Common Table Richmond

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

Common Table's Aug 31, 2025 sermon // Ordinary Time - Revelation 21:1-6; 22:1-5: Revelation from the Cheshire Cat w/Drew Willson

At Common Table we pray for Minneapolis, ponder endings and new beginnings, and explore the Book of Revelation with wisdom from the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland. We live in surreal times, so let's lean in together.

Common Table's Aug 24, 2025 sermon // Ordinary Time - Psalm 23: Get In A Good Rut w/Drew Willson

You prepare a table before me 
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil, 
my cup overflows!
As school resumes and a new year unfolds before us, come take your place at Christ's table of reconciliation!

Common Table's Aug 17, 2025 sermon // Ordinary Time - Luke 19:1-5 // Summer Symposium w/Rev. Dr. LaKeisha Cook

We welcome the Rev. Dr. LaKeisha Cook, executive director of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy and the final guest of our Summer Symposium worship series! Dr. Cook led our reflection on the story of Zaccheus, whose life is transformed when Jesus calls him down from a sycamore tree to host holiness in his home (Luke 19).

Common Table's Aug 3, 2025 sermon. Ordinary Time - Psalm 143:1-10 // Summer Symposium w/Taylor Harris

Do you ever find yourself asking in tough times, "How did I get here? What is my life supposed to look like? Do I need a different story?"
Listen to our Summer Symposium guest Taylor Harris, author of This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown. With Taylor as our guide, we join the soulful struggle of the psalmist who cries out:
I stretch out my hands to you; 
my soul thirsts for you like dry land. 
Answer me, Lord—and quickly! 
My spirit is failing.
- Psalm 143:6-7
Hear a strengthening word for all who are weary and in need of good news!

Common Tables July 27, 2025 sermon. Ordinary Time | Ephesians 4:1-24 // A Summer Symposium Conversation w/The Honorable Stephanie A. Lynch & Drew Willson

Listen to our Summer Symposium guest, the Honorable Stephanie A. Lynch, Richmond city council member for the 5th district (including our Randolph neighborhood). Stephanie is a passionate public servant and a devout person of faith. Hear how her faith inspires her advocacy for the people she represents, especially those on the social margins whom Christ loves. And as followers of Christ at Common Table, let's learn more about how we can engage faithfully in the political sphere.