Ben Sternke

Dear sisters and brothers, How lovely it is to worship together! Each Sunday we gather as God’s beloved children, we hear the good news of the gospel, we share in the Body and Blood of Christ together, and we’re sent out into the world to…

Dear sisters and brothers, I wanted to share a brief update with you on our Giving Campaign for 2023. (In case you missed it, from now until November 27th, we are asking you to pray about making a pledge to give to The Table this…

Most weeks during the prayers of the people, we pray for Gina and Chris Huff’s grandson Archer, whose medical challenges prompted his parents to move from Michigan to Indianapolis to seek answers at Riley Hospital for Children. Riley Children’s Health wrote a story about Archer…

Dear sisters and brothers, Just like our Sunday lectionary, the readings for daily morning and evening prayer have us steadily working through Luke’s Gospel. A couple weeks ago the reading was a parable from Luke 5 that ends with Jesus saying: “No one who drinks…

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…