Meeting Jesus at the Table
Lent is a journey, the end of which is the death and resurrection of Christ. It is a season in which we are invited to reflect on the immensity of God’s love made known in Jesus and his victory over sin, evil, and death. In Lent we are invited to recall what it means to be disciples, followers of Jesus, each and every day. In the last days of Jesus’ life, he sat at a table sharing the Passover meal with his closest friends and connecting the ancient story of God’s liberating power with himself. After the resurrection, Jesus’ disciples began to gather regularly to break bread in his memory and to experience him in their midst. We do the same thing today. But the upper room was not the only time Jesus was at table or told stories about tables. In this study, we invite you to consider some of these table stories and to reflect on them as we come to the Lord’s Table together in this Lenten season.
Sermons in This Series
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- Our Identity Renewed
Our God is a God near to us, ready to receive us, a God of grace and mercy. With our identity in God let us renew that identity during this Lenten journey we enter into on this Ash Wednesday. Let us live a life worthy of our calling; let us live a way other than our own.Our Identity Renewed
- Lent as Alternative to the Standard
God disrupts our lives with an invitation. An invitation to something other than what the world and what can be presented as a standard life. It is a Lenten invitation to bear new fruit and be in sync with the God of the Gospel.Lent as Alternative to the Standard
- Be Sure of Unsureness
Too often the church is thought to be a place of unambiguous answers and sureness. It is, more often than not, that in our bewilderment, confusion, liminality, and unsettlement, Godemerges with newness to God’s ways.Be Sure of Unsureness
- New Song, New Reality
As Christ followers we get to sing a new song. Notone that describes the world as it is now, but asong that describes the new reality we are called to be God throughChrist.New Song, New Reality
- Pain That Transforms
Life has its painful moments. The message we see in scripture is that God runs through the pain, to us, healing us in a sense of newness. That is the story of Jesus, of Friday abandonment, Saturday depth, and Sunday readiness. It is the story that lets us read our own story afresh.Pain That Transforms
- Until We Come to Ourselves
Our lives are frequently grounded in identity, the “ourself.” Our identity, the “pursuit” should be grounded in our place as a beloved child of the Creator God.Until We Come to Ourselves
- The Wrong Temple
We at times find ourselves in the wrong temple, places that make promises of safety that leave us more anxious, offers of joy that leave us empty. Partly we are in the wrong place by will, partly by habit, partly by accident, partly seduced. Our work in Lent is to move from these fake temples to the true temple who is Jesus.The Wrong Temple