1st sermon in the new series We Are: “We Are Messianic.” It’s the first of our core values and for us that means “we reflect the Jewishness of Yeshua.” We are not trying to fit Jesus into Judaism or Judaism into Jesus. We believe that Messianic Judaism is the Judaism of Jesus and this idea influences everything we do. We worship on Shabbat, read from the Torah, sing in Hebrew, keep the festivals of the Torah and follow hard after Yeshua, our Messiah, who did all of these same things. At Restoration we are all about Yeshua and being like Him in this present culture. It’s not for everyone, nor do we believe it should be, but it is for us. We make conscious decisions to reflect the Jewishness of Yeshua because We Are Messianic!
We Are Messianic
Part 1 - We Are
September 1, 2018 • Matt Rosenberg
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We Are Together
October 6, 2018 • Aybars Uckun
We Are Together is part 6 of the series We Are. /// In order for God to work unity into our lives, we need to address anything that hinders His plans for us. That means letting go of any agenda that keeps us from fully participating in the communities He’s called us to be a part of. We are better together!
We Are Servants
September 29, 2018 • Matt Rosenberg
We Are Servants is part 5 of We Are. /// We are servants and we serve God by serving others. The opposite of serving others is found in the story of Jonah in the Bible. Jonah is a prophet but a bad one who only thinks of himself. He begrudgingly does what God commands him to do only after he runs away and then does the bare minimum. Jonah is awful. So why is his story in the Bible? Because you're awful too! Jonah is an example of what not to be but Yeshua, our Messiah, is the exact opposite. With all the power in the universe He came down into creation to offer Himself as a sacrifice for awful people. We want to follow Yeshua's example and serve people like Him. We serve God by serving others. It's who we are!
We Are Generous
September 22, 2018 • Matt Gile
At Restoration, we are irrationally generous with our resources because God has been irrationally generous with us. We believe that--just as God said to Abram that He would bless Abram so that he may be a blessing to others--we are blessed so that we may be a blessing. But before we can be truly outrageously generous, we must first get financial stability in our own lives. Using Dave Ramsey's Baby Steps, we work to get our financial houses in order so that we can be outrageously generous, and give like no one else. “We Are Generous” is part 4 of the series “We Are.”