Community, Generosity, Getting Involved, Life Together, Loving Arlington, Outreach 1
It’s June … thunderstorms and showers and the temperature is ramping up. So much is happening it can be a bit overwhelming: help here, do this, write that, serve them, watch those…. What do we choose when there are so many voices? So many needs? How do we listen to the one voice we need […]
Genuine worship has only one Leader, Jesus Christ. When I speak of Jesus as the Leader of worship, I mean, first of all, that he is alive and present among his people. His voice can be heard in their hearts and his presence known. We not only read about him in the Scripture, we can […]
We need your help! We have created a survey to help us identify ways to improve our communications, and we need your input. This survey is the first step among many to help us better understand how to more effectively communicate as a church. Things like: Is our website working? Does anyone actually use the […]
Community, Getting Involved, Outreach 0
God’s beloved children, the orphans in our world, have been our outreach focus this month. Psalm 10:14b …to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless. The expansive heart of the Lord is vast. It can be tough to emulate the depth and breadth of His care. Knowing that His heart is […]
This Sunday we celebrate Pentecost – one of the most poorly recognized exciting events of all human history! We celebrate the one Jesus said he would leave for us until his coming again – the Comforter, the Holy Spirit. We rejoice at the giving of the Spirit to a community of Jesus lovers. Foster: There […]
Facility, Sunday Corporate Worship 1
Restoration, I am so thankful for our musical worship on Sundays. There is so much thought that goes in to the sets each week. I am so thankful that we are a teachable community. We come wanting to learn about the Scriptures and how they point to our need for a forgiver and one who […]
Richard Foster: Another vital feature of the early Christian community was their sense of being “gathered” together in worship. First, they were gathered in the sense that they actually met as a group, and second, as they met, they were gathered into a unity of spirit that transcended their individualism… Thomas Kelly writes: “A quickening […]
Restoration’ers! Two and half years ago, we, as a congregation, began supporting a group of teenage girls in the small Eastern European country of Moldova as they made the transition from orphanage-based care to young adulthood. We sent a team to visit the home in fall 2010. Our goals were straightforward—introduce the girls to the […]
We are taking some time every Thursday to glean wisdom from someone smarter and more experienced than me concerning the realm of worship. (There is quite a large pool to pull from 🙂 ) Richard Foster has written about the “Kohl Yahweh” (holy expectancy), and he gives practical example of a way to practice this […]
Invite to Facility dreaming at Restoration I loved singing At the foot of the cross on Sunday. These words in particular: Now I can trade These Ashes In For Beauty and Wear Forgiveness Like A Crown coming To Kiss The Feet Of Mercy I Lay Every Burden Down at The Foot Of The Cross This song […]
