The Perfecting Church

There’s a study resource that lists over 950 names and titles for God found in the first and second testaments of the bible. Of all the names, there’s only one that God didn’t give to Himself. This one name is given to God by an immigrant, a woman who’s an enslaved surrogate mother. This is a person who considers herself invisible. It’s not likely any of us have experienced being an enslaved, immi...

Jesus is the God of the comeback. He comes back for us over and over again throughout our lives, resurrecting us into the joys and realities of our place in the heavenly realm. Jesus will ultimately return at a pre-appointed time, known only by the Father, to resurrect creation into a new heaven and a new earth. That day is one we look forward to when we’ve experienced Him coming back for us many...

While none are immune from trauma as a result of the fall of mankind, the very fall of mankind and the consequences it yields in our lives were inspired by the enemy’s attempt to thwart the plans and promises of God. God not only comes back for us or even in spite of us; He comes back because of us and the plans and promises He has for us.

Jonah thrown overboard into the sea… Mary pregnant out of wedlock… Paul watching and holding coats as Stephen is stoned to death. There are traumatic accounts throughout the bible. Our attention is often on the miracles, the deliverances, the hand and plan of God in those moments. But we need to identify with the human experiences. Seeing the accounts from the eyes of those portrayed, provides a w...

In Christ we can expect to comeback from every disappointment and loss we experience. As born again believers we are in the grip of His resurrection life. No matter what we experience here, it does not catch God by surprise. Disappointments and loss, as real as they are are not terminal for those who learn to live in resurrected life, anchored in the God of the comeback. He is able to resurrect us...

When Jesus came back from the dead in Jerusalem over two-thousand years ago, it changed everything. His followers moved the day they gathered for worship from Saturday to Sunday. Every weekly gathering became a celebration of His resurrection and their new lives in Him. Although our annual celebration of Resurrection Sunday has passed, His resurrection continues to be the one reality that changes...

The life-altering reality of Jesus’ resurrection is lost and leaves us stuck in unbelief if we don’t first realize this world and everything in it is crying out for resurrection. We’ve all found and will find ourselves in places we never expected to be. We’ve all learned and will learn how it feels to be overwhelmingly disappointed, discouraged and hopeless in this world. Jesus' resurrection gives...

God has called The Perfecting Church to be an extension of His counter-culture Kingdom in this generation. Where there is hate, we will love. Where others are fleeing, we are going. Where there is great need, we will be great provision. Where God’s rule is being rejected and made low, we will submit and lift Him high. We enter 2018 expecting to be used by God as His Difference Makers.

A people who are captivated by the truth that "God is" become an uncontainable people. Nothing is impossible to them and nothing is impossible through them. Those who have come, and continually come to realize, "they are" because "He is" are unstoppable. He is I Am. He is Yahweh, the Lord of all. He is the Difference Maker!

We can be in relationship with the lover of our souls, the redeemer of our lives and not know what really means to be His child -- living functionally as orphans. Our response to the Father's love often falls into one of two categories.  We can rebel against His love, wanting what we can get from Him rather than actually wanting Him or we respond religiously to His love just performing in hopes He...

It’s impossible to live a full life in this broken world without loving and trusting people. But it’s just as impossible to live loving and trusting people in this broken world without being betrayed. We’ve been betrayed by family, by friends, by bosses, by co-workers and others. Betrayal is a part of the human experience. What’s less common, is returning to full and free lives after betrayal. The...

In every generation, God’s people face the same battle—the struggle to see Jesus clearly amid competing voices. Some distort His divinity, others deny His humanity, and many replace His gospel with one built on greed, power, and violence. The early church faced these same lies, and John reminded them that what they heard from the beginning—and the anointing of the Holy Spirit within them—was enoug...

Family can be one of God’s greatest gifts, but it can also be the source of our deepest wounds. In this message, we journey through the life of Joseph and discover how God worked through favoritism, betrayal, and broken relationships to accomplish His greater purpose. Joseph’s story reminds us that no family pain is beyond God’s reach and no wound is beyond His ability to redeem. When we choose fo...