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
137 episodes
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...
Being a Missional Church
The church is called to be a conduit of grace, not a cul-de-sac that keeps God's blessings to itself. From Abraham's promise that all nations would be blessed through him to Israel's calling as a priestly nation, God's plan has always been miss...
Foster Care - Love in Action
God's expectation for His church is clear: care for vulnerable children and families in need. With 430 children in foster care and fewer than 100 families to help in many communities, children are sleeping on office floors and in hotel rooms. J...
The Angel of the Lord
Throughout Scripture, the Angel of the Lord appears to people who feel unqualified and insecure about God's calling on their lives. Moses hid in the wilderness for 40 years before God called him to lead Israel out of Egypt. Gideon was literally...
Our Foolish Gospel
The gospel message often appears foolish to a world that values human wisdom and intelligence above all else. According to Paul in 1 Corinthians, what seems like foolishness is actually God's power and wisdom at work. Many reject Christianity b...
Jude - Week 3
The Book of Jude warns believers about the serious threat of false teachers and apostasy within the church. Jude identifies six key characteristics of false teachers: they are hidden dangers among believers, selfish leaders, makers of empty pro...
Jude - Week 2
The Book of Jude warns Christians about the dangerous threat of apostasy - the deliberate turning away from faith after once professing it. Written during intense persecution, Jude addresses false teachers infiltrating the church from within. H...
Jude - Week 1
The book of Jude challenges modern Christians to move beyond comfortable, passive faith toward active spiritual engagement. Written by Jesus' half-brother who identified himself as a bond slave rather than family member, Jude calls believers to...
The Way of the Saint - Intercession
Intercession is not a special spiritual gift reserved for certain believers, but a responsibility for all Christians as royal priests. From humanity's original design in Eden to our calling in the New Testament, we are meant to stand before God...
The Way of the Saint - Worry & Anxiety
In a world filled with uncertainty and stress, Jesus commands us not to worry about our lives. This isn't naive idealism but faith grounded in God's sovereignty over all creation. When Jesus points to birds and flowers as examples of God's care...
The Way of the Saint - Offense
Spiritual maturity requires learning to handle offense biblically rather than allowing it to trap us in negative emotions and behaviors. Jesus warned that offenses are inevitable, but we have a choice in how we respond. The key is understanding...
The Way of the Saint - Forgiveness
As we enter a new year, it's time to examine what we're carrying forward and what needs to be left behind. One of the heaviest burdens many Christians carry is unforgiveness. Jesus placed forgiveness at the heart of discipleship, teaching us th...
Advent - Week 3
Advent reveals God's heart for the marginalized through Jesus' birth story. God announced the Messiah's arrival to shepherds - society's outcasts - and chose a stable as the birthplace, showing His intentional movement toward the overlooked. Je...