Kintsugi is a Japanese method for repairing broken ceramics with a special lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. The philosophy behind the technique is to recognize the history of the object and to visibly incorporate the repair into the new piece instead of disguising it. The process usually results in something more beautiful than […]
Ready to dive in to Summer 2017? It’s HERE! And here is everything you need to know about summer life at Restoration: Worship Schedule During the month of July, our schedule of Sunday worship services will stay the same: 9, 11, and 5. We hope this is a help to you and provides flexibility as […]
Comfort comes with responsibility. …the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, SO THAT we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 2 Corinthians 1:4 Comfort is the experience of future hope in the present. At […]
On Sunday, in the midst of #snowzilla, I preached a sermon on spiritual gifts. Here are the notes for the sermon, which will be helpful for Resto members who are in small groups this week. A Biblical Theology of Spiritual Gifts What are spiritual gifts? ‘A capacity for service which is given to every true […]
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. Romans 12: 3 On Sunday, we considered what it means to not think […]
Thanksgiving conjures up memories of getting up far too early in the morning to help my dad stuff the turkey. Before anything else, we would set up the television in the kitchen to watch the parade festivities and football pre-game shows as the rest of the day progressed in an alternation between preparing food […]
We are coming to the conclusion of our summer sermon series on the Fruit of the Spirit. These are 9 characteristics that St. Paul listed out in Galatians 5: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Outside of a relationship with God, they are character traits that we admire in people […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]