Restoration City Church - Sermons

This Sunday we are continuing our series on Gospel Community centered on the book of James. Join us as we dig into what the Bible has to say about the role socio-economic diversity plays in healthy gospel communities.

This Sunday we will be starting a new series on Gospel Community centered on the book of James. What does gospel community look like? And how do we form gospel community in the midst of the grit of everyday life?

This Sunday we're going to be joining with followers of Jesus all around the world in celebrating Pentecost, the birth of the church. Join us as we talk about what it looks like to live by the supernatural power of God in our lives today.

Living dead to sin and alive to God with Christ means we must walk with the Spirit. This week, John McGowan helps us understand that simple yet profoundly complex reality.

If you've been in the church for any period of time, you've no doubt heard it said that we, as followers of Jesus, are dead to sin and alive in Christ. But what does it actually mean to be in Christ? What does it look like, feel like to experience the life that flows from that reality? Join us as John McGowan leads us in this next discussion in our series, Dead to Sin, Alive to Christ.

This week we start a brand new series based on the incredible truth that, as followers of Jesus we are deemed dead to sin and alive to God. But what does that look like in practice? John McGowan guides kicks off this journey in Romans 6:1-11.

As follower of Jesus, we have been sent to participate in the work He is doing around the world. But do we actually live like that? Join us for the final week in our Unrivaled series where we'll unpack what it looks like to live sent by Jesus.

If we’re not careful, we end living our lives in response to a powerless Jesus. But if He really is more powerful than Rome, Religion, and Sin/Death and all that is evil, then why would we not put our trust in Him? Easter reminds us that Jesus still rules as an Unrivaled King with unrivaled power.

In a broken and confused world, believers have unrivaled hope because of the death and resurrection of Jesus. Join us this Easter Sunday as we celebrate the hope we have because we are pursued by One who sees us, knows us, and loves us.

How do a net, a gate, and a path help us understand the Kingdom of God? Jesus uses these images to draw his listeners into a joyfully pursuit of Him that leads to their ultimate flourishing. Join us this Sunday to find out how as we continue studying the parables of Jesus in the book of Matthew.

Jesus calls us to the joyful pursuit of life in the Kingdom of God. Yet, so often what should be exhilarating becomes drudgery. Join us this Sunday as we rediscover how Jesus' vision of life in His Kingdom gives rise to the joy we long to experience.

We tend to think about power and patience as mutually exclusive. But what if they are far more connected than we realize? What if the power of the Kingdom is most available to those who live with patient trust in God? Join us as we consider the parables of the mustard seed and the leaven in Matthew 13:31-33.

This week we look at Jesus' parable on the wheat and the weeds, where he reminds us of the role we play in the kingdom of God here and now.

This week we look at the parable of the sower and the invitation from Jesus to examine the soil of our own souls. How are you receiving the good seed he has sown?

Join us on a journey through the parables of Jesus. Shock value, accessible theology, intentionally unclear teaching, or all of the above? In this first installment, we'll see that Jesus uses parables to teach surprising truths about God in a way that causes us to ask questions, both about Him and ourselves.

In this final week of our series, The Heart & Life of a Disciple, we see that Christ has invited us to wholeheartedly follow Him as He rights wrongs, brings good where there is evil, and restores brokenness.

Jesus invites us into a life free from fear and full of love. Join us as we take a closer look at this invitation and see what part reverence and justice play as well.

Join us as we look at the reality of persecution as followers of Jesus and the call to be sheep among wolves. Matthew 10:16-25 (CSB)

Continuing in our series on discipleship to Jesus, we discover that true spiritual authority also means a life of submission, dependence, and surrender.

In this next installment of our series "The Heart & Life of a Disciple" we look at Matthew 9:35-38 and the call for followers of Jesus to live as compassionate healers in a broken and hurting world. But before we can extend this offering to others, we must first receive it from Christ ourselves.

In this week's passage, Matthew 9:14-17, we see that Jesus was turning the traditional view of discipleship on it's head, all in effort to do something totally new!

We're kicking off a new series digging into what it means to be a disciple of Jesus, as well as what it looks like to live that way! Join us in Matthew 9:1-8 as we start the discipleship conversation with the topic of forgiveness.

As we kick off the new year, 2025, John 2:1-12 helps us see that life on the other side of trust is way better than any other alternative. But this requires obedience and faith.