Lent 2025
Lent 2025 message series from The Table Church.
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Messages in this series
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Apr 14, 2025
Palm Sunday: Christ is Borne
Brett Tilford
Brett teaches that bearing Christ to others doesn't require being an ideal evangelist, missionary, or leader—just show up, pay attention, cooperate with God, and release the outcomes. The colt in Jesus's entry to Jerusalem does nothing extraordinary, simply being itself while carrying Christ; we're called to that same humble presence.
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Apr 8, 2025
Perceive It: Isaiah 43:16-21
Brett Tilford
Brett names three phases of spiritual transformation: leaving Egypt (recognizing the world's false promises), entering the desert (a prolonged, unglamorous process of inner healing and formation), and finding provision (perceiving God's grace already present). He argues baptism isn't a finish line but an initiation into difficult, sanctifying work—and that most Christians mistake the desert for abandonment rather than recognizing it as God's necessary surgery.
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Apr 2, 2025
The Walls We Build: 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Brett Tilford
Paul calls Christians to stop reducing people to labels and categories—viewing them only as liberals or conservatives, sinners or allies—and instead recognize the spiritual dignity in everyone as children of God. This reconciling vision means forgiving without limits, doing inner healing work so anger doesn't poison our witness, and becoming ambassadors of bridge-building rather than division.
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Mar 25, 2025
The Fog of Life: Genesis 15:1-6
Brett Tilford
Over ten years of waiting for a promised child he'll never have, Abram learns to trust God in fog-thick uncertainty—a posture the speaker calls faith, not as belief but as vulnerable trust that blesses the broken road ahead.
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Mar 10, 2025
The Grace of Lent: Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Brett Tilford
Lent is meant to be practiced from a posture of grace—trusting God's prior action to bring you into abundance—not from anxiety or willpower aimed at earning God's favor through discipline and guilt.