The Perfecting Church

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 life carries the glory of God into...

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 into the world, not changed and co...

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 it wasn’t the final word. The glory ...

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 shared eternal and divine assignment is...

There was a time when God’s glory was associated with distance, danger, and separation, marked by smoke, fire, and a curtain that stood between God and humanity. That barrier reminded us that sin had created a gap we could not close on our own. But our text today declares that through the death of Jesus, access to God has been opened. His holiness has not changed, but our distance has. Because of Jesus the message is no longer — cl...

Most of us move through life on what feels like ordinary ground — routine days, familiar struggles, predictable places — lives we control and we’ve settled into. But Exodus 3 reminds us that there are moments when God steps into our ordinary and reveals Himself in extraordinary ways. When the Holy One draws near, nothing remains common — especially not us. The Extraordinary One invites Himself into our ordinary, interrupting our ro...

We live in a world that has mastered distractions but lost its capacity for wonder. A world that trains us to scroll past glory, to treat the sacred as familiar and to speak God’s name without trembling in His presence. We are busy, informed and stimulated but too often untouched and unchanged. Marked by Glory is a journey into holiness, not as our moral achievement, but as the result of encounter. It’s an invitation to behold the ...

Throughout 2025, God has been at work rooting and grounding us more deeply in Himself. What He’s formed in us this year was not incidental—it was essential to becoming fruitful and flourishing people in the year ahead. On this final Sunday of 2025, we pause to look back—not to linger, but to prepare ourselves for the way forward. In a rapidly changing world, God’s answer is a rapidly maturing Church—one rooted in Christ, grounded i...

So much of life is spent chasing the shallow happiness of this world—moments that fade, applause that ends, a feeling that’s temporary. But God’s joy is different. Deep, unshakable, and eternal, it breaks into the ordinary, tired, frustrated parts of our lives and whispers — I am here. True joy has come. Not a happiness that depends on paychecks, bonuses, vacations, or new things, but a joy that carries us, keeps us, and shines in ...

Advent celebrates the first coming of Jesus and we celebrate with great expectation His return.Jesus has not left us without what we need. He left us with His peace, not the fragile circumstance driven kind of peace that the world offers. His peace is unlike any other. It stays, guards, sustains, and can carry you through the most difficult times. It's a deep preserving, enduring, life-giving peace that can only come from a relatio...

There are moments when God calls us to stretch—beyond what’s easy, familiar, or comfortable—into His greater purposes for us. And it’s in those stretching seasons we realize: somewhere along the way, we’ve gone dull. We’ve grown tired. We’ve lost the edge we used to carry. But what feels lost to us is never lost to God. He calls us to recover what’s slipped, what’s been buried, what we’ve mishandled—to return to His work with renew...

Our allegiance to Christ shapes how we live, work and engage in a culture

that is driven by greed, fear, and self. We live in the profound truth that gives us both

our identity and purpose; we are citizens of the Kingdom of God and of the world. Our

dual citizenship may seem to be a contradiction, but in fact it is a calling. We live in the

tension of the values of Christ and the seduction of the world. Through the power of

God, we walk...

The spiritual battle is real — but it’s not what it seems. Behind every cultural divide, political argument and personal wound lies a deeper battle for our hearts and loyalties. Our enemy isn’t flesh and blood; it’s the deceiver who feeds fear, pride, and polarization until we start fighting the wrong battle for the wrong kingdom. But the Lamb has shown us a better way — a way of truth-telling, love and power under the cross. God i...

We may have been born again, but that doesn’t mean we’ve learned how to win the war within. We may have followed Jesus for years, but that doesn’t mean we’ve grasped the key to Christian maturity. We can be gifted, but that doesn’t mean we’re seasoned; active in ministry, but that doesn’t automatically mean mastery over self. The Holy Spirit doesn’t just want to use us—He wants to form us, until Christ’s life becomes the life that ...

The flesh is not just our weakness—it’s our willfulness. When it rules, it reshapes our desires, fetters our freedom and wars against the Spirit’s work of ushering in peace. This battle isn’t fought out in the streets; the war is waged in the soul. The flesh deceives us, arguing that life works best when we sit on the throne. But every time the flesh rules, peace dies—first in our hearts, then in our relationships — with people, pl...

Every day the world is shaping us — with screens, schedules, slogans, and algorithms whispering, “Buy this, chase this, be this.” We think we’re free, but our loves are being trained; we think we are choosing, but our choices are being choreographed. Before we know it, we are more shaped by our feeds than our faith, more discipled by Netflix and podcasts than by Jesus. But there’s another way — the greater love of the Father. His l...