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Toward Sunday
We’ll continue our worship series this week called Flour. Salt. Yeast. Water: Beautiful, simple, & inspiring ingredients for making Deep Commitments at The Table. Our final question this week invites sharing about Deep Commitments. Please spend time this week prayerfully preparing to share a bit about how you intend to complete the Deep Commitment this year. This four-week worship series will invite us to reflect on the simple ingredients that shape our community of faith. We’ll conclude this worship series on October…
Toward Sunday
We’re thrilled to welcome Rev. Kristin Stoneking to The Table this Sunday as our special guest preacher! Here is a link to Kristin’s address at the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. Kristin is the Executive Director of Fellowship of Reconciliation, a global interfaith organization committed to organizing, training, and growing a diverse movement that welcomes all people of conscience to end structures of violence and war, and create peace through the transformative power of nonviolence. Kristin is an ordained United Methodist pastor who led…
Toward Sunday
We complete our five-week worship series this week on topics we’re not supposed to put on The Table. This week we put Jesus Christ on The Table. Each week we’ve been inviting reflection on how our faith might shape the ways we approach some of the controversial issues of our day. We hope we have been able to create a safe, if at times challenging and even at times uncomfortable, space to reflect on faithful Christian responses to each of…
Toward Sunday
We continue with our five-week worship series this week on topics we’re not supposed to put on The Table. This week we put $.77 on The Table. Each week we’ve been inviting reflection on how our faith might shape the ways we approach some of the controversial issues of our day. We hope to create a safe, if at times challenging and even at times uncomfortable, space to reflect on faithful Christian responses to each of these topics. We recognize the…
Toward Sunday
We continue with our five-week worship series this week on topics we’re not supposed to put on The Table. Each week we will invite reflection on how our faith might shape the ways we approach some of the controversial issues of our day. We hope to create a safe, if at times challenging and even at times uncomfortable, space to reflect on faithful Christian responses to each of these topics. We recognize the eclectic and beautiful diversity of our church…
Toward Sunday
We continue with our five-week worship series this week on topics we’re not supposed to put on The Table. Each week we will invite reflection on how our faith might shape the ways we approach some of the controversial issues of our day. We hope to create a safe, if at times challenging and even at times uncomfortable, space to reflect on faithful Christian responses to each of these topics. We recognize the eclectic and beautiful diversity of our church…
Hope is coming
“Come, Lord Jesus” is a leap into the kind of freedom and surrender that is rightly called the virtue of hope. The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves. We are able to trust that he will come again, just as Jesus has come into our past, into our private…
Toward Sunday
We transition this week from Acts to a four-week Advent worship series called Christmas Is Coming. Our worship series will be rooted in the Hebrew Bible readings from the lectionary (collection of appointed readings) for this season. We will look back to these ancient writings as we prepare for the coming of Christmas. Christmas Is Coming Outline November 29: Jeremiah 33.14-16 (Hope) December 6: Malachi 3.1-4 (Love) December 13: Zephaniah 3.14-20 (Joy) December 20: Micah 5.1-5 (Peace) 5pm & 11pm Candlelight Christmas Eve: Luke 2 Pastor Steve Garnaas-Holmes writes, Advent takes…
Toward Sunday
This is the final week of our worship series on the New Testament Book of Acts. The Acts of the Apostles is a colorful book of the New Testament which shows the Gospel expressing itself through the lives, speech, struggles and adventures of some of Jesus’s earliest followers. The Book of Acts November 8: Acts 4:32-37 Community November 15: Acts 9:1-22 Old Boundaries Erased November 22: Acts 23:1-11 Heroics “The Book of Acts emphasizes the disruptive character of the…
Toward Sunday
We’re so grateful for all of the Deep Commitment Cards we’ve received online and in worship. Please turn in your Deep Commitment card or fill it out online if you have not already done so. We are in the second week of our worship series on the New Testament Book of Acts. The Acts of the Apostles is a colorful book of the New Testament which shows the Gospel expressing itself through the lives, speech, struggles & adventures of some of…
Toward Sunday
We begin a new worship series this week on the New Testament Book of Acts. The Acts of the Apostles is a colorful book of the New Testament which shows the Gospel expressing itself through the lives, speech, struggles & adventures of some of Jesus’s earliest followers. We encourage everyone to spend time reading the entire Book of Acts over the next few weeks and experience it for yourself. Outline: The Book of Acts November 8: Acts 4:32-37 Community November…
Toward Sunday
We are so grateful for the power and beauty of our Baptism celebration yesterday. If one of the persons baptized is in your Kitchen Table, please invite them to reflect on the experience as your group gathers this week. We draw our worship series, Christian? It’s Complicated, to a close this Sunday by offering our Deep Commitments. Please prayerfully consider how you would like to deepen your commitment to God and our community of faith in the coming year. Outline for Christian? It’s…