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We're excited to begin season 2. New episodes release on Tuesdays.

We're going all in with John.

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This is a special episode. I have a conversation with my Israel Tour guides, Moshe Malka and Alexandra Erlich. I hope this will help our audience understand some of what's going on in Israel, and how it's affecting them personally. It was an honor to host my dear friends in my home.

Noa Tishby Book

Beautiful Israel Store

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Around the table, we discuss our favorite Christmas songs and the original Christmas carol. Mary's Magnificat is on another level of greatness. It's holy. Saturated in scripture, overflowing with joy...before Mary's life was turned upside down she got to celebrate her divine pregnancy with her older cousin Elizabeth. I love thinking about these women huddled together in isolation for three months. Can you imagine the coversations they must've had?

Luke 1:46-55

Compare to 1 Samuel 2:1-10

Old Testament verses referenced in Mary's song

Psalm 34:2-3, 138:6, 71:19, 111:9, 103:17, 98:1, 107:9, 98:3, 132:11

Exodus 20:6, Isaiah 40:10, Genesis 17:9

I recommend reading Hannah's song in 1 Samuel 2:1-10 side by side Mary's song to really appreciate the similarites. Also look up the OT references that Mary puts in her song. I encourage you to spend some time reading and reflecting on those during this Christmas week.

• Do we know God's word well enough to compose our own praise song?

• This would make a great devotional time to write out phrases that we know and love in a prayer or song to God.

Other references: Luke 6:20-26, Acts 4:12

Welcome to our Christmas table! My co-hosts and I have a fun conversation around two encounters with the angel Gabriel. It makes sense to us that God would break the 400 years of silence by sending an angel to speak to a priest. The table flipping moment is when Gabriel appears to a young girl from Nazareth. There are many table flipping things in our Luke 1:5-45 text.

I love all the details that occur between Elizabeth and Mary.

• Elizabeth's baby leaps for joy
• Elizabeth is filled with the Holy Spirit
• Elizabeth confesses that Mary's baby is her Lord
• An older woman and a young woman are both chosen for miraculous births.

Thinq

Southern Living oatmeal cake

Highway to Heaven tv show

Flourish Ministry

Anna Lauren is back to continue the great conversation we began in episode 44. She's a brillant 23 year old law student with no seminary training. I point this out because it's more than possible for us to grow deeper in our study of the scriptures. In addition to the great books and authors she mentions, Anna Lauren encourages us to be life long learners by using tools like Bible Gateway or Blueletter Bible to access great resources and commentaries. Let's be life long learners...true disciples following Jesus. Jesus will continue to teach us and flip the tables so that we may know Him better.

We talk about...

• mentorship/discipleship realtionships.
• The importance of reading the entire metanarrative of scripture.
• The gospel of John.

Authors and Books recommendations:

• Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Jonathan Sacks
• George Herbert
• Orthodoxy G.K. Chesterton
• Confessions Augustine
• The Prophets

Visit: The Lewis House Lexington, KY

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Flourish Ministry

This episode I'm joined by Anna Lauren Jacobs. I met Anna Lauren through a mutual friend. Anna Lauren is the community engagement coordinator for Refuge For Women Kentucky. This is a ministry that is near and dear to my heart. We talked about everything from how she became a follower of the Table Flipper to birds of prey.

She's my first Gen. Z guest, a second year law school student, a graduate of Asbury University, and she was one of many who led worship at the Asbury Downpour earlier this year.

I loved this conversation so much that I persuaded her to join me for a second episode. Enjoy this first one and meet us back at the table next week for episode 45. She brought a lot of wisdom and insights to the table. We're big fans of Gen Z! She's a great example of why we cheer loudly for this group of young adults.

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Season 2 begins 1/2/2024 and will be a 21 weeks study of John.

The Flipping Tables girls love table fellowship. You know we talk so much about food on the podcast, we're practically a cooking show.

In this lighter episode, we discuss our signature Thanksgiving dishes. We talk about the origins of Friendsgiving and when we started celebrating it. Apparently Twila was celebrating Friendsgiving before it was even added to the dictionary.

We have friendly banter about marshmallows, pies, and all kinds of things. So, while you're prepping for Thanksgiving, we appreciate you spening some time at our Friendsgiving table.

Friendsgiving

The Atlantic Magazine 2018

• Friends was on the air from 1994 to 2004, and the first recorded Google searches for 'Friendsgiving' hit in the fall of 2004.

• Netflix in 2015—making the show easily accessible to the masses for the first time since it had stopped airing—Google searches for 'Friendsgiving' peaked again and have steadily increased every year since.

Better Homes and Gardens article

Luke 7:34-35

J.R.R Tolkien, author of The Lord of The Rings trilogy, wrote that "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

From a traditional Jewish Liturgy

May the All merciful One bless this table at which we have eaten and array it with the choicest foods. May it be like the table of Abraham Our Father; all who are hungry may eat from it and all who are thirsty May drink from it.

Sweet Potato Casserole

Pumpkin Dump

Note: Kimberly says you can always add more butter.

King of the Hill

Why does Jesus want His followers to remember Lot's wife? This is the question Kimberly and I dig into in this episode. Luke 17:20-37 is our main Bible text.

Every generation asks, "Is this the end of the world?"

John Eldredge put it this way in Resilient.

"Honestly, I think many people would trade the return of Jesus Christ himself for a nice little end to their story and let another generation live through the end of the age."

Ouch! This hits a little too close to home. Are we spending more time trying to save our lives instead of losing it for the Kingdom of God?

We reference the times Noah lived in and what it was like in Sodom where Lot had chosen to live.

God gives us warnings and promptings to help us turn around when we've started down the wrong road. Following Jesus is a narrow road. The broad path that the majority of people are going down is a road that will end in sudden destruction.

When you're facing the temptation to love the present world more than longing for the Kingodm of God, Remember Lot's wife.

Christine Caine Sermon

Resilient

Luke 21

Matthew 24-25

Genesis 6:5, 12, 14, 18:20, 19

Ezekiel 16:49

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Season 2 begins January 2, 2024

21 week study of John which includes a weekly lesson for you to go deeper with us. Join us as we continue to Flourish by following the Table Flipper.

In this episode, we discuss a table flipping story that was widely circulated but that no one was in a hurry to write down. Thankfully after, the dust settled, John wrote it down. Jesus has an epic dust up with the Pharisees on the eighth day after the Feast of Tabernacles over a woman caught in adultery. What does Jesus write in the dust? This is the question we explore together.

At the end of the episode, we discuss how the Chinese are rewriting this story with a tragic ending. I've linked the Radical video.

Thanks for listening! Keep following the Table Flipper, and leave the table flipping to Jesus.

John 7:53—8:11

John 7:36-37

Leviticus 20:10

John 3:16

Jesus and Women study Kristi McLelland

Radical video with Steven Morales

Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus

This is the last episode in the Mark Series. Quick talking Mark with His fast scene changes leaves us wondering, "Where's Jesus?" and "What happened to His body?" The ending feels abrupt. We don't want to just take the angel's announcement, "He is risen!" We want to see Jesus being reunited with His followers.

Mark seems to want to leave with a bit of a cliffhanger. Mark wants us to decide based on his whole gospel: Was Jesus the Messiah? Based on all we've learned about Jesus: Do we believe that Jesus did in fact rise from the dead, just as He said He would?

Text: Mark 16, John 1:1-3

Julie paraphrases John 20.

In C.S. Lewis's book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, when Aslan (the Christ figure) comes back to life after he willingly gave his live to save the guilty betrayer, Aslan says, "It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the Stillness and darkness before time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who has committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's Stead, the table would crack and death itself would work backwards."

The Resurrection of Jesus turns back time itself.

By placing our faith in Jesus, The Resurrection and the Life, the clock on our life gets reset. Time starts over for us. As followers of Jesus, resurrection hope dawns over the rest of our lives.

Resources

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

The Chronicles of Narnia box set (audio)