What is on your table for the holidays? Christmas is similar to Thanksgiving in that the table is a central gathering place. We meet to eat, to care and to share. It seems that tables of connection have featured prominently at every time and place in history. Abraham offers an invitation in Genesis 18, “Let me get you something to eat.” Psalm 23 provides the comfort that God “prepares a table before me…” In the gospels, Jesus gives a promise of a “feast in the kingdom of God” (Luke 14). This Christmas season we will reflect on the feast God sets before us, its featured blessings, and it’s featured Source. Join us for this series, December 22nd, 29th and January 5th.
Upcoming sermon series:
The Table of Christmas
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jesus stories
Jesus taught by telling stories. We call them parables—earthly stories with a heavenly meaning. Jesus told many stories that pointed people to the deeper realities of God’s Kingdom. The Good Samaritan, the lost sheep, the lost son, the lost coin, and on and on. These are simple stories, and people like simple stories. But they are also deep stories. The story of the sower pries deep into the heart of the matter. And the matter is, what do we do with the word? Both the Word breathed by the Spirit and the Word made flesh. The stories that Jesus tells brings our thoughts to the heart of the matter. And this is where we will go for the next few weeks, the heart of the matter.