Restoration Church Sermons

In this kickoff message to our 1 John series, Pastor Joie Thomson walks through 1 John 1:1–10 to show why Christian fellowship is essential for navigating life’s isolation and chaos. He challenges us to stop relying on temporary substitutes for fulfillment and instead bring our hidden struggles into God’s light to find true healing, forgiveness, and connection.What's one area of your life where stepping out of isolation and into genuine community could make the biggest difference right now?

This week, one of our pastoral candidates, Xavier McKinney, preaches through Psalm 62 and the struggle of waiting on the Lord. What does waiting on the Lord look like? Do we have God's will in mind in our day to day?

This week, Pastor Joie preaches through Psalm 46 and the truth of being still and knowing that God will be exalted. Are we a part of God's people and given His stillness? Is our stillness coupled with action?

This week, Pastor Joie Thomson kicks off our new sermon series through the book of Psalms. He preaches through Psalm 23 and about God as our great Shepherd who never leaves us, no matter where we may find ourselves. Will we follow His leading? Do we believe we will see His goodness and mercy at all times?

This Mother's Day, Pastor Joie preaches through Romans 11:33-36 and the value of the wisdom God provides, our temptation to rely on our own wisdom, and how God's wisdom is actually foolishness to man. Will we believe and trust in God's wisdom, and will that wisdom provoke us to action?

This week, Pastor Joie preaches on God's love through 1 John 4:7-12. God is love, His love is expressed in our love towards one another, and His love is perfectly shown in the death of Jesus for our sins. When we love one another, we show the world who God really is. Will we love?

This week, one of our Deacon Candidates Josh Martin preaches through Lamentations 3:22-23. God is faithful through what He's doing despite our hardships or grief. Will we rely on His faithfulness? Will we put our faith in His new mercies each morning?

This week, Pastor Joie preaches through 1 Peter 1:14-16 and the holiness of God. Do we pursue holiness? Do we see God's call for us to be holy as a command as well as a promise?

This week, Pastoral Candidate Melvin Flores preaches through Isaiah's vision of the throne room of heaven and the implications of God's glory and majesty for our lives. Do we think of God's glory rightly? And what should His glory and majesty produce in us?

This Easter, Pastor Joie calls us to remember the resurrection of Jesus. We often don't remember Jesus' words and need a reminder of the reality of what the resurrection means for us. Will you run to Jesus? Will you hope in the resurrection to repair your soul?

This Good Friday service, Pastor Joie preaches on the unexpected nature of the cross. The people did not have their expectations met but the perfect expectations of the Father were met in the death of Jesus Christ. Does Jesus meet your expectations for a savior?

This week, Steve DeVincent preaches through Matthew 21:1-11 and Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem. Are we welcoming the King of Kings for who He is? And who are we holding on to during the storms in our lives?

This week, Pastor Joie preaches out of 1 Peter 1 and the hope that we have after death because of Christ's resurrection. We have the same resurrection that Jesus did, giving us new life. We have an inheritance in Heaven, and we can rejoice in any trial of this life because we know what our future is.

This week, Pastor Joie leads us through John 20:19-23 and Jesus' resurrected presentation of His wounds. We all have wounds that we try to heal outside of the work of Jesus. Will we let His wounds give us peace?

This week, Pastor Dave preaches through 1 Corinthians 15 and the power that the resurrection of Jesus has over our lives. We are resurrected with Jesus; dead to sin and alive with him. Will we look to Him for our needed resurrection, and will we share it with others?

This week, Steve DeVincent preaches through Matthew 9:35-38. Jesus had compassion on the harassed and helpless, but do we have the same compassion for others? Are you tired of feeling lost and broken? Come to Jesus who has compassion for you.

This week, Pastor Joie teaches on how all healthy things grow and multiply. There is a pattern to how God multiplies churches and our spiritual growth, but there are costs as well. Ultimately there is a reward for our growth as a church and our growth in Christ.

This week, Pastor Joie preaches through Galatians 5:22-24 and the fruit of the Spirit of kindness. We are called to live a life of kindness towards one another, and we have a perfect example of divine kindness from our Lord Jesus Christ.

This week, Pastor Dave leads us through Galatians 1:6-9 and the warning that Paul gives the Galatian church. There is no other gospel than the one centered on Jesus Christ and His work on the cross to save sinners.

This week, Pastor Joie preaches on God's glory and how it is His alone. Our whole life is an act of worship to God. Whether we eat or drink or whatever we do, we do it for the glory of God.

This week, we continue our series through the foundations of grace. Pastor Joie preaches out of 1 Timothy chapter 2 and how our hope is found only in Jesus Christ. He is the only mediator between God and man.

This week, Pastor Joie preaches on Ephesians 2:8-9 and the truth of God's grace for us. Have we received the gift of grace from God? How does our grace-empowered obedience attract others to Christ?

This week, Pastor Joie leads us through the foundation that our salvation in Christ is through faith alone in Jesus. We are counted righteous by what Jesus has done and our faith in him. Ultimately, who do we boast in when it comes to our righteousness before God?

This week, Pastor Joie begins our series based on the 5 Solas. He teaches on the importance of Scripture and how it is our only authority in life. What do you make your ultimate authority?

This week, Pastoral Candidate Melvin Flores preaches through Luke 2:25-35 and the story of Simeon seeing Jesus for the first time. What has God promised us that we are still waiting on? Do we know the weight of the gospel and the light Jesus shows in our darkness?

For our Christmas Eve Service, Pastor Joie leads us through the beginning of John chapter 1 and the love that Jesus shown to us through coming to us as a man. Do we look to Jesus as our light in the darkness?

This Sunday, Pastor Joie shows the joy we can have in Jesus because what it means that he came as a man and died for our sins. Can you say you have joy today?

This week, Pastor Candidate Xavier McKinney guides us through Luke 1:26-38 and the announcement Gabriel made to Mary. What will we do when God asks us to something beyond what we think we can do? Will we experience God's eternal peace?

As we look toward Christmas with the beginning of our advent series. Pastor Joie guides us with hope through Isaiah 9:2-7. Jesus is our hope and our light in the deepest darkness.

This week, Pastor Trever guides us through the end of Acts 8 and asks us two questions. What can one evangelistic encounter do for the kingdom of God? And what might be holding us back from believing in the Gospel?

This week, Pastor Joie preaches a standalone sermon on Psalm 16 and the importance of the incorruptible hope we have in Jesus in the face of suffering and death.

Stephen is a pivotal figure in the book of Acts that shows us that with a growing church, persecution comes in many forms. Pastor Joie focuses in on the end of Stephen's sermon in Acts 7:54-60 and guides us through what it means to experience persecution.

This week, Pastor Joie guides us through Acts 6:1-15 and what it means for a growing church to stay on mission and be about the Father's business. What is the priority of the church? And how will we stay in step with it?

This week, Pastor Joie breaks away from our Acts series to remind us through Psalm 22 that we are not forsaken by God because of what Christ has done on the cross.

This week, Pastor Joie guides us through the end of Acts 4 and the beginning of Acts 5: the story of Ananias and Sapphira. We ask, what in this life are we holding onto that gets in the way of how God would have us live?  And do we remember who holds us steady through everything?

This week, guest speaker Steve DeVincent preaches out of Acts 4:8-20. What example does the scriptures give us for boldness? Will we be bold for Christ or compromise and be bold for worldly things?

This week, Pastor Joie preaches through chapter 3 of the Book of Acts. Peter's sermon challenges the Jewish culture as well as our own. At the end of the day, the question is: will we live counter-culturally for Jesus?

This week, Pastor Joie address the benefits of being a part of a church community and what can happen to us when we try to live our lives without one. Join us through Acts 2:42-47.

This week, Pastor Joie leads us through Peter's sermon in Acts 2:14-41, highlighting God's perfect timing in the work of Jesus to come, die, and be resurrected for our salvation. The question is: will we wait on his perfect timing?

This week, Pastor Joie preaches through Acts 2:1-13. The disciples receive the Holy Spirit and the Gospel is proclaimed in everyone's own language by the Power of the Holy Spirit. What about this experience do we encounter today?

This week, Pastor Joie brings us through the planned tragedy of Judas and the disciple's method in choosing his replacement. In this passage, how can we hear the voice of God, and are there any voices in our own lives that can be contrary to God's?

This week, Pastor Joie preaches about the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives and the power we have to live for Christ because of the Holy Spirit. The Scripture this week is Acts 1:1-11

This week at Restoration, our guest speaker and Community Group Leader, Xavier McKinney, preaches out of Luke 14:12-24 on the width and breadth of the gospel and who is invited to the table with Jesus.

This week Pastor Joie preaches out of Luke 24:36-43 on the beautiful story of the Gospel and Jesus' resurrection.

This week Pastor Joie preaches out of Luke 24:13-36 on seeing with opened eyes.

This week, our guest preacher, Pastor David Duran preaches out of Luke 15 on the importance of the Parable of the Prodigal Son, how we too run from our Heavenly Father, and how we can return to God.

This week Pastor Joie preaches out of Luke 22:7-23 on the importance of the Passover and Jesus' last supper with his disciples.

This week Pastor Joie preaches out of Luke 19:1-10, preaching out of the story of Zacchaeus.

This week our church planter in residence, Gregory Byrd, preaches out of Luke 22:24- 30, asking the question: who is really the greatest at the table?

This week Stephen DeVincent  preaches out of Luke 11:37-54, warning the Christian of a life spent with a clean outside, and an impure inside.