Posts from May 2012

Beatitude Fellowship

The Beatitude Society is “a national progressive Christian leadership development organization that equips emerging entrepreneurial faith leaders.  The Beatitude Society is committed to creating new models for vibrant church life and the pursuit of social justice…to the welcoming and inclusive love of God expressed in the words and actions of Jesus; we are Christian at our roots and multi-faith in our reach.” We’re thrilled that one of our pastors, Matt Smith, was selected as one of the seven inaugural Beatitude…

The Table visits Feeding Crane Farms

On Sunday May 20, 60 folks from The Table gathered at Feeding Crane Farms to celebrate our life together.  The story of our time together at Feeding Crane Farms is told through pictures by local photographer Debbie Cunningham. You may enjoy them here:  The Table visits Feeding Crane Farms.  We are grateful to everyone who helped us create a wonderful event.

Toward Sunday

We begin The Evolution of Church this week.  This will be an 8 week worship series which will trace the unfolding of worship through the centuries.  WIth a focus on the shifts in music, prayer, gender roles, and location (as in architecture), we will “walk the paths” of those who came before us.  Beginning with the way the people of God worshipped following Exodus in the Hebrew Bible, we will stop each week to explore how our worship of God…

Tongues of Fire

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAzcSkXhttw] Tomorrow we will share this song by David Scherer (AGAPE) as we imagine what it might be like to experience a visit by the Holy Spirit.  We appreciate his interpretation and translation of the Acts 2:1-21 story and we will hear this piece in worship as our own music team sings Tongues of Fire. Sak pa se N’ap Boule (What’s up? I’m managing) Ki Ki ki kote bondye (Where is God?) Rele Yele Tande (Call freedom.  Listen) Jezi Jezi  …

Sankofa

  We will be joined in worship Sunday by the musical group Sankofa. Anthony Coleman II, our musical director, named his group with intention.  The word Sankofa comes to us from the Akan language of Ghana and may be translated in english to mean “go back and get it”.  It is also represented by the Asante Adinkra symbol of a bird with its head turned backwards taking an egg of the future off its back or holding an egg of…

Excitement or Dread?

The Jewish day of Pentecost celebrated the giving of the law on Mt. Sinai.  The story in the book of Exodus of the giving of the law is marked by vivid imagery:  God appears on the top of a mountain, with thunder, lightning, cloud, and earthquake.  Exodus 10:19 says that when Moses talked with God, “God would answer him in thunder.”  So in Acts 2 God arrives in “a sound like the rush of a violent wind,” and fire appears,…

Toward Sunday

We move this Sunday to Pentecost and celebrate the Holy Spirit moving among God’s people.  You can read about this event here:  Acts 2:1-21.  Pentecost literally means “50th-day” and was used by the diaspora Jews for a day-long harvest festival more commonly know as the “Feast of Week” or Shavuot.  It was scheduled for the 50days following Passover.  Pentecost was one of three pilgrimage feasts when the entire household of Israel gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the goodness of God…

Farm to Table

We will conclude our worship series, Farm to Table, this Sunday in worship.  We’ll focus on reaching in love and invite reflection on how our food choices might help us to love better love our neighbors and ourselves. Here is a link to the new HBO Documentary The Weight of the Nation which we’ll be referencing in worship on Sunday.

Toward Sunday

In John 15.12-17 we read “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you…You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last.” How might we celebrate the fruit of your labors?  What challenge and inspiration has this series “Farm to Table” provided for you?  We are sharing in the Sacrament of communion each week in this series. Jesus called his friends to gather…

Doing good, causing harm, abiding.

Wendell Berry wrote a piece called Damage/Healing following his experience of  an improvement on a section of his farm.  He had a great vision of how something could be  better –  instead he did great harm, scarring his land for years to come.  Because he had only intended his action for Good, the Harm (referred to here as “such troubles) he caused was quite startling. He writes about it and in his writing you can witness the evolution of his…

AGAPE

If you have ever spent much time at The Table or listened to our podcast you will know that we are fans of hip hop artist and theologian David Scherer.  His stage name is AGAPE.  Agape is the word for love in the Greek language.   Some of us wear shirts and hats that have the word emblazoned across the front. “Agape” is defined as “the love God has for humanity”.    “To love is to be for another and…

An old hymn may be just the thing to hear today.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54ALmQZ_NiA] These lyrics were composed by Henry F. Lyte in 1847 and put to music by W.H. Monk in 1861.  The hymn was written in the last year of Lyte’s life.  It is believed that it was written as a prayer.  This version is very easy to hear, but if you take time to listen to all the words you may no longer believe it is an easy song. Writing on John 15, and the persistent, enduring love of God,…
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