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Fear Is Not How You Steward Anything
Jun 19, 2026
35m 25s
Losing Your Grip to Find Your Life
Jun 4, 2026
25m 55s
The Gifts at the Bottom of the Bag
May 18, 2026
24m 46s
The Version of Power Nobody Taught You
May 15, 2026
26m 31s
The River's Edge: Seeing What You Could Ignore
May 5, 2026
36m 13s
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| 6/19/26 | ![]() Fear Is Not How You Steward Anything | Description: Most of us were handed a set of rules about sex before we were ever given a framework for thinking about it — and for many people, especially those raised in religious communities, those rules came wrapped in shame, fear, and silence. The damage is real, well-documented, and affects far more people than the church tends to admit. In this sermon, Bekki reexamines a familiar Bible story through a different lens — and makes the case that fear-based approaches to sexuality don't produce health or wholeness, they produce hiding. Drawing on personal experience, trauma research, and a close reading of the gospel, she offers a vision of sexuality rooted in love, liberation, and abundance rather than control and condemnation. Whether you're deconstructing, done with church, or just curious — this one's worth your time. | 35m 25s | ||||||
| 6/4/26 | ![]() Losing Your Grip to Find Your Life | Most of us carry more than we realize — not just stuff, but the anxiety that comes with it. The drive to accumulate, to secure, to hold on tight isn't a character flaw. It's what happens when we build our sense of self on things that can be taken away. In this sermon, Pastor Tonetta explores what it looks like to locate your identity somewhere other than your possessions — drawing on stories from ancient monastics, a French novel, and the surprisingly radical logic of the Sermon on the Mount. The question underneath it all: what do you own that owns you back? If you're wrestling with money, security, or what it means to live generously in an uncertain world, this one's worth your time. | 25m 55s | ||||||
| 5/18/26 | ![]() The Gifts at the Bottom of the Bag | What if one of the most important things we're carrying is something we forgot we had? In this week's installment of "Everything We Carry," Matt opens up 1 Corinthians 12 and Romans 12 to talk about spiritual gifts — the ones we've buried, the ones we're nervous to use, and the ones that still work even after years in the bottom of the bag. He names the wounds many of us carry from places where the gifts were misused, and asks what it would look like for a community like ours to nurture them honestly: especially prophecy, the gift of bridging the gap between the world as it is and the liberated world that is to come. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:7–11; Romans 12:6–8 · Series: Everything We Carry · Preached by Matt at The Table Church, Washington, DC. | 24m 46s | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | ![]() The Version of Power Nobody Taught You | Most of us learned that power means control — over people, outcomes, situations. But what if that definition is exactly what's breaking us, and breaking the world around us? Preached by Pastor Tonetta, this sermon uses the story of Antoinette Tuff — a bookkeeper who talked down an armed gunman using nothing but honesty and presence — alongside the Pentecost narrative to reframe what power actually is and what it's for. The case here is that real power moves toward people, not over them, and that the most radical thing you can do is speak, connect, and let go. Watch or listen to hear three concrete commitments that might change how you show up — in your relationships, your community, and the world. | 26m 31s | ||||||
| 5/5/26 | ![]() The River's Edge: Seeing What You Could Ignore | Most of us know we have some form of privilege — racial, economic, positional — but knowing it and actually doing something with it are very different things. What do you do with the guilt? The discomfort? The uncertainty about whether listening and learning is enough? Elder Daniel explores the story of Pharaoh's daughter — a woman defined entirely by the dominant system around her — and what it looks like to move from awareness to action. The framework he offers isn't about charity or allyship. It's about conspiracy: funding the revolution, betraying the systems that gave you your advantages, and what that kind of commitment actually costs. New to The Table? This sermon is part of our series Everything We Carry. Pull up a seat. | 36m 13s | ||||||
| 4/28/26 | ![]() You Can't Rebuild What You Won't Grieve | We all carry things we don't talk about — grief, shame, exhaustion, ambivalence about money and power. Most of us walk into rooms and put on our composure, because that's what we've been taught is acceptable. But what happens when the weight of it finally has to land somewhere? Pastor Tonetta draws on Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried' and the book of Nehemiah to make a case that you can't repair what you refuse to grieve — and that rebuilding anything worth having requires more than individual optimization. It requires commitment to particular people, a particular place, a particular wall. This one also gets honest about money — why progressive communities tend to go quiet about it, and what that silence actually costs. | 32m 31s | ||||||
| 4/21/26 | ![]() 47 Seconds Is All We Give Anything✨ | attentionfear+2 | — | — | — | Jesusfriends+3 | — | 28m 21s | |
| 4/16/26 | ![]() Your Ordinary Life Is Not Too Small✨ | ordinary liferesistance+2 | — | The Table | — | faithdisorientation+2 | — | 24m 40s | |
| 4/10/26 | ![]() Jesus Didn't Come to Keep the Peace✨ | fear of deathresurrection+3 | — | — | — | EasterLazarus+2 | — | 28m 33s | |
| 4/8/26 | ![]() The Third Option Nobody Talks About✨ | resistancepower+2 | — | — | Berlin | donkeycandles+1 | — | 21m 55s | |
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| 3/24/26 | ![]() Buy the Field Anyway: A Case for Stubborn Hope✨ | hopefaith+2 | — | — | — | Jeremiahbuying land+3 | — | 28m 11s | |
| 3/16/26 | ![]() The Case for Crying in Public✨ | griefcommunity+3 | — | — | New Orleans | public cryingJewish Shiva+3 | — | 13m 22s | |
| 3/9/26 | ![]() When God Asks "What Did I Do Wrong?"✨ | griefexhaustion+3 | — | BibleEphesians | — | JeremiahEphesians+3 | — | 20m 30s | |
| 3/3/26 | ![]() When Things Shatter and Don't Go Back✨ | identityloss+3 | — | — | — | Jeremiahpressure+2 | — | 34m 14s | |
| 2/23/26 | ![]() Hearts of Stone Don't Have to Stay That Way✨ | painnumbness+2 | — | The Lion King | — | Hearts of StoneThe Lion King+1 | — | 29m 51s | |
| 2/19/26 | ![]() Stop Pretending When You Pray✨ | prayerhonesty+2 | — | — | — | complicated feelingsJeremiah+1 | — | 34m 42s | |
| 2/11/26 | ![]() Planting Trees You'll Never See Grow | You've been showing up, doing the work, trying to live with integrity—and the results aren't there. Policies get worse. People leave. Relationships fracture. So you're left with a brutal question: Is any of this actually worth it? This sermon explores the prophet Jeremiah, who preached justice for 23 years and saw zero measurable success. Through his story and the words of Martin Luther King Jr., we examine what happens when we stop measuring our faithfulness by outcomes and start asking a different question: What if the rightness of something doesn't depend on whether it's winning? What would it mean to commit to a long obedience in the same direction—not because the KPIs look good, but because the work itself is true? For anyone exhausted by activism, burned out on hope, or wondering if they should just give up—this is about finding a way to keep going that doesn't rely on immediate success. It's about planting seeds underground where nobody's watching, trusting what you cannot yet see. | 31m 04s | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | ![]() Beyond Resistance: Learning to Say Yes | When the ground beneath our feet feels unstable, how do we stay true to ourselves while adapting to a world that keeps shifting? Many of us know what it's like to recognize that the practices that once grounded us no longer feel sufficient—or worse, they deliver us back into shame and uncertainty. This sermon explores an obscure biblical community called the Rechabites, who mastered what we desperately need today: staying rooted in core values while improvising new responses to new challenges. Using insights from Martin Luther King Jr. and contemporary writer Kaveh Akbar, we examine why it's not enough to simply avoid doing harm—and what it actually looks like to move from endless abstinence to actively showing up for ourselves, our neighbors, and the world. If you're exhausted from trying to do everything right while still wondering if you're making any real difference, this conversation offers a different framework: what if falling back in love with what matters most is actually the key to sustainable change? | 29m 37s | ||||||
| 1/24/26 | ![]() The Dangerous Comfort of Showing Up | What happens when the promises of progress turn into frustration? When the institutions we've trusted prove unfaithful? Drawing on MLK's lesser-known "three evils" speech and the ancient prophet Jeremiah, this sermon explores what it means to be faithful when everything you've taken for granted is crumbling. It's about surviving Saturday—that disorienting space between disaster and restoration. The core message is simple but uncomfortable: we've mistaken proximity for participation. We say "I go to church" the same way people once chanted "this is the temple of the Lord"—as if showing up could substitute for the harder work of actually listening and changing. Jeremiah's indictment was clear: the people had done everything except the one thing that mattered. They performed religion while ignoring its substance. The invitation is to become "creatively maladjusted" in a world where deceptive words are everywhere. To stop being passive recipients and start actively making meaning. To ask yourself: where, when, and how will you actually listen? | 29m 45s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | ![]() Surviving Saturday: When Everything You Believed Collapses | Most of us feel like we missed the day in fourth grade when everyone else learned how to be enough. We know how to deconstruct harmful beliefs, but we've forgotten how to reconstruct something that can hold us. We're experts at spotting manipulation but have lost the ability to be moved. And when the foundations we took for granted—whether theological, political, or personal—start crumbling, it's easier to stay stuck than to show up. This sermon introduces a series on the prophet Jeremiah, who lived faithfully through his nation's collapse and exile. His calling reveals something crucial: God doesn't choose people because they're qualified. The first lesson from Jeremiah? Stop pleading inadequacy. Whatever feels impossible right now—showing up in fraught political times, rebuilding a faith that can hold you, answering that call you can't shake—you already have what you need. Using the metaphor of Friday (death), Saturday (devastating in-between), and Sunday (resurrection), this message offers practical wisdom for surviving the long Saturdays of our lives. Because as it turns out, "I am" is a complete sentence. | 26m 37s | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | ![]() They Asked the King Where's the King | Fear has a way of convincing us that silence and compliance will keep us safe—but what happens when staying quiet means cooperating with harm? This sermon explores how fear gets weaponized to control us, especially in times when oppressive power seems to be winning. Through the story of the Magi, we see what it looks like when an encounter with something true makes compliance intolerable. Shae Washington unpacks four questions that might help us resist letting fear dictate our choices: Where are we focusing our attention? What ways is God trying to guide us that we're missing? And uncomfortably—what patterns of fear-driven harm do we need to dismantle in ourselves? The Magi didn't confront Herod with speeches or swords. They simply chose another way home. If you're exhausted from hypervigilance and looking for permission to rest while still resisting, or if you're searching for what your "alternative route" might look like in 2026, this one's for you. | 32m 06s | ||||||
| 12/23/25 | ![]() Scrubbing Off What American Christianity Got Wrong | What does biblical manhood actually look like? Spoiler: it's not what you've been told. This sermon explores the story of Joseph—a carpenter who had every reason to walk away from Mary's inexplicable pregnancy but chose something more difficult: solidarity, humility, and embracing mystery over control. Pastor Tonetta draws from the metaphor of a Korean spa scrub to explore what we need to shed during Advent: patriarchy disguised as righteousness, charity that keeps us comfortable instead of solidarity that costs us something, and the false hope of optimism that crumbles when things go sideways. Joseph's power wasn't in control—it was in his subversive tenderness and willingness to not be the main character. If you're exhausted by shallow positivity and wondering what real hope looks like when the world feels dark, this is for you. Includes questions to sit with whether you hold privilege or need to ask for more support. | 25m 46s | ||||||
| 12/16/25 | ![]() Saying Yes While Trembling: Mary, Jeremiah, and Inadequacy | Not all fear is the same. Some fear protects you from real danger—and if you've experienced religious trauma or spiritual abuse, those fears are legitimate. But other fear is trickier: it's the voice telling you you're not capable, not worthy, that you can't trust yourself. This sermon explores how to tell the difference between protective fear and the fear of inadequacy that keeps you small. Drawing on the stories of Mary and Jeremiah—both of whom faced genuine, life-threatening risks—Antonio offers a framework that doesn't gaslight you about danger but also doesn't let fear of your own potential win. The goal isn't moving forward fearlessly, but faithfully. Baby steps count. And yes, you can say yes while still trembling. | 28m 24s | ||||||
| 12/13/25 | ![]() Small Acts Matter When You Can't See Results | What do you do when giving up feels simpler than keeping going? When even the people you admire most are questioning whether any of this matters? This sermon explores why despair can feel like a guilty pleasure—offering a horrifying kind of consistency in chaotic times—and why that simplicity is ultimately a lie. Drawing on the story of John the Baptist questioning Jesus from prison, this message wrestles with what hope looks like when you're running on empty. The answer isn't about manufacturing optimism or pretending things are fine. It's about learning to see the quiet, unspectacular work of repair that's already happening around you—the food pantries, the phone calls, the people showing up exhausted but still showing up. You don't have to see the finish line to run the race. Your small, faithful acts of repair matter even if you never see them bloom. This week, do one thing without needing to know if it will work. | 20m 41s | ||||||
| 12/3/25 | ![]() Learning to Hope in the Dark | What do you do when you've buried your hopes because holding onto them hurt too much? When the world feels so dark that giving up seems like the only way to survive the next day? This Advent sermon explores an uncomfortable truth: hope isn't always comforting—sometimes it's terrifying. Drawing from an ancient poet writing amid literal apocalypse and a couple who'd long given up on their dream, this message wrestles with two competing realities. Sometimes our circumstances don't change the way we want, but hope can still emerge in unexpected ways. Other times, hope breaks through demanding we seize it—but fear keeps us from reaching out. Whether you're facing political despair, personal disappointments, or just trying to figure out how to keep going, this sermon offers a framework for distinguishing between what we can change and what we can't—and why showing up matters either way. | 21m 01s | ||||||
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