Restored Church Temecula Podcast

Tom Logue - January 11th 2026 When we stop listening and obeying, we wander — but prayer shows us the way forward. This week, Tom pauses our King and His Kingdom series to bring a prophetic and pastoral message rooted in Exodus 15 and Numbers 13–14 , asking a piercing question the Lord placed on his heart: Why did God’s people wander in the wilderness? Though the journey from Egypt to the Promised...

Mike Harrelson - January 4th 2026 Confidence in the Lord comes from making your one thing the first thing. In this New Year message, Mike leads us through Psalm 27 , where David models a confidence that is not rooted in certainty of circumstances, but in clarity of desire . Surrounded by adversity, threat, and uncertainty, David anchors his life around a single request: to dwell in the house of th...

Jarek Berga - December 28th 2025 Grace is a fire already burning—your role is not to earn it, but to draw near. On the final Sunday of 2025, Jarek pauses our journey through Matthew to bring a timely word from Romans 4 , helping us understand how anyone—respectable or suspicious—finds their place in God’s family. Using the image of a beach bonfire, Jarek shows how God’s grace is not something we s...

Tom Logue - December 14th 2025 What you value most will determine who your master is. This week, Tom continues our King and His Kingdom series in Matthew 19:16–22 with Jesus’ encounter with the rich young ruler. Through a simple “this or that” exercise and a deeply personal exposition of the text, Tom shows how our everyday choices reveal what we truly value—and ultimately, what we worship . While...

Tom Logue - December 7th 2025 The blessing of God flows to the needy, the humble, and the childlike who come to Jesus. This week, Tom continues our King and His Kingdom series in Matthew 19:13–15 , where parents bring their children to Jesus for Him to lay His hands on them and pray. Drawing deeply from Scripture, Tom teaches on the biblical pattern of laying on of hands —how throughout the Bible...

Mike Harrelson - November 30th 2025 Jesus still invites ordinary people to “come and see” who He truly is. In this message, Mike invites us into the heart of evangelism—not as a pressured task for “professionals,” but as a simple, relational invitation to “come and see” Jesus. Through his own story of searching, doubt, near-death moments, and finally encountering Jesus in Scripture, Mike shows how...

Tom Logue - November 23rd 2025 You can’t have too high a view of marriage—but your view of the kingdom must be higher. This week, Tom continues our King and His Kingdom series in Matthew 19:1–12 (Part 2) , pressing into some of the most sensitive topics of our cultural moment: marriage, divorce, gender, sexuality, and singleness . He shows how Jesus confronts trivial divorce and a culture that deg...

Tom Logue - November 16th 2025 A soft heart welcomes the kingdom — a hard heart keeps it out. This week, Tom continues our King and His Kingdom series in Matthew 19:1–12 , where Jesus is confronted about marriage, divorce, and sexuality. In a culture — ancient and modern — that treats people and marriage as disposable, Jesus calls us back to God’s original design: one man and one woman, united in...

Jarek Berga - November 9th 2025 You’re already training for something — the question is, what goal are you straining toward? This week, Jarek pauses our King and His Kingdom series to share from 1 Timothy 4:6–11 , a message birthed in prayer about what it truly means to “train yourself for godliness.” Using Paul’s athletic metaphor, Jarek explores how spiritual formation, like physical training, r...

Tom Logue - November 2nd 2025 God forgives 10,000 talents — and forgiven people forgive. This week, Tom continues our King and His Kingdom series in Matthew 18:21–35 , where Jesus teaches what forgiveness actually is, and what reconciliation actually requires. Using the parable of the unforgiving servant, Tom shows how forgiveness is not pretending nothing happened — forgiveness is paying the debt...

Tom Logue - October 26th 2025 In Jesus’ family, loving discipline restores straying sheep and protects the flock. This week, Tom continues our King and His Kingdom series in Matthew 18:15–20, walking through Jesus’ four-step process for church discipline within His church (ekklesia). He contrasts biblical friendship (top-shelf friends who love you enough to help you fight sin) with worldly friends...

Mike Harrelson - October 19th 2025 The Father’s heart is for every lost, wandering, and wounded child to come home. This week, Mike continues our King and His Kingdom series in Matthew 18:10–14 , revealing the Father’s relentless love through the parable of the lost sheep. Using vivid stories—from Disney World to the shepherd’s care for fallen sheep—Mike paints a picture of a God who guides, prote...

Jarek Berga - October 12th 2025 Jesus calls us to cut off what will destroy us and humble ourselves like children. This week, Jarek continues our King and His Kingdom series in Matthew 18:1–9 , where Jesus confronts our obsession with greatness and status. Using vivid imagery about cutting off limbs and gouging out eyes, Jesus invites us to take sin seriously—not by mutilation, but by transformati...

Josh Lewis - October 5th 2025 The church is not a business or a building — it’s the dwelling place of God’s presence. This week, pastor Josh Lewis visits us from our sister church, Anthem Denver, and teaches from Ephesians 2:19–22 , calling us to rethink what “church” really is. God isn’t inviting us into a club or a consumer experience but into His family and temple — a people built on the founda...

Tom Logue - September 28th 2025 Jesus knows, reigns, loves, and provides — offering a greater freedom than self can give. This week, Tom continues our King and His Kingdom series in Matthew 17:24–27, where Jesus instructs Peter to find a coin in a fish’s mouth to pay the temple tax. Through this surprising story, Tom unpacks four stunning truths about Jesus: He knows what we need before we ask, He...

Jarek Berga - September 21st 2025 Prayer is the counterplay to the enemy’s schemes. This week, Jarek continues our King and His Kingdom series by walking us through Ephesians 6 and the armor of God.  Using the analogy of a football playbook, he shows how knowing the enemy’s plays—strained relationships and angry feelings—helps us stand firm. Jarek unpacks Paul’s call to prayer as the way we “put o...

Tom Logue - September 14th 2025 Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good. This week, Tom pauses our King and His Kingdom series to address the events surrounding the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk and the reactions that followed. From Romans 12 and Ephesians 6, he reminds us that the greatest war we face is not political or cultural, but a cosmic war against evil itself . Our...

Mike Harrelson - September 7th 2025 Every false hope will sink, but Jesus—the true King—never will. This week, Mike continues our King and His Kingdom series in Matthew 17:22–23, where Jesus again predicts His betrayal, death, and resurrection. Just as the Titanic was thought to be “unsinkable,” the disciples’ misplaced expectations of a political Messiah blinded them to God’s true plan. Mike shar...

Tom Logue - August 31st 2025 God’s chief emotion toward you is love. This week, Tom continues our King and His Kingdom series in Matthew 17:14–20, where a desperate father brings his suffering son to Jesus. After the disciples fail to heal the boy, Jesus reveals not only His power but also His heart: He is emotionally engaged with His people. Tom unpacks how Jesus responds to unbelief, frustration...

Tom Logue - August 24th 2025 When Jesus is transfigured, His disciples are transformed. This week, Tom continues our King and His Kingdom series in Matthew 17 with the story of the Transfiguration . As Peter, James, and John encounter Jesus in His glory alongside Moses and Elijah, they discover that Jesus is supreme —greater than the Law, greater than the Prophets, and worthy of our full attention...

Ebony Logue - August 17th 2025 God is both a Father and a Gardener, pruning us so we can bear lasting fruit. This week, Ebony shares a powerful message from John 15 about abiding in the true vine, Jesus . Through personal stories, the picture of pruning, and the reminder that God is both a Father and a Gardener , she invites us to see how God’s loving discipline produces lasting fruit in our lives...

Jarek Berga - August 10th 2025 This week we paused our King and His Kingdom series for a timely message on avoiding the two ditches that can derail our walk with Jesus— independence and codependence . Drawing from Hebrews 10 and Galatians 6, we're challenged to embrace interdependence : owning our personal load while helping bear one another’s burdens in Christ. Along the way, Pastor Jarek shares...

Tom Logue - August 3rd 2025 Deny Yourself. Take Up Your Cross. Follow Him. Jesus makes clear: the path to true life comes through the cross—not just His, but ours too. In this message, we explore what it means to surrender our self-rule, embrace repentance, and follow the King who laid down His life for us. The invitation? Come and die… so that you may truly live. Learn more about our church: http...

Mike Harrelson - July 27th 2025 Church isn't about showing up — it's a body that's growing up. In this pastoral message from Ephesians 4:1–16, we’re reminded that spiritual maturity doesn’t happen in isolation. Jesus gives diverse gifts to His people for the building up of the body—until we grow into His likeness together. This teaching invites each of us to step into our part—not passively, but w...

Jarek Berga - July 20th 2025   Jesus doesn’t just build the Church—He builds us into it. In The King & His Kingdom series, we arrive at Matthew 16:13–20, where Jesus asks His disciples, “Who do you say I am?” Peter’s confession of Jesus as the Christ becomes the foundation for a powerful promise: I will build my Church. This message presses us to consider the same question—and challenges us to...