by RestorationTeam | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog
It was never my problem. It was cultural. It didn’t affect me. So why bother? It is what it is. I grew up in a country church that saw one African American walk through it’s doors in my 18 years growing up there. When I got to college, I got involved in a...
by RestorationTeam | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog
There’s a lot to be angry about these days, and plenty of people to be angry at. Over the past year, our cultural climate has shifted to one that disciples us to define and then demonize those who think, believe, vote, and live differently than we do. Social...
by RestorationTeam | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
This past Sunday night, we talked about our third core value at Restoration: Church is our family. Why family? The primary metaphor for the Church in the New Testament is family. Now the main word translated Church in the greek is ekklesia, which means “assembly,” but...
by RestorationTeam | Feb 3, 2017 | Blog
I know this is weird, but I wasn’t a fan of watermelon for the first 30 years of my life. But all of that changed one Saturday morning with a trip downtown to the Lexington Farmer’s Market. We bought a locally grown watermelon from a little mom-and-pop farm, and when...
by RestorationTeam | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog
(Image from here) “Silence,” a new film by Martin Scorsese, is a deeply religious story about Jesuit priests and persecution in 17th century Japan. Ever since I heard about the film, I couldn’t wait to see it (and it’s finally in Lexington!)....
