The Table Boston - Weekly Sermon

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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.

  1. 15h ago

    Death and Resurrection // Acts 1 // Jordan Verner

    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.

  2. Aug 11

    Faith on Repeat // Genesis 26 // Katia Adams

    This week, Katia Adams shares a message from Genesis 26 titled "Faith on Repeat." Walking through the life of Isaac, Katia unpacks why his story so closely echoes his father Abraham's, and what that repetition has to teach us about the shape faith takes over a lifetime. Katia traces Isaac's story through four recurring movements: famine, fear, favor, and frustration. In famine, Isaac is instructed not to flee to Egypt as Abraham once did, but to stay and plant seed, reaping a hundredfold in the very land of scarcity. In fear, Isaac is caught off guard and echoes his father's lie about Rebecca being his sister, revealing how pressure exposes what's already inside us rather than creating something new. In favor, Isaac grows wealthy and is envied by the Philistines, illustrating Katia's central point that favor increases complexity rather than removing it. In frustration, Isaac digs well after well, some blocked and some contested, and keeps digging anyway, because the promise is worth the repetition. Katia weaves in her own stories, from planting a church during COVID to a moment of being caught off guard by anger with her husband, to show these patterns aren't ancient history but present reality. The sermon's theological anchor is that faith is not a single event but a muscle built through repetition, and Jesus himself walked this same cycle of famine, fear, favor, and frustration with perfect faith. Katia points to Galatians 2:20, clarifying that it is not merely our own faith in Jesus but Jesus' own faith now living in and empowering us. In other words, the pattern we see in Isaac and ultimately fulfilled in Christ is not proof that God is distant or repetitive for its own sake, but that he is training a people who can walk in famine without panic, in fear without shame, in favor without ease, and in frustration without giving up. Ultimately, this sermon is an invitation to stop waiting for a future "one day" when life will finally be easy, and to recognize this famine, this fear, this ordinary Monday as the main event. Katia calls the church to grow the muscle of faith on repeat, not by white-knuckling through in our own strength, but by inviting the same Spirit that empowered Jesus to empower how we live and believe, so that the Kingdom of God would come near in this city, one contended-for well at a time.

  3. Aug 4

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

    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.

  4. Jul 27

    Colossians Pt. 2 // Four Marks of a Jesus-Centered Church // Ryan Patrick Murphy

    This week, Ryan Patrick Murphy continues the Table Boston's Colossians series with a message from Colossians 1:24–2:23 titled "Jesus Alone." Building on the previous week's teaching, Ryan unpacks what it means for a local church to be truly Jesus-centered — hosting his presence, proclaiming his message, growing into his maturity, and joining his mission. Ryan opens by revisiting Paul's declaration that "Christ in you" — the church, plural — is the hope of glory, arguing that the local church is God's primary vehicle for redeeming and restoring the world. He walks through Paul's temple language in Colossians, showing how the fire that once rested on the Old Testament temple now rests on the gathered church, and how believers are called to belong, forgive, serve, and give as expressions of that reality. From there he moves into Paul's teaching on the "rulers and authorities," addressing the demonic and spiritual warfare with pastoral nuance — neither dismissing it as outdated nor treating every setback as demonic activity. The sermon's second half turns to circumcision as a first-century identity marker, using it to explain Paul's warning against "Jesus and" false gospels: Jesus and politics, Jesus and supernatural experience, Jesus and external security, and Jesus and personal autonomy. The sermon's theological anchor is captured in that recurring phrase, Jesus alone. Ryan's central claim is that nothing — not political affiliation, not spiritual experience, not financial security, not personal preference — can be added to Christ as proof of belonging to God. Colossians 2's warning against human tradition and "elemental spirits" becomes, in Ryan's hands, a mirror held up to modern substitutes for the gospel. In other words, the temptation to supplement Jesus with something else is not a first-century problem; it's a present one, and the cross alone remains sufficient. Ultimately, this message is an invitation to examine what we've quietly placed in the box marked "the thing that will save me" and to release it in exchange for Christ alone. Ryan calls the church to burn again with the same gospel fire that swept through the early believers in the upper room — not chasing a moralistic checklist, but rooted, built up, and established in a faith that needs nothing added to it. As the Colossians series continues, the invitation stands: to be a people who host his presence, preach his message, grow into his maturity, and go on his mission.

  5. Jul 21

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

    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.

  6. Jul 14

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

    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.

  7. Jun 30

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

    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.

  8. Jun 23

    In the Cool of the Garden Pt. 4 // John 10 // Griffin Towle

    This week, Griffin Towle shares a message from John 10 as part of the series "In the Cool of the Garden," exploring what it looks like to hear the voice of God in every part of life. Building on prior weeks covering hearing God through community and through Scripture, Griffin turns to hearing God through the voice of our Good Shepherd, tracing this theme all the way back to Eden, where God walked with Adam and Eve in intimate, ongoing relationship.Working through John 10, Griffin highlights three ways the Good Shepherd leads his flock: personally, relationally, and missionally. He contrasts the personal access Jesus offers with the way Moses once mediated God's voice for Israel, arguing that Jesus has torn the veil so that every believer now has direct, "VIP" access to God's voice in everyday life, not just on Sundays. Turning to relationship, Griffin draws on Psalm 23 and the life of David to show that trusting the Shepherd's voice requires first knowing his character, not just his instructions, posing the challenge: are we more focused on the location he's leading us to, or the leader himself? He closes with the missional dimension, using the disciples' early reluctance to share Jesus with outsiders, illustrated through his own playful "birthday cupcake" story, to show that the Shepherd's voice is never meant to be hoarded but is meant to gather "one flock" from every nation.The sermon's theological anchor is the conviction that knowing the Good Shepherd's character precedes and secures trust in his direction. Griffin states it directly: revelation of who Jesus is will always produce reassurance of where he is leading us. In other words, assurance in following God isn't found by demanding proof or seeing the whole path ahead, but by growing in relational intimacy with the One who is already, by nature, good.Ultimately, this message is an invitation to recover a posture of attentiveness, to expect God's voice not only in church gatherings but while driving, working, or going about ordinary days. Griffin calls listeners to shift their gaze from the destination to the Shepherd himself, trusting that the same God who calls each of us by name is also drawing in a wider flock, and inviting us to participate in that gathering as both sheep and sent ones.

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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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