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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

We love the way kids see the world. Imagination, creativity, and unlimited possibilities are constantly flooding their mind. And because of this, our kids are invaluable in helping our whole Church family experience God's restoration together. Restoration Kids...

Church is not a building. Church is not a service. Church is people. Church is family. Understanding this is at the heart of our mission at Restoration. If we truly are a community that is about restoring people who restore the world, then we'll be experiencing this...

History belongs to the intercessors. - Walter Wink We are starting our Church intentionally with gatherings around prayer. Why? Looking ahead at what we feel like God is calling us to as a community, it's not hard to see that the mission of God for our lives together...

It's finally 2017! That means we are headed towards launch at Restoration. In the next couple of weeks, we'll be having nights of worship, prayer, and vision about our year moving forward. Want to know why we are starting Restoration? What we're all about? How you can...