The Table Boston - Weekly Sermon

The Table Boston
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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

    How is your Posture? // Lynn Swart // Genesis 22

    This week, Lynn Swart shares a message from Genesis 22:1–18 titled "How's Your Posture?" Drawing from the story of Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah, Lynn invites the congregation to examine the inward disposition of their hearts — not just what they believe, but how they are standing before God in this season. Lynn walks through the narrative of Abraham's supreme test with careful attention to its spiritual mechanics. She identifies three interlocking postures that defined Abraham's obedience: reverence for God, confidence in God's faithfulness, and wholehearted surrender — noting that Abraham's response was prompt, complete, and without hesitation. From there, Lynn unpacks the significance of the three-day journey to Moriah, the weight of leaving the servants at the base of the mountain, and Isaac's trust as his father lifted the knife. She draws a striking prophetic thread from Abraham's declaration — "God himself will provide the lamb" — straight to Calvary, and from Jehovah Jireh straight to the present: on the mountain of the Lord, it will be provided. Lynn closes the sermon by calling the church to examine where they may have settled for delayed, partial, or murmuring obedience, and to posture themselves for what God is doing next. The sermon's theological anchor is the inseparability of posture and promise. Lynn makes clear that promise is not inherited casually — it is entered intentionally, through the surrendered posture of a heart that says yes before it understands. As she puts it, every decision determines the direction we walk and the destiny we reach. Abraham descended the mountain not with less than he had carried up, but with more — revelation, provision, and a deeper knowledge of his God. Ultimately, this message is an invitation to examine the posture of your own heart before the Lord. Are you responding to what God is saying with a "Yes, Lord" — or hedging, delaying, or holding something back from the altar? Lynn calls each listener to a holy surrender: not driven by emotion, but by conviction that on the mountain of the Lord, whatever is needed will be found.

    57 min

  2. May 25

    In the Cool of the Garden: Hearing God's Voice in All of Life // Pt. 1 // Genesis 2-3 // Ryan Murphy

    This week, Ryan Patrick Murphy shares a message from Genesis 2 and Genesis 3:8 titled "In the Cool of the Garden, Pt. 1." Preached on Pentecost Sunday, this opening message of a new series frames the Christian life around one of Scripture's most intimate images: God walking with Adam and Eve in the cool of the garden — and the invitation to return to that kind of daily, conversational closeness with the Father.Ryan traces the arc from creation to Pentecost, beginning in Genesis 2 with God forming humanity from dust and breathing His Spirit — His ruach — into us, establishing from the very beginning that we were made to be full of God. He unpacks the tragedy of Genesis 3 not primarily as a moral failure, but as a relational rupture — Adam and Eve stepping out of God's presence — and then follows the biblical storyline through the temple, through Jesus declaring Himself the true temple, and finally to Acts 2, where fire falls on the early church and believers become the new dwelling place of God. Ryan then offers five practical keys to cultivating a continual conversation with God: start with love, not legalism; take a time and a place to pray; bring your whole self to God; learn to listen; and respond. He illustrates each with personal stories, including a vulnerable account of realizing he had been using noise and worship music to avoid bringing his anxious, depressed heart into God's presence.The central theological anchor of this message is the indwelling Holy Spirit as the restoration of Eden. Put simply: we don't have to go back to the garden — we are the garden. Because the Holy Spirit lives inside every believer, we have 100% access to a continual, walking-with-God conversation at every moment of ordinary life.This sermon is an invitation to stop treating prayer as obligation and to come back to the cool of the garden — not to perform, not to fix yourself up first, but simply to walk with a Father who has always been asking, Where are you? Whether you've drifted, burned out, or never quite found your way in, Pentecost is the moment God is offering to rekindle that wild love affair with Him.

    55 min

  3. May 18

    Five Questions for Correction // Galatians 5 & 6 // Katia Adams

    This week, Katia Adams shares a message drawn from Galatians 5:13–6:18 and Ephesians 4:25–32. Anchoring her teaching in Paul's instructions to the churches of Galatia and Ephesus, Katia addresses what she identifies as one of the most pressing and spiritually dangerous patterns in the contemporary church: the way believers have absorbed a culturally-driven model of accountability and called it justice. Using the vivid image of a rogue tomato plant that grew uninvited in her garden — cute at first, then destructive — Katia frames the sermon around five diagnostic questions every believer must ask before bringing correction: What is your proximity? What is your practice? What is your purpose? What is your posture? What is your perspective? She moves through each with pastoral specificity, pushing back against social media callout culture, third-party documentaries and podcasts about people we've never met, and self-appointed "correction ministries" that elevate exposure over restoration. Real accountability, she argues, requires proximity — the same proximity that led God himself to become flesh and move into the neighborhood. The theological anchor of the message is the conviction that the Holy Spirit is not poured out to give us goosebumps, but to uproot the poisonous seeds of offense, gossip, and self-righteous judgment that have no place in the heart of a believer. Katia draws directly on Galatians 6:1 — restore him in a spirit of gentleness — and contrasts it with the spirit of accusation the body has so readily embraced, reminding her listeners that the accuser has a name, and his name is Satan. Ultimately, this sermon is an invitation to let Scripture read us rather than the other way around — to examine our hearts honestly, uproot what grieves the Holy Spirit, and commit to a costly, inconvenient, Spirit-empowered love for the body of Christ. Katia closes with a charge that is both convicting and hopeful: how we speak to our children, our neighbors, and those who have made a mess of their lives will form our crown to give to Jesus — so make it a good one.

    41 min

  4. May 12

    I AM: Identity & Calling in the Life of Moses // Part 2 // Exodus 3 // Ryan Murphy

    This week, Ryan Patrick Murphy shares a message from Exodus 3 as part of the series "I Am: Calling and Identity in the Life of Moses." Drawing on the moment God appears to Moses in the burning bush, Ryan explores what it truly means to receive a kingdom assignment — and why the revelation of who God is must always come before the call to act. Ryan traces Moses's story from its earliest chapters — his near-death as an infant, his identity crisis as a third-culture kid caught between Egypt and Israel, his premature attempt to fulfill his calling through violence, and his eventual exile to the wilderness — to show that nothing in Moses's life is wasted. What God leads us through personally, Ryan argues, becomes the very thing he calls us to lead others through publicly. From there, Ryan turns to Exodus 3, unpacking three realities from the burning bush encounter: that God meets us in our ordinary lives, that the wilderness is where calling is forged rather than forfeit, and that intercession is the hinge on which the history of God turns. He closes with the revelation of the divine name — I AM — and the theological move at the heart of the message: before God tells Moses what to do, he tells him who God is, and that revelation transforms who Moses understands himself to be. The theological anchor of this sermon is what Ryan calls "father identity" — the principle that our understanding of who we are flows entirely from our understanding of who God is. God is not a taskmaster issuing marching orders; he is a Father inviting his sons and daughters into a family story. When we know we have a good Father, obedience stops being obligation and becomes freedom. Every attribute of God — provider, healer, shepherd, king — carries a corresponding identity for us, and worship is the practice by which we realign with that reality. Ultimately, this sermon is an invitation to stop waiting for a specific prophetic word before stepping forward, and instead to trust the posture of a child who knows their Father is good. For those sitting with unfulfilled promises, delayed dreams, or seasons of wilderness confusion, Ryan offers a provocation: bring those longings back to prayer, and open your hands. The Father who met Moses in his weakest and most disqualified moment is the same God who is ready to sweep you up into a story far bigger than anything you could self-help your way into.

    49 min

  5. May 6

    Becoming a Movemental Church // Acts 13 // Brian Owen

    This week, Brian Owen — pastor of Grace City Church in Boston and founder of Pray Boston — brings a guest message from Acts 13:1–3 titled "Becoming a Movemental Church." Preaching to the Table Boston community, Brian unpacks what it looks like for a local church to refuse to stay still: to be a Spirit-directed community that worships deeply, listens carefully, and sends sacrificially, releasing its best people and resources outward for the advance of the Kingdom of God. Drawing from the Church of Antioch as his central case study, Brian walks through four marks of a movemental church. First, movemental churches make the necessary moves to prepare for movemental moments, like Barnabas, who read the temperature of the Spirit and went to retrieve Paul, trusting that God was up to something new. Second, movemental churches practice expectant devotion: not strategy sessions or marketing campaigns, but the kind of worship and fasting that positions a church to hear the Holy Spirit say, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul." Third, movemental moments happen from within the local church, not outside of it, and every believer has been given gifts by the Spirit. Withholding those gifts robs the community of what it needs to reach the city. Fourth, movemental churches risk to experience renewal. Just as Antioch released its two best leaders into dangerous, unknown territory, churches that fear the cost will, in the words of Welsh revivalist Evan Roberts, never see the victory. The theological anchor of this message is the conviction that expectant devotion, not distraction, is what positions a church for a move of God. Leaning heavily on C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters, Brian argues that the enemy's most effective weapon today is not blatant sin but distraction: the gradual, quiet edging of the soul away from prayer, fasting, and hunger for God. In a city like Boston, where intellectual pride and spiritual darkness run deep, the movemental church must be one that actively wars against passivity and chooses to press toward God rather than settle for busyness. The invitation of this message is simple and searching: stop playing it safe. Brian closes by calling the room to honest self-examination. Some are being called to step toward something they have been avoiding out of fear; others are being called to walk away from something that is quietly suffocating their spiritual potential. Whether the risk involves finances, serving, mission, or simply embracing the season God has you in, the movemental life begins with a yes. As Brian reminds the church, anything worthwhile involves risk, and a church willing to release its best people and resources will always find that God honors the sacrifice with something greater than it gave away.

    59 min

  6. Apr 27

    I AM: Identity & Calling in the Life of Moses // Part 1 // Exodus 1 // Ryan Murphy

    his week, Ryan Patrick Murphy opens a new mini-series on identity and calling in the life of Moses, drawing from Exodus 1–2. Beginning at the very first verses of Exodus — the genealogy of Jacob's sons — Ryan unpacks what it actually means to discover your calling, your destiny, and your kingdom assignment in the context of God's grand redemptive story. Walking through the early chapters of Exodus, Ryan unpacks four key insights for discerning kingdom destiny. First, calling is not about self-discovery or personal fulfillment — it's about being swept up into God's bigger story of redeeming every nation. Second, your destiny is hidden in the way darkness has assaulted you — just as Moses's personal trials became the very terrain he led Israel through, our wounds and wilderness seasons are often the seeds of our greatest kingdom assignments. Third, our kingdom assignment is discerned, not decided — it is heard, not chosen — because following Jesus means surrendering our plans to His leading. And fourth, our history is not a liability but a treasure: Jesus doesn't delete our past, He redeems it, and the parts of our story we've most wanted to leave behind are often the keys that unlock freedom for others. The theological anchor of this message is a simple but liberating reframe of what "calling" actually means. Ryan distinguishes carefully between destiny (to glorify God and enjoy Him forever), calling (to love God, love others, and make disciples), and kingdom assignment (the unique, season-specific context where God places us to serve). This framework releases the pressure of searching for some elusive singular purpose and instead invites every follower of Jesus to see that they are already in their assignment — and that their history, including the painful and shameful parts of it, is not disqualifying material but raw material in the hands of the world's greatest Redeemer. The invitation of this message is to stop avoiding the parts of your story that carry shame, fear, or unanswered questions, and to bring them to Jesus — who is, above all, the best Redeemer of all time. Ryan closes with a tender ministry moment, calling the room to surrender their question marks to God and to trust that where darkness has most fiercely assaulted them, Jesus is most ready to bring freedom — not just for their own sake, but so they can lead others into the same breakthrough. Whatever is wrong in your context — in your family, your workplace, your relationships — may be the very place God is commissioning you to make right.

    45 min

  7. Apr 21

    Satisfied in God // The Gospel of John // Abigail Dundore

    This week, Abigail Dundore brings a message from John 5 and 6 titled "Satisfied in God." Drawing from three back-to-back scenes in the Gospel of John, Abigail traces a pathway through the strongholds that keep us from fully alive desire for Jesus — and shows how his presence is the answer to every one of them. The sermon moves through three scenes and three strongholds. First, cynicism: the man at the pool of Bethesda who has been sick for 38 years and can no longer even answer a question about desire. Jesus moves toward him anyway, awakens his longing, and takes care of him in a way he never could have imagined. Second, scarcity: the feeding of the 5,000, where Philip and Andrew are doing the math on what they don't have while Jesus is quietly setting up a completely different story — one of abundance, leftovers, and to-go boxes. Third, striving: the disciples rowing alone across the sea in the dark, paddling directionlessly in the face of chaos, until Jesus steps into the boat and they are instantly at the shore they were made for. In each scene, Abigail makes clear that the solution is never a new strategy or a change in behavior — it is the presence of Jesus. He is the one who finds us in our disappointment, who writes abundance over our scarcity, who steps into the storm and becomes the destination we didn't know we were looking for. As Augustine put it, our hearts are restless until they rest in him. Ultimately, this is an invitation to arrive where Peter arrived — at the place of being able to say, with full conviction, Lord, to whom else would we go? You have the words of eternal life. Not as a theological statement, but as the lived reality of a heart that has been freed from cynicism, scarcity, and striving, and found its satisfaction in Jesus alone.

    44 min

  8. Apr 15

    Stepping Into Spring: Song of Songs 2

    This week, Ryan Murphy brings a message from Song of Songs 2 titled "Stepping Into Spring." Drawing from the ancient love poem at the heart of Scripture, Ryan unpacks the wisdom of spiritual seasons — and makes the case that for many in the room, the long winter is giving way to something new.Walking through the imagery of the bride and bridegroom in Song of Songs 2, Ryan traces a journey from insecurity to confidence, from dormancy to blossoming, and from private intimacy with God to bold, fruitful action. He roots the sermon in a simple but profound conviction: just as nature declares the glory of God, the seasons we walk through are not random. They are a gardener's work — pruning, planting, and preparing us for what's next.The sermon moves through five ways to partner with what God does in a springtime season: stepping further into confidence in God's love, fighting for your history with God in prayer, creating and making — especially for those with artistic gifts long silenced by shame or discouragement — discerning what to water by looking back at the prophetic promises of the winter, and guarding the growth by catching the internal foxes — ambition, offense, and fear — before they can ruin what's beginning to bloom.Ultimately, this message is an invitation to stop fighting your season and lean into it. Whether you're still in winter or already feeling the first signs of spring, the foundation of everything is the same: the Bridegroom is leaping over the mountains to get to you, singing arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. His delight in you is not waiting for your performance to improve. It has never changed.

    50 min
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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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