The Perfecting Church

The Perfecting Church produces change in the lives of men, women and children through the transforming power of God\'s word and presence enabling us to discover and live God\'s unique plan for our lives emerging as holy, purpose-driven, people of influence who extend the Kingdom of God.

When we don’t take time to reflect and look ahead we can miss what God has been doing and what God is revealing. We are setting aside the 52nd Sunday, the last Sunday of this decade, to look back and consider all that God was doing in 2019. And then, we are going to peer into […]

Christmas expresses the truth of God With Us in a way that requires us to grasp its gift over and over again to truly and fully appreciate it. Receiving the gift of Immanuel transforms us into someone radically different from who we were or ever could be.  Jesus, embodying flesh, yet miraculously ushering in His Spirit and […]

Christmas expresses the truth of God With Us in a way that requires us to grasp its gift over and over again to truly and fully appreciate it. Receiving the gift of Immanuel transforms us into someone radically different from who we were or ever could be. Jesus, embodying flesh, yet miraculously ushering in His Spirit and truth, is the most awe-inspiring act of and for humanity. Mary, the mother of Jesus, lovingly reveals how we are to respond to the truth of God With Us… either refuse to believe who He is or grasp and embrace all of Him, realizing we have nothing without Him.

The Perfecting Church produces change in the lives of men, women and children through the transforming power of God\'s word and presence enabling us to discover and live God\'s unique plan for our lives emerging as holy, purpose-driven, people of influence who extend the Kingdom of God.

Since the fall of humanity in the Garden of Eden, we have sought to return to God’s presence. Despite man’s best efforts to obey the law or carry the Ark of the Covenant, we were unable to return to Eden. However, God’s love is so great that when we couldn’t get to Him, He came to us. The greatest gift, God with us, changes everything because even when we aren’t looking He sees us!

We must always remember who we are, priest of the Most High God. And despite the difficulties and seeming failures in our lives, we must trust and believe that the God of creation has our times in His hands. Since God is with us, we are free to hope in the salvation only He can […]

We must always remember who we are, priest of the Most High God. And despite the difficulties and seeming failures in our lives, we must trust and believe that the God of creation has our times in His hands. Since God is with us, we are free to hope in the salvation only He can provide for every situation.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, God with us — Matthew 1:23. As we enter into our last series of 2019 and the Christmas season — the celebration and remembrance of God wrapping His only begotten Son in human flesh […]

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, God with us — Matthew 1:23. As we enter into our last series of 2019 and the Christmas season — the celebration and remembrance of God wrapping His only begotten Son in human flesh and sending Him to be with and ultimately to give Himself for us — we are asking God to help us see and more deeply understand what it means for God to be with us. How would our lives, our hopes, our thoughts, our concerns, our perspectives change if we really believed God is with us?

We live in a world full of exhausted people. Social media is taking its toll. Sleeplessness, anxiety, stress and depression are on the rise. While the age of connectivity grants us access to everything, we fend for ourselves, denying the One who can deliver us from anything what He most wants and we most need—connection […]

We live in a world full of exhausted people. Social media is taking its toll. Sleeplessness, anxiety, stress and depression are on the rise. While the age of connectivity grants us access to everything, we fend for ourselves, denying the One who can deliver us from anything what He most wants and we most need—connection with Him.

We live in a world and time where the popular solution to every difficult experience is cheer up and get over it.  Too often our tendency, with even the most excruciating experiences and crippling emotions, is to shake it off with happy.  Many of us are exhausted because we’re going through life with so many […]

We live in a world and time where the popular solution to every difficult experience is cheer up and get over it. Too often our tendency, with even the most excruciating experiences and crippling emotions, is to shake it off with happy. Many of us are exhausted because we’re going through life with so many unresolved issues. It’s foolish at best and ungodly at worst to think we can simply put a bandaid on everything. Some things in this world are difficult beyond explanation. We must learn how to mourn and find the supernatural comfort of God or we are going to die trying to be happy.

There’s an exhaustion that comes from remembering and rehearsing the negative events and experiences we have. The words and events we remember and rehearse, build memorials within us; and tragically our tendency is to build memorials around negative experiences and carry them for the rest of our lives.  When God establishes memorials He does it […]