Restoration Church

Lent | Unlearning Scarcity

Isaiah 55 is written to a weary people, worn down from exile and formed in a world of scarcity. The promise of God is a place at the Table of the King - a world rooted in the abundance of God. (Isaiah 55:1-9)

Lent | The New Exodus

The Transfiguration is a strange, mystical moment in the life of Jesus, full of signs and symbols pointing us to the larger Story of God. And as this Story moves towards to Jesus, Jesus is moving to the cross - the new Exodus of our forgiveness and freedom. (Luke 9:28-36)

Lent | Deserts Of Dependence

Lent begins with the story of Jesus in the desert - a place of isolation, vulnerability, and need. Yet in the face of temptation and hunger, Jesus shows that the desert is the place we learn what we’ve needed all along: dependence. (Luke 4:1-13)

Epiphany | Beholding And Becoming.

There’s a type of faith that engages our heads… but never stirs our hearts. In 2 Corinthians 3, Paul reminds us that the Gospel we believe isn’t just good and true - it’s beautiful. And we are changed to the degree that we turn our lives towards this glory we see in Jesus. (2 Corinthians 3:4-18)

Epiphany | Love Your Enemies: Clarity Or Compromise?

In Luke 6, Jesus calls a people living under the hand of oppression to do something radical - to love those who disadvantage them and refuse to stand over others in moral superiority. In a world where the religious landscape is constantly shifting, we need the wisdom of these commands more than ever. (Luke 6:27-38)

Epiphany | Slow Down And Listen.

Jeremiah 17 reminds us of the deceptiveness of our hearts, but not from a place of condemnation, but invitation - to slow down, open ourselves up to the presence of God, and allow Him to change us in the stillness. (Jeremiah 17:5-10)

Epiphany | The Weight Of Glory

When Isaiah saw God, he saw himself clearly for the first time. And in the healing work of grace, he found a calling and passion that grew from the same restoring work God was doing in him. Guess what? The same can be true for us. (Isaiah 6:1-8)

Epiphany | Love Alone Will Last

1 Corinthians 13 often gets pigeon-holed as a flowery poem for weddings, but that's far for the context of Pauls' words. On the contrary, this famous passage calls a spiritually active but immature Church to remember what the true measure of growth will always be: learning to love. 

Epiphany | A Call To Restore (5th Anniversary)

As a part of our 5th anniversary service, Justin Rhorer shares a bit of our Church's story, as well as the passage that gave birth to the name Restoration - and how it's still our calling today. (Isaiah 61-1-4)

Epiphany | Kingdom of Joy

Alicia Sims shares this morning about Jesus' first miracle in the book of John - a miracle that on the surface seems... ordinary. But as we pay attention to the story, we see the foretaste of the kingdom breaking into our world - a kingdom marked by defiant joy. (John 2:1-11)