The Table Blog

Brothers and sisters of The Table, I thought you might appreciate a mid-year update on our church life. The first half of 2019 has been rich. In worship We have been learning as a church to inhabit our Sunday liturgy in deeper ways. I’m excited…

Prayer doesn’t come easy for most of us. There’s not enough time, it doesn’t feel like a big priority, and many of us just feel guilty when we think about our prayer life (or lack thereof). I remember when I was younger and first read…

A meditation on Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10: 25-37): Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you…

The following is a meditation by Bruce Colville on 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14, the Old Testament reading for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost, June 30, 2019. The old prophet sets out in the morning but turns to Elisha and instructs him not to follow. This…

Our mission at The Table has everything to do with the presence of Christ: Encountering, Embodying, and Extending… We encounter Christ in the Word and at the Table on Sundays, We embody Christ in Table Groups and small communities during the week, and We extend Christ into the world as we engage our neighborhoods and workplaces…

What is shame? Brené Brown says shame is “the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging – something we’ve experienced, done, or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection.” This kind of shame is a tool…

What a wonderful week we had discussing the future of leadership at The Table. Last Wednesday we had a video call with Canon Kimberley Pfeiler from our diocesan office. She spoke briefly about Anglican polity and answered our questions pertaining to the formation of a vestry. Many…

Christ was a teacher; he held out Kingdom truth and reality to those whom he ministered. At the Table we are committed to developing and equipping the entire human person: mind, soul, body, and heart. Teaching is part of our integrative approach to building up…

We have a commitment to a specific way of leadership at The Table, a way that is neither “top-down” (what I say goes because I’m the leader!), nor “bottom-up” (nobody does anything until we all agree). Our way of leadership might be best described as…

There are churches you can go to that will entertain your kids; there are churches that will give you a break from parenting during the hour or so worship service; there are churches that will assertively ask you to take your child into special designated…