Church, From its start, The Table has pursued four core practices: Welcoming, Listening, Gospeling, and Going/Joining. We hold these practices as central to the life of our church as they help us to embody our values. Over the next four weeks, we will share brief reflections on each of…
Empowered to Be Present
Church, This past Sunday as we celebrated the Feast of Pentecost, we heard the good news that the Holy Spirit isn’t some fickle magic we have to conjure, but instead, in the way of our incarnate Savior, the Holy Spirit is empowering us to be…
Listening Sessions For Discernment
Church, We had a beautiful Holy Week together. Three services in the span of four days is a lot more than normal, but each service genuinely felt like a gift. At the end of Sunday’s Easter celebrations, I felt a deep sense of gratitude for…
Conspiring For Justice
Church, Near the end of this past Sunday’s sermon, we were encouraged to experiment in ways we can conspire for justice as a response to the good news we heard. As we have continued along in our Lenten series, Confronting Mammon with Jesus, there has…
Overwhelmed, but Together
Brothers and Sisters, In our Lenten class and sermon series, “Confronting Mammon with Jesus,” we continue to be confronted with the ubiquity of Mammon. Exploring and expounding on how thoroughly ingrained Mammon is in the logic of our day in and day out lives is…
Co-conspiring With the Divine
Church, What would it mean for your heart to be co-conspiring with the Divine even at a level beyond your awareness? What would be different if we were as aware of our potential for accidental good as we are aware of our potential for accidental…
Praying for Our New Vestry Candidates
This past Sunday we announced that Donna Romack, MaryEllen Pitts, and Brent Croxton have been nominated to serve a 3-year term on our Vestry. I realize that, especially considering the pandemic, some of you may not have had an opportunity to connect with these amazing…
Staying Together Through this Covid Wave
Brothers and Sisters, Last night, as I was picking up Remy’s birthday dinner on my way home from work (he requested burgers btw) a memory popped into my head that stopped me in my tracks for a minute. I had a sort of flashback to…
Leaning Into Waiting
In Advent, we participate in a season of waiting. We are waiting for Christmas, and in this way we bear witness to Israel’s story of waiting for the birth of the Messiah. We are also longingly waiting on all things to be set right at…
Raised to Life Together
In the sermon this past Sunday, we reflected on the story of Lazarus’ resurrection in John 11 and we heard the good news proclaimed that: “Christ, the beginning and the end… the God who weeps and also wipes away every tear… the God who dies also swallows…
