Table Matters: From Our Tables to the King’s Table
We, who are lame in our sin and have nothing to offer the King, have been given a seat at the table.
Things that I briefly acknowledge but generally ignore are cause for jubilant celebration among children. So which approach to life is more in line with the reality of God’s creation: theirs or mine?

We, who are lame in our sin and have nothing to offer the King, have been given a seat at the table.
Hymns and worship music have literally and figuratively been the instruments God frequently uses to pull me out of these places of anguish. In particular, Henry Van Dyke’s “Hymn of Joy.”
In our parenting and pastoring, we are laboring to show teenagers that God is their source of greatest delight, and the payoff to this theological idea is practical.
The Christian hedonist believes that the best and most effective way to glorify God is by pursuing our joy in him.
May you prepare him room in your hearts, your homes, and your youth ministries this Christmas. God rest ye merry, gentlefolk!
The commitment to return to in-person church activities is an investment that will cost us some of the freedoms we might have enjoyed during the lockdown.