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														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
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...
 
														Church: Supermarket or Farmer’s Market?
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...
 
														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...
 
														Introducing Restoration Kids!
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...
 
														Community At Restoration: City Groups and DNA Groups
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...
 
														How To Pray For Our Church
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...
 
														Vision And Prayer Nights Starting This Week!
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...
 
														I Am A Part Of Restoration: My Story
by Justin Rhorer May 9th, 1995. It was a Tuesday night. I walked down the aisle of a little country church during a revival service and told the preacher I was ready to be a Christian. Earlier that night I had prayed with him and another pastor to accept Christ as my...
 
														21st Century Restoration Movement
by Adrian Wallace RESTORATION CHRISTIAN CHURCH I’m not a big C.S. Lewis fan, although Jennifer, my wife is, and turned my attention to his work. One book that he wrote really gripped me called The Screwtape Letters, in particular the second chapter. In this...
