The Perfecting Church

God has hopes for us collectively and individually. However, His hopes don’t always align with our dreams or plans. Submitting to His will even when it may cause us personal harm or difficulty is critical to the ultimate fulfillment of the Kingdom of God.

Jesus preached and taught about the Kingdom of God as a central part of His ministry. He has given His life; that we might be restored to the Kingdom and find life as He intended it.

There is no greater evidence that we are children of God than our living together as family. We can not say that we have received and experienced the love of the Father until we’ve given ourselves to love one another. If we’ve been adopted by the Father, we’ve been called to adopt one another as family — The Family of God. Scripture(s):

If we are born-again, we’re joint-heirs with Christ — we’ve been made one with Him. We now live, move and we have our being in Him. No longer do we look to the fallen world as our source of love, peace, fulfillment and joy. We have found that in Christ — although we are in the world it is no longer our source. This life of “in but not of” brings with it suffering. But the suffering it brings isn’t...

There is no greater distinction or identity that a human being can have than to be a child of God. We can make no greater contribution to humanity, to this world or to our families than to live as a child of God. But we can not make ourselves His, only Christ can do that — we’ve been given the work of agreeing with, what He says about us. 

We all have practices and values which come from our family of origin. But now that we are resurrected to life in the family of Jesus Christ, it is essential that we discover and practice these seven values of our heavenly family. Without them, we will be ineffective and unproductive in our earthly assignments.

When the Father restored us to Himself through the work of Christ — we were resurrected into new life. We now live from an entirely different operating system. Our new operating system is continually resurrecting us into new lives through the love of the Father. As we let go of and are delivered from our earthly horizontal past we find our true identity as the ones being resurrected by His love.

Adam and Eve rejected the Fatherhood of God. They decided dependence on themselves was more desirable than dependence on God the Father. This legacy of broken relationship was inherited by us all.  In Christ, we are adopted and restored to relationship with the covenant making, promise keeping Father. Our adoption and restoration is more than a future in the new heaven and earth. We’ve been resurr...

When we respond to the love of the Father with rebellion or religion, there’s a word for that — individualism. Individualism (rebellion/religion) is a result of the fall; it says we don’t need you Lord God we can do it on our own. We can do life on our own terms fulfilling our own desires. But resurrection life/to be born again through faith in Christ says the opposite. Resurrection life says, we...

This passage is titled the prodigal son. Prodigal is defined as having or giving something on a lavish scale or a person who spends in an extravagant way.  Author and theologian Tim Keller wrote a book renaming this parable The Prodigal God because there’s no one more extravagant and lavish in this parable than God the Father. This parable is ultimately about Him, His extravagant love and the ways...

We can’t truly grasp what it means to be adopted and restored to the family of God without realizing all that was lost in the garden. Desiring to be gods to themselves — autonomous, independent, with freedom of choice — Adam and Eve rejected the Fatherhood of God. They concluded dependence on themselves was more desirable than dependence on God and Fatherhood was lost. This is the legacy inherited...

Some of the top movies of the last decade are based on superheroes with superpowers — Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther, Spiderman, Avengers are among the highest grossing movies of all time. We have an obsession with superheroes, superpowers and capes.  Hollywood, and the comics these movies are based upon, show us every superhero has unique powers and a unique part to play in the flourish...

We will never know a voice, like the voice of God. He alone is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. No one knows us, keeps us and has thoughts towards us like Him. We must prioritize His voice, His words, His thoughts over every other. There is no voice like the voice of God. 

God speaks in sign language.  He uses signs to warn, caution, direct and to confirm.  Signs speak even when we aren’t listening, so we can’t say we weren’t told.  But when we decide we want to hear from God, signs speak so loudly it’s as if we’ve entered another world. A world where God speaks through sign language.

One of the most frequently used languages in all of scripture is the language of God given dreams, visions, thoughts and ideas.  Not only is God still using this means of communication, He promised in the last days He would use them even more.  We must reverence the language of dreams and visions that God might move us beyond the boundaries we’ve set for ourselves and others, into His perfect will...

One of the key features that marks out a Christian as a child of God is the ability to hear the voice of God. Although the capacity to hear God is given to us, spiritual deafness can and does still happen for numerous reasons. The key reason for not hearing God is due to not cultivating a walk and relationship with God. We must renew our walk daily so that we can learn to hear God clearly. Exodus...

There are times in our lives when God doesn’t make sense. Some would argue, that’s exactly why they don’t follow God. No matter the camp we are in, those who openly reject or those who subtly resist — more often than not our reasons are the same. We want God to make it make sense before we give Him a whole hearted yes. 

Celebrations of any sort are always happy occasions where the agenda is to party. Jesus approached a celebration in his day where partying was on the agenda. Yet his agenda was less about being the life of the party, but to be the life IN the party. Turning water into wine certainly kept the party going, but it also showed the transformative power of Jesus. As we celebrate the anniversary of TPC t...

God’s voice is the ultimate expression of His desire for His people: God speaks because God Loves. In a world filled with sound, volume, and distraction, we must become a people ready to hear and respond to the still, small voice of our King.

Hearing from God is an #IYKYK kind of thing. It is exclusively for those who are His. It’s not that God isn’t speaking, it’s that only those who are His recognize and surrender to His voice. Hearing and obeying God is the entrance into an entirely different quality of life — eternal life. If you know then you know.  

God has been exalted in us as His Church over the last 11 years. He has made His boast through TPC in mind-boggling ways. From the Movie Theater to Delsea Drive, from Winslow to the West Bank — again and again Yahweh has declared His goodness, His faithfulness and the miraculous through the life of this body of believers. As we enter into this 12th year the question continues to be — Can I be exal...

Eli taught Samuel to pray the most courageous prayer in the Bible — “Speak Lord, for your servant hears.” It’s a prayer of surrender from a posture of humility. We often don’t hear God, because we don’t always want to hear God. It’s the ear, connected to a surrendered and humble heart, that prays the prayer that causes us to hear from the living God.  

Learning, discerning and surrendering to the voice of the Lord is literally the answer to every thing we will face in this world. Of all the endeavors we might give ourselves to learning, nothing will impact our lives and the lives of others as much as learning to hear the Lord’s voice. Learning, discerning and surrendering to the voice of the Lord is not only important, it is important now — Befo...

According to the World Health Organization, slightly more than half of the world’s population is male.  But males aren’t men until they take responsibility for themselves; and men aren’t fathers until they take responsibility for their children.  It’s God’s desire that every male become a father, not having children, but taking responsibility to love, protect and provide for others.  Jesus never h...

God has hand-picked us, appointed and anointed us for His assignments, just as He did Moses and Joshua . God has assignments that have been tailor-made specifically for us. He trains and prepares us for each assignment and gives us His heart and mind to implement His plan. God gives us His courage, as we surrender our will.