I love our church. I got lots of emails and questions this week about the impact of the Pope’s offer to Anglicans on our little church in Arlington. I love that Restoration people are thoughtful, well-informed, and curious. These are interesting days to be following Jesus and committed to a local church. Lots of news […]
One of the leadership structures for Restoration is an elected team of 9 men and women who serve as elders for our church. We call them, ‘the vestry’ (ancient Anglican term– they used to meet in the vestry, the room where they store the vestments– the fancy clothes for the priest and altar). The vestry […]
Gospel, Kids, Sunday Corporate Worship 3
This week (Oct 25) we will begin a special 4-week communion class for children 3rd grade and older. We are doing this for several reasons: Those who take communion need to be baptized believers who want to follow Jesus. Many of our kids are in a place where they have decided to make Jesus their […]
Thanks for checking out Restoration. Those are crickets you hear on Quincy Street. Most of the church is away on our Fall Retreat. Consequently we are not having services on Quincy Street on Oct 18. We kindly invite you to check out one of the many other great churches in Arlington and DC. We’ll be […]
Culture, Gospel, Loving Arlington 5
Laurel and I saw a fantastic movie last night, under the same moon. It portrays the struggle of an illegal immigrant mom trying to make her way in LA while her son is still in Mexico. I appreciated that it increased my compassion for immigrants. It made me want to listen to their stories, to […]
Men, get your manliness to Metro 29 Diner on Thursday morning at 6:30am. We’ll have a high calorie breakfast and a low calorie conversation. Get to know other guys in our community, talk about Jesus, and trucks. See ya then
Is there any place in your life that 12-15 people want to hear what is going on. Where laughter is spontaneous and comments are sincere? I was listening to a message from John Piper this morning. He off-handedly opened his sermon with 7 Reasons Why Preaching is Not Enough. It was a list he had […]
