The Table Blog

Dear sisters and brothers, One of our core practices as a church is proclaiming good news to one another and the world, something we call “gospeling“. It’s part of what we learn to do in DNA Groups, and how we seek to encourage one another…

Dear Church, 2023 is upon us! And we are in the season of Epiphany, a time of illumination and instruction where we learn from Christ how to walk in the light of truth. My question for us at this time is: What teaching or instruction…

Dear Church, In my Christmas Eve homily, I spoke about how the story of the nativity of Jesus intersects with the sadness and grief we feel over the gap between our Advent longings and our actual lives, and I quoted author K.J. Ramsey, who encourages…

Dear Church, As we approach Christmas let us keep in mind:  God chose to enter the human story in a poor family, from the marginalized region of Galilee, at a time of intense colonial oppression, to parents who suffered shame because of his birth, to…

The good news in my sermon this past Sunday is that, in Christ, God draws near to our broken family systems, our traumatized genealogies, our shameful histories… and saves us by fully identifying with us, becoming a child of humanity, born of a woman so…

Sisters and Brothers, As we move through the season of Advent, we hold Christ’s first advent in conversation with his second. We anticipate the celebration of Christ’s birth in Christmastide, but we are also surrounded by a world that is longing for Christ’s return. This…

Dear Church, We begin Advent this week, a time of preparation to receive the incarnation of Jesus Christ anew at Christmas. We talked about groaning and lament this past Sunday. Here, again, is what I preached on Romans 8:15-25: The good news is that the…

Last Sunday we rejoiced and rested in the kingship of Jesus: his sovereign love and cross-shaped power to reconcile all things to God, enact justice, and make peace. And now (after Thanksgiving, at any rate) we get ready to turn the corner into a new…

This coming Sunday (Nov 20) is the Feast of Christ the King, the final Sunday of the liturgical year. On the following Sunday (Nov 27) we will begin the new liturgical year with the First Sunday of Advent. In many ways, it feels as if…

Dear sisters and brothers, How lovely it is to worship together! Each Sunday we gather as God’s beloved children, we hear the good news of the gospel, we share in the Body and Blood of Christ together, and we’re sent out into the world to…