It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night… (Psalm 92:1) We prayed this psalm during morning prayer today. It is a ‘song for the sabbath’ and a wonderful reminder of how sabbath […]
PreambleThe Phase Beta plan builds on the foundation that was established in Phase Alpha. Phase Alpha was designed to be deliberately small and conservative so that we could test and pilot having a congregation in our sanctuary. We wanted to give Restoration people an opportunity to demonstrate their desire to worship in-person and we wanted to […]
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. Psalm 139: 17-18 Friends, Hope you are having a great week. We prayed this psalm during morning prayer today. It […]
“God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!” Psalm 57:3b Dear Restoration, We have been sharing with you our plans to […]
“Give glory to the God of Israel.” 1 Samuel 6:5 “Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.” Psalm 37:3 “Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to Him; bless His name!” Psalm 100:4 Dear Restoration, It grieves me to write and tell you of […]
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 […]
“…I will feed them in justice.” Ezekiel 34: 16b Dear Restoration, Hope you are doing well! I am writing to remind you of 2 special things that are happening this week. A Zoom Discussion about Racial Injustice in the ChurchIt starts tonight at 7:30pm. We will keep it to a firm hour- so log on […]
Dear Restoration, This week we finished our series on 1 John. We have been preaching through it since Easter and it has provided deep theology and rich vocabulary for what it means to know that we know the living God. The final verse in the letter is “Little children, keep yourselves from idols.” (1 John […]
Dear Restoration, It has been a full week. I am grateful for the words we prayed in morning prayer today from Psalm 100: ‘Know that the Lord, he is God! It is He who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.’ I am so grateful to be […]
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 […]