"Rest" Tagged Sermons
Flourishing in Rest
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…
Sabbath
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…
Easter
Our Easter 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
How Will We Bear It?
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
What we stand for Is what we stand on
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
God Rests in Rising
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
Stuck in the Mud
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
What had happened was.
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
Again I resume the long lesson
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
Go Among Trees and Sit Still.
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
Sabbath
Matt’s message this Labor Day weekend invites reflection on how we might be called to renew our commitments to keeping a weekly day of Sabbath.
Jesus’ Call to Sabbath
Matt’s message is rooted in Matthew 11.28-30 and invites reflection on Jesus’ relationship to Sabbath. This is the third week in a three-part series on Summer Sabbath. Jesus invites his followers, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” What might it look like for us to find rest in Christ?
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