The Table Blog

Church, This past Sunday we talked about how New Creation, the eternal life to which we are called, is about God’s presence and power at work in our world. This is why we tend to and enter into Kairos moments: to discover how God’s future…

Dear sisters and brothers, Blessed Eastertide to you! Our good news this past Sunday was that against the pretensions of the powers that claim to control the levers of history, and into our own sin and brokenness, the Easter gospel goes forth: Jesus Christ, the…

Church,  We had a beautiful Holy Week together. Three services in the span of four days is a lot more than normal, but each service genuinely felt like a gift. At the end of Sunday’s Easter celebrations, I felt a deep sense of gratitude for…

Dear Church, It’s Holy Week. Lent culminates in Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and then leads us into Eastertide on Easter Sunday. We will have services on every day but Saturday (maybe next year?) and these are some of the highest and holiest days…

Dear siblings in Christ, This past Sunday I preached and taught on the parable of the shrewd manager (Luke 16:1-13), which I had never really known what to do with until recently. We proclaimed the good news that while we cannot extricate ourselves entirely from…

Church, Near the end of this past Sunday’s sermon, we were encouraged to experiment in ways we can conspire for justice as a response to the good news we heard. As we have continued along in our Lenten series, Confronting Mammon with Jesus, there has…

Dear Church, Our Lenten journey continues this week; we are just over the halfway point until Easter. Some realizations are emerging from our discussions on Mammon together that I want to name for us all:  This Mammon ‘thing’ is bigger and deeper than most of…

Dear sisters and brothers, I have a brief update and encouragement for you today. First the update: the CDC has issued new guidance on Covid-19 precautions, and now has a 3-level system called “Covid-19 Community Levels“. Because Marion County’s Community Level is currently “Low”, starting…

Brothers and Sisters, In our Lenten class and sermon series, “Confronting Mammon with Jesus,” we continue to be confronted with the ubiquity of Mammon. Exploring and expounding on how thoroughly ingrained Mammon is in the logic of our day in and day out lives is…

Dear Church, Lent begins today, Ash Wednesday, with the imposition of ashes: “From dust you came, and to dust you will return.” Two years of Covid feels like an unending confrontation with our mortality, eh? As if we needed more of this right now? 🙂…