The Perfecting Church

As Christians, we are engaged in a battle against an evil enemy who is bent on waging war in all dimensions of life. By the power of The Holy Spirit, we are able to overcome and live lives of total … Continue reading →

Our responses to the challenges of this life will drive us deeper into the heart and hopes of God or subject us to temptation’s snare, acting out of the deception that God is not enough. We must be a people … Continue reading →

We will see and live life from a temporal perspective or we will see and live life from an eternal perspective.  A temporal perspective sees, understands and decides based on natural facts and circumstances.  An eternal perspective sees, understands and … Continue reading →

Mourning must be our response when our lives are touched by the fallenness of those close to us; when we see our own sin and when we see the sin of the world around us. When we see and experience … Continue reading →

The suffering we experience in this world is attached to purposes far bigger than our lives. Our willingness to mourn — turning to God persistently with our hurts, disappointments and sorrows — empties us of self-focused and self-contrived remedies and … Continue reading →

White, black, brown, yellow, poor, rich, male, female, tall, short, young, old, educated, self-taught, Christian, Muslim, Jew, married, single and so on — no one is exempt, this life will break you. Jesus knew this and His answer to this … Continue reading →

“God help me!” “Fix it Jesus!” “Save me Lord!” These are all common cries to God in times of trouble. Although necessary, shallow appeals like these frequently cease when we believe we’ve received the answer or help we want, often … Continue reading →

“God help me!” “Fix it Jesus!” “Save me Lord!” These are all common cries to God in times of trouble. Although necessary, shallow appeals like these frequently cease when we believe we’ve received the answer or help we want, often … Continue reading →

We don’t often think of cities in human terms, but we should.  If all we consider when thinking of a city is its crime rate, its poverty, its arts and culture or its sports teams we miss a very real … Continue reading →

Get over it! It’s not that bad. You’ve been through worse. So much of contemporary culture is dominated by an unwillingness to experience and acknowledge mourning and sorrow. In our insatiable efforts to see the bright side of things we … Continue reading →

Our culture is constantly comparing performances to identify greatness. This has shaped our values from inward heart humility to outward performance anxiety.  However the Father is more concerned with our motives than performance.  He speaks to us from a place … Continue reading →

Humanity became orphaned in the garden.  We rejected our spiritual relationship with our Heavenly Father in the first generation of our existence in the earth.  Orphaned hearts are the greatest and most destructive curse in our lives and the earth today. We … Continue reading →

One of the most critical elements to the advancement of the Kingdom of God is the covenant of marriage and the formation of the family unit. Uncontrolled anger and lust are weapons the enemy uses to mitigate divorce and thereby … Continue reading →

Jesus continues to establish His “Kingdom Within” by rescuing us from the eternally destructive power of illicit sexual desire. The enemy of lust has caused more destruction to lives, families, children and society than almost anything that can be named … Continue reading →

Anger is not a result of the fall nor is it a sin to be angry. God gave us emotions and anger is a part of those emotions. But anger, left unsurrendered to God and acted upon is the kiss … Continue reading →