Restoration Church Salem, VA

What you FOCUS on will become what gets magnified. And what you magnify will be what moves you, what molds you, and what motivates you. So...What 's your FOCUS? What's being magnified in your heart and soul right now? Join Pastor Josh Yerton as we explore these questions and jump into 2021 together!

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, PEACE to me, on whom His favor rests." With these words, a chorus of angels announced the birth of Jesus. As we close out 2020 - a year that seems absent peace of any kind - we must remember that this peace is what Christmas is all about. Join us as we turn our attention to the Prince of Peace.

Join us as Trey walks us through having an attitude of Joy throughout the year

Join Pastor Josh Yerton as we discuss Celebration vs Cynicism. We need to live in a culture of celebration all year long and not just at Christmas time but, all year. We must resist the spirit of cynicism and choose to celebrate all of life’s moments and all of God’s creation.

Join us as we talk about how we must live in joy in the midst of our culture. In the culture of the church, we are to be a culture of promise.

Join Pastor Josh Yerton as we discuss how sacrifice must resist privilege. Privilege is simply what you have, what ever status or resources you have whether they are earned or not and, we must resist using our privilege for our advantage. We must submit to one another out of reverence like Christ did for us and fight FOR one another instead of against one another.

"Throwing shade" has become a national pastime of ours. We love to criticise, dismiss, and diminish those with whom we disagree. But what would it look like to bring honor to those we know, even disagree with, instead of throwing shade or diminishing them? What if part of God's call on our lives is to see the glory in every person, and speak into it? Join Pastor Josh Yerton as we discuss what a "C...

We are called to be salt and light and show God's grace and love to all. Let us resist the culture of hate today and show love.

The idea of fasting is a radical idea in today's world of constant social medial food posts and the culture of eating out. What if we actually fasted like Jesus and his disciples did? When we take food out of the equation, we turn the volume of God up.

We continue our fall series called a Beautiful Resistance and this week we discuss learning to rest in God. As Ferris Bueller said in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around every once in a while you could miss it." We will learn that God requires us to rest and resist going back to hectic.

We live in a culture that is becoming increasingly shallow, course, and empty. It's shaping us, and the results are not good. We're more stressed, less content, more tired, less compassionate, more in debt, and less satisfied. As followers of Jesus, we must forge a healthy resistance to the "patterns of this world," and find a bigger 'yes' burning inside. Jesus is inviting His church to rediscover...

Trey Foster speaks on the topic of correcting each other, as we finish our summer series entitled A Faith that Works. In this sermon we will explore how to correct and restore each other.

Follow along with Pastor Josh Yerton as we conclude our summer series entitled A Faith that Works. In this sermon we will explore the power of prayer.

In life, there are two ways we change - we're either becoming more compassionate and kind, or we're becoming less so. One direction is full of life and the Spirit, the other driven by self-centeredness and division. James calls the later one a friendship with "the world." So which way are you moving? Because there is a tipping point. Listen as Pastor Josh Yerton explores what that means for us, es...

We all fall into the trap of wanting to look like those around us. James warns against these desires and calls God's people to humility and a Holy contentment.

There are two types of Wisdom, which one are you listening to?

As Christians we have authority through Christ. James reminds us that our words have power, either to bless or to curse. Jenn Fountain challenges us to walk in our authority and use our words to pray for and to speak life.

In our world, everybody is fighting. We've gotten so used to fighting against stuff, we've forgotten what we're fighting for. Join us as we look at what James has to say about this dynamic...and how learning to fight FOR the righteous life God desires might set us free from all the stuff we spend we're fighting against.

We live in a culture that has a lot to say about identity and where we find it. So many of those are secondary to our primary identity as sons and daughters of God, created in His image to reflect His heart to the world. Listen as Pastor Josh Yerton moves through the Scriptures (starting in James 1) to give perspective on what it means to live out of our identity in Christ in a world struggling th...

When we do things half-heartedly, they almost never go well. That's true in life generally, but it's even more true in our faith. Jump in with us as we explore what James has to say about a faith that's lived wholeheartedly seeking the God who is wholeheartedly for us.

James, the brother of Jesus, writes a pastoral letter to Christians who are living under pressure. The Book of James offers some bold truths, but at the heart of every message is the love of a pastor.

We learn a lot about ourselves during difficult times. As we train to respond to the world around us, we need to ask, "Does what we're learning lead us to walk more like Jesus?"

When life feels like it is spinning around us, we can react by trying to be in control or we can respond by releasing everything to our God who is always in control. On this Mother's Day special we are joined by Dynasty McNeil, Martha Chester, and Shelly Fisher.

As humans, when we get stressed out, we tend to react by wanting to self medicate. It can be through food, alcohol, finding a sense of control, or distractions like TV. All these distractions are just counterfeits of what the Lord offers if we pause and respond in Worship.

Are we living a life that other people can look towards to imitate?