The Perfecting Church

Pits are the traumas, tragedies, and excruciating transitions in our lives that God providentially allows or authors to get us to the people, places and plans He’s pre-ordained and to make us into the person He’s pre-ordained.  Our direction and destiny often has much to do with not only what happens to us but how we rehearse and remember what’s happened.  If we are going to fulfill the fruitfulne...

We will all endure heartbreak in this life.  There are many ways our hearts can be broken, the death of loved ones, divorce, betrayal, job loss, financial ruin, health challenges, estrangements, inequities, and the death of a vision, to name a few. Losses can distort our hearts and keep us from the radical love God offers. God’s desire is to heal our broken hearts to expand our capacity to both re...

Radical love is unlike storge love, it’s different from eros love and it goes beyond phileo love. Those loves are exclusively for family, our romantic interests and our closest friends. But radical love does not exclude anyone for anything. It willingly accepts all things, in order to make all things new. Radical love is all inclusive. 

"Her children rise up and call her blessed" - Proverbs 31:28 We invite you to join us at The Perfecting Church on Sunday, May 12 at the 9 a.m. or 11 a.m. worship service as we celebrate and honor Mothers. We encourage you to arrive early to participate in a special breakfast prepared and served by the men of Perfect Experience. Create lasting memories with your family members by having a photo tak...

The seed of the Word of the Radical Love of God is being planted in our hearts. However, the soil of our hearts must be properly prepared and cultivated for the seed to take root and bring forth much fruit in our homes and our communities for the glory of God. 

“What is truth?”, asked Pontius Pilate the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, as he presided over the trial and ultimately the crucifixion of Jesus. It’s a question worth asking in a world where truth is not absolute; truth is no longer black and white nor is it the same in everyone’s eyes. We live in a world where truth is subject to change. But radical love rejoices in the truth; it...

To know Jesus is to be in an on-going, life-transforming, life-transferring relationship with radical love.  Radical Love keeps no record of our wrongs and then empowers us to keep no record of wrongs. Radical Love is not simply something to be experienced, it’s something to be accessed daily. If we don’t access radical love daily, we will be redeemed from sin and death and still be dysfunctional...

Sometimes we can more clearly explain what something is by explaining what it’s not. Radical love ain’t rude. Rude is ill-mannered and disagreeable towards others. But rude is more than that, it’s also ill-mannered and disagreeable towards God. Rude wants what it wants, when it wants from God and everybody else. But those who walk in radical love are yielding their rights, seeing past themselves a...

God-Yahweh Elohim the covenant making promise keeping God, made a promise to mankind in the garden of Eden over 2,000 years ago. He promised He would crush the head of the serpent by the seed of a woman. Jesus was that seed and He has indeed crushed the government of satan in the earth and given us life and life more abundantly in Him and the government of His Kingdom. This morning we celebrate…He...

As Jesus descends from the Mount of Olives into Jerusalem, He knows it will be the last week of His life. On Palm Sunday He faces the painful reality that His greatest impact will be through His most difficult and lonely moments in this world. The mindset of radical love is more interested in God’s plans and purposes than our own promotion and preservation. Palm Sunday teaches us that obedient fai...

Pride is a root which the enemy sows in our hearts to choke the fruitfulness of love in our lives. In our pride-filled American culture, we are called not to conform to this world, but to be hypervigilant to recognize and eliminate the weeds of pride from our hearts so we can bring forth fruit for the glory of the Kingdom of God.

The radically patient and kind love of God frees us from the disfiguring grip of jealousy and envy. Jealousy and envy are everywhere — the constant comparison, excessive competitiveness, passive-aggressive pettiness and celebrating the failures of the popular are the flavor of our day. And jealousy and envy make us all caricatures of ourselves, trapped in a race no one wins. Radical love is the th...

He who is holy is also long suffering. The God who’s love is patient is also the God who’s love is kind. His kindness is close to the top of the list when it comes to how God expresses His love to us. God’s kindness goes beyond the general, generic run of the mill acts of kindness. His kindness is unique, specific to our need and specific to His ability. Radical love is kind.  

Before the love of God is anything; the love of God love is patient. We’ve all received radical patience from the God who is love. When we experience and acknowledge God’s loving patience with us and extend it to others we are changed and we become change agents.  But when we receive God’s loving patience and refuse to extend it to others, we become hardened, isolated and imprisoned by our judgeme...

Jesus never intended for His radical act of love on the cross and His bodily resurrection three days later to end simply with us being born again. That was a part of His divine assignment but not the entire plan. It has always been God’s intent that His people would live drawing daily and continually from His radical love.  So many receive eternal life but never learn to live life daily drawing fr...

Because life is not about what happens to us but about what and how we re-member, stories matter and this life is a battle for control of the narrative. The stories we tell set the course for our personal destiny and the legacy we leave. As we transition from the place of altars and memorials, may our hearts settle the question of who authors our story so that we may enter into the radical Love of...

Now that we've learned what altars and memorials are, it's time to have an honest conversation about what it looks like to live it. We need to move beyond simply hearing and knowing, to living and applying the truth of what it is to remember and rehearse the way God intended.

The Passover and the last supper are undisputedly the greatest altars and memorials in all of creation. It’s with these altars and memorials, Yahweh Elohim, the covenant making God of creation, changes the identity and the destiny of a people. No altar and no memorial gives identity and destiny like the cross and communion that the Passover and its lambs foreshadow.  When we receive, remember and...

God understands the importance and the power of our memories. Some things He does in our lives with the intent that we will not only know Him but that we never forget Him. He has literally made mankind and the unfolding of our lives in such a way that we not only know Him — but so that we Don’t Forget Him.

Altars are places in our hearts before they’re places in this world. Some of those altars — places of honor and worship — are erected to the Living God anchoring us in His love, peace and power. But there are also altars erected to lil gods, giving reverence and worship to people, places and practices that aren’t God at all. When we give lil gods the adoration and esteem that belongs to the living...

Altars are places where we offer up to God the things that consume us, control us and compete with His place in our lives. We also build altars as an act of worship because we realize God has kept us. Jacob is 97 years old before he builds an altar to God. In Jacob, we see the radical love of a God who presses us until we realize what He’s always known — we’ll never be home in ourselves or in Him...

“Often in life we forget the things we should remember and remember the things we should forget.” — Unknown   It’s the stories we repeatedly tell ourselves and the experiences we continually rehearse that shape our way of seeing and being. As we step out of 2023 and over the threshold of 2024 we need to build some altars and establish some memorials to anchor us in the love of God. How we remember...

The birth of Christ is the most radical act of Love the world has ever known. In an age of excess, empire and power — Yahweh Elohim, the covenant making God, carried out His plan of incarnation. By the womb of a virgin, He made a body for Himself, that He might offer Himself, to restore mankind to Himself.

Joy is rooted in who God is. It is not a fleeting feeling based on external circumstances. Possessions, accomplishments, even the people in our lives, may bring us intermittent feelings of joy. However, the source of all perpetual joy is Jesus.

Peace is God’s gift to the believer, birthing His shalom in this fractured world. As we celebrate this Advent season, may we embrace the fullness of this Divine essential and our role as sharers of Peace in every space we are dispensed.