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Giving people hope in this context is about offering a vision that is compelling and transformational and inviting them to take part in making that vision a reality.
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We all understand the value of creating a welcoming and hospitable environment. How much more powerful is it when we are personally oriented toward becoming a place of welcome and hospitality to others, ourselves?We all understand the value of creating a welcoming and hospitable environment. How much more powerful is it when we are personally oriented toward becoming a place of welcome and hospitality to others, ourselves?
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Honoring others is about letting them know that they are seen and valued. If humility is about de-centering ourselves, honoring is about centering others.
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Humility is key to creating space for others to offer their own unique expertise, wisdom, and giftedness.
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Both spiritual practice and steadfast activism require a pattern of faithful presence over time (often with no visible result). Showing up, again and again, is the shape of both spiritual practice and activism.
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Both spiritual practice and steadfast activism require a pattern of faithful presence over time (often with no visible result). Showing up, again and again, is the shape of both spiritual practice and activism.
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The Christian gospel is a liberation announcement — and being set free demands a response. If life in Christ is a life set free, what kind of world is that life called to help build?
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Contrast the domination system against the kingdom of God: our faith gives us a vision of the world organized around love and justice rather than power and domination — a vision in tension with the kingdoms of this world.
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One of the highest challenges to Christians. What does this mean, and ask of us, in relation to real-life “enemies”?
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If every human being bears the divine image (which scripture says we do), then we must affirm a fundamental human dignity/sacred worth that obligates us to oppose systems that degrade human beings.
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Pentecost Sunday commemorates the Pentecost event in the book of Acts, when people from all across the world speaking many languages could suddenly understand one another through the movement of the Holy Spirit. Symbols are fire and wind.
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Being awake to God, learning to be comfortable in our own skin, leaning into our pain, being open to the journey, and embracing restfulness are some of the ways we’ve explored what it might look like for us to become more fully alive. Notice that what we have explored has been less about attaining something and instead more about becoming aware that the means are already ours. As author Barbara Brown Taylor puts it, “All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need.”
The creation story from the first chapter of Genesis makes one thing perfectly clear, the goodness of God is woven into the very fabric of creation. All that exists, shares in God’s own holiness. In that sense, we can think of being, as blessing.
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This week, in order to find God in our midst, we look into our family and the families we create together. Diana Butler Bass notices that sometimes we find wisdom in the oddest places, “for example, in a real-estate blog. Blogger David Marine writes:” ‘The English word “home” is from the Old English word hâm (not the pig), which actually refers to a village or estate where many “souls” are gathered. It implies there’s a physical dwelling involved, but the main idea is that it’s a gathering of people. One dictionary I came across online had an interpretation of the modern definition of home that I really like. It states that home is “the abiding place of the affections.” To me, that sums it up like nothing else. It’s not a building or a room, but a place where your love dwells. Home is the abiding place of the affections.’ So, if God is in our midst, with us and with(in) us, then we experience God in the many expressions of family in our lives, “the abiding place of the affections.” Bass believes that “the people who make up a household, those who create a home, are not always related by blood, nor do they always form customary legal or religious bonds. But making a home together is intended as a grace, a place of sacred habitation, a sign of God’s intent to dwell with all humankind.” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
This week, in order to find God in our midst, we look into our own neighborhood. Diana Butler Bass reminds us of this simple, yet profound reality by quoting that famous theologian, Fred Rogers: “It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine? I’ve always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I’ve always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.”
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In the book of Genesis, dirt (or ground) and water are created in the first narrative of the creation story and “given” to humankind to have “dominion” over all creatures living in both earth and seas. This narrative reinforces the hierarchical and anthropomorphic understanding of God–”God the Father, Humankind the children, Creation the subject”. Diana Butler Bass invites us to change our understanding of God, quoting the 20th Century German theologian, Paul Tillich, and the teachings of 4th century BCE Taoist philosopher, Chuang-tzu:
We must abandon the external height images in which the theistic God has historically been perceived and replace them with internal depth images of a deity who is not apart from us, but who is the very core and ground of all that is. –Paul Tillich
Water is the blood of the earth, and flows through its muscles and veins… It is accumulated in heaven and earth, and stored up in various things of the world. It comes forth in metal and stone, and is concentrated in living creatures. Therefore it is said that water is something spiritual. –Chuang-tzu
Today we know that our planet is a living body, and that it groans in pain from the destruction that we cause. And we, created in the image of God–Imago Dei–from dirt and water, are stewards of all of what was created, not dominators.
We are invited to find God in the very creation that we were asked to care for.
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This week, in order to find God in our midst, we look into the vastness of the sky and heavens and take a deep breath to fill our lungs with life giving air. Diana Butler Bass believes that our experience of God is paradoxical, at times. That is to say, our encounter with God is often one of the most mysterious and intensely personal experiences in our life, all at the same moment. As Bass says: Unlike the ground and water, sky is beyond our comprehension. Where does it begin or end? How large is it? It is both visible, as the location of clouds, stars, and colored light, and as invisible as the atmosphere and wind. It is a vast cosmos and big skies; and it is sunlight warming our face or wind blowing our hair. … The atmosphere is the world’s protective covering, keeping the planet safe from the icy terrors of the deeper heavens. The sky touches the earth, yet its outer edges are infinitely far from us. It is where we always are, what we always breathe, yet at the same time it is a place we can never go without oxygen and special suits and flying machines. We breathe the sky in; we make wishes on stars whose names we do not know. The sky is the most intimate inner space and the most incomprehensible outer reaches of the universe. It is something we see; it is something that remains an invisible presence in our lives, … just like God! Considering the scripture for this week and Diana Butler Bass’ belief that God is the most mysterious and personal experience in our lives, we might:
Look up into the sky, take a deep breath, and ask ourselves: How do you experience the mystery of God? Is the mystery comfortable, uncomfortable, or both? How do you experience the closeness of God? Is the closeness comfortable, uncomfortable, or both?
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This week we begin at the beginning in both the Hebrew Scriptures (Genesis) and the New Covenant (The Gospel of John). Diana Butler Bass contends that our understanding of God and Jesus in the role of Creator (i.e., Genesis as the original act of creation and as a dynamic creative process that extends throughout history) is drifting away from the dominant theology of top-down, vertical institutions that describe God as the “majestic, transcendent, all-powerful, heavenly Father, Lord, and King” to a more mystical and experiential notion of a God that inhabits life itself as a full participant of the human condition and created order. In other words, a spiritual revolution has begun that focuses on the divine presence in ourselves, our neighbors, nature, animals, plants, and things – rooted in what Bass calls the “language of divine nearness,” – God With(in) the World – “the very heart of vibrant faith.”
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This week we take our ninth and final step along the path of the prophetic tradition. Richard Rohr in his book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage, reminds us that the prophet Ezekiel (perhaps one of the most quirky and eccentric prophets we have read) begins in usual prophetic fashion with anger but then turns to one of the clearest expressions of grace in the Hebrew Scriptures: namely, the people receiving a “new heart and new spirit” as a gift from God with no strings attached. As Rohr says:
“All grace is prevenient grace—the kind that makes you desire or want grace to begin with! Grace is not what we deserve by doing the right things, but rather a gift freely given by the Creator in the very act of creation, even if we do not yet believe in its source. Knowing the source somehow just makes it easier to keep saying Thank you. As such, grace is, strangely, a punishment for the ego, which always wants to believe in payments and punishments, a concept we unfortunately got from religion itself.” – Richard Rohr, The Tears of Things, pp. 132-33
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This week we take our eighth step along the path of the prophetic tradition. Richard Rohr in his book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage, reminds us that there is only one book in the Bible named after an emotion: the book of Lamentations, an expression of the “tragic sense of life.” Author and storyteller Megan McKenna poignantly describes the grief bemoaned by the writer of Lamentations, … the universal nature of shared sadness, and God weeping with us in it. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Richard Rohr in his book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage, describes the path of the prophetic tradition by bringing into conversation the inspired, and sometime eccentric, prophets of the Hebrew Bible with the contemporary voices of people who have embodied this path in the world today. Rohr plots this path as one that moves from “righteous anger against injustice, grief for the world’s suffering, and finally, grace-filled love for everyone and everything.” Over the next nine weeks we will be inspired and challenged by biblical voices like Isaiah and Micah alongside courageous contemporary activists like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dorothy Day.
Although not everyone is called to be a prophet, we are all able to engage the prophetic tradition and embody that tradition in our own context. We invite you to take time during this worship series to find your place on this prophetic path and discern how God is calling you to live out this tradition at The Table and in our community. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
This week, our youth apprentices and interns from Table Farm ask us to consider the role of anger on the prophetic path as evidenced in the lives of the biblical prophet, Jeremiah, and modern-day prophet, Greta Thunberg. During their recent farm shifts, our youth explored the connection between anger and grief as an antecedent to hope. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg embodies these two seemingly opposite and challenging emotions, anger and grief, as she chastises world leaders for not taking steps to address climate change in her address at the UN Climate Action Summit in 2019. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
This week we take our fifth step along the path of the prophetic tradition. Richard Rohr suggests that the work of the prophet often includes creating a holy disorder to disrupt a dominant unjust order. So, as we travel along the path of the prophetic tradition, the goal is to dis-order and disrupt things just enough that a new just and merciful order can emerge. As Rohr suggests: Reforms rarely move directly from the existing order to a new order automatically or by a single positive insight. The old order has to somehow show its disorder, its shadow self, its injustices, its wrongness. Then there must be a period of disorder, a fertile time of searching before a new order can be found. The rule must reveal some exceptions to the rule before any reordering will be sought, trusted, or allowed—and even then, all things human will still reveal themselves as incomplete (p. 45). Pastor Greg’s message, Necessary Disorder, will hold the scripture in conversation with the lives and legacies of the Hebrew prophet Moses and the contemporary prophet Fannie Lou Hamer. Both are examples of prophetic endurance, courageously creating a holy disorder in response to the unjust systems of their time, disrupting the status quo for the sake of a liberating justice. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
The ancient Hebrew prophet Amos and the contemporary Roman Catholic activist Dorothy Day both emphasized a bias toward the margins – “a preferential option for the poor.” Because the economic, political, and social systems of the world too often fail to reflect God’s love and care for all people, Amos and Day believe that God steps into the gap between the dominant culture and historical marginalized communities, calling us into the margins. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
This week we take our third step along the path of the prophetic tradition. Richard Rohr in his book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage, suggests that the vocation of the prophet is focused on unmasking collective evil or “social sin.” So, more than critiquing individuals, the prophets critique their culture and society, exposing what has been hidden. The prophets, far ahead of their time, learned that it is social sin that destroys civilization and humanity: global warming, war, idealization of immense wealth, celebrity worship, the pursuit of fame and fortune, immense and growing income inequality, a denial of common truth, and on and on. They attacked hidden cultural assumptions more than they did the people caught up in them (p. 24). Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship in November at The Table weaves inspiring music with prophetic messages as we wonder together: What are the grounds for hope in a wounded world? We gather today in the wake of our national election and Pastor Matt’s message is rooted in Psalm 146 — we call on God to revive us again for the journey ahead. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
This week we welcome Dr. Sharon Jacob to the Table. “Now I Ain’t sayin’ he’s a Gold Digger: A Reconsideration of the Parable of the Talents” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
In this morning’s worship we celebrate baptism, renew baptismal covenants, and share Deep Commitments for 2025. This morning’s worship is rooted in Mark 10.46-52 and invites us to rejoice in the Deepest Belonging we experience from God as we practice our faith by sharing in life together with others at The Table. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Rev. Kara Root’s “The Deepest Belonging: A Story about Discovering Where God Meets Us” tells the story of Kara’s journey as a pastor with a small Presbyterian church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kara’s writing has been a source of inspiration for this four-week worship series which invites our community of faith into the depths of what it means to belong to God and each other at The Table. Our worship series will culminate on October 27 with an opportunity to celebrate baptism, renew our baptismal covenants, and make Deep Commitments for 2025. We invite you to take time over the coming weeks to consider your relationship to God and our community of faith by sharing a Deep Commitment for 2025. This morning’s worship is rooted in Mark 10:32-45 and invites reflection on how we might understand the significance of Jesus’ suffering, death, and resurrection from a place of embracing our deepest belonging. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Rev. Kara Root’s “The Deepest Belonging: A Story about Discovering Where God Meets Us” tells the story of Kara’s journey as a pastor with a small Presbyterian church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kara’s writing has been a source of inspiration for this four-week worship series which invites our community of faith into the depths of what it means to belong to God and each other at The Table. Our worship series will culminate on October 27 with an opportunity to celebrate baptism, renew our baptismal covenants, and make Deep Commitments for 2025. We invite you to take time over the coming weeks to consider your relationship to God and our community of faith by sharing a Deep Commitment for 2025. This morning’s worship is rooted in Mark 10:17-31 and invites reflection on how we might experience the deepest belonging by sharing life together at The Table. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Rev. Kara Root’s “The Deepest Belonging: A Story about Discovering Where God Meets Us” tells the story of Kara’s journey as a pastor with a small Presbyterian church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kara’s writing has been a source of inspiration for this four-week worship series which invites our community of faith into the depths of what it means to belong to God and each other at The Table. Our worship series will culminate on October 27 with an opportunity to celebrate baptism, renew our baptismal covenants, and make Deep Commitments for 2025. We invite you to take time over the coming weeks to consider your relationship to God and our community of faith by sharing a Deep Commitment for 2025. This morning’s worship is rooted in Psalm 8 and invites reflection on how we might experience the deepest belonging by sharing life together at The Table. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
This week we welcome Rev. Jorge Domingues to the Table. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
We welcome guest Rev. Mike Harrell to worship this morning. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
The root of the word “human” is the same as the word “humility.” It all means literally “on the ground.” From dust we came, and to dust we shall return. When we hear each other’s fears, anxieties, and pain, we can return to the ground of hope… that we are all experiencing the pains of being human. This week, we remember to look first at our neighbor as a person, not a position. Beginning conversations this way may help us to stay human and “on the ground” with one another rather than needing to come out “on top.” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
In this worship series we are examining the news we take in and share. We are looking for the “really good news” that can sustain us in the long haul. Together, we find ways to tell deeply good news for all people by filtering our interactions through the lens of compassion. Today’s scripture gives us what feels like an impossible vision: those who are enemies existing peacefully together. It is said that if we can envision something, we can work towards it. Can we believe in the vision our biblical witness offers us of a way of being “full of the knowledge of God” instead of our own limited imagination and knowing? Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
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Worship is rooted in Joshua 24:1-2a,14-18 and a centering of the land as we seek to revere and serve the Lord. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted in John 6:51-58 and Jesus’ radical vision of sacramental life rooted in the breaking of bread and sharing of a cup. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
We’re excited to continue our three-week worship series by holding the Lectionary readings from the Gospel of John in conversation with the Olympic Games 2024. Worship this week is rooted in John 6:35, 41-51. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
We’re excited to continue our three-week worship series by holding the Lectionary readings from the Gospel of John in conversation with the Olympic Games 2024. Worship this week is rooted in John 6:24-35. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
This week we begin a new three-week worship series in which we will hold the Lectionary readings from the Gospel of John in conversation with the Olympic Games 2024. Worship this week is rooted in John 6:1-21and the miracle of feeding 5,000 people with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread. What makes something a miracle? Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
This is the final week of our three-week worship series called Flourishing: God’s Vision for Creation. Each week we are holding readings from scripture alongside ways in which God’s vision for creation is flourishing within us and also all around us.
Rev. Dr. Matt Skinner writes, “This passage offers…an opportunity to reflect on the gospel’s relationship to health and wholeness. When Jesus heals people of their ailments, his acts are not symbolic of the salvation he provides. They are a piece of that salvation. We miss that when we make ‘salvation’ into an otherworldly concept or a primarily spiritual condition. Jesus devotes himself to ensuring human flourishing in body, mind, spirit, and community….At the same time, Jesus’ ministry does not totally eliminate the things that assail our well-being. The people Jesus heals, we presume, get sick again and die. Jesus is a healer, yes, but his purpose entails more than spreading temporary wellness…Giving support to harassed people, feeding hungry people (6:35–44), and healing sick people have consequences. Those actions alter economies in households and neighborhoods. They transform relationships. They urge people to reconsider old allegiances. They give people hope. In a world where cynicism and fear are effective means of controlling people and stifling widespread human flourishing, too many hopeful people become threatening. Yet hope cannot remain hidden. It doesn’t work that way.”
Read Mark 6.30-34, 53-56.
How are cynicism and fear stifling your own flourishing? Where do you see signs of hopeful people becoming a critical mass for the flourishing of creation?
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This week we begin a new three-week worship series called Flourishing: God’s Vision for Creation. Each week we will hold readings from scripture alongside ways in which God’s vision for creation is flourishing within us and also all around us. Worship this morning at The Table is rooted in Psalm 85:8-13. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
This week we begin a new three-week worship series called Flourishing: God’s Vision for Creation. Each week we will hold readings from scripture alongside ways in which God’s vision for creation is flourishing within us and also all around us. Worship this morning at The Table is rooted in Ezekiel 2:1-5. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Five-week worship series on breaking through to the other side with Jesus. Each week in the month of June we’ll hear from a different preacher as we hold the lectionary readings assigned to the global church from the book of Mark and wonder about the call of Jesus to break through into new understandings of life and faith. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Five-week worship series on breaking through to the other side with Jesus. Each week in the month of June we’ll hear from a different preacher as we hold the lectionary readings assigned to the global church from the book of Mark and wonder about the call of Jesus to break through into new understandings of life and faith. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Five-week worship series on breaking through to the other side with Jesus. Each week in the month of June we’ll hear from a different preacher as we hold the lectionary readings assigned to the global church from the book of Mark and wonder about the call of Jesus to break through into new understandings of life and faith. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Five-week worship series on breaking through to the other side with Jesus. Each week in the month of June we’ll hear from a different preacher as we hold the lectionary readings assigned to the global church from the book of Mark and wonder about the call of Jesus to break through into new understandings of life and faith. This week we hold Mark 3 in conversation with our notions of family. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
This week we begin a five-week worship series on breaking through to the other side with Jesus. Each week in the month of June we’ll hear from a different preacher as we hold the lectionary readings assigned to the global church from the book of Mark and wonder about the call of Jesus to break through into new understandings of life and faith. This week we hold the reading from Mark 2 and the practice of Sabbath rest. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted in Acts 2 and the Holy Spirit visitation at Pentecost.Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship today invites us to reflect upon how this “oneness” emboldened the early Christian community to practice their faith. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted in the movement of the Holy Spirit as recorded in the book of Acts. The movement of the Holy Spirit invites us to draw our circles wide and to let go and cross boundaries of exclusion. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
This four-week worship series in April will hold readings from the Book of Acts alongside our hopes for creating community which is rooted in the ways of the Risen One for today. This morning’s worship holds Acts 4.32-35 alongside the early Christian community’s practice of “holding in common.” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our four-week worship series in April holds readings from the Book of Acts alongside our hopes for creating community which is rooted in the ways of the Risen One for today. This morning’s worship is rooted in Acts 4. Amid threats from those in positions to judge, the early followers of Creator Sets Free (Jesus) turned to prayer and found a boldness born through intimacy with one another and the Spirit of God in their midst. They disciples came to be of “one heart and mind.” Worship today invites us to reflect upon how this “oneness” emboldened the early Christian community to practice their faith. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our four-week worship series in April holds readings from the Book of Acts alongside our hopes for creating community which is rooted in the ways of the Risen One for today. This morning’s worship is rooted in Acts 4 and the experience of resurrection’s defeat of death and restoring of life. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
This four-week worship series in April will hold readings from the Book of Acts alongside our hopes for creating community which is rooted in the ways of the Risen One for today. This morning’s worship holds Acts 4.32-35 alongside the early Christian community’s practice of “holding in common.” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our Easter worship celebrations are rooted in the account of resurrection from Mark’s Gospel. The women found the stone rolled away from the burial cave on that first Easter morning. Terror and amazement covered their bodies like a blanket; leaving them in silence. The faithful silence of the women creates space for the mystery and power of God’s presence to resound. Resurrection doesn’t just pull back the lid from an ancient tomb in Israel or uncover a single grave stone from history. Resurrection reveals something even ever deeper: namely, the death-dealing violence and hatred and scapegoating in which our world is trapped, does not have the last word. Welcome to the revelation. Welcome to an end that is a beginning. Welcome to resurrection. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. We turn this week to Mark 11:1-11 and Palm Sunday. How does thinking about palm branches as a link to the exodus story, and “Hosanna” as meaning “Save us, we pray!”, change your experience of Palm Sunday? How does it enrich your experience of the movement for a healthy climate? Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. In virtually every transformative movement in human history – the abolitionist movement against slavery, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the movements for women’s suffrage, labor protections, dismantling apartheid in South Africa, the list goes on – in each of these cases, people of faith have been at the center of the action. Catalysts. Laborers. Visionaries. And now, as we confront what is arguably the greatest challenge in human history, God is calling us all to step up once more. To love the world – and put our love into action. To care for creation – and pass it on to the next generation better, healthier, and hardier than we found it. Just as we might ask one of our ancestors, “How did you contribute to the Civil Rights Movement? Or did you sit on the sidelines?”, our descendants will surely ask the same of us: “How did you contribute to the fight for a livable, healthy climate for all God’s creatures, great and small?” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. We turn this week to John 3.14-21 and wonder about how the tendency by imperial Christianity to lift the single verse — John 3.16 — out of context might be reconsidered in light of it’s very context. How might the biblical stories alluded to by John 3, help us to listen more deeply to the stories of our own lives and the world? At the heart of John 3 is generous love. And, “This kind of generous love is also at the heart of humanity’s story, including our work – as steward, as gardener – to slow, stop, and eventually reverse the overheating of the planet. Indeed, part of what makes this problem so challenging is that it’s not only technical; it’s also cultural, and cultures are made of stories.” How might we join with God’s healing and redemption by diving deeper into our own Climate Stories? Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. In virtually every transformative movement in human history – the abolitionist movement against slavery, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the movements for women’s suffrage, labor protections, dismantling apartheid in South Africa, the list goes on – in each of these cases, people of faith have been at the center of the action. Catalysts. Laborers. Visionaries. And now, as we confront what is arguably the greatest challenge in human history, God is calling us all to step up once more. To love the world – and put our love into action. To care for creation – and pass it on to the next generation better, healthier, and hardier than we found it. Just as we might ask one of our ancestors, “How did you contribute to the Civil Rights Movement? Or did you sit on the sidelines?”, our descendants will surely ask the same of us: “How did you contribute to the fight for a livable, healthy climate for all God’s creatures, great and small?” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. In virtually every transformative movement in human history – the abolitionist movement against slavery, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the movements for women’s suffrage, labor protections, dismantling apartheid in South Africa, the list goes on – in each of these cases, people of faith have been at the center of the action. Catalysts. Laborers. Visionaries. And now, as we confront what is arguably the greatest challenge in human history, God is calling us all to step up once more. To love the world – and put our love into action. To care for creation – and pass it on to the next generation better, healthier, and hardier than we found it. Just as we might ask one of our ancestors, “How did you contribute to the Civil Rights Movement? Or did you sit on the sidelines?”, our descendants will surely ask the same of us: “How did you contribute to the fight for a livable, healthy climate for all God’s creatures, great and small?” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. In virtually every transformative movement in human history – the abolitionist movement against slavery, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the movements for women’s suffrage, labor protections, dismantling apartheid in South Africa, the list goes on – in each of these cases, people of faith have been at the center of the action. Catalysts. Laborers. Visionaries. And now, as we confront what is arguably the greatest challenge in human history, God is calling us all to step up once more. To love the world – and put our love into action. To care for creation – and pass it on to the next generation better, healthier, and hardier than we found it. Just as we might ask one of our ancestors, “How did you contribute to the Civil Rights Movement? Or did you sit on the sidelines?”, our descendants will surely ask the same of us: “How did you contribute to the fight for a livable, healthy climate for all God’s creatures, great and small?” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. In virtually every transformative movement in human history – the abolitionist movement against slavery, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the movements for women’s suffrage, labor protections, dismantling apartheid in South Africa, the list goes on – in each of these cases, people of faith have been at the center of the action. Catalysts. Laborers. Visionaries. And now, as we confront what is arguably the greatest challenge in human history, God is calling us all to step up once more. To love the world – and put our love into action. To care for creation – and pass it on to the next generation better, healthier, and hardier than we found it. Just as we might ask one of our ancestors, “How did you contribute to the Civil Rights Movement? Or did you sit on the sidelines?”, our descendants will surely ask the same of us: “How did you contribute to the fight for a livable, healthy climate for all God’s creatures, great and small?” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship this Sunday holds the biblical account of transfiguration from Mark 9.2-9 in conversation with the recently released film called Freud’s Last Session. Instead of viewing the film from the posture of feeling compelled to take sides with either Freud or Lewis, we instead invite you to notice Freud’s couch of transformation. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our worship series in September will hold current cultural touchpoints from the airwaves (Grammy), small screen (Emmy), large screen (Oscar), and theater (Tony) in conversation with the Gospel readings assigned to the global Christian church by the lectionary. This week we turn to the music of Taylor Swift. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our worship series in September will hold current cultural touchpoints from the airwaves (Grammy), small screen (Emmy), large screen (Oscar), and theater (Tony) in conversation with the Gospel readings assigned to the global Christian church by the lectionary. This week we turn to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie & Matthew 16.21-28. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship today at The Table is the culmination of our Portrait Summer. This week we consider the question: “what you would want a portrait of you to show?” Scripture paints a portrait of Lydia and an enslaved girl.
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Worship today at The Table invites reflection upon the ways we might unconsciously mock Jesus and where in our own lives we might find ourselves truly seeing Jesus with eyes of love like the penitent thief on the cross. When are we mocking Jesus? When are we truly seeing Jesus in our midst? Worship is online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted in Acts 20:1-12, the short story of a youth named Eutychus. Using visual art and prompts for reflection, we’re excavating less prominent biblical characters by entering their stories with curiosity and openness to what they might teach us. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
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Worship through the summer is rooted in the story of a particular person or persons that are part of our biblical story. This week we learn about Judge and Prophet Deborah Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship through the summer is rooted in the story of a particular person or persons that are part of our biblical story. This week we hear of four women who stepped forward in courage to stand up for what was right. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship through the summer is rooted in the story of a particular person or persons that are part of our biblical story. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted in the gospel readings assigned to the Global Church as we focus upon a particular way Jesus called his first followers to practice their faith and invite reflection upon what this might look like in our own lives today. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our celebration of Pentecost will lift up the wild disrupting design of the Holy Spirit which crosses boundaries in unexpected ways as we read Acts 2 alongside the life of Mary Reynolds with music by Corey Henry and Solabel. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted in how resurrection stories in scripture & the new science of Dr. Dacher Keltner on everyday wonder transform life through the emotion of Awe. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted in how resurrection stories in scripture & the new science of Dr. Dacher Keltner on everyday wonder transform life through the emotion of Awe. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted in how resurrection stories in scripture & the new science of Dr. Dacher Keltner on everyday wonder transform life through the emotion of Awe. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our Easter Sunrise worship is rooted in the resurrection account from John and the poetry of Wendell Berry who calls us to “practicing resurrection” in response to the resurrection on Easter — learning from the fox, the leaves, and the soil, among other revolutionaries. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our Lenten worship series is rooted in scripture and the Sabbath poetry of Wendell Berry; today’s worship focusing on John 18:1-19:30 & Wendell Berry Poem: II, 1988, “It is the destruction of the world” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our Lenten worship series is rooted in scripture and the Sabbath poetry of Wendell Berry; today’s Palm Sunday worship invites reflection on Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem from Matthew 21:1-11 & Wendell Berry’s Poem I, 1986, “Slowly, slowly, they return” (This Day, 71). Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our Lenten worship series is rooted in scripture and the Sabbath poetry of Wendell Berry; today’s worship focusing on John 11.1-44 & Wendell Berry’s poem I, 1980, “What hard travail God does in death!” (This Day, p. 25). Message by guest Rev. Odette Lockwood-Stewart. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our Lenten worship series is rooted in scripture and the Sabbath poetry of Wendell Berry; today’s worship focusing on John 9 & Wendell Berry’s poem VI, 1987, “Remembering that it happened once.” (This Day, p. 80). Message by guest Rev. Linda Loessberg-Zahl. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our Lenten worship series is rooted in scripture and the Sabbath poetry of Wendell Berry; today’s worship focusing on John 4:5-42 & Wendell Berry’s poem V, 1985, “How long does it take to make the woods?” (This Day, p. 67). Message by guest Rev. Debbie Weatherspoon. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our Lenten worship series is rooted in scripture and the Sabbath poetry of Wendell Berry; today’s worship focusing on John 3:1-17 & Wendell Berry’s poem VII, 1999, “Again I resume the long” (This Day, 201). Matt’s message invites our community to debunk exploiter’s exclusive and transactional readings of John 3.16 and to celebrate an inclusive and grace-inspired non-transactional way of hearing John 3.16 within its broader context. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our Lenten worship series is rooted in scripture and the Sabbath poetry of Wendell Berry. Pastor Matt’s message on this first Sunday in the season of Lent invites reflection on Matthew 4:1-11 & Wendell Berry’s Poem: I, 1979, “I go among trees and sit still” (This Day, p. 7). Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
We begin our Lenten worship series, Sabbath Rest: Wendell Berry and the Sabbath Poetry of Lent, on this Ash Wednesday. Jesus challenges us to give, pray, fast, and value in ways that aren’t paraded out in public for all to see, but rather take place “in secret” – hidden even from ourselves (“do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing”). Jesus’ repeated emphasis here points to something essential about genuine love: it bubbles up from our innermost heart, not from any desire to impress or acquire status. Wendell Berry puts it this way: “The way of love leads all ways / to life beyond words, silent / and secret. To serve that triumph / I have done all the rest.” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
In this final week of a three-week worship series, we will explore Father Richard Rohr’s reading of the Sermon on the Mount with attention to final verses of Jesus’ sermon. Father Richard writes in Jesus’ Alternative Plan: The Sermon on the Mount, “Like any good spiritual teacher, Jesus sums up his sermon by calling his listeners to a choice, or an ‘altar call,’ as the tent meetings would describe it. The options are set before us in very clear and decisive fashion. ‘Do you want the old world order, or do you want the new one that I have just described?’” (202). Worship on this final Sunday invites us to place our bet with Jesus.
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Many people believe it would simply be impossible to live the sermon on the mount while others believe the sermon on the mount sums up the totality of what our life on earth ought to be under God. Reading Matthew 5 – 7 may leave us desperately proclaiming, “You can’t be serious!” In this second week of a three-week worship series, we will explore Father Richard Rohr’s reading of the Sermon on the Mount with attention to the Lord’s Prayer. Father Rohr writes, “Jesus’ new world order is utterly subverting the old world order.”
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Many people believe it would simply be impossible to live the sermon on the mount while others believe the sermon on the mount sums up the totality of what our life on earth ought to be under God. Reading Matthew 5 – 7 may leave us desperately proclaiming, “You can’t be serious!” In this first week of a three-week worship series, we will explore Father Richard Rohr’s reading of the Sermon on the Mount. Father Rohr writes, “Jesus’ new world order is utterly subverting the old world order.” Our worship series opens with focus on The Beatitudes and Matthew 5.1-20. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
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Opportunities to Reach in Love for Christmas Our Christmas Offering during this worship series called From Generation to Generation will support two important ministries: Half of our Christmas Offering will go directly to the South Sacramento Interfaith Partnership’s Food Closet. The other half of our Christmas Offering will help Table Bread purchase a commercial stand mixer. Here is a link to give online. Give online here to support our Christmas Offering*. * Include Mustard Seed School (a program of Loaves & Fishes providing school opportunities for children ages 3-15 years-old who are currently experiencing homelessness) and The GreenHouse (a ministry offering after-school tutoring, mentoring, spiritual and leadership development for youth in the Gardenland Northgate neighborhood) in your Christmas shopping. Natalia has created a wish list for Mustard Seed and GreenHouse to help us offer support. Access the wish list here. Thank you for supporting these two vital efforts this Christmas! * December 27: Learn more and sign-up for 1st-3rd Graders Reaching in Love with Table Bread. * December 29: Learn more and sign-up for 4th-6th Graders Reaching in Love with Table Bread. * December 30: Learn more and sign-up for Middle Schoolers Reaching in Love with South Sacramento Interfaith Partnership’s Food Closet.
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Opportunities to Reach in Love for Christmas Our Christmas Offering during this worship series called From Generation to Generation will support two important ministries: Half of our Christmas Offering will go directly to the South Sacramento Interfaith Partnership’s Food Closet. The other half of our Christmas Offering will help Table Bread purchase a commercial stand mixer. Here is a link to give online. Give online here to support our Christmas Offering*. * Include Mustard Seed School (a program of Loaves & Fishes providing school opportunities for children ages 3-15 years-old who are currently experiencing homelessness) and The GreenHouse (a ministry offering after-school tutoring, mentoring, spiritual and leadership development for youth in the Gardenland Northgate neighborhood) in your Christmas shopping. Natalia has created a wish list for Mustard Seed and GreenHouse to help us offer support. Access the wish list here. Thank you for supporting these two vital efforts this Christmas! * December 27: Learn more and sign-up for 1st-3rd Graders Reaching in Love with Table Bread. * December 29: Learn more and sign-up for 4th-6th Graders Reaching in Love with Table Bread. * December 30: Learn more and sign-up for Middle Schoolers Reaching in Love with South Sacramento Interfaith Partnership’s Food Closet.
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Opportunities to Reach in Love for Christmas Our Christmas Offering during this worship series called From Generation to Generation will support two important ministries: Half of our Christmas Offering will go directly to the South Sacramento Interfaith Partnership’s Food Closet. The other half of our Christmas Offering will help Table Bread purchase a commercial stand mixer. Here is a link to give online. Give online here to support our Christmas Offering*. * Include Mustard Seed School (a program of Loaves & Fishes providing school opportunities for children ages 3-15 years-old who are currently experiencing homelessness) and The GreenHouse (a ministry offering after-school tutoring, mentoring, spiritual and leadership development for youth in the Gardenland Northgate neighborhood) in your Christmas shopping. Natalia has created a wish list for Mustard Seed and GreenHouse to help us offer support. Access the wish list here. Thank you for supporting these two vital efforts this Christmas! * December 27: Learn more and sign-up for 1st-3rd Graders Reaching in Love with Table Bread. * December 29: Learn more and sign-up for 4th-6th Graders Reaching in Love with Table Bread. * December 30: Learn more and sign-up for Middle Schoolers Reaching in Love with South Sacramento Interfaith Partnership’s Food Closet.
In August of 1933 Bonhoeffer wrote to his Grandmother: “The issue really is Germanism or Christianity.” German Christians placed Nazi flags alongside the communion table and believed God’s will worked through the National Socialist Party. For many, loyalty to the Arian race and the German nation (“blood and soil”) had usurped loyalty to God. This three-week worship series at The Table will invite our community of faith to reflect upon the deep places of Bonhoeffer’s life and thought as we consider the reality of Christian nationalism’s rise in our own country and wonder together about what forms resistance might take today. Part 3 in this three-week worship series focuses on Bonhoeffer’s challenge for the church to practice “religionless Christianity” in a “World Come of Age.” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
In August of 1933 Bonhoeffer wrote to his Grandmother: “The issue really is Germanism or Christianity.” German Christians placed Nazi flags alongside the communion table and believed God’s will worked through the National Socialist Party. For many, loyalty to the Arian race and the German nation (“blood and soil”) had usurped loyalty to God. This three-week worship series at The Table will invite our community of faith to reflect upon the deep places of Bonhoeffer’s life and thought as we consider the reality of Christian nationalism’s rise in our own country and wonder together about what forms resistance might take today. Part 2 in this worship series focuses on Bonhoeffer’s call to move from cheap grace to costly discipleship. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
In August of 1933 Bonhoeffer wrote to his Grandmother: “The issue really is Germanism or Christianity.” German Christians placed Nazi flags alongside the communion table and believed God’s will worked through the National Socialist Party. For many, loyalty to the Arian race and the German nation (“blood and soil”) had usurped loyalty to God. This three-week worship series at The Table will invite our community of faith to reflect upon the deep places of Bonhoeffer’s life and thought as we […]
Worship is rooted in the call “How long?” of the prophet Habakkuk as the people wait on God to be present with them in their deep suffering. As we celebrate the Sacrament of Holy Baptism and renew our baptism we live into the answer – God’s grace is always already with us in our joy and in our lament. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted in Jeremiah 31:27-34 and Jeremiah’s prophecy that God is deepening God’s commitment with God’s people by inhabiting their hearts in a new way. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted Luke 17.5-10 in conversation with the Broadway musical production of The Secret Garden. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship holds Matthew 6.25-34 in conversation with the Broadway musical production of The Color Purple with guest Rev. Dr. Mahsea Evans. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship holds Jesus’ parable about a shrewd manager in Luke 16.1-13 in conversation with the Broadway musical production of Kinky Boots. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our worship on September 11 invites reflection on ancient biblical readings which remind us of God’s Spirit bringing hope amid despair. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our “Abstracting August” series will hold readings assigned to the global Christian church, alongside abstract art and a communal abstract art project led by our artist in residence Erik Castellanos. Worship is rooted in Luke 14:1, 7-14 and Jesus’ reminder to live out of our confidence in God’s law of love as we take risks to welcome all to God’s table.Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our “Abstracting August” series will hold readings assigned to the global Christian church, alongside abstract art and a communal abstract art project led by our artist in residence Erik Castellanos.
Our “Abstracting August” series will hold readings assigned to the global Christian church, alongside abstract art and a communal abstract art project led by our artist in residence Erik Castellanos. Worship is rooted in Luke 12:49-56.
Our “Abstracting August” series will hold readings assigned to the global Christian church, alongside abstract art and a communal abstract art project led by our artist in residence Erik Castellanos. Worship is rooted in Luke 12:32-40.
Coming at the close of Table Farm & Table Bread’s first iteration of the Farm & Bread Fellowship for young people, worship this morning explores Luke 12: 13-21 and Jesus’ invitation into abundant living.
Our worship series is rooted in the reflections and contemplative practices of Father Richard Rohr on resurrection. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest and the Founding Director of the Center for Action and Contemplation. His writings encourage contemplation as the means of discovering the transformational ways in which he understands that “God is coming to us as our lives.” Worship this morning is rooted in Luke 17:11-19 and invites deeper reflection on how Jesus saves us.
Our worship series is rooted in the reflections and contemplative practices of Father Richard Rohr on resurrection. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest and the Founding Director of the Center for Action and Contemplation. His writings encourage contemplation as the means of discovering the transformational ways in which he understands that “God is coming to us as our lives.” Worship this morning is rooted in Matthew 22:34-40 and wondering together about the “Jesus Hermeneutic.”
Our worship series is rooted in the reflections and contemplative practices of Father Richard Rohr on resurrection. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest and the Founding Director of the Center for Action and Contemplation. His writings encourage contemplation as the means of discovering the transformational ways in which he understands that “God is coming to us as our lives.” Worship this morning is rooted in Ephesians 1:3-12 and invites us into the reality that we are all […]
Our worship series is rooted in the reflections and contemplative practices of Father Richard Rohr on resurrection. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest and the Founding Director of the Center for Action and Contemplation. His writings encourage contemplation as the means of discovering the transformational ways in which he understands that “God is coming to us as our lives.” Worship this morning is rooted in Luke 24.1-5 and invites us to stop running from resurrection.
We journey with John’s Gospel in the season of Easter as we practice resurrection through the lens of “The Art of Gathering” by Priya Parker. Priya Parker writes, …Pastor Linda’s message invites reflection on the challenge of ending well so we might begin anew. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
We journey with John’s Gospel in the season of Easter as we practice resurrection through the lens of “The Art of Gathering” by Priya Parker. Priya Parker writes in a section of chapter five titled “Before your event starts, it has begun,” “Your gathering begins at the moment your guests first learn of it. This may sound obvious, but it’s not. If it were obvious, hosts wouldn’t fail to host the pregame for their gathering as often as they do.” […]
We journey with John’s Gospel in the season of Easter as we practice resurrection through the lens of “The Art of Gathering” by Priya Parker. Priya Parker writes, “So far, we have explored how to anchor your gathering in a meaningful purpose. How to close doors on the basis of that purpose. And how to be a host who takes care of your guests by taking the right kind of charge. These decisions will give your gathering a solid foundation....The (next) question...is: How do I mix things up at my next gathering and create a temporary alternative world?” Pastor Linda’s message invites reflection on the alternative world we inhabit each week as we celebrate the sacrament of Holy Communion. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
We journey with John’s Gospel in the season of Easter as we practice resurrection through the lens of “The Art of Gathering” by Priya Parker. Priya Parker writes, “Now you know how to craft a bold and clear purpose for your gathering and how to close doors based on it. The next step is to think about your role as host. How will you run your gathering? “CHILL” IS SELFISHNESS DISGUISED AS KINDNESS.” Pastor Matt’s message invites reflection on how the Risen One calls us to host. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
We journey with John’s Gospel in the season of Easter as we practice resurrection through the lens of “The Art of Gathering” by Priya Parker. “Inviting people is easy, excluding people can be hard.” At The Table we say “All Means All.” Pastor Linda’s message with invite wondering about how exclusion might just be the best strategy for growing in faith. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
We journey with John’s Gospel in the season of Easter as we practice resurrection through the lens of “The Art of Gathering” by Priya Parker. Molly’s message invites reflection on Thomas’s encounter with the Risen one as testimony to Easter’s call for us to hold the tension of disorientation and fear, gathering in our disbelief and mismatched hopes, bringing our toughest questions to each other and to God.Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
We gather on Easter morning to celebrate the subversive power and hope of resurrection in a world beset by brokenness and death. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804 Call to Worship, Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon adapted from “Liturgy by Sarah Are | A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org”
Our Lenten worship series, Composting Faith, continues as we reflect upon the location toward which Jesus journeys and wonder about the locations we might be called to move toward as we hold our lives & scripture in conversation with the Divine while spending time at the compost pile. Rev. Jeff Chu, in a sermon entitled “The Theology of the Compost” shared as part of a conference called Evolving Faith in 2018,“The more time I spend at the compost pile, the […]
We are grateful for the rain and needed to move our Maundy Thursday gathering from the farm to online at the last minute. Here’s a recording from our online Maundy Thursday. Our Lenten worship series, Composting Faith, continues as we reflect upon the location toward which Jesus journeys and wonder about the locations we might be called to move toward as we hold our lives & scripture in conversation with the Divine while spending time at the compost pile. Rev. […]
Our Lenten worship series, Composting Faith, continues as we reflect upon the location toward which Jesus journeys and wonder about the locations we might be called to move toward as we hold our lives & scripture in conversation with the Divine while spending time at the compost pile. Rev. Jeff Chu, in a sermon entitled “The Theology of the Compost” shared as part of a conference called Evolving Faith in 2018,“The more time I spend at the compost pile, the […]
Our Lenten worship series, Composting Faith, continues as we reflect upon the location toward which Jesus journeys and wonder about the locations we might be called to move toward as we hold our lives & scripture in conversation with the Divine while spending time at the compost pile. Rev. Jeff Chu, in a sermon entitled “The Theology of the Compost” shared as part of a conference called Evolving Faith in 2018,“The more time I spend at the compost pile, the […]
Our Lenten worship series, Composting Faith, continues as we reflect upon the location toward which Jesus journeys and wonder about the locations we might be called to move toward as we hold our lives & scripture in conversation with the Divine while spending time at the compost pile. Rev. Jeff Chu, in a sermon entitled “The Theology of the Compost” shared as part of a conference called Evolving Faith in 2018,“The more time I spend at the compost pile, the […]
Our Lenten worship series, Composting Faith, continues as we reflect upon the location toward which Jesus journeys and wonder about the locations we might be called to move toward as we hold our lives & scripture in conversation with the Divine while spending time at the compost pile. Rev. Jeff Chu, in a sermon entitled “The Theology of the Compost” shared as part of a conference called Evolving Faith in 2018,“The more time I spend at the compost pile, the […]
Our Lenten worship series, Composting Faith, continues as we reflect upon the location toward which Jesus journeys and wonder about the locations we might be called to move toward as we hold our lives & scripture in conversation with the Divine while spending time at the compost pile. Rev. Jeff Chu, in a sermon entitled “The Theology of the Compost” shared as part of a conference called Evolving Faith in 2018,“The more time I spend at the compost pile, the […]
Worship is rooted in Luke 4:1-13 and our Lenten worship series, Composting Faith, which invites us to hold our lives & scripture in conversation with the Divine as we spend time at the compost pile. This week we wonder about choosing our container. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Our Lenten worship series, Composting Faith, begins on Ash Wednesday with worship inviting us to Collect Our Materials for the journey ahead as we hold our lives & scripture in conversation with the Divine while spending time at the compost pile.
Rev. Jeff Chu, in a sermon entitled “The Theology of the Compost” shared as part of a conference called Evolving Faith in 2018,“The more time I spend at the compost pile, the more I wonder whether one thing we might need is a robust theology of compost. The more time I spend at the compost pile, the more I think we must help write a narrative of hope amid the world’s narratives of despair. And the more time I spend at the compost pile, the more I ask, Isn’t the story of compost really just the story of God? Turning fear to courage, sorrow to joy, death to life.”
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“The times are urgent; let us slow down.”
— Traditional African wisdom saying
Worship this morning will invite us to slow down; this worship series is rooted in Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village by Rev. Dr. Barbara A. Holmes. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
“The times are urgent; let us slow down.”
— Traditional African wisdom saying
Worship this morning will invite us to slow down and become aware of the healing power which comes from God and the beloved community; this worship series is rooted in Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village by Rev. Dr. Barbara A. Holmes. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
“The times are urgent; let us slow down.” — Traditional African wisdom saying
Worship this morning will invite us to slow down and become aware of the wounds of our community; this worship series is rooted in Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village by Rev. Dr. Barbara A. Holmes. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
“The times are urgent; let us slow down.”
— Traditional African wisdom saying
Worship this morning will invite us to slow down; this worship series is rooted in Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village by Rev. Dr. Barbara A. Holmes.
Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Pastor Linda’s message weaves reflection on 1 Corinthians 13 and Paul’s writing on love with scenes from Ted Lasso in which the whole teams shows in important ways for Rebecca’s father’s funeral.
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Pastor Linda’s message weaves reflection on Jesus’ announcement of who he is and and what his ministry is about (recorded in the Gospel of Luke) with a pivotal scene in which Sam makes an announcement that shapes the future of his life and that of his team from Ted Lasso. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Pastor Matt’s message weaves reflection on Paul’s letter to the church in Corinth with the wisdom of Dr. Howard Thurman and a provocative scene on judgment & curiosity from Ted Lasso. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship holds the story of Jesus’ baptism in Luke in conversation with a lesson from Ted Lasso on “being a goldfish.” What are called to forget? What are we called to remember? How do we remember faithfully? Remember rightly? What will ultimately be remembered and forgotten according to Christian tradition and faith? Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted in Matthew 2:1-12 and the story of the Wise Ones leaving home to follow a star. They embark on a journey of discovering the Divine in the Christ child. Then, in a dream, they listen to God speaking warning to them and return home by another way. As our journeys to discovering the Divine in the Christ continue, we too must sometimes make bold choices to choose a different way.
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Home is not necessarily a place, but where we find authentic belonging. Worship is rooted in the story of a young Jesus straying from his birth family after the Passover to dwell in the Temple. Matt’s message invites reflection on Jesus’ adolescent journey toward belonging and the long journey to belonging of activist and scholar bell hooks in hopes that we might all come to know in the depths of our bones that our true home is found in God. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
11pm Candlelight Christmas Eve with The Table. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
5pm Candlelight Christmas Eve worship with The Table. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted in Luke 1.46b-55; Mary’s Magnificat. after receiving the angel’s news, Mary retreats to the sanctuary of Elizabeth and Zechariah’s home. She receives a safe haven, a home for her heart to soon sing with joy. Sanctuary and safe space is important for all, including Mary while she prepares to become a home for God. Sanctuary is anywhere God’s love dwells freely and abundantly. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted in the story of John crying out from the wilderness: “bear fruit worthy of repentance.” Pastor Matt’s message reflects upon a contemporary and unexpected example of what this looks like in our day. The witness comes from a short film called Holding Still which tells story of how contemplative prayer transformed the lives of men who were formerly incarcerated at Folsom Prison. The lives of Lawrence and others have been changed and they are experiencing deep joy — How might we join them in waking up to God’s vision for all to feel at home? Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Worship is rooted in Luke 1.57-80 and the Canticle of Zechariah. Unable to speak for many months, the dam bursts at the birth of his son John as Zechariah shares his prophecy of blessing laying the foundation for John’s life who will be the one to lay the foundation for the life of Jesus.
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