Restoration Church

This past week, we finished out our series #TheWholeChurch by focusing on the gifts we might consider more supernatural. One of those gifts, however, is far more controversial than others: the gift of tongues. In this short video, Justin unpacks what speaking tongues is all about, the guardrails for healthy expression of this gift, and why is matters today.

This Sunday is our last week in our series The Whole Church - a series that has focused on the Holy Spirit's worki in both our lives as individuals and as a Church. For the last couple of weeks, we've given our attention to the gifts of the Spirit, and this week? Well, we're talking about some of the gifts we might call... supernatural. Miracles. Tongues. Healing. Are these gifts still an active p...

In the final three week’s of our series The Whole Church, we’re exploring the Spirit’s work in community through the outpouring of spiritual gifts. These gifts are given with a purpose: to unite us and empower us as a people known by love. This week, we’re exploring how the gifts equip every believer for a life of love in community – as well as the barriers that often stand in the way. 

In the month of July, we’re unpacking one of the most radical teachings in the New Testament: that every believer is empowered by the Spirit for the sake of building a community known by love. In this message, we look at the list of gifts found in Romans 12:6-8.

In this message Guest Speaker Luke Embree shares how the Holy Spirit calls us out of independence and into and interdependent life in community.  

These are some of the most important questions we can ask as Christians. This week, we’re focusing on how God speaks, why His voice matters, and how we can know whether we’re we’re actually following His lead. 

How do we know that the Holy Spirit is at work in us? Some point to the power and prominence of our gifts. But Jesus points us somewhere different – to the fruit of His character growing in us.

Depending on your background and experience in faith, talking about the Holy Spirit can be intimidating – and sometimes come with a lot of baggage. In this message, we’re giving our attention to how Jesus understood and lived in the power of the Holy Spirit – and how His promise for us is far better news than we often dare to dream.

In this special message, Justin unpacks the meaning of Pentecost before interviewing Dr. Ananthi Jebasingh (founder of Friends Of The Good Samaritan) about the Good Samaritan School, how she's seen God answer prayer, and what it takes to sustain our faith for the long haul. 

Revelation ends with a simple prayer - a prayer that acts as both a cry of defiance and dependence: come, Lord Jesus. How do we live in a world in which His reign sometimes feels absent? And how might we seek this future we pray for in the present?

Not many topics have shipwrecked people’s faith more than the idea of hell – and God’s judgment. So how do we understand these difficult passages in Revelation? And how do we understand them through the lens of God’s heart for restoration? (Revelation 21:6-8, 22-27)

It can feel like the only choices we have right now are blind optimism and cynical pessimism. But when we look to the end of history and see the trajectory of our Story in Christ, we find another option: radical, stubborn hope. Our story doesn’t end in ruin, but restoration. (Revelation 21:1-6)

In Revelation 7, John sees a vision of the family of God in heaven – a vision marked by the diversity and difference of ethnicities, cultures and nationalities worshiping as one. Not only is this picture of heaven a hopeful encouragement for our future, it’s a calling and challenge for our present. In a world where our differences are often demonized, we’ve been called to a supernatural unity in C...

As we continue to read through the book of Revelation, the powers of evil are represented by beasts and dragons. But our God? Our God is… a Lamb. Strange, right? In this message, we’ll unpack why this is so important not only to our understanding of God character and purpose in Christ, but why this vision of our future is so empowering for our present. (Revelation 5:1-14)

Revelation is known to be one of the more intimidating and controversial books in the entire Bible. Years of late night televangelists, rapture best-sellers, and strange conspiracies have left many of us unsure about what it really means – and why it matters. This week, we’re tackling not only why Revelation matters to people like us, but why it’s primary message – allegiance to Jesus – has never...

He is risen indeed! In this Easter message, we look to why the resurrection of Jesus matters for our lives. The world we inhabit is dark and heavy, and it can feel like death always has the final word. But what we find in the empty tomb is not only a hope for our future, but a promise for our present. (1 Corinthians 15:19-26)

As Holy Week begins, we turn our attention to one of the most crucial events in the life of Jesus: Palm Sunday. Met with cries of adulation and praise, Jesus subversively rides into Jerusalem on a humble donkey. The crowds expect a revolution of violence toward their enemies. Instead, they found a Savior who would die for them.

Kierkegaard famously said that “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” A great deal of moving forward in our faith requires a reckoning with our past - and the things we need to let go. Sunday, we’re talking about looking back, letting go, and finding healing and wholeness in Christ. (Philippians 3:4-14)

Grace is scandalous. It challenges and often upends what we believe to be right and fair in the world around us. This week, we’re looking at one of the most famous passages of Scripture in the entire Bible – a reminder that we are the beneficiaries of God’s radical grace. And the surest way we see it’s work? We offer it to others. (Luke 15:11-32)

Desire can feel like a "bad word" in the Church. After all, won't listening to the aches and longings within us only lead us astray? Well, Psalm 63 would like a word. What we find is a God whose invitation isn't to remove our desires, but *redeem* them. (Psalm 63:1-4)

In Psalm 27, David is at the end of his rope. There in the dark, there’s only one thing that he wants: the presence of God. Sometimes on our journey, we lose sight of our “one thing.” So when our hearts grow cold and our love runs dry, how do we recover our hunger for God?

C.S. Lewis writes: “Wickedness, when you examine it, turns out to be the pursuit of some good in the wrong way.” This is what we learn from Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness – that the essence of our brokenness is the pursuit of *good* desires apart from God. Sunday, as the season of Lent begins, we’re unpacking what this means for us as we pursue wholeness in Christ. (Luke 4:1-13)

Jesus doesn’t change. But as we grow, how we see Him does. As we close out the season of Epiphany, we’re focusing on what it means with seeing Jesus with new eyes as we grow in our faith. (Luke 9:28-36)

Everybody is following somebody. So how about you?  In Luke 5, Jesus begins his work not through a series of events, but in and through relationships with ordinary people like us. This Sunday, we’re unpacking what it means to meet Jesus as a disciple in our ordinary lives – and explore our calling to invite others to do the same. (Guest Speaker: Amanda Hubler)

These are desolate and often desperate times. In these challenging days ahead, we're either going to wither away in our weariness... or we're going to grow our roots deep. Sunday is about being honest about where we are, what is growing in us, and how we might put down roots in the steadfast love of God. (Psalm 1:1-3)