Common Table’s November 9, 2025 sermon. Ordinary time - Amos 1:1-2; 5:8-15, 21-24 // Let Justice Roll w/Drew Willson

Election Day is past! No more political ads! With a consequential election in the rearview and plenty of work on the horizon, let's learn from what the prophet Amos has to say about the people of God, public worship, and political life.

"While we do not believe churches should affiliate with particular political parties, we do encourage churches to speak out boldly on social issues from a Gospel perspective. We further believe churches have a right and a responsibility to educate and equip their members to be effective advocates for justice in the wider world."
~ from United Methodist Social Principles, 2025-2028

Common Table’s November 2, 2025 sermon. Ordinary Time - 1 Kings 19:1-18 // On Saints, Silence, and Speaking Out w/Drew Willson

All Saints Sunday is a special day to gather and give thanks for our dearly departed. They loved us into being, they revealed to us how to love and live, and so they encouraged us to become saints ourselves.
We celebrated the communion of saints as we remember the dead: those people of every time and place in the universal church, in our congregation at Common Table, and in our personal lives.

Common Table’s October 26, 2025 sermon. Ordinary Time - 1 Kings 5:1-5; 8:1-13 // Holy Spaces w/Meredith McNabb

We welcomed the Rev. Meredith McNabb as our guest preacher. She guided our reflection on what makes for holy spaces as we consider both Solomon's temple of old and the structures we create today. Together let's discover the kind of holy space we crave as we gather for holy communion around the table.

Common Table’s October 19, 2025 sermon. Ordinary Time - 1 Samuel 16:1-13 // Time for a Change in Leadership w/Drew Willson.

In the Bible, does God get involved in human politics?
If so, does that mean that God blesses all of our human politics?
We consider Samuel's story in 1 Kings 13: though Samuel has anointed Saul as the first king of Israel, the Lord tells him that it's time for a change in leadership. Together, let's explore the intersection of God, politics, and where holy change begins.

Common Table's October 12, 2025 sermon. Ordinary Time - 1 Samuel 3 // Calling Ghosts w/Drew Willson.

With Halloween approaching, listen to the story about the only character who ever appears as a ghost in the Bible! We reflect on the legacy of ghosts in America: what still haunts us today, and how we can take part in healing.

Common Table's October 5, 2025 sermon. Ordinary Time - Exodus 16:1-18 // Bread for the World w/Drew Willson.

On this World Communion Sunday, we're mindful of the many gifts and cultures that make up the Body of Christ. In a time of heightened nationalism, border sensitivity, and partisan animosity, we identify with a greater community. 

Come take your place at the table that breaks down barriers, transforming enemies into neighbors and strangers into friends. 

We sing together:

Blessed are those who, from this table,

live their lives in gratitude!

Taste and see the grace eternal!

Taste and see that God is good!

Common Table's September 28, 2025 sermon. Ordinary Time - Exodus 2:23-25; 3:1-12 // Counter-intuitive w/Drew Willson.

Listen as we reflect on lunch counter sit-ins for civil rights and God calling Moses from the margins to set people free. With injustices piling high in the daily news, let's reconnect with our own calling to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God.

Common Table's September 21, 2025 sermon. Ordinary Time - Genesis 28:10-22 // Changing Journey w/Drew Willson.

We look through the lens of Jacob's story in Genesis 28 to consider how we change. We live in a time of polarized, partisan, even petrified perspectives. How might we draw on a different dream of this world? How might we be freed to breathe, move, and change?

Common Table's Sept 14, 2025 Sermon. Ordinary Time - Genesis 21:1-3; 22:1-14 // The Right Sacrifice w/Drew Willson

After another week of heart-rending national news, we gather to do some hard, hopeful, healing work. We tackle one of the toughest texts in the Bible—God’s call to Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac in Genesis 22—as we reckon with violence in our world. In the name of all that is holy, how will we find a different way?

Common Table's Sept 7, 2025 sermon*. Ordinary Time - Genesis 1:1-2:4 // The Oldest Story Anew w/Drew Willson.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Where would we be without the bar-fueled wisdom of Semisonic's "Closing Time"? How would we ever know when it's time to move on?
Listen as we begin the narrative lectionary, our September-to-May journey through the full narrative arc of the Bible. Appropriately, we're starting with the creation story in Genesis 1. We explore how this story of beginnings developed after some painful endings for God's people.
If you've experienced endings of your own and you're ready for new beginnings, come take part in a fresh telling of the story with us.

*Note: due to technical errors in production, some parts of the sermon were not captured. If you would like to read the sermon's full manuscript, you can do so here: https://www.commontablerva.com/090725-manuscript