The Table California

What truly sets apart someone who merely believes in Jesus from someone who is genuinely born again into the kingdom of God? This week we journey through a quick recap of eight weeks of discussions on the Kingdom of God followed by a lengthy Q & A time. For more information on THE TABLE please visit: www.thetablecalifornia.com

What if recognizing Jesus as your King could transform your entire spiritual life? Just as a royal coronation signifies the rise of a new monarch, our spiritual journey requires us to dethrone every other imposter king. Drawing from John 3, Galatians 2:20, and Colossians 2 we explore how union with Christ demands the death of these false rulers, birthing a new life where Jesus reigns supreme. Many...

The kingdom of God is unlike any other kingdom. It is not a better version of our kingdom, it is a complete overhaul and rebirth. The kingdom of this world self-appoints titles that define what the citizens of that kingdom do. Jesus gives gifts to His people that now define who they are. But those identity-gifts are only given where He is enthroned among a people as King. When we enthrone ourselve...

As amazing as heavenly tongues of fire falling in Acts 2 is, it’s not the fire falling that makes Pentecost scandalous…it’s where the fire fell; on people. Pentecost ushers in a new normal for God's people; lives marked by fire AND the cross. As Jesus People, we never leave the upper room of Pentecost, and we never leave the foot of the cross. For more information on THE TABLE please visit: w...

Jesus died to bring us into Himself. It's what we were created for - union with God. This is the born-again reality for every believer. Many come to Jesus and enjoy His proximity because of His benefits, but Scripture teaches that unless we are born again and found "in Him" then we do not have His life animating ours...His Spirit producing His fruit in us. What can someone expect wh...

Have you ever pondered the true essence of our spiritual rebirth in Christ and what it means to be born again? Today we look at this profound transformation and dissect the difference between surface-level faith and the deep surrender required to truly embrace the path Christ has laid out for us.  We delve into the ramifications of Jesus' sacrifice and its role in allowing us to transcend the...

An unwavering commitment to Jesus is deeply intertwined with a love for His church. To follow Jesus means to become an active participant in the body of Christ, there's just no way around that. Many of us have experienced our deepest wounds from the church, but Jesus has no plan B...the church is His Body in the earth. Matthew 16:18-19 is clear: the keys of the kingdom are given to the church...

From Sunday April 14...As we pivot to the teachings of the Gospel of the Kingdom, we navigate the path from mere belief to authentic discipleship. Our exploration reveals the stark contrast between the commonly taught gospel of repentance and the Gospel of the Kingdom that Jesus preached. This episode challenges us to examine our definition of faith, urging a deeper commitment that extends beyond...

Our hearts often battle between what's visible to the eye and what's discerned through faith. Join us as we reflect on the critical moments where Abraham and Lot's paths diverge, leading us to consider our own choices—are they driven by sight or by the assurance of things hoped for? The stories of these biblical figures serve as a compass, guiding us to trust in God's promises,...

John writes in Revelation 5:1 that Jesus has loved us and released ( lyo ) us from our sin in His blood. It is a total release and separation from...because of His love and by the power of His blood. The resurrection is heavens announcement that this is true, and the sacrifice of the Lamb was sufficient. For more information on THE TABLE please visit: www.thetablecalifornia.com

Jesus is Lord of all. Jesus is King. And because He is Lord of all, nowhere should He be seen more as Lord on the earth than in the church…the assembling together of His body. How we gather, and under WHO we gather, either opens the door for Jesus' leadership in our midst, or it closes that door. Jesus does not gather with the church to be a spectator to what we are doing, He gathers with us...

On this side of the cross, we may not be familiar with altar sacrifice as worship, but make no mistake about it, we are people of the altar. Altars become memorial stones in our history that remind us who God is and what God has done. When famines happen around us, our altars help to ground us into the reality of which kingdom we actually belong to. Abraham was an altar-builder, but when he encoun...

Ours is a gospel of full, ongoing, surrender to Jesus and His cross. Abraham was invited to go on a walk with God...this invitation was a gift of grace. But what Abraham did with that invitation was up to him, and each day required a fresh surrender to the journey. We are no different. The story of Abraham is the story of the gospel...called by grace, surrendered by faith. For more information on...

This is an exciting update for our local church family!  To access the drawings mentioned in the update, please follow this link: https://www.thetablecalifornia.com/sermon-notes For more information on THE TABLE please visit: www.thetablecalifornia.com

The life of faith demands a total separation from the way we used to do things so that we can devote ourselves to a life of holiness that shows the world who God is. This is why Scripture encourages the believer to, “Come out from among them and be separate." The invitation to follow Jesus is unmerited, it is all grace...but what we do with that invitation requires an act of intentional surre...

God came to Abraham and disrupted him with a call to leave all he had ever known and come to a new land. The story of Abraham is our story...God comes to us and calls us to leave the life we are living and follow Him on a new path. And just like Abraham, we are often tempted to try and bring some of the things from our old life into the new one. This life of faith that we are called to live is a l...

Tonight we jump back into our study of Genesis. We pick up in Genesis 11, the story of the Tower of Babel. What we find though, is the real story is not so much the tower, or even the language...this is a story of a people laying the foundations of a city that is the antithesis of everything that God is building in the earth. It's a tale of two cities, the city of man and the city of God. The...

From our Thursday night house church gathering...we looked at what the Scriptures say about prophecy and some practical things that we can do as a church family to speak prophetically to one another. Prophecy has often been mishandled in the church at large, but that doesn't mean we throw it out...it means we jealously desire for the authentic and we take the time to mature in this gift, aski...

God's wisdom is similar to God's rest...it is altogether different from any measure of wisdom or rest we could find in the world. Today we look at 1 Corinthians 1 and 2 as well as Proverbs to see that heavenly wisdom is the wisdom of the cross...and anyone who chooses to live their lives according to this ultimate wisdom will bear the marks of the cross on their souls. For more informati...

This is some supplemental teaching to Sunday night's message on bearing the scar of rest. We look at the story of Mary and Martha in Luke 10, flesh out the legacy of the tribes of Reuben and Gad choosing to not enter into the promised rest of the Promised Land, and consider what the writer of Hebrews means by "strive to enter into that rest." For more information on THE TABLE please...

As we continue looking at the characteristic marks of the followers of Jesus, tonight we look at divine rest. Is the rest that Jesus invites us into anything different from the absence of activity or the feeling of tranquility and peace? What makes His rest any different from what the world has to offer us by way of rest? As we see in Scripture, the rest that is offered to followers of Jesus is al...

We continue our study on the scars that followers of Jesus can expect to bear. Forgiveness left scars on Jesus' body that He still bears right now on the throne. He forgave us all of our trespasses, and if His nature and character is being formed in us, we must also forgive those who wound us. This is not easy, Jesus knows this...but His grace is available to all who would choose to walk in H...

Paul writes in Romans 8:29 that we are predestined to be conformed to the image of Christ...the resurrected One. The scars that Jesus still bears on His body testify of what was accomplished on the cross. If we are to bear His image, then He intends for us to also bear scars that tell the stories of every time we chose to allow the Holy Spirit to crucify in our flesh the deeds of Adam.  Tonight we...

We were blessed to have Jonah Husted share with us tonight. Jonah shared on his experience growing up in the mission field and what this taught him about the contrast between the culture of the world and the culture of the kingdom of God and how we carry the culture of the kingdom into the world, ultimately bringing the kingdom of heaven to earth. For more information on THE TABLE please visit: ww...

This time of year there seems to be a flurry of prophetic activity in the church regarding what the new year will bring. This evening we discussed God's design for the release of His word and how we as a church family can best steward His word. For more information on THE TABLE please visit: www.thetablecalifornia.com