Podcast of the Perfecting Church located in Sewell, NJ. For more information visit, www.theperfectingchurch.org
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Join Pastor Donnie McClurkin every week as he dives deep into lessons of faith, family and friendships with a foundation of God's Word. Blessings to all of you! http://perfectingfaith.com/
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In this powerful sermon by Pastor Darrell Blair, he unpacks the story of Mary and Gabriel’s announcement in Luke 1. Pastor Blair highlights Mary’s faith and courage to question amidst challenges, while also drawing lessons from Joseph’s perseverance through hardships. With personal reflections, including overcoming COVID-19, Pastor Blair emphasizes…
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ADVENT FINALE: LOVE: Expecting Love
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The love of God is greater than any love we will ever experience. His love has come down, but it has also come in. His love is in us and is multiplied as we become more like Him. This great love causes us to live in a posture of "expecting". Through triumphs and trials our position is to expect love to show up in it, through it and after it. The bi…
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Drawing from 2 Corinthians 1:15, Bishop Marvin Winans delivers an inspiring sermon on perseverance and faith. This message explores the concept of enduring life’s challenges with God’s grace and anointing. Using the metaphor of a "second wind," he reminds us that God provides renewed strength to sustain us through tough times. Through the story of …
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Jesus came over 2000 years ago and along with His birth He also gave birth to His Body, the Church. Jesus set things straight when He came the first time and He ascended and He now sits at the right hand of the Father but He promised He would return. He left us with power in the form of the Holy Spirit to help us on the journey between His first co…
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Discover the power of obedience, trust, and restraint in this inspiring sermon by Pastor Chauncey Brown. Through the story of Joseph in the New Testament, Pastor Brown reveals how Joseph’s unwavering faith and decision to follow God’s plan—despite challenging circumstances—can inspire us to say "yes" to God’s will. Learn how Joseph's dreams, his ch…
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In this impactful sermon, Pastor James Wilson unpacks the transformative power of the phrase "But God" and its significance in our faith journey. When life feels overwhelming with challenges and setbacks, remembering the pivotal truth of God's divine intervention can change everything. Pastor James explains how the word "but" negates previous circu…
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Pastor Donnie McClurkin shares a powerful message about the importance of faith and trusting God's timing, even when life's storms seem overwhelming. He opens up about a personal experience of being diagnosed with impending blindness and receiving a miraculous second opinion that saved his sight, demonstrating the power of faith and divine guidance…
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In this compelling sermon, Bishop Kenneth Moales, Jr. looked into the thought-provoking theme, "Two Churches But One Christ." He explores the tensions within the Christian community concerning political allegiances, emphasizing the need for believers to prioritize holiness and sanctification. Drawing a stark contrast between modern and traditional …
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The Way of Worship: When We Worship Together
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Corporate worship is a holy, sacred, set apart activity in the earth. There is no other gathering in this temporal world that can replicate what uniquely happens when the saints of God gather to worship Him. In corporate worship God reveals, relocates and realigns. When we worship together, we are changed together.…
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Ever feel like you’re stuck in a situation with no way out? In this powerful sermon, Pastor Dionne dives deep into themes of deliverance and overcoming adversity, drawing wisdom from Psalm 40 and Jeremiah 38. With a message that inspires patience while waiting on God, she shows us how to emerge from life’s quagmires—those difficult, seemingly inesc…
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While the upcoming election is contentious to the point of violence, we as the church must band together in unity for the sake of the gospel. We must bring the good news of the gospel even to a bad situation because we are called to be the peacemakers even in the midst of chaos. Pastor Donnie McClurkin warned us not to be so blinded by politics tha…
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The Way of Worship -- Worship is the Remedy
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Worship is a covenantal act. It is our response to the on-going, faithful commands and covenantal love of the Lord God. He is looking for our worship; not because He needs it, but because He knows we do. Worship is the remedy for our unceasing quest to find wholeness, fruitfulness and fulfillment. Worship is the way we access and extend heaven on e…
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In this powerful sermon, Pastor Donnie McClurkin looked into the heart of Christian faith, drawing from Galatians 3 to highlight that it is faith—not the law—that justifies and sustains believers. Pastor McClurkin addresses the growing influence of political agendas on faith, urging the Church to resist the pull of generalized assumptions, particul…
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The Way of Worship -- The Jealous God
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The Lord God of heaven and earth is a jealous God. In both the Old and New Testament, more than a dozen times, He refers to himself as jealous. The creator of all things has made all things for His beloved. But He will not stand for anything taking His place in our lives. He wants our deepest affections and surrender. He is The Jealous God.…
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The Effectual Prayer of a Righteous Man
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In this powerful testimony, Pastor James Wilson shares the emotional story of his baby girl, Julia, who was born prematurely with life-threatening health complications. Julia's mother recalls the terrifying moments leading up to an emergency C-section, where their baby was born unresponsive, not breathing, and with severe infections and heart condi…
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Healing Wounds of the Heart - Living From and Living For the Very Goodness of God
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Humanity was created to live from and for the very goodness of God. God’s very goodness isn’t the quality or ability of an individual part; God’s very goodness refers to the completeness and wellness of the whole. We were created to live from and for relational wholeness and wellness — the very goodness of God.…
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In an inspiring message, Pastor Donnie McClurkin challenged every believer to avoid engaging and perpetuating in the hostile dysfunctions and maladies of relationships that only lead to divisions and disunity. How can we say that we are the church and body of Christ when we refuse to get along with each other? In his opening text from Psalm 133:1-3…
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Healing Wounds of the Heart: The Shepherd of my Soul
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All too often wounds of the heart atrophy our response to the Shepherd of our souls, causing us to miss the Provision, Protection, and Prosperity our Abba longs to supply. There are rituals and routines, sacred rhythms if you will, that are intended to align us with the rhythm of heaven so that our cadence and movement flow with and follow that of …
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Most of us live life with expectations that are deemed as normal. However, when those normal expectations take a turn for the worse or things become extreme we tend to lose our footing and overall grip on life. Pastor James Wilson, in his message, "You are not normal", asks the question, what do you do when things are not so normal? Do you back awa…
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Healing Wounds of the Heart: Learning to Trust Again and Again
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There are times, when God allows moments that bring us to the end of ourselves; times when we face odds and obstacles that we have no way of overcoming; times when we face enemies and assailants that have every intent on destroying us; times when we see our families, friends, and resources under attack with no way of rescue or relief. But those can…
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In this powerful sermon, we looked into the story in John 5:1-15, exploring the miraculous healing of an invalid on the Sabbath. The message highlights how Jesus overcomes obstacles to bring healing and restoration. We discuss the essential role of mercy in recovery and the importance of guarding ourselves spiritually in a world full of distraction…
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Healing Wounds of the Heart - It All Belongs to Him
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Heart wounds are places of unprocessed pain, hurt and hardship affecting the way we see, feel, believe and behave. Some heart wounds go undetected because they’re caused by shared, socially acceptable and normalized events. There is a dimension of our heart healing and wholeness that only comes when we accept and embrace, It All Belongs to Him.…
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In this powerful sermon, Pastor Rebecca West explores the incredible power of God to help believers overcome life’s toughest challenges. Drawing from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, Pastor West emphasizes the importance of unity, prayer, and practical Christian living. Key teachings include Biblical marriage principles, urging wives to submit to th…
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Healing Wounds of the Heart: My Peace Not The World’s
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There are times when heart wounds — places of unprocessed pain, hurt and hardship effecting the way we see, feel, believe and ultimately behave — are caused by despair and disappointment over what God did or didn’t do. But God never intended on meeting our deepest needs with what could be found in this world. His plan has always been to give us a p…
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In this powerful sermon, Pastor Donnie McClurkin dives deep into the topic of proven faith. Drawing from the Word of God, he explains how faith is not just a belief but something that must be tested through trials in order to grow. True faith is rooted in Scripture, not in personal opinions or feelings. Pastor McClurkin encourages believers to stud…
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Healing Wounds of the Heart -- Being Made Whole
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When our hearts (soul and spirit) are wounded it hinders and corrupts our thoughts actions and motives. Oftentimes, what we describe as, “the way God made us”, is more accurately described as the way life has wounded us. But there is healing for our wounded hearts. God wants us to be made whole. God wants us to learn to live whole. Scripture(s): • …
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I Was Impacted But I'm Not Affected
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In this powerful sermon, Elder James Wilson explores the profound impact of adversity on believers, drawing from passages like 2 Corinthians 4:8-11 and John 16:33. He teaches that while Christians may face trouble, they are not defeated, but instead strengthened through Jesus' victory over the world. Elder Wilson encourages the church to praise God…
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Kevin Brown Sep 5, 2024, 6:30 PM (4 days ago) to Christopher, Deborah, Joy, Michael, Jill, Lee, me Introduction: We live from the heart. It’s the innermost part of our being. We may think with our minds and act from our physical bodies, but we live from the heart. When our hearts are whole, healthy and pure we think and act as powerfully as we were…
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In this compelling sermon, Pastor Donnie McClurkin tackled the critical importance of guarding your heart, as emphasized in Proverbs 4:23. The heart is described as deceitful, often leading us astray through flawed choices and emotions. He explains that only by returning to God, the ultimate creator, can we truly understand and heal our hearts, tho…
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The need for comfort reflects a deep-seated desire that drives people to seek environments that offer safety and peace. Comfort provides a sense of stability and emotional solace which is crucial for coping with life’s challenges and stresses. How does the church create that environment?Af Pastor Omar Reyes
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Life will always have its struggles but these struggles are no surprise to God. Sometimes we forget that God has plans that He purposely structured for us and it includes all of our struggles. Pastor Donnie McClurkin propelled exuberantly from the first part of the text in Philippians 1:6, which says, “being confident”; and revealed to us that God …
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Af Elder Mary Jackson
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The Bible says that God will command the blessings when people come together in unity. Pastor Donnie McClurkin vehemently opposed the widespread division that has found its way into the body of Christ. He ascertained that this division has put the church in a dangerous place because the church is a substratum of hope and help for the world. He admo…
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We all experience it at some point in our lives, the pain of loss. But how we manage it is critical to our faithfulness to God. Discover the Kingdom keys to fully embracing your grief while receiving grace to keep growing through it, so God can get the glory out of it.Af Elder Mike Dixon
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It is really easy to quote the Scriptures, especially during hard times but do we really know or understand their meaning? Elder James Wilson, annexed the promises of God with a charge to never quit amid our struggles. Although we may find ourselves between the purpose of God and the destruction and divisiveness of the world, God will make good on …
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