The Table Church DC

Sunday, January 29, 2023. Have you been told that God must separate Themself from you because of your sin? Or that you needed to hide some significant part of yourself because it was unacceptable to God? That breaks attachment, and makes us feel like we must always be worried if our relationship with God is "good." The good news, though, is God's love for us truly is conditional. And that when Jes...

Sunday, January 22, 2023. It's far to easy to intellectualize our faith to the point where we lose all sense of magic or mystery. What it would be like to, like Moses, notice a burning bush and actually turn aside to pay attention to it. And believe that God may turn Their attention to us as well.

Sunday, January 15, 2023. 

Pastor Anthony compares the story of the Magi with 4 key questions from the book "Four Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman. Where in your life or your work are you currently pursuing comfort, when what's called for is a little discomfort? In what ways have you yet to accept the fact that you are who you are, not the person you think you ought to be? In which areas of life are you still holding back...

Don't confuse maturity with cynicism. 

Pastors Tonetta Landis-Aina and Anthony Parrott discuss the implications of Paul Nixon's book  Multi . We talk a bit about our own experience with multi-spaces, the challenges we've faced, and why we think it's all worth it.  If you want to be part of discussions like these, you can jump-in month-by-month with our Learning Cohort .

Sunday, December 18, 2022

How do we find joy when things seem...joyless? Using the songs of Hannah and Mary, Erin Byrne helps find joy even in the hard places.

Sunday, December 4, 2022, the Second Week of Advent. Pastor Tonetta Landis-Aina. On the second Sunday of Advent, we look at Mark 1:1-8, thinking about peace, dreaming, and preparing the way for the coming of God.

Hope is not just fanciful optimism. It requires us to name what is wrong, to prepare for what is right, and to act to make it happen. Taking a look at Luke 2 and the stories of Anna and Simeon, Meg Clark, sharing her own story of living with depression, explores how to get "ready, set, go" with hope.

Sunday, November 20, 2022. Preacher: Tonetta Landis-Aina

Sunday, November 13, 2022. Preacher: Anthony Parrott. 

Sunday, November 6, 2022. Preacher: Heidi Mills. Heidi teaches us 5 principles of developing shalom in our communities and economics. 

Tonetta thinks about lingering on the porch, Anthony questions the coded language of choosing a school, and they both agree that Anthony's ego needs an adjudgment. This is the first episode in Pastor Tonetta and Pastor Anthony's series talking through the topics of The Table's Learning Cohort. ----more---- Chocolate City Join the Learning Cohort The Scandal of Particularity This Here Flesh

Sunday, October 30, 2022. Preacher: Tonetta Landis-Aina.

Sunday, October 23, 2022. Preacher: Anthony Parrott. We take a look at the story of the widow's mite in Luke 21. Is she an example to follow? Or an example of a vicious religious system set to devour?

Sunday, October 16, 2022. Preachers Anthony Parrott and Tonetta Landis-Aina.    The Bible has plenty to say to those in the community of faith about the handling of money, possessions, and wealth. Unfortunately, churches often find themselves either being silent on the issue of money, addressing money only as it relates to giving, or speaking about money in ways that feel coercive. The goal of thi...

Sunday, October 9, 2022. Preacher Daniel Dixon

Week 3 Why Is Eternal Hell the Majority View? It didn't used to be. 6 Theological Schools In the first 4 centuries of Christianity, there were six known theological schools that taught three views of Hell. Alexandria, Antioch, Caesarea, and Edessa taught Universal Reconciliation Ephesus taught Annihilationism Rome (and Carthage/Hippo) taught Eternal Conscious Torment Augustine Ambrose (340-397) hu...

Sunday, October 2, 2022. Preacher Tonetta Landis-Aina. We continue our series on Faithful Presence: A Theology of Place by exploring what it means to be awake to God's presence in our particular city. We also reconstruct a more contextual understanding of Jeremiah 29 and what that means for us.

Sunday, September 25, 2022. Preacher: Tonetta Landis-Aina. Freshly returned from parental leave, Pastor Tonetta introduces us to the biblical theme of "city."

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Sunday, September 18, 2022. Preacher: Christopher Anderson.   As we as a community continue to come together, drawing in as members of Resurrection City and Table Church into one body, we also have to begin to think again about the city around us. Who are we called to help? Who is welcome at this table? If we are going to be a anti-racist, fully inclusive, radical community, then we need to also l...

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