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Restoration Presbyterian Church

We are a Reformed Presbyterian church and part of the PCA (Presbyterian Church in America) denomination.

We are strugglers, sufferers and sinners who share in God’s restoration of all things – our life with God, our relationships, our community, and our world – through the Gospel.

09/01/2026

Tuesday Encouragement for September 1

*The Sacraments as Pictures of God's Goodness*

Dear Church Family,

Happy September! I am anticipating a wonderful new season of life together and ministry this Fall!

This coming Sunday we will be having Communion as we do twice every month, and then the following Sunday (Sept. 13) we will be blessed to have a couple baptisms!

With that in mind, I wanted to offer this week a few thoughts of encouragement on the tangible promises that God gives to us in the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper. What do the sacraments have to do with assurance of God's goodness in your life? Here's a thought that may have never occured to you before...

In his teaching on worry at the end of Matthew 6, verses 25-34, Jesus specifies three questions, which drive the many anxieties which so easily press in on us: 1. What shall we eat?... 2. What shall we drink?... 3. What shall we wear? (Matthew 6:31)

Charles Spurgeon calls these three "the trinity of the world's cares."

It is a beautiful thing to consider that each of these questions is actually answered in the two sacraments of Baptism and Communion. Consider:

-What shall we eat?... Jesus says, "Take. EAT. This is my Body which is given for you."

-What shall we drink?... Jesus says, "This Cup is the new Covenant in my blood. DRINK from it all of you."

-What shall we wear?... Jesus tells us, through Paul, "As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have CLOTHED yourselves with Christ." (Gal 3.27)

When we find ourselves consumed with worry, the sacraments are there to remind us that God has already given us as a free gift food, drink, and clothing far greater than we could even find through all of our restless strivings in this world.

This highlights the truth that one of the primary reasons the sacraments were given is to assure us of God's fatherly care and love toward us. The sacraments are gifts given for the strengthening of our faith, to assure us with visible and tangible signs of God's Goodness and provision in our lives.

And in providing such assurance, the sacraments also lift our eyes to heaven, so that through these means we may -- as Jesus instructs when concluding his teaching on anxiety -- "seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."

Therefore, "What shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also along with him graciously give us all things?" (Romans 8.31-32)

Whatever cares or worries are pressing in today, look to the One who gave and gives his very own Body, Blood, and Life-Giving Spirit for you and to you! If he has already given these, is there any other good thing he will withold from those he loves?... Keep looking up, and do not let the evil one steal your joy and peace!

Blessings,

Pastor Jon

08/30/2026

Sunday, August 30th, 2026. Sermon Text: 2King 23:25.

08/23/2026

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08/16/2026

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08/14/2026

We are so blessed to be out here today extending love to our community at the Willowbrook apartments, giving out free school supplies to children and families in Upper Chi. until 5 pm!

08/11/2026

We're having an awesome time this evening at the Chichester Night Out, at Chichester Middle School! Stop on by and see us - we will be here until 8:00!

08/09/2026

Sunday August 9th, 2026. Sermon Text: Ephesians 6:10-20

08/02/2026

Sunday August 02,2026. Sermon Text- Matthew 6:5-15

07/27/2026

Vacation Bible School is upon us! Register in advance online today, of just come join us this evening at Restoration church at 6:00 pm -- we're going to have an awesome week!

07/21/2026

Tuesday Encouragement for July 21

"They Still Bear Fruit into Old Age"

At last week's prayer meeting, we reflected on Psalm 92. One thing that's interesting about Psalm 92 is that this is the only Psalm that has the title, "A Psalm for the Sabbath." It is an appropriate title, as this is a Psalm of praise, peace, and rest, coming immediately after two Psalms of toil and trial in the wilderness -- Psalm 90 and Psalm 91. Indeed, I have often referred to the movement from Psalm 90 to Psalm 92 as a Journey from Frustration to Fruitfulness (maybe one of these days at Restoration I'll preach a series of sermons with that title!)

One of the beautiful things about seeing these three Psalms as a journey is that Psalm 92 concludes with us planted like trees in the house of the Lord -- in other words they take us from the wilderness to the Promised Land! Check out the end of Psalm 92 -- verses 12-15:

The righteous flourish like the palm tree
and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;
they flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They still bear fruit in old age;
they are ever full of sap and green,
15 to declare that the Lord is upright;
he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Why is this talking about the people of God as palm trees and cedars of Lebanon? One reason is because both of these trees were used in the building of the Temple in Jerusalem, in 1 Kings 5 and 6. Cedars of Lebanon were used as construction material for the Temple, and palm trees appear in the artwork of the Temple. This makes the imagery in Psalm 92 such a glorious picture when you think about it! Just as those cedars and palm trees were taken and carved to become a part of the physical structure of the Temple in Jerusalem, so now you and I have been taken out of this world and re-shaped in Christ, to become an inseparable part of the spiritual temple of the Lord in the Heavenly Jerusalem, like the blessed tree planted by streams of water in Psalm 1! As Paul tells us in Ephesians 2, we who were dead in our trespasses, "God made alive together with Christ, and seated us in Christ in the heavenly places!" (Eph. 2:4-6), so that now, we are growing "into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit." (Eph. 2:21-22)

You see, what God is telling us in Psalm 92 is that amidst all the trials and difficulties we face during our sojourn in the wilderness of this life, and the corresponding frustration of battling against sin and suffering and sorrow, He is nevertheless bringing us, through it all, from a place of frustration into a place of fruitfulness. This is His work both in the big picture and also in all the various times and seasons of our lives -- the journey from frustration to fruitfulness.

What does this fruitfulness look like? Let me just give you two broad categories, and I will leave it to you to reflect and apply these to your life today and this week.

1. Fruitfulness in our WORDS:

*Hebrews 13.15: “Let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.”

Open your mouth today, to praise the Lord! The Lord is looking for fruitful lips -- not stuck in a closet, but out in the world to bear wtiness to His goodness and grace.

2. Fruitfulness in our WORKS:

*Colossians 1.10: “so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work.”

Undergirding the praise of our Lips, is the movement of our feet and the work of our hands. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we now put flesh on our words about HIM in our lives, by loving our neighbors here and now in His name.

Therefore, today, tomorrow, all of your days -- Offer to the Lord the fruit of your words and your works, so that in both of these ways you might, in the words of Psalm 92.15, "declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him."

Amen.

Pastor Jon

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2655 Chichester Avenue
Boothwyn, PA
19061

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10:15am - 11:30pm

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https://www.restorationpca.org/

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