Welcome! Limitations of Zoom- please don’t try and do something else. We will break into smaller rooms and we will ask you to talk. Limitations of 3 weeks- I am a white evangelical, which is not defined by party alliance but by submission to Scripture and the way I get treated in society because […]
God formed all of us in His image: male and female. He said that we are good. He delighted in what He had made.But each of us, in our own way, chose something besides God to trust and worship. We ended up far from Him- alone, burdened by guilt.God did not forget us. He came […]
The Problem of Race and the Power of the Cross The tragic events that unfolded in Charlottesville over the summer are a vivid reminder that racism and racial tensions are alive and well. Senseless violence and hate is leaving us at a loss desperate for answers. But what are we to do – and what […]
I am sitting in IAH– the Houston airport– waiting for a flight to Austin. I have been asked to serve on the steering committee for a conference in February 2016 called The Anglican Justice Gathering: contending for shalom. I am joined by my good friends Cliff and Christine Warner, Bill Haley, and Sami DiPasquale. We are […]
June 28, 2015 – Rev. Bill Haley Galatians 2.17-21 : Psalm 8 : John 20.19-23 Listen to the songs here.
As promised… When we began this series, I mentioned that we would have a few ‘experts’ who would take the pulpit and talk to us about justice. On May 17, we will hear from Bethany Hoang who is one of the premier voices in North America on the theology of justice. From her bio… Bethany […]
And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into […]
How’s it going? Feeling congested in your soul? This post is a little longer than most, but I want to bring you up to speed with what God has been doing in my heart and the hearts of the people at Restoration. Thanks for reading. We just finished our 4th week in a sermon […]
As we run, jump, shuffle, walk, tiptoe, hop, skip or leap into this series on justice we are already starting to encounter some great big ideas; certainly I’ve realized there are quite a few ways I need to face up to my patterns of behavior and some perhaps pretty deeply-held previous convictions. Processing these things in small group is […]
Jesus was never afraid to ask the hard question. In fact, sometimes that seems like the sum of his entire work… a ministry of hard questions. On Tuesday night, our Tri2 Small Group Leaders got together for a bit of training as we head in to this trimester. We spent our time talking about the […]