The Perfecting Church

Every generation of the people of God has faced forces that sought to shape its loves, its loyalties and its way of life. Egypt pressed to form through oppression. Babylon through assimilation. Rome through power. Our generation faces a different kind of empire—built not with bricks or armies, but with screens, algorithms, endless information and competing voices. The question before the Church to...

Some of us have spent years seeking the will of the Father. We’ve pursued it, discerned it and even caught glimpses of what God wants to do in and through our lives. But too often we’ve tried to accomplish a heavenly calling in our earthly strength. And the weight of disappointment, delay, grief and unanswered questions has left us spiritually exhausted. Like the disciples in Gethsemane, we’re sti...

For months and years we have watched the world grow louder, angrier and darker. The temptation for the Church has been to become just as outraged, just as fearful or to simply disappear into the shadows. But God has never answered a dark generation by removing His people from it — He answers darkness by raising up a people who reflect His glory within it. The Holy Spirit was not poured out to make...

We live in a world obsessed with approval. Every day we’re being liked or ignored, praised or criticized, followed or canceled. Through social media, the expectations of family and friends, workplace pressure, church culture, or our own desire to belong, voices constantly tell us who we should be and what we should do. The temptation isn’t just to hear those voices—it’s to live for them. One of th...

In a world shaped by pain, poverty, persecution, injustice and grief, Christians are called to endure hardships and suffering differently — by remaining faithful to our King despite personal or societal pressures and conditions.

We’re living in an age shaped by self-rule and self-exaltation — where comfort, control and autonomy are the highest pursuit. But Pentecost reminds us that humanity was never designed to rule or exalt itself—we were created to live under the life and reign of God. That’s why the Spirit comes -- not simply to inspire us, but to restore us, disrupting what we’ve grown comfortable with and forming th...

We live in a world that constantly tells us we never have enough—more money, more success, more security, more stuff. Excess isn’t just present in our culture; it’s the goal in our culture. But the Kingdom of God calls us to live by a different economy: not accumulation, but generosity; not ownership, but stewardship; not “what can I keep,” but “what can I release for the good of others.” As follo...

oin us this Mother’s Day as we honor and celebrate the women who have nurtured, shaped, and inspired us in many different ways. We also recognize that this day carries a range of emotions and experiences, and we want you to know there is space for you here.   Come expectant for worship and a prophetic, life-giving Word that speaks into every season—whether you are a mother, grandmother, spiritual...

First Light Service

9:30 Morning Service

While the cross memorializes a violent injustice inflicted on Jesus by the imperial systems of this world, it also models a Kingdom framework for justice to roll down.  Through the power of Love and a life committed to prayer, preaching, protest, and preparation, Jesus, as the embodiment of the Word of God, displays a pathway to a just peace through biblical reconciliation.

Loving Our Enemy in a Culture of Enemies confronts the ways our culture conditions us to label others as adversaries and invites believers into the uncomfortable yet transformative calling of Christlike love. Jesus reframes the nature of our fight, teaching that true victory is not found in overpowering opponents, but in refusing to imitate their behavior and instead responding with love and praye...

Life is filled with firsts—moments we don’t feel ready for, yet God calls us into them anyway. These are the moments that shape us—conversations we didn’t script, decisions we can’t delay and pressures that stretch us beyond our capacity. In John 16, Jesus doesn’t prepare His disciples for easy moments, but for defining ones—calling them beyond comfort into calling. And He anchors them in this pro...

We live in a world obsessed with comfort. Comfortable lifestyles. Comfortable truths. We even want a comfortable Jesus. Not just a Savior, but a Savior who never challenges us and keeps us from challenge. But Jesus never promised that kind of life. In fact, in His final moments with His first disciples, He does the exact opposite. He prepares them, not for comfort, but for pressure. And then He ma...

There are moments that inform us and then there are moments that redefine reality. The resurrection is an encounter that redefines reality — personally, experientially and eternally. Because the power of the gospel is not only that Jesus rose from the grave, but that He is still alive revealing Himself today. The resurrection isn’t merely the story of an empty tomb; it’s the story of a living Savi...

The Israelites yearned for a King that would bring them peace from their oppressors. God desires to bring us a peace that surpasses our imagination, but it requires that we surrender to His will and purposes for our lives.

In Matthew 8, Jesus steps onto the shore and confronts the darkness that has terrorized a region, restoring two men who’d been stripped of dignity, identity and peace. The men are set free, but the community asks Him to leave, because the deliverance disrupts their comfort. This passage reminds us that surrender isn’t just about inviting Jesus into our lives—it’s about allowing Him to disrupt ever...

What do you do when your boat starts shaking? Do you trust your own personal experience? Your expertise? Do you try to just hold on and “white knuckle” your way through life? What if there was a better way to live when your world was rocked? That’s what Jesus wants us to know as we follow him—even when he takes us places we have never been.

Following Jesus is not about our convenience, comfort, self-advancement or even self-improvement. Following Jesus is radical, risky and life-altering. When Jesus says, “follow me” we often hear it in the key of our own theme music — anticipating the outcomes, status, success and results we want. But Jesus flips the script with two encounters in Matthew 8, exposing the true cost of discipleship — s...

Since the fall in Genesis, humanity has been born into brokenness. So we search for a “fix” in people, places, and things. Surrender calls us to stop giving ourselves to substitutes and fully yield to Jesus, the only true remedy for our brokenness.

Most of us don’t struggle with believing Jesus has power. We struggle with giving up our power. We pray — but we still build contingency plans. We call Him Lord but we still try to negotiate our terms. Control feels safe. Surrender feels foolish. But the Kingdom of Heaven does not advance through our power — it advances through our surrender. And in Matthew 8, Jesus meets a man who understands som...

We’re living in days where vision is blurred, compassion is thin and fear-filled, divisiveness passes for wisdom. The darkness of our times isn’t only moral — it’s perceptual. We are losing the ability to see one another as God does. But glory was never meant to remain on the mountain or in the sanctuary — it was meant to move through the streets. Matthew 8 shows us what happens when a surrendered...

God’s glory is more than moments we remember—it’s also encounters that keep returning to form us. Each time His holy presence meets us at the edge of our ordinary lives, it exposes what we’ve settled for and reorients us toward who He truly is. Glory doesn’t merely confront us; it consecrates us—shaping a people set apart for God’s purposes. And every genuine encounter with His glory sends us back...

Glory is one of the most familiar words in our faith and one of the most misunderstood. We imagine glory as something distant, displayed through power or spectacle. But glory is not just something to admire; it is something we encounter— drawing us near and working within. There was a time when God’s glory stood outside of us, revealing truth and exposing what was broken. That glory was real, but...

A people of holiness, formed for and from Himself, has been God’s idea all along. Eons before men made plans for the building of nations, the heart of God imagined not just a person or a family, but a people—a nation-- who would bear His image and His likeness, living in ways that demonstrate His great Love, great care, and great Glory in all of His creation. The Church is that people and our shar...