Restore Austin

Restore turns 10 this Sunday! 🎉 As we gather together, we will hear stories and celebrate all God has done over the last decade. Zach W. Lambert will also share a huge Here For Good update regarding how much our community has committed toward the future!

We are here livestream every Sunday at 9:30am CT. If you’d like to connect with Restore, go to www.restoreaustin.org/connect.

Resources Referenced:

https://www.restoreaustin.org/hereforgood

Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans

We are so excited to have Kat Armas with us! Kat is a Cuban American writer, speaker, and theologian from Miami, FL. She will be talking about the subject of her newest book—Liturgies for Resisting Empire: Seeking Community, Belonging, and Peace in a Dehumanizing World, which examines the ideologies of empire that infiltrate daily life and offers a pathway toward liberation.

We are live-stream every Sunday at 9:30am CT. If you’d like to connect with Restore, go to www.restoreaustin.org/connect.

Healthy and compassionate local churches are perfectly positioned to provide support to vulnerable populations and we need to step up now more than ever. Join us today as Zach W. Lambert preaches about how we must invest in building something stable when it feels like things are falling apart.

We live-stream every Sunday at 9:30am CT. If you’d like to connect with Restore, go to www.restoreaustin.org/connect.

Resources Referenced:

• For Such A Time As This: An Emergency Devotional by Hanna Reichel
• Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• The New Testament in Its World by NT Wright and Michael Bird

Our tangible love for our neighbors, especially the most vulnerable among us, is the singular identifying characteristic of a Christian. Join us today as Zach W. Lambert continues our Here For Good series by talking about what this initiative means for the good of our city and how we plan to continue serving our neighbors!We live-stream every Sunday at 9:30am CT. If you’d like to connect with Restore, go to www.restoreaustin.org/connect.Resources Referenced:-UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity by Dave Kinnaman-https://churchleaders.com/news/451798-barna-research-people-like-jesus-followers-not.html -Drum Major Instinct, sermon from Martin Luther King Jr.

The 1st century church was known for its radical inclusion and sacrificial love and that’s exactly what the 21st century church should be known for too. Join us today as Zach W. Lambert continues our Here For Good series by talking about what this initiative means for the good of our church and why it matters so much!

We live-stream every Sunday at 9:30am CT. If you’d like to connect with Restore, go to www.restoreaustin.org/connect.

Resources Referenced:

• The Misunderstood Reason Millions of Americans Stopped Going to Church by Jake Meador
• Survey from Ryan Burge and Paul Djupte - https://religionunplugged.com/news/2024/7/17/we-asked-the-nones-a-bunch-of-questions-about-leaving-religion 
• The Great DeChurching by Burge, Davis, and Graham

We have been created by God to do good in this world and we must not grow weary in that calling. Restore has been doing that for a decade and putting down roots at our new church home is going to empower us to do it even more in the coming decades. Join us today as Zach W. Lambert kicks off our Here For Good initiative!We live-stream every Sunday at 9:30am CT. If you’d like to connect with Restore, go to www.restoreaustin.org/connect.Resources Referenced:Galatians Commentary (NIV Application series) by Scot McKnight

The angel announced the birth of Jesus as “good news of great JOY for all people!” Join us today as Lindsay Contreras continues our Advent series by talking about how we can experience the joy of Jesus this time of year, even when the holidays are complicated.

We live-stream every Sunday at 9:30am CT. If you’d like to connect with Restore, go to www.restoreaustin.org/connect.

Pursuing peace is courageous working for the flourishing for all people, no matter the cost. Join us today as Zach W. Lambert continues our Advent series by talking about how Jesus came to bring peace on earth and how we can be a part of that mission!

We live-stream every Sunday at 9:30am CT. If you’d like to connect with Restore, go to www.restoreaustin.org/connect.

Resources Referenced:

• Liturgies for Resisting Empire by Kat Armas
• The Bible Project: Peace by Tim Mackie
• Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
• Advent Sermon on Peace by Sarah Lea West

The message of Christmas is that you are never alone. Jesus came for the world, but he is also came for you. Emmanuel is God with us, always. Join us today as Zach W. Lambert kicks off our Advent series by talking about how Jesus is our Emmanuel!

We live-stream every Sunday at 9:30am CT. If you’d like to connect with Restore, go to www.restoreaustin.org/connect.

Faithfulness to God looks like embodying redemptive presence—joining God in the work of restoring the world through acting justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with the Holy Spirit. Join us today as Kelsie Rogers preaches through God’s famous command in Micah to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly!

We live-stream every Sunday at 9:30am CT. If you’d like to connect with Restore, go to www.restoreaustin.org/connect.

Resources Referenced:

Darley & Pittman (2003): The psychology of compensatory and retributive justice. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7(4), 324–336.

Joshua Greene (2001)—Harvard University: An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgmentBunde, J., & Suls, J. (2006).

Anger, hostility, and coronary heart disease: An integrative review. Psychological Bulletin, 132(2), 269–300.

The Bible Project: Micah

Worthington, E. L., Jr., & Scherer, M. (2004)—“Stanford Forgiveness Project”—Forgiveness is an emotion-focused coping strategy that can reduce anger and promote emotional healing.

University of Northern British Columbia—“What is Restorative Justice?” (https://www.unbc.ca/restorative-relations-and-student-supports/what-is-restorative-justice)