The Banqueting Table Archives Homepage There's a Time for Everything  (8/15/2011) You're Scaring People  (6/7/2011) Is there such a thing as Catholic Protestantism?  (4/27/2011) Benched in Tarsus  (4/6/2011) More is "Caught" Than Taught  (3/21/2011) The Danger of Falling in Love With Our Own Ideas  (3/8/2011) Taking Care in Interpreting Biblical Texts  (2/22/2011) Paul the "Idle Babbler"  (2/7/2011) How Can I Make Disciples and Have a Job, Too?  (1/17/2011) Paul Chooses to Preach the Gospel Free of Charge  (1/3/2011) Does Anyone Want to Know the Real Me?  (12/20/2010) The Harm the Good Do  (12/7/2010) Rethinking Church  (11/15/2010) Voluntary Communism  (11/2/2010) What Version of the Bible Should We Use?  (10/18/2010) Loving is Obeying  (10/4/2010) A Provision for the "Lost"  (9/7/2010) The Sanctification of Time  (8/16/2010) Through Christ Who Gives Us Strength  (8/3/2010) The Origins of "Logos"  (7/19/2010) The Enlightenment and the Ecclesia  (7/5/2010) Max Weber: Founder of Modern Sociology  (6/21/2010) Foundationalism  (6/7/2010) Learning to Move when the Spirit Moves  (5/17/2010) Nicodemus Humbles Himself  (5/3/2010) Love One Another  (4/19/2010) Hallelujah, Jesus Fulfilled the Law!  (4/5/2010) What Went Wrong with the Jerusalem Model?  (3/15/2010) Purim Established among the Jews  (3/1/2010) The Dieter Zander Story  (2/15/2010) The Law of the Bondservant  (2/1/2010) Learning to Think like a Hebrew  (1/18/2010) Reading the Bible Jesus Read  (1/4/2010) A Brief History of Elders  (12/21/2009) The Therapist Revealed  (11/30/2009) Baptism and the [Re]new[ed] Humanity  (11/16/2009) Are Small Groups Just for White People?  (11/3/2009) Stopping the Frantic Stream of Words  (10/19/2009) The Church as Economic Community  (10/5/2009) Are You Aware?  (9/21/2009) Binding and Loosing  (9/7/2009) Let's Skip the Delusions, Shall We?  (8/3/2009) Radical Baptism  (7/20/2009) Tough Words for the False Prophet  (7/6/2009) Jesus's Style of Ministry  (6/15/2009) The Globalization of Nothing  (6/1/2009) One Goal: Competing Vernaculars  (5/18/2009) Church Designed to Rid Us of Self  (5/4/2009) Elders, Deacons, and House Churches  (4/20/2009) Taking Initiative with the Gospel  (4/6/2009) Andy's Porch  (3/30/2009) The Language of the Gospel  (3/23/2009) A Distorted Picture of the Church  (3/16/2009) Working Through the False Realities of Church  (3/9/2009) Doctrine of the Nicolaitans  (3/2/2009) Kierkegaard: Critic of Religiosity   (2/23/2009) No One Can Serve Two Masters  (2/16/2009) Love One Another  (2/9/2009) The Scoreboard is Changing  (2/2/2009) You Are What You Charge For  (1/26/2009) Keeping Church Simple  (1/19/2009) What is 'Preaching'?  (1/12/2009) Success at All the Wrong Things  (1/5/2009) Church in 'Third Places'  (12/29/2008) More Pagan Christianity?  (12/22/2008) The Kingdom Impact of Tipping  (12/15/2008) Kimball Asks, "Where's the Fruit?"  (12/8/2008) She Gave Everything She Had  (12/1/2008) A Movement Seeking - And Experiencing - Rapid Multiplication  (11/24/2008) Deadly Detours?  (11/17/2008) Live the Revolution  (11/10/2008) It Will Be Messy  (11/3/2008) Be of Noble Character  (10/27/2008) Really, Children are No Bother  (10/20/2008) The Reformation that has "Yet" to Happen  (10/13/2008) Prayer, Worship, and a Good Fight  (10/6/2008) The Mature Disciple  (9/29/2008) From Churchianity to Christianity  (9/22/2008) What Were They Doing in Those Temple Courts?  (9/15/2008) Consumerism and Christ's Church  (9/8/2008) No Divisions in Christ  (9/1/2008) Don't Rob Widows and Orphans  (8/25/2008) The God Who Is  (8/18/2008) Organic Churches and Networks  (8/11/2008) Church Planting By Way of Death  (8/4/2008) Living the Dream is a Community-Killer  (7/28/2008) The Tragic Error  (7/21/2008) No Hierarchies   (7/14/2008) Organic & Institutional: False Dichotomies?  (7/7/2008) No One Graduates  (6/30/2008) Defining "Missional" Church  (6/23/2008) The Father's Role  (6/16/2008) Treating People Like Subjects, Not Objects  (6/9/2008) The Necessity of Simplicity  (6/2/2008) Remembering the Fallen  (5/26/2008) Toward a Missiological Ecclesiology  (5/19/2008) What's Your God Language?  (5/12/2008) Do Practices Shape Beliefs?  (5/5/2008) House Churches Gain Acceptance   (4/28/2008) The Building Up of the Body  (4/21/2008) More Than a Book  (4/14/2008) What Will You Leave Behind?  (4/7/2008) How Some of the Early Christians Suffered and Died  (3/31/2008) Story, Not Numbers  (3/24/2008) Does Preaching Work?  (3/17/2008) Redefining Mission  (3/10/2008) Community as Loyalty  (3/3/2008) What is the Gospel?  (2/25/2008) The Teen Myth  (2/18/2008) The Leadership of the Church  (2/11/2008) SPECIAL NOTE WHEN FORWARDING: Unfortunately, in all of the emails/web pages prior to December 31, 2008 the "forward" button in the left-hand menu bar does not work properly. 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