Hosted by former MLB All-Star Matt Holliday and his wife Leslee, Table Forty is a show that brings organic conversations about Jesus and life. Take a seat at Table Forty with Matt and Leslee and get a better understanding of Jesus to help you discover who you are becoming and why it matters. Table Forty is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network. For stories of sports and faith, check out http://SportsSpectrum.com
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Matt and Leslee Holliday have going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast, and this week they recap Weeks 19 and 20 and the study. This is the final week of the study on the podcast, as Matt and Leslee will be taking a break to spend time with family this summer. But l…
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This is Week 18 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast recaps the previous week’s readings and discusses what was co…
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This is Week 17 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast recaps the previous week’s readings and discusses what was covere…
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This is Week 16 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast recaps the previous week’s readings and discusses what was covere…
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This is Week 15 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast recaps the previous week’s readings and discusses what was covere…
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This is Week 14 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast recaps the previous week’s readings and discusses what was covere…
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This is Week 13 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast recaps the previous week’s readings and discusses what was covere…
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This is Week 12 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast.Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast recaps the previous week’s readings and discusses what was covered…
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This is Week 11 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast recaps the previous week’s readings and discusses what was covere…
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This is Week 10 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast recaps the previous week’s readings and discusses what was covere…
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This is Week 9 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast recaps the previous week’s readings and discusses what was covered…
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This is Week 8 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast. This week, Don Christensen of Ronald Blue True subs in for Matt to talk with Leslee about this week's readings. Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) …
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This is Week 7 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast recaps the previous week’s readings and discusses what was covered…
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This is Week 6 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast recaps the previous week’s readings and discusses what was covered…
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This is Week 5 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s "Bible In A Year Engagement Journal" — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Leslee is posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast recaps the previous week’s readings and discusses what was covered…
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This is Week 4 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s Bible In A Year Engagement Journal — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Leslee will be posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast will recap the previous week’s readings and discuss what was co…
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This is Week 3 of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s Bible In A Year Engagement Journal — on the “Table Forty” podcast. Matt it out his week, so their son, Ethan, joins Leslee for this conversation. Leslee will be posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, wh…
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This is week two of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year — using The Increase’s Bible In A Year Engagement Journal — on the “Table Forty” podcast. This week they recap days 4-9 of the study. Leslee will be posting daily to her Instagram page (@lesleesmithholliday) for people to follow along, while the podcast will recap the pr…
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This week marks the start of Matt and Leslee Holliday going through the Bible in a year, using The Increase Bible Engagement Journal, on the Table Forty Podcast. Leslee will be posting daily to her Instagram page for people to follow along, while the podcast will recap the previous week's readings and discuss what was covered. "If we get the first …
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Since 2020, Matt and Leslee Holliday have brought weekly conversations of faith, marriage, parenting and sports to listeners through the Table Forty Podcast. As we look ahead to the new year, the show will undergo some changes starting in 2023. Matt was recently hired as the bench coach for the St. Louis Cardinals. That means his time and availabil…
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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 handboo…
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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 mis…
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Discipleship Handbook Week 9 - Refined Through Trials
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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 believer…
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Discipleship Handbook Week 8 - The Greatest Commandment
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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 …
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Discipleship Handbook Week 7 - The New Life of the Believer
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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 a…
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Discipleship Handbook Week 6 - The New Identity of the Increase
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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 believe…
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Discipleship Handbook Week 5 - The Gospel of God's Grace
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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…
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Discipleship Handbook Week 4 - The Problem of Sin
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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 fu…
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Discipleship Handbook Week 3 - Knowing the Heart of God
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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 …
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Discipleship Handbook Week 2 - Made in God's Image
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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 …
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Discipleship Handbook Week 1 - A High View of God
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Matt and Leslee kick off their study through the "Discipleship Handbook," a 10-week study 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 study looks at "A High View of God." In this opening week, we start at the very beginning in Genesis 1:1 and ponder God as …
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Matt & Leslee — Discipleship Handbook Introduction
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Starting September 13, Matt and Leslee Holliday will be guiding "Table Forty" listeners through the Discipleship Handbook — a 10-week study 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 introduce the study and share what they hope listeners will get out of…
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Karen and Maggie Bohannan — Homers For Health
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Founded by Matt Holliday Leslee Holliday in 2012, Homers for Health has helped raise millions of dollars in cancer research and patient care efforts. The Hollidays have continued to be champions for Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis and the Homers for Health program even after Matt's playing days ended there. This week is a special …
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Episode 110 Nick Hundley played 12 seasons in the major leagues for five different teams. He now serves as a special assistant to the general manager for the Texas Rangers and also works with the International Justice Mission, a nonprofit organization that fights against human trafficking. He joins "Table Forty" this week to share his story of how …
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After a stellar 14-year NFL career, all with the San Francisco 49ers, Bryant Young was inducted earlier this month into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In honor of his enshrinement, we are revisiting a conversation that he and his wife, Kristin, had on Table Forty in late December 2021. Young was one of the best defensive players of his generation. …
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Episode 109 This week we welcome a power couple onto "Table Forty." Mark Herzlich played six seasons in the NFL, all with the New York Giants, while his wife, Danielle, is an Army veteran, a former gymnast and a fitness expert. Mark spent his entire NFL career with the New York Giants, where he was a member of the Super Bowl XLVI-winning team and a…
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Matt & Leslee On What's Next for Table Forty
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Episode 108 It's an exciting time for the Table Forty Podcast. Starting September 13, Matt and Leslee Holliday will be guiding listeners through the Discipleship Handbook — a 10-week study through The Increase that examines some of the most important topics encompassing what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus. This study will guide readers thr…
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Matt & Leslee on the emotions of MLB Draft Day
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Episode 107 It's been a wild week for Matt and Leslee Holliday and their family. That's especially true for their oldest son, Jackson, who was selected No. 1 over by the Baltimore Orioles in the 2022 MLB Draft last week. While it's an exciting time for Jackson and the Holliday family, it's also bittersweet. This week on "Table Forty," Matt and Lesl…
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Episode 106 The St. Louis Cardinals hosted their 30th annual Christian Day at the Ballpark on July 16, 2022, and "Table Forty" Podcast hosts Matt and Leslee Holliday were the guest speakers. The program featured interviews with several Cardinals players, including star first baseman Albert Pujols, where they shared their faith story with a crowd th…
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Episode 105 David Pollack was one of the most dominating defensive players during his time at the University of Georgia. A three-time All-American and three-time All-Southeastern Conference selection, Pollack was selected in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals. His career came to an abrupt end, however, after he suffered…
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Episode 104 Mark Appel's journey to the major leagues is one full of disappointment and perseverance. A week after making his major league debut with the Philadelphia Phillies, the former No. 1 overall pick joined Matt and Leslee Holliday on "Table Forty" to talk about his quest to the major leagues that included being drafted in the Top 10 twice, …
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Matt & Leslee Holliday on Dealing With Difficulty
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Episode 103 Matt and Leslee Holliday recorded this week's episode in a car, and it's a perfect visual for what their conversation is about: dealing with difficult. Matt shares a story about some flight and other travel issues he experienced while trying to get to Atlanta for his son Ethan's baseball game, but he and Leslee also reflect on how he ha…
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Episode 102 Ryan Theriot played eight seasons in the major leagues with four different teams, including the 2011 World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals and the 2012 World Series champion San Francisco Giants. With the Cardinals, he was teammates with "Table Forty" co-host Matt Holliday, where co-host Leslee Holliday and Johnnah Theriot also beca…
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Episode 101 Transitions in life can be challenging. Discerning "what's next" is not always an easy task, especially for those leaving college and entering into adulthood. That's the phase of life that Sydney Ritter is in, and she joins Matt and Leslee Holliday on "Table Forty" this week talk about that. She talks about being away at college away fr…
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Episode 100 Nate Prosser played 10 years in the NHL, including stints with the Minnesota Wild, St. Louis Blues, and Philadelphia Flyers. He played multiple sports growing up in Elk River, Minnesota, before finally settling on hockey. His faith in God led the way for him in all he did. Prosser and his wife, Britt, join "Table Forty" with Matt and Le…
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Episode 99 Buster Posey was one of the best catchers in baseball during his 12-year career, all of which he spent with the San Francisco Giants. He was the 2010 Most Valuable Player, a seven-time All-Star, the 2012 Most Valuable Player, and helped the Giants to three World Series championships. Matt Holliday and Posey competed against each other an…
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Episode 98 Nolan McLean and Caeden Trenkle are sophomores on the Oklahoma State baseball team, where "Table Forty" co-host Matt Holliday serves as an assistant coach. Trenkle was an All-Big 12 Conference selection in 2021, while McLean started 39 games. They joined "Table Forty" with Matt and Leslee Holliday this week to talk about their baseball c…
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Episode 97 Daton Fix is one of the best wrestlers at Oklahoma State and could be representing the United States in the 2024 Olympics in Paris. He's a two-time Big 12 champion and two-time national runner-up in the 133-pound weight class. He joins "Table Forty" with Matt and Leslee Holliday to talk about his wrestling career, how to establish and ma…
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Matt & Leslee Holliday on Parenting Through Transitions
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Episode 96 It's a season of big transition for the Holliday family and their oldest son, Jackson, ends his high school baseball career and prepares for graduation. On this episode of "Table Forty," Matt and Leslee reflect on this season of life, the transition that's about to come, and how proud they are of their son. Matt also reflects on raising …
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Episode 95 David Hess has always been able to play baseball at a high level. In October 2021, however, he ran into arguably his biggest roadblock yet. He started experiencing chest tightness, which led doctors to discover a cancerous tumor in his chest. His baseball career has been put on hold somewhat, but he is now starting to work his way back o…
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