The Table Blog

You hear us speak almost every week about our Table Groups. I thought I’d take just a few minutes to describe what we are talking about when we say “Table Group”. 🙂 Table Groups meet in homes, over a meal, with space to encounter each…

Because we share a worship space with another church (thank you Spirit of Joy!), we don’t have a lot of time to get everything ready for our worship gathering. If you ever come early for worship, you’ll see our team plugging in instruments, rehearsing songs,…

Dear Church, With Thanksgiving this week, it often flies under the radar that this Sunday is the First Sunday of Advent, the beginning of a new church year! Advent is a season of longing, expectation, and hope. We turn our hearts toward the second coming of Christ,…

This past Sunday we commissioned our first vestry, and four of those people helped me preach on how God shares his power among us (and how there’s always leftovers when we give what we have!). If you weren’t there, I encourage you to listen to…

We just concluded our series on Living a Sacramental Life (to Combat the Secular Heresy) by talking about the way that we learn to live in moment-by-moment communion with God: through embodied participation. What this means is that we don’t really grow as disciples of…

What God does through us, he also does in us. Scripture describes this dynamic in organic metaphors:  Good soil produces good fruit (Luke 8:11ff) Good tree produces good fruit (Matthew 7.15ff) Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks (Matthew 12.33ff) Branch cannot…

One of our axioms for Living a Sacramental Life is “God cares about (all of) it more than we do.” But when we start to think about this in light of evil and suffering in our world, it tends to open up a can of…

To say that God is real is not profound… because if he isn’t real, what are we doing as a church? To say that God is so real he most fully meets us right where we really are is to acknowledge that God doesn’t fully…

This past Sunday we proclaimed the good news that God is just like Jesus, and during the Sunday morning class, I linked this with our liturgical practices of 1) reading Scripture aloud, and 2) preaching a sermon each week in worship. Reading certain Scriptures out…

This past Sunday we proclaimed the good news that, though we are often blind to it, God is always present with us and working for our good in every circumstance of our lives. I said during the sermon that one of the ways we embrace…