Restoration Church

The American definitions of freedom typically center on removing limitations. But in the kingdom of God - there are limitations that bring freedom and life. How might we find freedom and rest in an exhausted, weary world?

Rest is not the opposite of work - it's the foundation of it. In this message, Alicia Sims shares about the gift, calling, and challenge of rest, and how Jesus' invitation still calls to our exhausted, weary world.

How do we live and love like Jesus at work without being... *that* Christian? In this message, we explore the what it means to be a patient, humble, authentic witness that is good news to our co-workers.

We need a vision for our work life that more resembles the kingdom of God than the American dream. So how we learn to see our work as worship - and how do we know when we're worshiping our work? 

At Pentecost, we celebrate that the Holy Spirit isn't for the professionals, the powerful, the knowledgable, or the spiritual elites. No - the power of God empowers the whole Church for the mission of God right where they are. (Acts 2:1-12)

It’s been a week of unimaginable tragedy, and we all feel the ache of a broken world. As we close our Revelation series, we find the prayers that rise from the tension between grief and hope - and together, cry “Come, Lord Jesus.”

You don't make it through the book of Revelation without running into conversations about hell and judgement. Can we reconciled hell with a loving God? Are our views of hell more influenced by cultural caricatures or the Scriptures? And how does this all fit with God's desire to save and restore? This week, we're jumping in.

You don’t read Revelation without coming to the inevitable question: how does our story end? What will become of the world when all is said and done? Sunday we’ll look at how we’ve often misunderstood what awaits us in eternity - and why it changes the way we live in the present. (Revelation 21:1-5)

Is a Church of "every tribe, nation, people, and language" possible in such a tribalistic world? Revelation 7 gives us a picture of the beautiful, diverse future that awaits us - and calls us to live that future into the present. 

Power. The churches hearing Revelation for the first time were familiar with a beastly, coercive, violent, corrupt power that stood against them. Revelation 5 reminds us that the Lamb alone is worthy to reign over the unfolding of history, and as his followers, we follow His way in the world until He comes again. (Revelation 5:1-14)