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Mission Starts With Stopping

Mission Starts With Stopping

I like being out-front. I love entrepreneurial, innovative, new-frontier kind of work. As a church planter, you have to be a bit of a futurist at heart, committed to a better tomorrow and calling people to it today. When it comes to my relationship with God, I too...

Jesus Came To Eat. (And So Should You)

Jesus Came To Eat. (And So Should You)

I love to eat. I love the "Bourbon Bootlegger" at Pazzos. I love the "Cape Codder" at Smithtown. I love the Brisket Sandwich at Blue Door Smokehouse. I love the Maple Bacon Donut at North Lime. Should I go on? And as I read through the Gospels, it becomes apparent...

Living A Highly Questionable Life

Living A Highly Questionable Life

What do you think of when you hear the word mission? Maybe it's traversing across the world through a jungle to meet a new people group. Maybe it's a service project to help the poor and marginalized in our city. Or perhaps it's a trip you went on with your youth...

Lent: A Fresh Encounter With Jesus (With Reading Guide)

Lent: A Fresh Encounter With Jesus (With Reading Guide)

For thousands of years, many traditions within the Church have celebrated a season called Lent leading up to Easter. The resurrection of Jesus is the central reality of the Christian faith. Yet to get to resurrection, we always journey through the cross. Lent is a...

Want Change? Start Here.

Want Change? Start Here.

There's a lot to care about these days. My generation (millennials) are particularly bent towards activism, and are drawn to speak out. It doesn't take a very lengthy scroll through our social media to see how passionate we are about a variety of issues facing our...

Confessions Of A White Pastor

Confessions Of A White Pastor

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 campus...

Trading Our Outrage For Love

Trading Our Outrage For Love

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 media and...

Church Is Our Family

Church Is Our Family

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 โ€œassembly,โ€ but...

Church: Supermarket or Farmerโ€™s Market?

Church: Supermarket or Farmerโ€™s Market?

I know this is weird, but I wasnโ€™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 Farmerโ€™s Market. We bought a locally grown watermelon from a little mom-and-pop farm, and when...

You Become Who You Follow

You Become Who You Follow

(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!). In the film, Andrew...

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