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This Month’s Series:

Lessons From Our Tables (A New Series)

This month is reading A Meal with Jesus by Tim Chester, a book that focuses on Jesus' interactions with people around the table. To complement this book selection, we (myself and many special guest contributors) will be sharing a new series with you titled Lessons from Our Tables: Kingdom Women Sharing Their Experiences with Food and Hospitality. I've asked a pool of godly women to share the … [Read More...]

Lessons from Our Tables: The Sacrifice of Hospitality

Guest post by Christina Fox "Okay boys, it's time to make your room ready for guests. We're having people over for dinner." My oldest grumbled and said, "I don't like when we have other people over. Remember what happened to my Lego creation?" He was referring to the time we had our church small group over and one of his Lego sets was destroyed by a guest. "I know. I remember. But people … [Read More...]

Lessons From Our Tables: The Family Table

Guest post by Becky Pliego “Every time you place a meal on the table with quiet satisfaction, you are sharing the joy of the Creator at the creation of the world when he declared everything good.” Tim Chester We all want to teach our children–and their friends--what the Christian life is and how we live it, but we may find ourselves asking, “How can we do this effectively?” I … [Read More...]

Lessons From Our Tables: Small Space, Big Hospitality

Guest Post by Monica Hunter 550 sq. feet. One bedroom–perfect for that double size bed. One bathroom–perfect for the young newlyweds. One other room–perfect space for a couch, loveseat, table, and one wall’s worth of kitchen. Yes, sitting adjacent to the husband’s mother’s home, this was the perfect little apartment for the recently married couple to live for a year while the husband … [Read More...]

Lessons From Our Tables: It’s Not About Us

I have a chocolate chip cookie recipe that I've finely tuned over my short adult life. It makes huge, puffy, chewy, chocolaty cookies with just the right amount of saltiness to balance out the four different kinds of sugar they contain. My family adores them. I promise you, there is probably not a person in my mother's acquaintance who hasn't heard about "the best cookies in the world." I love to … [Read More...]

Lessons from Our Tables: In Need of Grace

Guest Post by Lisa Spence I must be honest and up front with you right here, at the start: I'm no hospitality guru. In fact, my hospitality stories are generally void of any degree of expertise or success. In other words, I will not be writing your typical struggle-followed-by-victory sort of post. The truth is I'm stuck in the struggle phase. Hospitality doesn't come easily to me and that may … [Read More...]

Lessons from Our Tables: The Heart of Conversation

Guest Post by Kristen Summers Have you experienced it? The "oh dear, the guests are coming soon and I'm not ready" panic. For me, it usually sets in when I realize something is cooking too fast or too slow, or has completely flopped. Maybe it is that the kids have "re-arranged" the room yet again or my husband is running late from work and I need his strong back to take care of a couple … [Read More...]

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