Restoration Church

Our faith may draw attention, but it should never demand it. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus reminds us of our calling in the world around us - we preserve, enhance, reveal, and light the way forwards in the darkness. (Matthew 5:13-17)

Today, we heard about our vision for community at Restoration - and heard from two of our own about opportunities for connection and growth. (Colossians 2:12-14)

As we celebrate our 6th anniversary together, we look at what it means to leverage our faith for the sake of others. (Luke 5:27-26)

Over the next three weeks, we're casting vision for the future we'll share together as a Church family. This week, we talk about what it means to be welcoming like Jesus. (Luke 15:1-7)

At Jesus' baptism, we see the nature of the love of the Father for us - offered to us freely - where we have nothing to earn and nothing to prove. 

We were unable to gather as a whole Church family in person, but in this podcast, Justin shares some encouragement about cultivating joy as we move into the New Year together! (Psalm 126)

We remind ourselves at Christmas that we have a future that is powerful enough to sustain us in the present - and that even when the darkness seems too much to bear, joy comes in the morning. 

We have learned to look for God in the sanitized and extraordinary when, all along, he’s arriving in the messy and the ordinary. (Matthew 1:18-28)

Advent is about the world we're waiting for... and the longings we feel. Today, we're called to patience in suffering, but not from a God who stands at a safe distance, but a God who suffers with us and for us. (James 5:7-10)

The promise of the coming Messiah speaks to one who judges. As modern, Westerners, the judgment of God typically makes us uncomfortable. But to the original audience of Isaiah's words, judgment meant the world was being made the way they'd always longed for it to be: whole. (Isaiah 11:1-10)