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Come, ye weary, heavy laden,
bruised and broken by the fall
If you tarry ’til you‘re better,
you will never come at all

The Turning Table

We are excited to introduce a new discipleship opportunity at Free Grace called The Turning Table. This is a guided reading and listening track designed to help our church grow in clarity, conviction, and joy in the Christian faith. Participants will engage thoughtfully chosen books—or a parallel podcast option for those who prefer audio—while walking alongside an elder for encouragement, accountability, and conversation.

The goal is simple: to sit at the table together, learn from the wisdom of the church, and allow the Lord to shape us through truth, reflection, and shared dialogue. This is not a classroom or a performance-based program, but a steady, relational path of discipleship meant to form our minds, hearts, and lives over time.

How to Participate

  1. Let an elder know you would like to participate.
  2. Get a copy of the “First Year Track” booklet, which outlines the reading and listening plan.
  3. Choose your track — book reading or podcast listening.
  4. Read the assigned book (or listen to one podcast episode each week).
  5. After completing the subject, reach out to an elder to arrange a time to meet and discuss what you’ve learned.
  6. Move on to the next subject in the track and repeat the process.

Reading/Listening Guides & Questions

As you complete each session, use the following to help process what you read/heard.

  1. Write questions that you had from your reading or listening
  2. Record observations that you would like to discuss
  3. What encouraged you in this material?
  4. What challenged you in this material?
  5. What are ways we can pray for your continued growth in this area?

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Before You Begin

All: Before you begin, please listen to these two podcasts by Michael Reeves. Our union with Christ is the medicine we all need to hear before we begin any spiritual disciplines.

  1. What Union with Christ Means
  2. Benefits of Union with Christ

1: Identity in Christ

Book Reading Track

Choose one to read and reach out to an elder when complete.

  • Union with Christ: The Way to Know and Enjoy God— Rankin Wilbourne
  • Union with Christ: The Blessings of being in him— Sinclair Ferguson

Audio/Visual Track

Watch this 12-part video series. Don’t binge them all in a week. Enjoy the walk and schedule a meeting with an elder after you complete the last video

2: Habits of Grace

Book Track

Read and reach out to an elder when complete.

  • Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus Through the Spiritual Disciplines— David Matthis

Audio/Visual Track

Please listen to one each week. Don’t binge them all in a week. Enjoy the walk and schedule a meeting with an elder after you complete the last one.

  1. David Matthis – C.S. Lewis Institute
  2. Kevin DeYoung w/Matthew Bingham
    What is the “reformed triangle” for spiritual formation as outlined by Matthew Bingham?
  4. Bob Hiller, Justin Holcomb and Michael Horton
  5. Theocast- Panel Discussion

3: Studying the Scripture Rightly

Book Track

Read and reach out to an elder when complete.

  • Knowing Scripture — R.C. Sproul

Audio/Visual Track

Please listen to one each week. Don’t binge them all in a week. Enjoy the walk and schedule a meeting with an elder after you complete the last one.

4: Prayer

Book Track

Read and reach out to an elder when complete.

  • The Lord’s Prayer: Learning from Jesus on What, Why, and How to Pray—Kevin DeYoung

Audio/Visual Track

If you choose the audio/visual track, listen to one each week. Don’t binge them all in a week. Enjoy the walk and schedule a meeting with an elder after you complete the last one.

  1. Our Father in Heaven
  2. Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
  3. Our Confessions, on Prayer
  4. Pitfalls on Our Path to Prayer
  5. Word Saturated Prayer

5: Repentance as a Lifestyle

Book Track

Choose one to read and reach out to an elder when complete.

  • The Doctrine of Repentance — Thomas Watson
  • Repentance: A Daring Call to Real Surrender — C. John “Jack” Miller

Audio/Visual Track

If you choose the audio/visual track, listen to one each week. Don’t binge them all in a week. Enjoy the walk and schedule a meeting with an elder after you complete the last one.

  1. Repentance and Salvation in the Reformed Faith
  2. Chatechism Question #76
  3. Understanding the Doctrine of Repentance
  4. Disciplines of Repentance

6: Fasting & Self Denial

Book Track

Choose one to read and reach out to an elder when complete.

  • A Hunger for God — John Piper
  • The Mortification of Sin — John Owen

Audio/Visual Track

If you choose the audio/visual track, listen to one each week. Don’t binge them all in a week. Enjoy the walk and schedule a meeting with an elder after you complete the last one.

  1. A Biblical View of Fasting
  2. Fasting for the Father’s Reward

Sadly, I have found it difficult to find good podcasts on this subject… I have rounded off the podcast track with a couple of online articles. 

  1. Heidelblog- Fasting, Joy, and the Christian Life
  2. Reformed Worship – Guidelines for Reformed Christians

7: Rhythms of Worship and Rest

Book Track

Read and reach out to an elder when complete.

  • Call the Sabbath a Delight — Walter Chantry.
  • The Sabbath as Rest and Hope for the People of God — Guy Prentiss Waters

Audio/Visual Track

If you choose the audio/visual track, listen to one each week. Don’t binge them all in a week. Enjoy the walk and schedule a meeting with an elder after you complete the last one.

  1. Sabbath Rest in Genesis 2:1–3
  2. Calvin and the Sabbath
  3. The Synod of Dort’s Deliverance on the Sabbath
  4. The Creation Mandate and Sabbath Rest

8: Grace of Giving

Book Track

Read and reach out to an elder when complete.

  • Redeeming Money: How God Reveals and Reorients Our Hearts — Paul David Tripp

Audio/Visual Track

If you choose the audio/visual track, listen to one each week. Don’t binge them all in a week. Enjoy the walk and schedule a meeting with an elder after you complete the last one.

  1. The Character of Generosity
  2. The Motivation for Generosity
  3. The Administration of Generosity
  4. Giving & Budgeting

9: Fellowship That Forms

Book Track

Read and reach out to an elder when complete.

  • Life Together — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • True Community — Jerry Bridges

Audio/Visual Track

If you choose the audio/visual track, listen to one each week. Don’t binge them all in a week. Enjoy the walk and schedule a meeting with an elder after you complete the last one.

  1. True Community Conference: Session 1
  2. True Community Conference: Session 2
  3. True Community Conference: Lord’s Day
  4. Life Together
  5. Biblical Community in the Digital Age

10: Vocation and the Sacred Ordinary

Book Track

Read and reach out to an elder when complete.

  • God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

Audio/Visual Track

If you choose the audio/visual track, listen to one each week. Don’t binge them all in a week. Enjoy the walk and schedule a meeting with an elder after you complete the last one.

  1. Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life
  2. Reforming Vocation
  3. How Do I Glorify God Even When My Work Seems Meaningless?
  4. Called to Work
  5. Your Labor is Not in Vain

11: Hospitality and Gospel Overflow

Book Track

Read and reach out to an elder when complete.

  • The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Audio/Visual Track

If you choose the audio/visual track, listen to one each week. Don’t binge them all in a week. Enjoy the walk and schedule a meeting with an elder after you complete the last one.

  1. Hospitality in the Midst of a Crisis
  2. Hospitality
  3. Westminster Divines, Spiritual Warfare, and the Neglected Practice of Hospitality
  4. Hospitality & Holiness: The Church’s Table Theology
  5. Embracing Hospitality and Building Relationships

12: Sharing Your Faith

Book Track

Read and reach out to an elder when complete.

  • The Heart of Evangelism — Jerram Barrs

Audio/Visual Track

If you choose the audio/visual track, listen to one each week. Don’t binge them all in a week. Enjoy the walk and schedule a meeting with an elder after you complete the last one.

  1. Everyday Evangelism
  2. Reformed Evangelism
  3. Learning Evangelism From Jesus

Completed

When you have completed the 12 sessions, click here to read some final words

Dear Friend,

This page exists for one simple reason: to help you pause and notice this moment.

In a culture that is always rushing forward, it is rare to stop and acknowledge what the Lord has already done. By God’s grace, you have completed Year One: Loving the Faith. Week after week, you set aside time to attend carefully to what God has been teaching you through his Word.

This moment is not about achievement or arrival, but about recognizing God’s work in you up to this point. God has sustained you. He has met you in ordinary faithfulness—through daily readings, familiar doctrines, repeated truths, and patient instruction. Growth often feels slow while it is happening, but over time the Word quietly reshapes our loves, our thinking, and our sense of what truly matters.

The Christian life is not usually formed through intensity, but through steadiness. What you have practiced this year is the steady use of the means of grace. That matters—not because it earns favor, but because it places you again and again where God delights to work.

Before you turn the page, take a moment to thank the Lord. Thank him for carrying you through this year. Thank him for his Word, his church, and the grace that has been sufficient for you. This page marks a moment worth noticing. 

With gratitude to God,
The Elders of Free Grace Presbyterian Church

A Pastoral Prayer for You

Gracious God, I thank you for this brother or sister and for the faithfulness you have shown to them throughout this year. You have met them in your Word, sustained them through ordinary obedience, and patiently shaped them by your truth. Take what has been planted, and cause it to bear lasting fruit in humility, clarity of faith, and love for your church. Keep them near Christ, resting in his righteousness and dependent on your grace. Continue the good work you have begun, and lead them forward in wisdom and faithfulness, according to your will and in your time.Through Jesus Christ our Lord— Amen.

Looking Back: Reflecting on the Past Year

Before moving forward, take time to look back and consider how the Lord has been at work over the past year. Growth in the Christian life is often quiet and gradual, and it is easy to miss what God has been shaping unless we pause to reflect. Use the questions below to look back thoughtfully and prayerfully.

1. How has regular time in consistent reading and discipleship shaped you this year? As you read through Scripture and worked through the Catechism, what changes have you noticed in your understanding of God, your view of yourself, or your sense of what truly matters?

2. Where did God meet you through the ordinary means of grace?
Looking back, how did Scripture, worship, prayer, and life in the church sustain you, challenge you, or steady you during this season?

3. In what ways do you see evidence of growth, even if it felt slow or uneven?
Consider habits, attitudes, convictions, or responses that have been shaped over time. Where do you see the Lord’s patient work taking root? Will you continue with a similar discipline in the future?