
Episodes
35 episodes
Trade Secondhand Faith For Firsthand Transformation
Feeling spiritually busy but strangely unchanged? We’ve been there. This conversation lays out a practical, hopeful path to move from information overload to a durable walk with Jesus that actually bears fruit. Anchored in 2 Peter 1, we explore...
What is God's Purpose for His Word? ("Prepare" Day 1)
What is God's word? What is His purpose in giving it to us? In this episode, Matt and Rachael discuss the supernatural nature of God's word and the transformation it can hold for your life. When we approach the Word with a humble heart that des...
Word That Works Today ("Prepare" Day 2)
The Bible was written over thousands of years, thousands of years ago, in a far off part of the world. How do we know it is even relevant? In today's episode, Matt and Rachael explore the highly practical nature of God's word, and the power tha...
Why Real Growth Hurts And Why It’s Worth It ("Prepare" Day 3)
The Bible describes sanctification as a painful process that we should embrace. That can be a tough truth. Nobody asks for more trial, struggle, or pain. But we know from God's word and from our own experience that God's greatest works come thr...
Seeking First The Kingdom Changes Everything ("Prepare" Day 4)
If God is the one who sanctifies me, then what is my role in my own spiritual growth and development? Is it an active role or a passive role? Embracing spiritual discipline takes work on our part, but it is not sanctification through works. Jus...
Walking By The Spirit When The Flesh Fights Back ("Prepare" Day 5)
When the Lord saved your soul and gave you His Spirit, why didn't He just remove your old self - the desires and works of the flesh? The Bible says that if we live be the Spirit, we ought also to keep in step with the Spirit. Easier said than d...
Abound In Every Good Work ("Prepare" Day 6)
Let's not kid ourselves. Sometimes the walk of a disciple can feel overwhelming or even impossible. The Bible is filled with stories of faithful servants of God who still manage to get discouraged. It all seems like so much. Can I do it? Can it...
Method 1: Two Questions And A Statement
As we begin week two of our "How to Study the Bible" Workshop, Rachael and Matt explain and demonstrate strategies the first of four Bible Study methods: "Two Questions and a Statement."
Jonah Knew God’s Will And Chose To Flee ("2 Questions" Day 1)
This week's personal Bible study begins with the opening verses of the familiar story of Jonah. In this episode, Matt and Rachael demonstrate the "Two Questions and a Statement" method as they walk alongside you in your study.
Wake Up, Jonah ("2 Questions" Day 2)
Today's Bible study workshop picks up with Jonah 1:4-7. As Jonah runs away from the presence of the Lord, God sends a great storm. In this episode, Rachael and Matt explore questions and statements about the storm and the danger of "sleeping" t...
From Storm To Surrender ("2 Questions" Day 3)
The sailors confront Jonah and are terrified by the power of the God he serves. As the storm rages on and intensifies, Jonah offers his shipmates an unthinkable escape from their predicament. In today's episode, Matt and Rachael offer obs...
Row Harder Or Trust God? Spoiler: Bring A Life Jacket ("2 Questions" Day 4)
Confronted with a seemingly impossible choice, the sailors look in vain for another way. But when they finally surrender to God's direction, the storm calms. In today's episode, Matt and Rachael offer observations about the the futility of seek...
How Three Days In Darkness Reveals God’s Sovereignty ("2 Questions" Day 5)
When he was thrown overboard, Jonah most certainly must have expected to die. Instead, God rescued him in a most unusual and most unexpected way. In this episode, Rachael and Matt share questions about Jonah and a great fish, while discussing o...
Pray When You’re In The Belly ("2 Questions" Day 6)
What must Jonah have pondered from inside the belly of the great fish? When he didn't know what to do... he did what he knew to do: Jonah prayed. In this episode, Rachael and Matt share questions and statements to consider about Jonah's state o...
Method 2: Their Home To Our Home
How would you prepare yourself to visit a completely different culture in a completely different part of the world? How would you observe and understand their ways? How would you relate their lived experiences to more universal realities and tr...
Adopted And Equipped ("Their Home" Day 1)
What a privilege to be chosen and redeemed. Nothing reveals the glory of God more beautifully than a saved sinner surrendered to the Lordship of Jesus. In this episode, Rachael and Matt start in Ephesians to demonstrate the second method in the...
Sealed For An Inheritance ("Their Home" Day 2)
What if your salvation isn't actually about you? Because of God's grace, we are the matchless beneficiaries of salvation. But the purpose of our salvation is all about the Glory of God. In this episode, Rachael and Matt use this week's study me...
Immeasurable Greatness ("Their Home" Day 3)
Do you yearn to pray bigger prayers? Thank God for your brothers and sisters in Christ, and watch as those prayers inevitably lead to you to praise God for His immeasurable greatness. That's how Paul describes his own prayer life in Ephesians 1...
Alive By Grace - Saved With Purpose ("Their Home" Day 4)
The Bible says we were "dead" in our trespasses and sins... so what should we do now that we've been made alive in Christ? In this episode, Rachael and Matt use the "From Their Home to Our Home" Bible study method to unpack Ephesians 2:1-10 to ...
From Division To Peace In Christ ("Their Home" Day 5)
Bitterness. Hate. Hostility. The divide before Christ between the "circumcised" and the "uncircumcised" could not have been more volatile. Then, something miraculous happened: The Gospel came to both, and hostility turned to peace. In this epis...
Fellow Citizens = A Holy Dwelling Place ("Their Home" Day 6)
With all our divisions demolished by the Gospel, it's time to start a grand new building project: A holy temple. But this temple isn't made of stone and mortar. Its materials are the redeemed. Its foundation is the apostles and prophets. And it...
Method 3: Gospel Threads
The entire Bible - From Genesis to Revelation - tells one grand, glorious story: the story of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Learning to think intentionally about the core truths of the Gospel can give us a greater appreciation for and relationshi...
Alive By Grace, Ready For Good Works ("Threads" Day 1)
We are God's workmanship. Think of the beauty and the purpose in that one simple word: workmanship. The implications cannot be overstated for those who are "in Christ." In our first day using the "Gospel Threads" Bible study m...
Jesus Confronts Demons, Restores A Life, And Sends A Messenger ("Threads" Day 2)
Demons begging for mercy. Suicidal Pigs. A life forever changed and charged with sharing the good news. It was no ordinary day when Jesus and his disciples sail to Gerasenes. In this episode Rachael and Matt examine a dramatic story of demon po...
Workers In The Lord’s Harvest ("Threads" Day 3)
The seeds of the Great Commission are sowed in Luke 10. As Jesus sends out his disciples out "in the midst of wolves," we learn that some will receive them, while others will not. In this episode, Rachael and Matt apply the "Gospel Threads" Bib...