The Perfecting Church

3 Questions to Receive all God has for you: God has so much for all of us, but are we in a position to receive it? The blessings of God are not incentive or carrot sticks but ways that he wants us to live day in and day out. These 3 questions will help you possess all he has for you.   Text: Matthew 5:13-20 1. Are you fully present? 2. Is your Light Shinning? 3. Is the Gospel working for you? 

 In different seasons of our lives, we face circumstances that test our faith in God and His ability to provide for us. The blessing comes in knowing that God has already prepared for our situation long before we entered into it. Therefore, we have a choice, to trust, believe and follow His plans or to complain, doubt and create our own. His plans are always better and more abundant than anything...

Some things in life aren’t just broken—they’re beyond repair. They’re finished. Ezekiel stood in a valley of dry, scattered bones, where death had settled in. But God didn’t bring him there to mourn—He brought him there to act and to speak. God doesn’t just raise dead things—He restores what others have given up on. God is not only willing—He is more than able to restore. He has a vision for our v...

 As highlighted throughout this series, humanity’s fall corrupted God’s “Very Good” intention for Creation, undermining mankind’s mandate to dwell interdependently and justly with God and one another. As a consequence, self-preservation displaced community transformation as love, mercy, and justice were replaced by hate, prejudice, and politics. However, God’s plan for creation has not changed. Th...

Before God ever gave the world a prophet, a king, or a pastor—He gave the world a father. Before there were positions, platforms, or pulpits —there was a garden…and in that garden, God planted a man. Not as a ruler to dominate, but as a reflection of Himself— A cultivator, a protector, a name-giver…Fatherhood is sacred. Not just functional. Not just biological. Not optional. It’s part of the Very...

In a year of being Rooted and Grounded, we’re recovering the foundational truths of our relationship with God, one another, and creation. In a time of shaking, we’re committing to become the people God envisioned—whole and holy, deeply established in His love.

God’s creation was never meant for us to passively occupy or consume — it’s always been accompanied by a call to actively participate in its flourishing and fruitfulness. From Eden to now, stewardship is a sacred thing. It shapes creation, reveals our faith, and transforms our lives. What we tend—or fail to tend—forms us and the world around us. 

What if I told you that God created us to rule… but not to dominate? To reign… but not to own? What if our job on this earth wasn’t to take, but to tend? Not to consume, but to cultivate? For generations, power has been used to exploit, image has been reserved for the elite and creation has been treated like a commodity. But Genesis doesn’t begin with a human grasping for godhood. It begins with G...

In the beginning, God didn’t just create individuals—He formed a world that was woven together in relational goodness. “Very good” wasn’t about perfection; as much as it was about connection. We were made to flourish in relationship not in isolation. God isn’t just saving you—He’s saving us.

Before the foundation of the world, God entrusted womanhood with a sacred echo of Himself—the call to mother. Not merely to bear life, but to shape it, nourish it, and speak courage into the soul of creation. Today we honor that call—not as a role, but as a holy assignment woven into the fabric of God’s image in the earth.

Throughout our lives we are seeking and searching for love, for peace, for joy, for identity, for security, for purpose and for wholeness. And the only One who can supply our deepest need is God alone. So, when we awaken to the knowledge of what is truly good for us, we will always be in pursuit of a deeper relationship with the God of all creation.

Jesus came to fulfill the Father’s promise from the Garden — as the seed of the woman who would crush Satan’s rule and restore us to God’s Kingdom. In Christ and through His resurrection, all things are made new. Today, we don’t celebrate a tomb — we celebrate the God of the resurrection, who meticulously rights every wrong by His resurrection power.

Jesus’ very first introduction of the Church was accompanied by a declaration that the gates of hell would not prevail against it. From its first mention, God’s plan for an increasingly darkening world was a continually maturing Church. We must recapture and recommit to God’s original intent for the Church, realizing it’s more than Sunday morning.  

When we pledged allegiance to Jesus we became residents of another Kingdom — another world. In this world, we are offered paths of compromise, comfort and self-preservation. But we're not called to escape; we are called to stand firm, bearing witness to another Kingdom — another world. We are called to remain as faithful witnesses to God’s reign, even when the world around us is hostile and uncert...

Those who’ve accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior have seen something. Eyes that were once blinded to the truth of His death, burial and resurrection have seen that indeed He is the Christ. Having seen and accepted that truth our lives have been radically and eternally changed. We have seen something and we have to say something! 

We live in a culture of “now” moments. Good and bad ones. It can be discouraging what we see in our world. What we see in our nation. What we see in our cities. We must get beyond the cultural and worldly “now” we get stuck in and realize God’s Kingdom is here, and it is our NOW! It’s our new reality. It has redefined our “now”. Given our “now” a new perspective. Because Jesus and His Kingdom is H...

We serve a God of justice and righteousness. He has commanded us to uphold both in the public square. We have to be careful not to turn justice into poison and righteousness into bitterness by pursuing our own agendas rather than God's.

Prayer is an act of resistance. Prayer honors and esteems the unseen, eternal God over all the little temporary gods -- refusing to give them the reverance and allegiance that belongs to Him alone. Prayer gives us perspective and power to oppose realities that are accepted as inescapable and unchangeable by those who suffer from prayerlessness. It’s in prayer that we access and surrender to the ru...

 It is in prayer that we become portals for the wisdom and revelation we require—heaven has hopes for you and for me and it is in prayer that we access the power of God that is necessary to live in and to live out the plans of God.

Coping techniques are the conscious and subconscious things we do for relief and comfort in the on-going stress of daily life in a fractured world. Our lives are filled with things we do, some knowingly and others unknowingly to cope. The challenge with coping in a world filled with problems and difficulties is that our coping sometimes ends up needing coping. But there’s a coping technique that G...

As the newly minted King of Israel, Solomon worships God at Gibeon. In his prayer he teaches us that although power is given, power is never owned. His heart towards God and the power entrusted to him, causes him to become a version of himself he’d never known and the world had never seen. We often believe power means do what you want, but power actually means become what I’ve designed. 

Losing control never feels good, but it always has the potential to produce great good. Times of crisis open our eyes to how little control we really have in this fallen, troubled world. Those that experience losing the illusion of control know the kind of desperate prayers that can come from those moments. In crisis and impossible circumstances, we learn how to pray out of control.  

Jesus’ very first instructions on prayer included the phrase, “on earth as it is in heaven.” This is still the heart of all sincere prayer — that the Father’s will would be done on the earth as it is in heaven.  While prayer can include more than this, it is never any less.  On Earth As In Heaven, pursues the heart of prayer, just as Jesus’ original disciples did when they asked, Lord teach us to...

We are living in a rapidly changing world.  A world full of conflicts within its nations; a shifting in world order; increasing droughts, floods and pandemics and technology that is outpacing practices, policies and ethics. In the face of such unprecedented change, we need a Church that is maturing.  We need a Church that is rooted and grounded.