by RestorationTeam | Aug 20, 2018 | Blog
How do we love in a world where we feel unsettled, disenchanted, and discontent? In Jeremiah’s letter to the Jewish exiles in Babylon, he gives them a vision – not of escaping their circumstances, but to put down roots and be present, seeking the good of...
by restore-admin | Aug 17, 2018 | Blog
If you ask the average person why Christians gather on Sundays, you usually get a variation of one answer: to experience God. In many church’s you’ll hear songs and prayers with language around wanting and desiring God to “come into this place,” or how we “long for...
by RestorationTeam | Aug 13, 2018 | Blog
This past Sunday, Todd Johns from Revive Ministries joined us to talk about how the kingdom life Jesus calls us into is a love without reservation – especially for the “least of these.” Below you’ll find links to the podcast, Scripture, and...
by restore-admin | Aug 6, 2018 | Blog
Our Love Your Neighborhood journey has finally begun! This past Sunday, we launched our series by asking the same question that the religious experts asked Jesus: who is my neighbor? His answer, given through the Good Samaritan Story, challenges and upends our...
by restore-admin | Jul 30, 2018 | Blog
This past Sunday, we finished out our “Simple Gospel” series in Galatians by talking about 2 opposing forces – the flesh and the Spirit. These aren’t competing physical and spiritual realities for Paul, but rather competing sources of life and...
by restore-admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Blog
This past Sunday, we continued in our ‘Simple Gospel” series by talking about freedom. In our American life, we have a very clear understanding of freedom that centers on us – our wants, our rights, our desires. But Galatians tells us that the...