Quick Announcement!
Just a reminder that our Table Christmas Gathering will be next Thursday, December 23rd 7pm at the Exchange Cafe. Come for a time of worship followed by food and festivities. If you are planning to come and stay for the ‘party’ ($10.00), you will need to reserve tickets ahead of time. (klcjohnson@gmail.com) Mario has so […]
Continue reading...Waiting for Christmas…
Friday, December 17, 2010
This Advent season, we’ve been gently engaging the idea of “waiting”. We haven’t been terribly strict about it, but I think we’ve made some progress in the direction of making room for the coming of the “Other” – Christ as the one that crosses our path unexpectedly. This week I heard an interview with a […]
Continue reading...The walls between secular and sacred…
Thursday, December 9, 2010
This week Tim Penner will be leading us in the teaching part of our worship and here is where he’s heading: “A funny thing happens when we begin to remove labels like secular and sacred from things like music and other art forms. Suddenly, instead of anxiety over corruption we have the beginning of a […]
Continue reading...Not Everyone Likes Christmas…
Friday, December 3, 2010
In fact, for some people, the “festive season” is one of the darkest times of the year, a time of struggle and despair. And yet, somehow, the Christian understanding of the message we make room for in Advent is that it is one of hope. How can we hold those two realities together, and what […]
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Saturday, November 27, 2010
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This Sunday marks the beginning of Advent. In the long-standing practice of many Christian traditions, Advent exists (for the most part) to help us learn to wait, to anticipate, what is coming but not yet here. Most of us are not that good at waiting. Our culture insists on instant gratification, and trains us to […]
Continue reading...Thanks to The Table…
Friday, November 26, 2010
These past few weeks have been uniquely challenging ones for the leadership community of The Table. That said, my experience has been one of feeling profoundly blessed to serve with people that are willing, in the words of the following poem, to “jump into work head first”. And that certainly isn’t something only the leadership […]
Continue reading...This Thursday and this Sunday…
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Just a reminder that this Thursday evening is WJAC, our once a month gathering from 8-10pm at the Peasant Cookery, 283 Bannatyne Ave. Join us for a time of great conversation. David Hidlebaugh will be our teacher this Sunday morning and here is what he will be teaching about:: “Reconciliation is at the very core […]
Continue reading...November 7th at The Table…
Saturday, November 6, 2010
“The movement of our life, if we are attentive, is the movement of orientation, disorientation and reorientation. And in our daily pilgrimage, we use much of our energy for this work.” Walter Brueggemann It seems as though almost any kind of change takes us through an arc of experience whose shape can be articulated as […]
Continue reading...Thursday (21st) and Sunday (24th)…
Thursday, October 21, 2010
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Sometimes in any relationship you get this feeling in your gut that it’s time for a chat, a face-to-face chance to catch up, to hear from one another. We’re gathering tonight (Thursday) at the Peasant Cookery at 8:00 p.m. for something like that, and I’m looking forward to it very much. On Sunday morning at […]
Continue reading...This Sunday at The Table…
Friday, October 15, 2010
Greetings! For those of you that haven’t been able to be part of the series we’re presently in, this post might seem a bit confusing. Not to worry – we’ll review a bit each week, since this part of the journey covers terrain not all of us have thought about before. This week, in less […]
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Friday, December 17, 2010
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