Celebrating Advent during the week as a family can be a great way to augment our celebrations on the weekends as a church. Here are two ways to celebrate Advent as a family this year: 1. Advent Wreath Stories This is a resource created by…
How Do We Practice Time as Christians? Why the Liturgical Calendar Matters
Celebrating time as Christians As an Anglican church, we celebrate the liturgical year, because the way we mark and celebrate time has a profound impact on our formation as disciples of Jesus. Following the liturgical calendar is a way for us to immerse ourselves in the true…
Encountering God in the Ordinary
One of the reasons I value being part of a sacramental tradition is that it allows me to get off the exhausting hamster wheel of striving to “experience God.” I don’t need to cultivate an environment where I have “all the feels” to encounter God.…
Our Practices are Always Mutual Giving and receiving are inherent in each practice
We’ve been in the midst of a Summer of Mission in Community (SOMiC!), where we’ve been doing some “missional experiments” (fancy word for “parties”) to open up space to see where God is at work. Specifically we’ve been seeking to intentionally lean into two of…
The Orlando Shooting: Who Would Jesus Blame?
This article was co-written by Ben Sternke and Matt Tebbe. Twitter’s take on the Orlando shooting Sunday morning, June 12, 2016. We became aware of the breaking news through our Twitter feeds: Mass shooting. Nightclub in Orlando. 20 dead. Motive uncertain. No wait, 50 dead. It was…
Recognizing the Person of Peace How to be on mission with Jesus every day
At The Table we desire to become people who live on mission in our daily lives and in our weekly rhythms together. Our strategy for this is to live one life, depending on God, discerning his work and grace, together as a community. Since we…
Psalm 23 Prayer Liturgy
This past Sunday we worshiped together with the ancient four-fold pattern the church has used for centuries, and that we’ll be using when we gather for worship. The scripture readings focused on the Easter reality of God as our shepherd, and the homily centered on Psalm 23.…
How Worship Works An Introduction to Our Rhythm of Worship
Justin Bieber made the headlines awhile back with a statement about Christianity and church-going, and tacos. Here’s what he said: You don’t need to go to church to be a Christian. If you go to Taco Bell that doesn’t make you a taco. The analogy is…
A Season of Discipleship and Mission Intentional modeling and training for multiplication
After Easter, we’ll begin a new season at The Table. Where we’ve been In the fall of 2015 we landed in the Indy area and began by hosting weekly dinner and conversation about the kind of church we wanted to become: a multiplying movement of Jesus communities…
What’s Lent All About?
Fish sandwiches and Catholics Lent starts tomorrow. I didn’t grow up observing Lent, really. I was always reminded of it when fish sandwiches went on sale at McDonald’s, and I knew it had something to do with Catholics. I wasn’t sure what it had to…
