The Table Boston - Weekly Sermon

We are a community of Jesus-followers who love this city and want to see the Kingdom of God bless Boston. We are passionate about learning from Scripture and encountering the Holy Spirit as we pursue building family and impacting culture. We are a people with a mission to change the nations with what God forms in our house. Enjoy The Table Boston Church's weekly sermons.

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  Death and Resurrection // Acts 1 // Jordan Verner

  Aug 19, 202655 min

  This week, Jordan Verner, guest speaker from River House in Boise, Idaho, shares a message from Acts 1:1–8. Jordan invites the church to see their own seasons of confusion and loss through the lens of a faith that trusts God even when His promises appear to be unraveling. Jordan opens by unpacking Luke's claim that the book of Acts records what Jesus is still doing and teaching through His church, then names a pattern he sees throughout Scripture: the continuing work of God's kingdom is often hidden beneath what looks like discontinuity, death, and loss. He illustrates this with the image of a caterpillar dissolving inside a chrysalis, tracing it through Abraham's ascent up the mountain with Isaac, Joseph's descent into the pit and prison, and the disciples' bewilderment as Jesus left them. Jordan contrasts the popular "escalator" picture of Christian growth with a spiral staircase, where believers keep circling back to old wounds and old themes, but each time from a higher vantage point of humility and intimacy with God. He grounds this in his own testimony, describing a season of depression and demonic oppression at seventeen, a prophetic word that carried him through it, and a return to similar struggles of pride and insecurity twelve years later, now met with far greater depth. The sermon's anchor is this: the continuity of God's kingdom work is hidden beneath the discontinuity of death and resurrection. Put simply, what feels to us like the death of a promise is frequently the very place where God is forming something new. Jordan calls this the "shape of the gospel," reenacted again and again in ordinary places like marriage, parenting, and even a conversation about a child's piggy bank. Jordan's invitation is to stop asking caterpillar questions and start trusting the Father building wings. Jesus, he reminds the church, has already gone into the chrysalis ahead of us as a guide who knows the way through, not around, suffering. As the message closes in prayer and ministry time, Jordan calls those in their own dark season to bring their weakness and need honestly before God, trusting that He will carry them through into a fruitfulness they cannot yet imagine.

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  Colossians Pt. 3 // Revelation, Relationship, Transformation // Ryan Patrick Murphy

  Aug 4, 20261h 2m

  This week, Ryan Patrick Murphy shares a message from Colossians 3:1–17 titled "Revelation, Relationship, Transformation." As part of the Colossians series on becoming a Jesus-centered church, Ryan unpacks the third mark of that kind of church: a community that grows into the maturity of Jesus. Ryan roots the whole message in Paul's opening move, that our transformation flows from a new identity in Christ rather than toward one. From there he walks through Paul's two "put to death" lists, sins of the body and sins of speech, before addressing the harder line about God's wrath, reading it through the lens of the second coming as a wedding feast where every wrong thing gets made right. He then turns to Paul's "put on" list: compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, along with forgiveness and love, and closes on Paul's charge to let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts. The theological anchor Ryan returns to again and again is a simple three-step process for how people actually change: revelation of who Jesus is, real relationship in community where that revelation gets tested, and only then, transformation of action. In other words, growth doesn't happen by absorbing information alone. It happens in the mess of real relationships, which is exactly where a lot of us would rather not do our growing. Ultimately, this is an invitation to stop performing spiritual maturity and start letting Jesus reshape how we actually treat the people in front of us, our spouses, our roommates, our church family. As we let go of the identity our sin tries to hand us and lean into the one Christ has already given us, we become a community that hosts God's presence not by singing louder, but by loving better.

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  Colossians 1 // The Local Church: The Hope of the World // Ryan Patrick Murphy

  Jul 21, 202656 min

  This week, Ryan Patrick Murphy shares a message from Colossians 1 titled "The Local Church: The Hope of the World," opening a new series through the book. Reading the chapter in full before unpacking it verse by verse, Ryan sets out to correct a common instinct — reading Paul's letters as private, individual messages — and instead frames Colossians as a letter written to a "you all," a local church learning to center itself on the person of Jesus. Ryan walks through Paul's opening moves as an apostolic father to the Colossian church: commending them for faith, hope, and love, then praying over them for the knowledge of God's will, spiritual wisdom, fruitful living, strength and patience, and joyful thanksgiving. From there he turns to Colossians 1:15–20, the early church's worship hymn about Christ as the image of the invisible God and head of the church, and traces what it means for Jesus to be reconciling "all things" — poverty, sickness, broken families, division — back to himself through the church rather than through politics, money, or influence. He closes on Colossians 1:27, "Christ in you, the hope of glory," reframing it away from private spirituality and toward the corporate presence of Jesus among a gathered people, weaving in personal stories from his family's move to Boston and his son's question about who in their life doesn't know Jesus yet. The sermon's theological anchor is that the local church, because Christ is its head, is God's primary strategy for putting the world back together — not a program or an event, but what Ryan calls "the vehicle of cosmic restoration." Every practice of a healthy church, from forgiveness to generosity to gathered worship, becomes a small enactment of heaven meeting earth, because Jesus has bound his own identity to his body. Ultimately, this message is an invitation to bring whatever has made church hard — wounds from leaders, cynicism about community, words spoken in bitterness — and lay it down in exchange for fresh hope. Ryan closes by praying for healing over past hurts, repentance for critical words spoken about the church, and a renewed belief that real community is still possible, inviting the congregation to see themselves not as spectators but as participants in Christ's ongoing work of making all things new.

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  Jesus, Heaven's Treasure // Matthew 19:13-26 // Bekah Sankey

  Jul 14, 202658 min

  This week, Bekah Sankey shares a message from Matthew 19:13–26 titled "Asking the Answer for the Answer." Working through the account of the rich young ruler, Bekah invites us into three places in the story that don't initially make sense, and shows how each one holds a hidden treasure about who Jesus really is. Bekah walks through the encounter in three movements. First, she notices that Jesus responds to the man's question about eternal life with a question about goodness instead, inviting us to question our own questions and notice what we're actually valuing when we bring something to God. Second, she unpacks why the man leaves "extremely sorrowful" after getting the very answer he asked for, tracing it back to a cultural misreading of Deuteronomy 28 where wealth had become flipped into evidence of righteousness rather than a byproduct of obedience. Losing his possessions meant losing his only measuring stick for whether God accepted him. Third, she turns to the disciples' bewildered response, "who then can be saved," and shows how their confusion makes sense once we see they, too, believed prosperity was a shoo-in for salvation. Bekah connects this to the story's bookends: children who bring nothing and are still welcomed into the kingdom, framing the whole passage as an upside-down exclamation point pointing toward grace. The sermon's theological anchor is that Jesus is not merely the teacher offering access to eternal life, righteousness, and treasure — he is those things himself. Drawing on Psalm 16 and the priestly inheritance in the Old Testament, Bekah shows that where others receive land, the priest receives the temple itself. In the same way, our portion isn't the job, the relationship, or the outcome we're chasing, but the presence of Jesus. What we're really asking the answer for, she says, is the answer. Ultimately, this message is an invitation to let God untie the belief systems we've built our security on, even the ones that have quietly shaped how we measure our own standing with him. Bekah calls us to stop striving for evidence of righteousness and instead receive the kingdom like children, coming again and again to ask for more of the one who is already the treasure we're searching for.

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  In the Cool of the Garden Pt. 5 // John 15 // Ryan Murphy

  Jun 30, 202651 min

  This week, Ryan Patrick Murphy shares a message from John 15:1-17 titled "Fruit That Will Last," closing out the series "In the Cool of the Garden: Hearing God's Voice in All of Life." The sermon answers the question the whole series has been building toward: what is the goal of hearing God's voice? Rooted in Jesus' final discourse to the disciples before the cross -- delivered not in an upper room but in a garden -- the answer is fruit that lasts into eternity. Ryan walks through five keys to fruitful obedience, moving from the gardening reality of pruning (which God does not to punish us but to prepare us for more fruit) to the rhythm of abiding and working that echoes the original creation pattern in Genesis. From there the message turns to a lifestyle of intimacy and intercession -- where God's words move from something we hear to something that lives inside us -- before landing on lovingly obeying the clear commands of Scripture and, finally, the surprising truth that fruitful obedience looks like joy. Along the way, Ryan names the Fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5 as the primary biblical definition of fruit that lasts, and takes an honest look at how thoroughly our screens are discipling us compared to the presence of God -- calling the community not to guilt but to a renewed vision of what consistent abiding actually produces. The theological anchor of the message is that fruitful obedience is not performance -- it is the natural outgrowth of remaining in Jesus. Hearing God's voice is never the end in itself; it is always in service of a deeper union with him that transforms character, aligns desire, and makes our prayers more effective because our hearts are being shaped by his. Obedience and joy, Ryan argues, are not opposites. God's commandments are not the rules of a cosmic killjoy -- they are the design of a father who knows the pathway to life and wants to set us on it. Ultimately, this message is an invitation to give God a simple yes. Whether you are in a season of pruning, confusion, suffering, or just the ordinary grind, Jesus is calling you to remain in him, let his words get on the inside of you, and trust that the fruit is coming -- fruit that will outlast every external marker of success and last well into eternity.

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