Restoration Community Church

Pastor Chris Ansell of Restoration Community Church continues our sermon series looking at the spiritual disciplines. We will be following the disciplines as described in Richard Foster's book. "Celebration of Discipline." This week the focus is on study. Study involves paying careful attention to the world around us so that we can move into closer alignment with God's vision for the world.

Passages: Romans 12:2; Philippians 4:8; Deuteronomy 6:4-9; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 3:15-16

Pastor Chris Ansell of Restoration Community Church continues our sermon series looking at the spiritual disciplines. We will be following the disciplines as described in Richard Foster's book. "Celebration of Discipline." This week the focus is on fasting. Fasting is abstaining from food for spiritual purposes.

Passages: Matthew 6:16-18; John 4:32-34; 1 Corinthians 6:12

Mike Matthews delivers the message at Restoration Community Church this week continuing our sermon series through the spiritual disciplines. Mike gives practical examples of our attitude and focus in prayer.

Pastor Chris Ansell of Restoration Community Church begins a new sermon series looking at the spiritual disciplines. We will be following the disciplines as described in Richard Foster's book. "Celebration of Discipline." This week the focus is on meditation. Meditation allows us to slow down enough to hear the voice of God and obey it.

Passages: James 5:17-18; Matthew 14:13; Luke 11:24-26; Psalm 19:1

Pastor Chris Ansell of Restoration Community Church addresses another Q&A Sunday where participants can submit questions. This question involves our understanding of angels.

Question: "What is the role of angels in our interactions with them today? In the Old Testament they appear often as messengers and now we have Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Do we rely on them less for messages from God?"

Passages: Ezekiel 1:4-14; 10:9-15; Revelation 4:6-8; Psalm 99:1; Ezekiel 28:14; Hebrews 13:2

Pastor Chris Ansell of Restoration Community Church welcomes in the New Year challenging us to use this time to reorient ourselves to greater worship of God. Looking at the praise that comes from the living creatures in Revelation 4, what words or phrases would we use to celebrate the glory and character of God?

Passages: Revelation 4:6-8, Philippians 2:12-13

Pastor Chris Ansell of Restoration Community Church continues the Advent season with a message about Love. In English we have on primary word (love) which covers a range of emotions. I might say "I love burritos" but that isn't the same love that I feel for my wife or children. Considering the Greek understanding of love, we examine the manger, to see the unconditional, sacrificial love of God on display.

Passages: Isaiah 54:10; Jeremiah 33:20-21; Psalm 136:26; Zephaniah 3:17; Exodus 34:6-7; John 3:16; Romans 8:38-39; 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Andy Moore of Bellefield Presbyterian Church and the CCO fills the pulpit to continue our series through Advent. Andy preaches on the message of joy that was brought, not to the political elite, but the peasants, the shepherds with the birth announcement of Jesus Christ.

Passages: Luke 2:8-20

Pastor Chris Ansell of Restoration Community Church continues the Advent season with a message about Peace. In English, our context for peace is often the absence of conflict. In the Hebrew understanding, peace (shalom) meant far more; a wholeness and healing of the way things ought to be.

Passages: Isaiah 9:6; 35; 2:2-4; 41:1-4; 53:5; John 14:27; 16:33

Pastor Chris Ansell of Restoration Community Church kicks off the Advent season with a message about Hope. Much of the Christian life is waiting; the Old Testaments saints waited for their Messiah, we wait for the second coming of Jesus. In this season we pause our rhythms to remember the waiting of the past to help bolster our resolve to wait in the present, for God's future coming glory.

Passages: Isaiah 40:1-5; Isaiah 9:2-7; Isaiah 61:1-2; Revelation 19:11-13