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Restoration Theology – Bible

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The Gate, The Road, The Destination

Susan and I were returning from our annual anniversary week of rejuvenating in the sun at Atlantis in the Bahamas. We sat and talked in the Nassau Airport awaiting the boarding announcement for our return flight home. When our flight number was called, we quickly grabbed our bags and merged into the line to enter […]

Every Encounter Is A Three-Way Call: Connection Three

Jesus conveyed that we should not go to the world either condemningly with a hard heart of stone or carelessly with a loose heart of sand; rather, we should go connectedly with the Spirit of God in total humility, and with a soft heart of clay (Matthew 7:1-12). Every encounter with another person a three-way […]

Every Encounter Is A Three-Way Call: Connection Two

Every encounter with another person a three-way call. When we are connected with God and connected with others, then they are connected with God. Whereas pride brings static on the line, humility offers a clear connection. Here’s how Jesus described the three connections: Connection One-ASK God. Connection Two-ask others. Connection Three-others ask God into their […]

Every Encounter is a Three-Way Call: Connection One

What is the condition of your heart when you attempt to go to a lost and hurting world with Christ’s message of restoration? Jesus conveyed that we should not go to the world either condemningly with a hard heart of stone or carelessly with a loose heart of sand; rather, we should go connectedly with […]

Restoration Theology – Angels

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Restoration Theology – Church

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Discerning the Heart

When you communicate the gospel message of restoration, do you first give thought to the heart condition of your audience? For example, Proverbs teaches of the dilemma that occurs when we attempt to argue with a fool (Proverbs 26:4-5). When doing so, we just can’t win. Solomon communicated that when attempting to connect with others, […]

Don’t Be Careless When Handling Pearls

Are you careless in the way you approach others with the gospel message of restoration? We often see careless words played out this way. A believing woman is married to an unbelieving husband. Over time, their marriage gets dinged and corroded, resulting from two people with totally different hearts being united in matrimony. The believing […]

Prison of Withholding Forgiveness

Are you holding on to an offense and withholding forgiveness from anyone? A few years ago, at the beginning of a school year, I received a call early in the morning from my daughter’s teacher who was coordinating chapels for the school. She confided that she had lost her chapel speaker for the first four […]

Me Too

Do you condemn others? Jesus linked a condemning heart with the eyes, or one’s perspective. Borrowing an illustration from His construction days, He said that the antidote to a condemning heart was to take the plank out of our own eye so that we can see clearly enough to help someone with the speck in […]

Condemning, Careless, or Connected?

Have you ever struggled with how you should go to others with the gospel of full surrender to the Restorer? When a person is caught in his sin, desiring life apart from God, we tend to go to him in one of two extremes: we are either condemning or careless. These responses are rooted in […]

Theology Proper – Christ

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The Spirit’s Power

One morning at a restaurant, I invited my waitress to our Wednesday evening gathering at church. She accepted and, before I left the restaurant, she had asked all of her co-workers to join her. Neither she nor I realized what God had in store. That evening, I asked a new believer to share his story […]

Addiction and Surrender

While praying with a young woman to surrender her life to Christ after a church service, her husband listened intently, but declined to surrender that same night. The Refiner’s fire must have been scorching because the following week her husband, who had lost his law practice due to his cocaine addiction, returned to our Wednesday […]

Listening to Spirit-Promptings

One Wednesday night, I was sitting in my church office wrestling with the Holy Spirit prompting me that I was supposed to go to that evening’s service and ask people to share the trials they had been experiencing. I interpreted this prompting as an indication that someone wanted to surrender his life to the Restorer. […]

What’s Your Story

One night, something amazing happened at a worship service where I was about to teach. It was the first in a chain reaction of events that taught me the ripple effect of a story that unfolded on Restoration Road. A couple sitting next to me stared blankly as I asked them the same question I […]