Ben Sternke

Dear sisters and brothers, As I said in my sermon this past Sunday, I find it profoundly good news that, in the midst of a world languishing under the spell of Mammon, which always promises way more than it can deliver, Jesus is revealing and…

Dear sisters and brothers, This past Sunday we heard the good news that a new kind of life is available to us in God through discipleship to Jesus, and it upends all our assumptions about the good life, and the allegiances we’ve made to secure…

Dear sisters and brothers, As a community, we have from the beginning sought to embody four core practices: Welcoming, Listening, Gospeling, and Going (or Joining). We are in a series of sharing briefly about each of these core practices. First Fr. Spencer reflected on Welcoming, then I reflected…

From the very beginning of The Table, as a community we have sought to embody four core practices: Welcoming, Listening, Gospeling, and Going (Joining). We are in a series of sharing briefly about each of these core practices. Last week Fr. Spencer reflected on Welcoming. Today’s practice is…

Our national epidemic of gun violence hit close to home this week. Sunday evening, a gunman opened fire in the food court at the Greenwood Park Mall, just south of Indianapolis, killing three people and injuring two. The gunman was shot and killed by an…

Dear sisters and brothers, I was talking with a few people the other day about the tension in our liturgical life between consistency and newness. Some churches (like Orthodox churches) pray almost the exact same liturgy each Sunday. Other churches mix it up and do…

Dear sisters and brothers, This past Sunday in my sermon I asked us to consider our fears: What are we afraid of? What deals have we made to keep fear at bay? What habits and ways of life have we developed that we think will…

Dear Church, This past Sunday was Trinity Sunday, the capstone to the gospel journey we started in Advent, and the hinge point in the church calendar that launches us into “Ordinary Time”, where focus on working out our salvation together, learning to live this new…

This past Sunday we proclaimed the good news that Jesus loves us and longs to be with us, and is coming soon as Alpha and the Omega to gather everything up in God’s love and make all things new. “Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!“ was our…

Dear sisters and brothers, Blessed Eastertide to you! Our good news this past Sunday was that against the pretensions of the powers that claim to control the levers of history, and into our own sin and brokenness, the Easter gospel goes forth: Jesus Christ, the…