The Table UMC

CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. We turn this week to John 3.14-21 and wonder about how the tendency by imperial Christianity to lift the single verse — John 3.16 — out of context might be reconsidered in light of it’s very context. How might the biblical stories alluded to by John 3, help us to listen more deeply to the stories of our own lives and the world? At the heart of John 3 is generous love. And, “This kind of generous love is also at the heart of humanity’s story, including our work – as steward, as gardener – to slow, stop, and eventually reverse the overheating of the planet. Indeed, part of what makes this problem so challenging is that it’s not only technical; it’s also cultural, and cultures are made of stories.” How might we join with God’s healing and redemption by diving deeper into our own Climate Stories? Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804

CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. In virtually every transformative movement in human history – the abolitionist movement against slavery, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the movements for women’s suffrage, labor protections, dismantling apartheid in South Africa, the list goes on – in each of these cases, people of faith have been at the center of the action. Catalysts. Laborers. Visionaries. And now, as we confront what is arguably the greatest challenge in human history, God is calling us all to step up once more. To love the world – and put our love into action. To care for creation – and pass it on to the next generation better, healthier, and hardier than we found it. Just as we might ask one of our ancestors, “How did you contribute to the Civil Rights Movement? Or did you sit on the sidelines?”, our descendants will surely ask the same of us: “How did you contribute to the fight for a livable, healthy climate for all God’s creatures, great and small?” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804

CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. In virtually every transformative movement in human history – the abolitionist movement against slavery, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the movements for women’s suffrage, labor protections, dismantling apartheid in South Africa, the list goes on – in each of these cases, people of faith have been at the center of the action. Catalysts. Laborers. Visionaries. And now, as we confront what is arguably the greatest challenge in human history, God is calling us all to step up once more. To love the world – and put our love into action. To care for creation – and pass it on to the next generation better, healthier, and hardier than we found it. Just as we might ask one of our ancestors, “How did you contribute to the Civil Rights Movement? Or did you sit on the sidelines?”, our descendants will surely ask the same of us: “How did you contribute to the fight for a livable, healthy climate for all God’s creatures, great and small?” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804

CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. In virtually every transformative movement in human history – the abolitionist movement against slavery, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the movements for women’s suffrage, labor protections, dismantling apartheid in South Africa, the list goes on – in each of these cases, people of faith have been at the center of the action. Catalysts. Laborers. Visionaries. And now, as we confront what is arguably the greatest challenge in human history, God is calling us all to step up once more. To love the world – and put our love into action. To care for creation – and pass it on to the next generation better, healthier, and hardier than we found it. Just as we might ask one of our ancestors, “How did you contribute to the Civil Rights Movement? Or did you sit on the sidelines?”, our descendants will surely ask the same of us: “How did you contribute to the fight for a livable, healthy climate for all God’s creatures, great and small?” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804

CLIMATE + FAITH: A Lenten worship series at The Table on how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. In virtually every transformative movement in human history – the abolitionist movement against slavery, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the movements for women’s suffrage, labor protections, dismantling apartheid in South Africa, the list goes on – in each of these cases, people of faith have been at the center of the action. Catalysts. Laborers. Visionaries. And now, as we confront what is arguably the greatest challenge in human history, God is calling us all to step up once more. To love the world – and put our love into action. To care for creation – and pass it on to the next generation better, healthier, and hardier than we found it. Just as we might ask one of our ancestors, “How did you contribute to the Civil Rights Movement? Or did you sit on the sidelines?”, our descendants will surely ask the same of us: “How did you contribute to the fight for a livable, healthy climate for all God’s creatures, great and small?” Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804

Worship this Sunday holds the biblical account of transfiguration from Mark 9.2-9 in conversation with the recently released film called Freud’s Last Session. Instead of viewing the film from the posture of feeling compelled to take sides with either Freud or Lewis, we instead invite you to notice Freud’s couch of transformation. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804

Rev. Brian McLaren writes about “Radical Resilience” in this way, “Each of those words is important. The word “radical” means going to the root, going to the depths, going beneath the surface…. So, radical resilience means radical, deep attention to the deepest roots of resilience. “Resilience” is the capacity to withstand and recover from hardship or difficulty. It has to do with the ability to spring back into shape after you’ve been beaten down or knocked over or bent over.” Our hope in this series, which we’re calling Resilience, is to help our community of faith take wise action and imagine a better future amid the many challenges facing our world. We hope to explore radical resilience so that we can be thermostats rather than thermometers in our community — setting the temperature, setting examples of contemplative depth and wisdom, love and peace, rather than just sinking into fury, fear, denial and despair. Worship this Sunday is rooted in Psalm 147 and invites reflection on how we share our gratitude and praise for God. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804

Rev. Brian McLaren writes about “Radical Resilience” in this way, “Each of those words is important. The word “radical” means going to the root, going to the depths, going beneath the surface…. So, radical resilience means radical, deep attention to the deepest roots of resilience. “Resilience” is the capacity to withstand and recover from hardship or difficulty. It has to do with the ability to spring back into shape after you’ve been beaten down or knocked over or bent over.” Our hope in this series, which we’re calling Resilience, is to help our community of faith take wise action and imagine a better future amid the many challenges facing our world. We hope to explore radical resilience so that we can be thermostats rather than thermometers in our community — setting the temperature, setting examples of contemplative depth and wisdom, love and peace, rather than just sinking into fury, fear, denial and despair. Worship this Sunday is rooted in Psalm 111 and invites reflection on how might take God’s love to heart. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804

Rev. Brian McLaren writes about “Radical Resilience” in this way, “Each of those words is important. The word “radical” means going to the root, going to the depths, going beneath the surface…. So, radical resilience means radical, deep attention to the deepest roots of resilience. “Resilience” is the capacity to withstand and recover from hardship or difficulty. It has to do with the ability to spring back into shape after you’ve been beaten down or knocked over or bent over.” Our hope in this series, which we’re calling Resilience, is to help our community of faith take wise action and imagine a better future amid the many challenges facing our world. We hope to explore radical resilience so that we can be thermostats rather than thermometers in our community — setting the temperature, setting examples of contemplative depth and wisdom, love and peace, rather than just sinking into fury, fear, denial and despair. Worship this Sunday is rooted in Psalm 62:5-12 and invites reflection on how might embrace our own powerlessness en route to deeper resilience, deeper faith. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804

Worship is rooted in John 1.43-51. Rev. Dr. Audrey West writes, “Who would imagine that God’s anointed one could come from a place so distant from the center of power? A messiah from Nazareth, in Galilee?! Inconceivable! … Whatever the genesis of Nathanael’s opinion, neither Jesus nor Philip argues with him. Instead, Jesus remains nearby and Philip simply invites Nathanael to ‘come and see;—apparently, not a bad evangelism strategy.” Worship invites us to wonder about who invited us to “Come and see” and who we might be called to share this invitation with today. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804