The Table Church, D.C. - Sermons: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

New Wineskins

Meg Clark — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 17:00:00 +0000

New Wineskins

Series: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

Preacher: Meg Clark

Downtown

Date: 21st November 2021

Passage: Mark 2:18-22

The Call of Levi

Anthony Parrott — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 17:00:00 +0000

The Call of Levi

Series: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

Preacher: Anthony Parrott

Downtown

Date: 14th November 2021

Passage: Mark 2:13-17

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Jesus' call extends to those I would not call. Jesus' call will make the ritually pure uncomfortable. Grace is most effective for those who know they need it.

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man (Downtown)

Heidi Mills — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 17:00:00 +0000

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man (Downtown)

Series: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

Preacher: Heidi Mills

Downtown

Date: 7th November 2021

Passage: Mark 2:1-12

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In this story, Jesus redefines what healing is and what healing is for. Healing happens within community. Healing reminds us of our identity and our worth in God's sight. Healing restores us to a new way of living in the world.

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man (Columbia Heights)

Lexi Mairone — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man (Columbia Heights)

Series: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

Preacher: Lexi Mairone

Columbia Heights

Date: 7th November 2021

Passage: Mark 2:1-12

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In Jesus, we see the God who forgives. Forgiveness is not only a central characteristic of God’s nature, but it is the singular grace that enables God’s people to have fellowship with God. Forgiveness is how we are reconciled back to God and invited to join God once again in the renewal of all things.

Get Angry More; Invest In People Less

Anthony Parrott — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:00:00 +0000

Get Angry More; Invest In People Less

Series: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

Preacher: Anthony Parrott

Downtown

Date: 31st October 2021

Passage: Mark 1:40-45

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Sunday, October 31, 2021. Preacher: Anthony Parrott. This Sunday we talk about the step before translating the Bible. We talk about why Jesus gets angry — and we can too. And we briefly talk about "investing" in people isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Resistance, Reactivity, and Rhythms

Anthony Parrott — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:00:00 +0100

Resistance, Reactivity, and Rhythms

Series: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

Preacher: Anthony Parrott

Downtown

Date: 24th October 2021

Passage: Mark 1:35-39

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Resistance

Resistance is refusing to be defined by the powers that want to take hold of us.

Capitalism.
Toxic Family or Social Systems.
Addiction or Compulsion.
Inner and Outer Voices and Pressure.

"Healthy boundaries are a form of rest." —Tricia Hersey (The Nap Ministry)

“We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.” ― Lysa TerKeurst

“Whenever you say yes to something, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your yes is worth the less.” ― Lysa TerKeurst

(Non) Reactivity

Self-Differentiation is the ability to separate your emotions and actions from the emotions and actions of others.

It's different from detachment. Detachment is the inability to care about someone else's emotions. Self-differentiation is the ability to not let someone else's emotional state define yours.

‌Non-Anxious Presence. First, you must be present. This is not the same as avoidance. Second, deciding to not add anxiety to anxious situation. Not the same as denial. But rather, the choice to not add to or pass along anxiety.

Non-Reactivity and Non-Judgment. To be able to respond instead of react. To thoughtfully consider, instead of instinctually knee-jerk.

Rhythms

Disciplines are activities within our power that enable us to accomplish what we cannot do by direct effort. The effect of discipline is to enable us to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done. (Dallas Willard)

Solitude is choosing to step free from human relationships for a lengthy period of time, in isolation or anonymity, to make room for occupation of our lives by God. It is to do nothing and not try to make anything happen. It is the primary spiritual discipline which enables us to learn other disciplines

Silence completes solitude. It is not an absence but a presence, a positive reality, in which we experience in quiet or are in a place with only natural sounds.

Jesus at Simon and Andrew's House

Anthony Parrott — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:00:00 +0100

Jesus at Simon and Andrew's House

Series: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

Preacher: Anthony Parrott

Downtown

Date: 17th October 2021

Passage: Mark 1:29-34

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Mark 1:29-34

Simon's Mother In Law - yes Simon is married (this is later referenced in 1 Corinthians, that the apostles wives and family traveled with them)

Sick with a fever - of course, couldn't go to synagogue. This was not because of the germ theory of disease. This was because of impurity, uncleanness. Perhaps inability; but even if she had been physically able, she would not allowed to go by the community.

Jesus' response - physical touch. To touch those that society had deemed unclean.

Jesus has contagious purity.

Why did the woman serve? Because serving is the sign of being a disciple, in the way of Jesus

Her serving is not about her being a woman and therefore being put back in her rightful place.

Though, it is slight about being a woman, because women were not permitted to be disciples of a rabbi. They are not the people to whom you would be expected to look for an example of discipleship. But it is the woman who ends up being the example to which to follow.

How do we know? Because there are only 3 examples in the whole of Mark's Gospel of people who serve.

1) The angels, who serve Jesus in the desert after his temptation. 2) This woman. 3) And Jesus Himself. "The Son of Man did not come into the world to be served, but to serve."

Messianic secret (why does Jesus tell demons to be silent)

Main Idea: The extraordinary kingdom of God is enacted through radical acts of hospitality and restoration.

Exorcisms and Healings

Skyler Showell — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 17:00:00 +0100

Exorcisms and Healings

Series: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

Preacher: Skyler Showell

Downtown

Date: 10th October 2021

Passage: Mark 1:21-28

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In a more subtle way than the possession in our passage today, each of us too can be possessed by the initially small, subtle toe holds we allow evil to gain in our day-to-day life (e.g. anger, envy, grudges, us v. them politics, etc.).

Our long journey, our very personal collaboration with God, to be more Christ-like is a long-term, gradual, non-linear exorcism/healing in slow motion.

The Calling of the Disciples (Downtown)

Heidi Mills — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 17:00:00 +0100

The Calling of the Disciples (Downtown)

Series: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

Preacher: Heidi Mills

Downtown

Date: 3rd October 2021

Passage: Mark 1:14-20

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Main Idea: Jesus' ministry of the Kingdom of God was about disrupting the unjust social order for the sake of creating a new social order.

"Kairos time is the right or opportune time. It is a decisive moment in history that potentially has far-reaching impact. It is often a chaotic period, a time of crisis. However, it is through the chaos and crisis that God is fully present, disrupting things as they are and providing an opportunity to a new future--God's future. -- "Kairos time is, therefore, a time pregnant with infinite possibilities for new life. Kairos time is God's time. It is a time bursting forth with God's call to a new way of living in the world." Kelly Douglas Brown, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God.

Jesus disrupted the fishermen in the middle of their ordinary lives... so they can be a part of what Jesus doing. 

 The disciples don't know what the end result of this disruption will be, but they make the decision to follow anyway.

Pray: God, how are you disrupting my life, and what am I called to do or become in response?

The Calling of the Disciples (Columbia Heights)

Richard Kelley — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0100

The Calling of the Disciples (Columbia Heights)

Series: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

Preacher: Richard Kelley

Columbia Heights

Date: 3rd October 2021

Passage: Mark 1:14-20

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1) God’s purpose is clear: to call us an others into God’s story

2) God sees worth in everyone

3) God is not calling us to a new career; God is calling us to a new identity.

"The claim of a God bigger than those who worship him, more gracious, more generous, more hospitable than they are, is at the core of what Jesus calls the good news, or the gospel, and it ought to be good news that God is bigger than we are." Reverend Peter Gomes

The Heavens Are Opened

Anthony Parrott — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 17:00:00 +0100

The Heavens Are Opened

Series: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

Preacher: Anthony Parrott

Downtown

Date: 26th September 2021

Passage: Mark 1:9-13

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Sunday, September 26, 2021. We begin with Genesis 1 (Creation) and Genesis 6 (the flood) in order to understand what is happening when Jesus is baptized by John. In Jesus, God is relaunching the new creation; revealing His own character; and showing us how They feel about us.

Something Old, Something New

Anthony Parrott — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 17:00:00 +0100

Something Old, Something New

Series: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

Preacher: Anthony Parrott

Date: 19th September 2021

Passage: Mark 1:2-8

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Sunday, September 19, 2021. What do we do about the Old Testament? Why is John baptizing his fellow Jews? And what is that churchy word repentance all about?

The Reign of the Gospel

Anthony Parrott — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 17:00:00 +0100

The Reign of the Gospel

Series: Mark: A New Kind of Gospel

Preacher: Anthony Parrott

Date: 12th September 2021

Passage: Mark 1:1

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Sunday, September 12, 2021. We begin a new series on the life of Jesus and the Gospel of Mark. We dive in deep on the opening verse of the gospel. It reveals to us that the Gospel is Political; the Gospel is News; and the Gospel is Good.