Join Lisa and Laura as they wrap up their journey through Passionate Discipleship, a nine-week Bible study series. Deepen your faith this Easter season as we unpack Paul's wisdom to his closest friend, Timothy, reflecting on how we can apply it today. Grow in personal holiness, as we recognize the importance of our God-given mission to reach and raise the next generation. On today’s final episode of the series, Lisa and Laura discuss Lesson 9, Talk 9, titled “Fighting the Good Fight.” Hear about the personal obstacles they face in running the race, as well as helpful tips to persevere when we feel like giving up. This is a must-listen for women learning to live as disciples of Christ!

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
2 Timothy 4:7–8: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
2 Timothy 1:5: I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you.
2 Timothy 1:6: For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you.
2 Timothy 1:7: For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control.
2 Timothy 1:13–14: Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus; guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us.
2 Timothy 2:1–2: You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
2 Timothy 3:2–5,7: For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Who will listen to anybody and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 4:3–4: For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.
Matthew 13:33: The Kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
2 Timothy 3:12,14–15: Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it. And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the Sacred Writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Isaiah 40:41: But they who hope in the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. 

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Did I love well today? Who did God place in my path? Did I just tolerate her? Did I slow down for her? Was I distracted in my interactions, or was I present?

Show mentions.
Lisa Brenninkmeyer and Mallory Smyth, Passionate Discipleship: A Study of 2 Timothy
Hope for Right Now, Episode 59, Alert to Your Surroundings
Fr. John Riccardo, ACTS XXIX
Hope for Right Now, Episode 19, The Shoes of the Gospel of Peace
The Lila Rose Show, Episode 204: A Demon’s Guide to Destroying Women—and How to Fight Back w/Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson Hussem, Sincerely, Stoneheart: Unmask the Enemy’s Lies, Find the Truth That Sets You Free
Lisa Brenninkmeyer, Passionate Discipleship Lesson 9, Talk 9, Fighting the Good Fight

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