"cross" Tagged Sermons
Talking the Walk
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…
Messiah Paradox
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.…
The Penitent Thief on the Cross
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
Be a Goldfish
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
Holy Friday
Help flatten the curve & find bread for the journey with The Table on Holy Friday. Our 7:00pm online Holy Friday worship experience will be shared from our homes to your home as we invite reflection Jesus’ crucifixion amidst a global pandemic. The Table is a progressive Christian community of faith in Sacramento, CA. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
Holy Friday
Our Holy Friday evening worship at The Table weaves the story of Jesus’ crucifixion from the Gospel of John with music from The Brilliance. Linda’s message invites us to reflect on what the death of Jesus might mean to us in relationship to claiming him as Christ.
Holy Friday
Our Holy Friday worship gathering wove readings from John with prayer and silence and reflection. Linda’s message invites reflection on the significance of Jesus’ death.
Did Jesus Die for Your Sins?
Matt’s message is rooted in John 3.14-21. Did Jesus die for your sins? How do you understand the death of Jesus? Matt’s message draws on the writings of Carl Gregg’s “John 3.16 – The Rest of the Story” and Gregory Anderson Love’s Love, Violence, and the Cross: How the Nonviolent God Saves Us through the Cross of Christ.