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. 4d ago

    Free to Receive // Isaiah 44–45 // Abigail Dundore

    This week, Abigail Dundore shares a message from Isaiah 44–45 titled "Free to Receive." Speaking into Israel's exile in Babylon, Abigail shows why idolatry is more than loving the wrong thing. It means loving something that cannot love us back.Abigail starts with Isaiah's almost comic picture of the blacksmith and the carpenter. They work hard to shape their idols and end the day hungry, thirsty and cold, still taking care of themselves. She connects this to the idols of our city: career success, financial security and intellectual achievement. Each one demands everything and gives nothing back. In contrast, God pours water on dry ground, plants the willows and carries His people from birth to old age. Abigail tells the story of giving up her plans for law school and discovering the justice work God had already given her. She also opens up about the shame she carried for years after a long season of chronic illness in her childhood, and about hearing the Lord say He never needed her to perform. Finally, she shows how blindness keeps us from seeing what enslaves us, and how God sweeps it away like mist.The sermon rests on a simple distinction: idols are pursued, but gifts are received. The same good thing can be an idol that enslaves us or a gift that delights us, but it can't be both. Shame enters when we overreach, trying to prove ourselves wise and self-reliant. From the beginning, all God wanted was for us to walk with Him as His sons and daughters. His Spirit does not disappoint, and shame cannot stand in the face of His love.Ultimately, this sermon is an invitation to put down the burdens we've learned to call normal and let God carry us. Some of that freedom comes in a moment, and some of it takes years of formation. Either way, God is working toward our joy. As we say yes to His redemption, He widens our capacity to receive His gifts with open hands and to break out in song.

  2. Sep 23

    The Courage of the Presence // Joshua 6 // People of the Presence Pt. 3 // Ryan Patrick Murphy

    Due to audio issues, this recording does not include the full teaching.This week, Ryan Patrick Murphy shares a message from Joshua 6 titled "The Courage of the Presence." Through the fall of Jericho, Ryan invites us to dust off our dreams and face a hard truth: as we grow in the Kingdom of God, we need more courage, not less.Ryan starts with his own early faith. He skipped theater practice for Wednesday night youth group and spent two awkward years praying for strangers at the mall, where God broke his fear of what others thought. From there he names three things courage requires. The first is risk, which is not recklessness but confidence in a good Father. Ryan compares this to securely attached children, like his son Hoxton walking into his first day of school. The second is initiative: rest is good, but it isn't God, and some of us are so afraid of burning out that we aren't burning at all. The third is obedience, and here Ryan gives four questions for discernment. Does this next step fit the whole story of Scripture? Do the people around me affirm it? Do I resonate with it? Is there an open door? Along the way, he also gives pastoral guidance on the harder parts of the Jericho story.Ryan anchors the sermon in Romans 8:14–15. We did not receive a spirit of slavery that falls back into fear. We received the Spirit of adoption. The spirit of slavery shows up as anxiety, scarcity, and control, including wanting God to act like a drill sergeant rather than a Father. Adoption brings us into relationship and gives us an inheritance. Put simply, we don't risk to earn God's approval. We risk from it.Ultimately, this sermon invites us to break up with fear and perfectionism and live as sons and daughters. God often gives us the big promise and the next step, and leaves out everything in between. As we trust Him step by step, in community and in peace, He forms in us the courage to dream wild Kingdom dreams for our city.

  3. Sep 16

    The Culture of the Presence // Exodus 40 & Joshua 3 // People of the Presence Pt. 2 // Ryan Patrick Murphy

    This week, Ryan Patrick Murphy shares a message from Exodus 40 and Joshua 3 titled "The Culture of the Presence," continuing the church's series People of the Presence. On the occasion of the church's sixth anniversary, Ryan traces how the Israelites followed God's glory out of the wilderness and into the promised land, and asks what it looks like for the church today to carry that same presence into the city of Boston.Ryan walks through Exodus 40, where the glory of the Lord fills the tabernacle and the Israelites learn to follow the cloud by day and fire by night, and into Joshua 3, where that same presence leads them across the Jordan into land they have never walked before. From there he builds out three marks of a people who carry God's presence: they are followed, learning to discern the Spirit's leading rather than defaulting to human reasoning, even when that leading costs comfort and convenience; they are formed, pursuing holiness and guarding their words and relationships so as not to grieve the Holy Spirit; and they are filled, receiving the same outpouring described in Acts 1 and 2 and 1 Corinthians 14. Ryan closes with his own testimony of receiving the gift of tongues as a teenager, framing it as evidence of a Father eager to give good gifts to his children.The theological anchor running through the message is that the presence of God, once confined to a tabernacle and later a temple, now dwells inside every believer through the Holy Spirit. What Israel followed as a cloud in the wilderness, the church now carries as a person, meaning ordinary believers become, in Ryan's words, walking carriers of God's glory into their campuses, neighborhoods, and workplaces.Ultimately, this sermon is an invitation to stop settling for cozy, comfortable faith and to ask God for a fresh filling, whatever form that takes. As the church continues to follow, be formed, and be filled, Ryan casts a vision for revival breaking out across Boston, one life at a time.This week, Ryan Patrick Murphy continues our series "People of the Presence"

  4. Sep 9

    The Call of the Presence // Exodus 25 // People of the Presence Pt. 1 // Ryan Patrick Murphy

    This week, Ryan Patrick Murphy shares a message from Exodus 24:15–25:40 titled "People of the Presence." Walking through Moses' ascent up Mount Sinai and God's detailed instructions for building the tabernacle, Ryan unpacks what it means for a church to actually host the presence of God rather than simply gather for an event.Ryan works through three key pieces of the tabernacle's furniture, drawing out present-day application for each. The Ark of the Covenant, God's royal seat at the center of the tent, reveals that God's heart has always been to dwell close to His people rather than remain distant — and it points the church toward submission to Scripture and ongoing communion with God, "like a person speaks to a friend." The lampstand, shaped like a tree and tied to the Garden of Eden and the tree of life in Revelation, reframes the church's call to be a light to the nations rather than a people who consume God's presence for private satisfaction. The table of the bread of the presence points to God as the only true satisfaction for the human heart, with Ryan sharing candidly from his own story about mistaking community and relationships for what only God can supply. Along the way, he calls the church to let go of shame, unbelief, and skepticism in order to step more fully into this way of life.At the center of the message is the conviction that holiness and freedom are not opposites — God sets His people free specifically so they can worship Him, and the tabernacle's layout, as Hebrews confirms, is not a relic but a prophetic picture of the New Testament reality that Jesus makes available to every believer. Because the veil has been torn, communion with God is no longer mediated through a priest or a building; every follower of Jesus now carries what Ryan calls a "tabernacle mindset," able to access God's presence anywhere, at any time.Ultimately, this sermon is an invitation to trade a small, event-based faith for a life fully oriented around God's presence — reading Scripture expecting to meet Him there, releasing shame at the foot of the cross, and carrying His presence into workplaces, campuses, and neighborhoods across the city. As the church leans into this identity, Ryan casts a vision far bigger than a single gathering: a community caught up in God's plan to cover the whole earth with His glory, starting right where they are.This week, Ryan starts our series on "People of the Presence"

  5. Sep 1

    Don't Give Up Before the Harvest // Galatians 6 // Ryan Patrick Murphy

    This week, Ryan Patrick Murphy shares a message from Galatians 6:7–9 titled "Don't Give Up Before the Harvest." Using the biblical metaphor of sowing and reaping, Ryan unpacks what it looks like to partner with God for breakthrough rather than waiting passively for a "lightning zap from heaven."Ryan walks through five principles drawn from the text: the law of sowing and reaping works because of who God is, not because of our effort or performance; everything in the Kingdom starts small, like a redwood seed or the eight people who first gathered to plant the church; a seed is worthless unless it's planted and watered, meaning dreams require participation, not just waiting; you reap what you sow, so planting bitterness, gossip, or fear yields more of the same, while planting love, joy, and gratitude produces a harvest of the same; and finally, that there's a real delay — a "summer" of watering and tending — between planting and harvest that demands grit rather than giving up at the first sign of difficulty. He then names five practical seeds believers can sow: finances, words, prayer, service, and tears, each illustrated with personal stories and testimonies from the church's history.At the center of the message is the conviction that sowing and reaping is anchored in the nature and character of God — He is a good provider and a good Father, not a distant force to be managed through effort or earned through performance. Ryan pairs this with a theology of redemptive suffering: because Jesus's own suffering was not the end of His story, our tears and hardship are never wasted either, but are transformed into the seeds of a coming harvest.Ultimately, this sermon is an invitation to keep sowing — in prayer, in community, in generosity, in the words we speak — even when the ground feels hard and the harvest feels far off. Ryan calls the church to trade discouragement for grit, believing that God is faithful to bring a harvest to those who don't give up in seasons of small beginnings and slow growth.

  6. Aug 26

    Colossians Pt. 4 // Joining the Mission // Ryan Patrick Murphy

    This week, Ryan Patrick Murphy closes out the church's series on Colossians with a message from Colossians 3:18–4:18 titled "Joining the Mission." Continuing our study on the marks of a Jesus-centered church, Ryan lands on the final mark: a church centered on Jesus joins the mission of Jesus — not just through evangelism, but through every ordinary corner of life.Ryan walks through Paul's household instructions verse by verse, reframing them as an invitation rather than a rulebook. In marriage, he unpacks an egalitarian reading rooted in Genesis, arguing that marriage is meant to prophesy mutual co-reigning between husband and wife, not hierarchy — while also honoring Paul's high view of singleness as its own prophetic witness to a satisfied life in God. He then turns to parenting as training kids to steward authority well, to work as an act of worship where the kingdom breaks in through ordinary jobs rather than only "paid ministry," and to Paul's language about slaves and masters, which he contextualizes historically through the story of Onesimus and Philemon — showing how the gospel changes social status from the inside out. He closes with charges toward prayer, speech about the city, time management, and relationships, tying each back to the same mission.The sermon's theological anchor is the idea, borrowed from Christopher J.H. Wright, that "the church doesn't have a mission — the mission has a church." In other words, God is already at work redeeming and restoring the world, and the local church doesn't manufacture that mission but joins one already in motion. Ryan uses this to reframe everyday relationships and responsibilities — marriage, parenting, work, prayer, speech — as places where heaven is actively breaking into the city of Boston, not just personal disciplines to manage.Ultimately, this message is an invitation to stop compartmentalizing faith from daily life and to see marriages, jobs, parenting rhythms, and even small talk as places where God's kingdom is already advancing. Ryan calls the church to become a "signpost" of heaven in Boston — praying for open doors, speaking hope over the city, and building the culture of heaven wherever they are sent. As the series closes, the charge is forward-looking: this community, hosting God's presence, preaching the gospel, growing in maturity, and now joining the mission, is being sent — not just gathered.

  7. Aug 19

    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.

  8. 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.

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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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