The Table Blog

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…

On Sunday we proclaimed the good news that God’s healing justice is flowing straight into our desperate needs and overwhelming problems, a raging torrent of love that can’t help itself from responding to our cries for mercy. I encourage you to listen to the sermon…

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…

Brothers & Sisters, This past Sunday, we heard the good news that amidst exhaustion and desolation Jesus is calling out to you and his command is to abide and eat – in your surrender he is sustaining you and drawing you into the very life of…

In Andrea’s sermon this past Sunday, she mentioned that part of how we respond to the good news is to participate in the basic rhythms of our common life as a church. But cultivating any kind of common life together has been a significant challenge…

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…

Church, Mallory spent time in her sermon this past Sunday illuminating a reading of the story of Bathsheba and David that, in my experience at least, has been largely overlooked. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet you can check it…

Dear Church, This past Sunday I preached from the stories of David’s sin against Bathsheba, and Jesus feeding the five thousand in John 6, proclaiming that Jesus is pulling us out of our fearful grasping for power and privilege, and gathering us into his kingdom,…

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…

As a church, we have been in a season of learning about power: how it works, how to see it, and what to do with it. Mostly, we have been learning to reckon with our own power and privilege as a predominantly white, middle-class church.…