The Table Blog

Dear Church, Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Here’s a brief reflection from our friend, Greg Thompson, on how MLK, Jr. was all about love.  As we wind down on our time at Spirit of Joy and prepare for our new season in the chapel at Broadway…

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…

Beloved sisters and brothers in Christ, This past Sunday we were reminded that it is STILL Christmas, and we were invited to consent to the joy of Christmas – the joy of knowing that God has drawn near to us in the Incarnation of Jesus,…

This past Sunday Deb preached about God’s judgment of love that we await during Advent, and this Sunday one of our texts is the Magnificat, Mary’s song of praise to God for deliverance from oppression. One of the interesting things about the Magnificat is that,…

Dear Church, We are about half way through Advent and we haven’t communicated about Christmas Eve yet! There are a couple reasons for this: We’ve been busy looking for a new worship space for 2022 and that has taken up a lot of our focus…

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…

Dear sisters and brothers, What a glorious time we had this past Sunday! We held our first in-person all-church meeting in almost two years. We celebrated Jesus’ lordship of love and the baptism of Aletheia Austin into the Body of Christ. We rejoiced in Nancy…

Dear Church, As we approach Advent, our church is full with activity:  We’ll have an all-church meeting this Sunday, Nov 21 at 9:30am in the Fellowship Hall. We’ll discuss some vision for the coming year, updates on our search for a new place and time…

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…

Dear sisters and brothers, In my sermon this past Sunday I shared the good news that God’s love cultivates in us a whole-life love for God and neighbor that overflows the borders of our self interest and brings us into embodied, material solidarity with each…