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. 3d ago

    In the Cool of the Garden Pt. 3 // Luke 24 // Ryan Murphy

    This week, Ryan Patrick Murphy shares a message from Luke 24:13–35. Anchored in the story of two disciples walking the road to Emmaus, Ryan invites the Table Boston community into a deeper, more daily encounter with God through Scripture — making the case that the Bible is not a supplement to the Christian life but the very soil it grows in. Ryan walks through five practical keys to hearing God's voice in Scripture, drawn straight from the disciples' experience with the risen Jesus. The first is simply to read the Bible every day — not as a medicine we reach for in crisis, but as a vitamin for daily nourishment. The second is to read widely across the whole Bible, invoking A.W. Tozer's conviction that "nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian" and framing Scripture as a five-act redemptive story that we cannot faithfully live in unless we know all four acts that came before us. Ryan then calls the community to read not for information but for transformation — to slow down and sit with whatever phrase or passage stirs the heart, pray it, memorize it, carry it through the day. Fourth, Ryan draws from the Emmaus meal itself to show that Scripture is meant to be lived and discussed in community, not consumed in isolation. Finally, he challenges listeners to obey what they already know — that no prophetic word is needed to love the neighbor, forgive the enemy, or trust God with what we have. Ryan anchors the whole message in Karl Barth's concept of the "threefold Word of God" — the living Word (Jesus himself), the written Word (Scripture), and the preached Word (the teaching of the local church) — showing how all three are meant to work together. The written word, he argues, is not a secondary spiritual tool; it is a doorway into encounter with the living Word. Just as the disciples' hearts burned while Jesus opened the Scriptures to them — even before they recognized him — so the Bible remains the primary and irreplaceable way God speaks today. Ultimately, this sermon is an invitation to fall back in love with the Bible — not out of duty, but because we love the One who wrote it. Ryan closes by praying for renewed hunger, especially for those who have grown cynical or have been wounded by ways Scripture has been misused, asking God to tenderize hearts and release grace for people to open the Word again — in the mornings, on commutes, in community, and at the dinner table.

    53 min

  2. Jun 9

    In the Cool of the Garden: Hearing God's Voice in All of Life // Pt. 2 // 1 Corinthians 12-14 // Jeshua Glanzmann

    This week, Jeshua Glanzmann shares a message from 1 Corinthians 13–14 titled "With and For One Another." Part of the series In the Cool of the Garden: Hearing God's Voice in All of Life, this message zooms in on what it means to hear God not just privately, but together — through the gift of prophecy functioning in the context of loving community. Jeshua opens by demystifying the prophetic, acknowledging it can feel strange or loaded, and anchoring the conversation firmly in Scripture. Drawing from Paul's corrective word to the Corinthians, he lays out three reasons the church pursues prophecy in community: to encourage and build one another up, to serve as a witness to believers and unbelievers alike that God truly sees them, and to cut through the blind spots in how we see ourselves. He moves through each reason with personal stories — from a first prophetic encounter that left him skeptical, to a Jonah-like word that broke open years of fear, to a summer of quietly speaking God's heart over a self-described Satanist coworker. He then gets practical, walking through four postures for healthy prophetic community: humility, right process, wise presentation, and ongoing pursuit — all tethered to love as the non-negotiable foundation. The theological center of this message is Paul's claim that prophecy exists for upbuilding, encouragement, and consolation — and that this work is, by design, communal. Jeshua makes clear that no one hears God perfectly or completely, and that is not a flaw in the system — it is the whole point. God built the church because he knew we would need each other to see what we cannot see alone. The prophetic, rightly ordered in love and humility, is one of the primary ways he speaks his heart into our blind spots and our fears. Jeshua closes with a pastoral invitation to anyone who has been walking their faith in isolation — trusting only their own read of God's voice, or avoiding community out of self-sufficiency or fear. God is not asking us to do anything we can do on our own. He is calling us to lean in, to ask for prayer, to receive a word, and to step toward the people around us — because his chosen way of bringing the kingdom here on earth is through his body, together.

    1 hr

  3. Jun 2

    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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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
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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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