Repeat Offenders by Kevin Miller| LeadershipJournal.net. Just read this article this morning. My feelings about this run the gamut– hope to fear, resounding YES! to please no!, convinced practicality to idealized naivete. I firmly believe that we cannot walk out of the things that hold us without walking in the light of community. This morning […]
Tragedy and heartache has once again been averted in the Hanke house. This morning one of the younger Hankes was staring at overdue library fines being extracted from his allowance. The book had been ‘lost’ for a few days. The effort applied to finding it might be called scant at best. As garnished allowances loomed […]
This morning about 15 of us gathered in the dark stillness at Restoration. On Wednesday during Holy Week, the church remembers Jesus’ words to his disciples in the Upper Room. We read from John 13 and listened as Jesus dips his bread and hands it to Judas with the instruction to do what he is […]
We are a church that embraces at its core a radical idea that we cannot save ourself. We believe that our fundamental longings cannot be met by either fervent religion OR fervent self-actualization. We hold to the humble notion that humanity as a whole needs to be rescued. Yes, there is much that is good […]
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Couldn’t resist. I’ll try to keep the ‘rack’ references to a minimum. Sometimes it just works. So, I forgot to hit record on our flash recorder again. Week #2. Lovely. So, this is our second week without a sermon podcast. I promise… I’m preaching ’em. I just can’t remember to record ’em. Now many of […]
The Gospel Changes Everything Getting excited about our first sermon series at Restoration. Here’s an overview… I look forward to wrestling through these issues with you over the next 5 weeks. Jesus calls each of us into a relationship with Him. He calls us to leave our former lives, to lay down the things to […]
