Matt Tebbe

Dear Church, I want to share two things with you this week: 1) We had our first Table 101 class on Sunday. We discussed the history of our church, along with our vision, mission, and practices. If you missed it, take some time to listen…

Dear Church, This week we proclaimed good news about learning to honor godly wisdom in our church: that which is pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to change, full of mercy and good virtue, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy (James 3:17). James says this is…

Hello Church! Just a few quick updates:  1) The Table 101 We talked about doing a Table 101 class this fall, but as we weighed the current spike in the pandemic numbers due to the Delta Variant, as well as the beginning (soon!) of fall…

Dear Church, Yesterday the good news we proclaimed was this: The love of God makes room for anger. We cannot imitate God unless we learn to be angry well.Church: may we seek the love that has room for righteous, sacrificial, evil-naming, Kingdom-seeking, truth-telling anger in our…

Dear Church, I mentioned on Sunday morning during announcements at the end of our service that there is an abuse situation happening in another diocese in our province. This is outside our specific diocese (Churches for the Sake of Others – C4SO), but inside our…

Dear Church,  I wanted to share a more personal word with you this week.  I mentioned a few weeks back that I made a decision to take better care of myself post-pandemic, in particular, being intentional about my ADHD and seeking treatment for that.  Here’s…

Dear Church, This past Sunday felt a little surreal: all of us, together, with unveiled faces beholding the Lord (and each other!). I’ve been waiting fifteen months to experience that with y’all again; I know many of you have been too.  I’m encouraged by how we, as…

Dear Church, What a blessed weekend! On Sunday we celebrated the feast of the Ascension. On Saturday, Nancy Nethercott was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Dan Scott. Nancy has served on staff at The Table for the past six months and now assumes the…

Dear Church, We are smack dab in the middle of Lent and I’m feeling a genuine sadness and malaise this week. I don’t know if it’s cloudy weather or if Lent is doing its good work to bring me closer into the suffering of our…

Here we are in Week 2 of our Lenten Series on Race & Repentance: Reckoning with Whiteness. This past week I preached on how Mammon (wealth + property + money) functioned systemically in Scripture. The big idea: love of money that Jesus spoke about (and…