On a rooftop in Joppa, a hungry fisherman hears God tell him to eat what he has called unclean his whole life. Hours later, messengers arrive from a Roman centurion asking him to come to dinner. In Acts 10-11, Brad Kirby shows how God expands our circles by first expanding our hearts. Peter walks into a house he never would have entered and finds that God has already prepared the room.
Read MoreOn the day Jesus rose from the dead, two of His followers walked seven miles away from Jerusalem, sure that their hope had died with Him. A Stranger joined them on the road and asked what they were talking about, and all they could say was, “We had hoped.” In Luke 24, Brad Kirby shows how Jesus walks into our disappointment and teaches us to read our circumstances through God’s Word. At an ordinary table in Emmaus, two discouraged disciples discover He had been with them all along.
Read MoreThousands of hungry people are sitting in the middle of nowhere, and the disciples have five loaves and two fish. Then Jesus tells them, "You give them something to eat." In Mark 6, Brad Kirby shows what Jesus teaches before the miracle ever happens, when the need is huge and what we have is ridiculously small. The provision was never going to come from the disciples' hands, and it doesn't have to come from yours.
Read MoreIt is the night before the cross, and Jesus reclines at the Passover table with twelve men who never earned their seat. One of them has already agreed to betray Him. In Luke 22, Josh Fortney shows how Jesus breaks the script of a meal His people had kept for generations and announces a new covenant in His own body and blood. The table He set that night is still a gift, a declaration, and a mirror for everyone who comes to it.
Read MoreJesus is sitting in Martha's living room, and she can't stop thinking about dinner. By the time she finally speaks up, her frustration has become a question: "Lord, do you not care?" In Luke 10, Brad Kirby shows how even good things can pull us away from the One we're doing them for. In a life crowded with many things, Jesus names the one thing that is necessary.
Read MoreA woman the whole town had already labeled walks uninvited into a Pharisee's dinner party and kneels at the feet of Jesus. The host takes one look and decides that a real prophet would have backed away from her. In Luke 7, Josh Fortney shows that the scandal is not what Jesus failed to see, but that He saw her completely and welcomed her anyway. By the end of the night, the woman with the worst reputation in the room is the only one who sees clearly.
Read MoreThe people with the worst reputations in town keep moving closer to Jesus, and the religious crowd cannot stand it. Their complaint is that He does not just talk to sinners, He eats with them. In Luke 15, Brad Kirby opens the Table Church series by walking through the two stories Jesus told in response. What they reveal is a God who notices exactly who is missing, and who does not stop searching until the one comes home.
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