The Resting Place Podcast
The Resting Place's Sunday sermon archives. We are a non-denominational church in Augusta, GA. Learn more at https://www.revivify.church
Episodes
149 episodes
Jesus the Conquerer
Evil still exists in the world, but Jesus conquers it in a way no human ruler ever has. Rather than defeating His enemies through force, He transforms them through agape, the self-sacrificing love that seeks another person's good at personal co...
Hebrews 11 - Week 2
Faith is one of the most misunderstood concepts in Christianity. True, biblical faith is not about believing hard enough until things go your way, nor is it a formula for receiving health, wealth, and prosperity. Hebrews 11 paints a full pictur...
Hebrews 11 - Week 1
Faith is one of the most misunderstood concepts in Christianity, and Hebrews 11 gives us a clear picture of what it truly means. Biblical faith is not positive thinking, manifesting, or believing hard enough to get what you want. It is taking G...
Remember & Respond
Psalm 145 is King David's final psalm, and it serves as a powerful roadmap for a life of genuine praise. Blessing God is not about adding to who He is but about acknowledging who He already is. Praise grows naturally when we take time to rememb...
Undignified - Week 2
Praise and worship are two distinct acts. Praise looks back at what God has done, while worship sets everything aside to focus entirely on who God is. To truly worship God, we must truly know God, because you can only love someone as much as yo...
Undignified - Week 1
Praise and worship are not the same thing. Praise is the honest acknowledgment of what God has done, while worship is the complete surrender of who we are to who He is. Many people go through the motions every week without ever truly engaging w...
Growing Together
Church growth is a gift, but it comes with real challenges. In Acts 6, the early church faced a crisis when rapid growth caused some of its most vulnerable members to be overlooked. Rather than slowing down or shutting the doors, the apostles r...
A Considerable Distance
Life's pressures can make us feel distant from God, just like the disciples in Mark 6 who couldn't recognize Jesus walking on water during their storm. After experiencing ministry success and devastating loss with John the Baptist's death, exha...
Suffering Well
Life brings us to our knees through unanswered prayers, unexpected loss, and prolonged difficulties. The Apostle Paul's experience with his thorn in the flesh teaches us that sometimes God says no to our requests, not because He doesn't love us...
Fire Fell, Wind Blew .. and He Never Left
Pentecost Sunday marks the birth of the church when the Holy Spirit descended upon 120 believers in Jerusalem. This supernatural event reversed the confusion of Babel, as people from every nation heard the disciples speaking in their own langua...
Fighting for Holiness
Fighting for holiness means learning to live like you belong to God, not just following rules but being set apart for His purposes. Holy living is our response to salvation, not the path to it - when we understand what God has done for us, holi...
Fighting for the Next Generation
The church faces a critical moment as children experience unprecedented mental health challenges and spiritual confusion. Jesus made clear in Matthew 18 that children matter deeply to God, warning against causing them to stumble. Every church m...
Fighting for Unity in a Divided World
The enemy's primary strategy against the church is division, knowing that a divided kingdom cannot stand. True unity requires believers to walk worthy of their calling with humility, gentleness, and patience. Scripture calls us to avoid those w...
Fight the Good Fight - For Your Family
Christians face spiritual warfare that directly targets marriages and families through cultural lies and worldly pressures. This battle requires spiritual weapons like prayer, God's Word, and sacrificial love rather than worldly methods. Husban...
Fighting for a Christian Worldview in a Post-Christian World
Living as a Christian in 2026 presents unique challenges as we navigate a post-Christian culture filled with overwhelming information and opposing worldviews. Maintaining a biblical perspective requires intentional effort to let Scripture, not ...
Seeing The Kingdom
Human nature tends toward constant dissatisfaction, always wanting more regardless of what we have. Even Christians can drift into a default mode of greed, gluttony, and apathy, losing awareness of God's daily provisions. The Israelites exempli...
Resurrection Sunday
The resurrection of Jesus Christ stands as the defining moment that separates Christianity from every other religion. While all other religious leaders remain in their graves, Jesus conquered death and walked out of His tomb. This historical ev...
The Unexpected King
Palm Sunday reveals Jesus as the unexpected king who chose humility over power, riding a donkey instead of a war horse to fulfill ancient prophecy. The crowds shouted Hosanna, meaning save us now, but they expected political liberation while Je...
Ecclesiastes 10-12
Life often feels overwhelming when we constantly wait for perfect conditions or the next season to begin living purposefully. Solomon's wisdom in Ecclesiastes teaches us that life is temporary like vapor, but this shouldn't discourage us—it sho...
Wisdom in a World You Cannot Control
Life often feels unfair - good people suffer while the wicked prosper. Ecclesiastes teaches us that trying to control life through perfect behavior leads to legalism, while abandoning faith when things get hard leads to cynicism. True wisdom me...
Finding Rest in God's Timing
Life often feels like a relentless race, but God has designed specific seasons for our lives - some for growth, others for rest. The book of Ecclesiastes reveals that life is meaningless without God, and we cannot judge outcomes without underst...
The Rest of God in a Restless World
In our fast-paced world filled with information overload and constant busyness, many people feel overwhelmed and hopeless. The book of Ecclesiastes reveals that placing our hope in temporal things like leaders or achievements always leads to di...