The City Table

The City Table

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The City Table episodes

  • Culture Influencers: Creative Strategies

    One of the four sides of the City Table is reserved for cultural influencers, who bring translation and often understanding to the times we live in. They can interpret the cry of the city at its point of pain, and help contextualize the Gospel in the culture. The truth about city transformation is that transformation does not happen until the culture responds. Join us to hear from our friend Jeremy Bryan; a hip hop artist, educator and spiritual director from Milwaukee, with a background in youth work, nonprofit management, and hospice care. He is currently working as a teaching coach and curriculum developer for an arts-based nonprofit and as grief and creativity guide for a hospice care group in Milwaukee.


    Find more about Jeremy Bryan’s work and music:

    https://www.jeremyjohnbryan.com/

    https://refreshcollective.org/

    https://quillthemessenger.bandcamp.com/


    Visit citytable.org for more information, resources, and ways to get connected with Jon, Ken, and the City Table community. We’d love to hear from you!


    Music in this Episode by St. Vrain. https://linktr.ee/stvrain

    48 min
  • Our Stories of Transformation: From Embers to Holy Fires

    There’s nothing like a story to catch the imagination and embolden the heart to “step off the ledge” into being a transformative leader. This story-telling episode is a celebration both of the stories from this season, and other encouraging stories that have come up on Jon and Ken’s radar. Our very own host on the podcast, David Blackwell, talks of his transition from church leadership into the business sector. These stories might even move you from ember status to become a contagious, Holy Fire-starter.


    Visit citytable.org for more information, resources, and ways to get connected with Jon, Ken, and the City Table community. We’d love to hear from you!


    Music in this Episode by St. Vrain. https://linktr.ee/stvrain

    48 min
  • God's Story of Transformation

    We believe it all starts with our own personal transformation, and then it flows into the transformation of our community of family and friends, then spreads into our workplace and neighborhoods. We need to have a Jesus Movement Mentality, where we see every area of life as an opportunity to display - Jesus’ kingdom, His words, His works, and His way.


    Visit citytable.org for more information, resources, and ways to get connected with Jon, Ken, and the City Table community. We’d love to hear from you!


    Music in this Episode by St. Vrain. https://linktr.ee/stvrain

    43 min
  • A Holistic Approach to Reaching Your Place
    Reaching your place is a holistic approach. Place matters. The geography and the people matter, but also the making of the place. How do we engage our home place, workplace, recreational place, and community place in a way where the mundane becomes magnificent? Join our roundtable discussion with Shawn Cardwell, who is a seventh generational resident of Forest Grove, Oregon. His story and how he and his wife Laura have embraced a Kingdom way of loving their city will inspire your faith.
    Visit citytable.org for more information, resources, and ways to get connected with Jon, Ken, and the City Table community. We’d love to hear from you!
    Music in this Episode by St. Vrain. https://linktr.ee/stvrain
    46 min
  • Speaking Truth to Power (Part 2 of 2)
    Speaking truth to power is really speaking Jesus and His kingdom to human authorities and cultural mindsets. Power based mindsets and systems can’t stand up to God’s Kingdom delivered through His sacrificial servants. We’ll explore the final argument of Paul’s address in Acts 17 to the Athenian philosophers and the temple of “gods”: The resurrection of Jesus changes everything.
    Visit citytable.org for more information, resources, and ways to get connected with Jon, Ken, and the City Table community. We’d love to hear from you!
    Music in this Episode by St. Vrain. https://linktr.ee/stvrain
    45 min
  • Speaking Truth to Power (Part 1 of 2)
    With human public discourse collapsing into spin—and with current philosophies and theories of right and wrong attempting to rule out alternative points of view other than the assumed current correct one—it seems that what we need is wise sound Christian voices at the table, voices both humble and clear. The voice is not of those with instant answers, but of those with a fresh grasp of God's truth, whose word will carry conviction.
    Visit citytable.org for more information, resources, and ways to get connected with Jon, Ken, and the City Table community. We’d love to hear from you!
    Music in this Episode by St. Vrain. https://linktr.ee/stvrain
    42 min
  • Kingdom Ambassadors in the Political Arena
    God is raising up people to engage the challenging political world of our cities. Makes sense. Because we represent a sitting King and because his New Creation is available to the brokenness of our cities, He is releasing His emissaries into the chaos. These are not faint-hearted sons and daughters but those equipped with big hearts, wise minds, and tough skin. Jon and Ken interview a beautiful couple deeply engaged in their city of Stavanger, Norway: Anna Kristen and Steve Bruns. Anna Kristen is on the city council and Steve is a pastor and global church planter. Their story paints a beautiful picture of just this sort of new breed of Kingdom ambassadors.
    Visit citytable.org for more information, resources, and ways to get connected with Jon, Ken, and the City Table community. We’d love to hear from you!
    Music in this Episode by St. Vrain. https://linktr.ee/stvrain
    52 min
  • Engaging the Culture of your City - Stories from Europe : Piet Brinksma

    Just back from Europe, Jon and Ken give an encouraging report on how some of God’s people in Amsterdam, Norway, and Switzerland are discovering the power of contextualizing the Gospel in highly postmodern cultures. Transformation begins when the culture embraces the Gospel. Piet Brinksma leads a city transformation team in Amsterdam where they are seeing hopeful signs of transformation in a city permeated by loneliness and hopelessness. Ken’s interview with Piet unveils a story of faith, perseverance and practical lessons for both those just launching into city transformation and for those that have been faithfully laboring for many years.

    Visit citytable.org for more information, resources, and ways to get connected with Jon, Ken, and the City Table community. We’d love to hear from you!

    Music in this Episode by St. Vrain. https://linktr.ee/stvrain

    If you'd like to read more on this topic, Ken Janke has a companion blog post to the episode: 5 Ways to Engage and Renew the Culture in Your City.

    48 min
  • House Church and the City Table: Living out the Gospel
    Imagine a movement in your city where a table becomes the setting to gather together, pray, and learn the ways of the Kingdom. The New Testament Church is simple. The Church is not an institution but an inclusive family that identifies all believers as “the Church”: business people, housewives, educators, children, and civil leaders. We are a reflective representation of Christ on the earth—together.  In today's episode we will hear from our friends Matt Hulst and David Swensen, working together in Denver to incubate expressions of church near Denver University. Their house church Coram Deo is contextualizing the gospel in the city.
    Visit citytable.org for more information, resources, and ways to get connected with Jon, Ken, and the City Table community. We’d love to hear from you!
    Music in this Episode by St. Vrain. https://linktr.ee/stvrain
    45 min
  • Show Update: On the Road!
    We're out and about! Jon and Ken are traveling Europe meeting with a variety of leaders and hearing what kind of Kingdom mischief people all across Europe are getting up to. We’re going to have some stories and interviews from their travels to share with you, but for this week that means no full episode as we wait for Jon and Ken to return.
    Visit citytable.org for more information, resources, and ways to get connected with Jon, Ken, and the City Table community. We’d love to hear from you!
    2 min

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What would it look like to transform our cities with the Gospel of the Kingdom? It would start with our own personal transformation, flow into the transformation of our community, and then it…