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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. 5d ago

    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"rulers and authorities," addressing the demonic and spiritual warfare with pastoral nuance — neither dismissing it as outdated nor treating every setback as demonic activity.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.

  2. Jul 21

    Colossians 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Jun 15

    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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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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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