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Brisk Bible teaching for everyday faith.
NOW Church with Richard Perinchief is a church-service podcast built around brisk, scripture-forward preaching and practical spiritual application. Recent messages move from Exodus, 2 Chronicles, Genesis, Matthew, and everyday scripture into decisions about stress, parenting, giving, legacy, and trust.
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NOW Church with Richard Perinchief is a Christian church-service podcast centered on energetic preaching, scripture reading, and practical exhortation. The format keeps the texture of a live service. Episodes often begin with church updates, social media reminders, giving moments, and a direct turn toward the Bible. From there, the teaching moves fast. The show’s recent sermons put strong emphasis on the Bible as the authoritative Word of God, not merely inspirational material or motivational speech. That conviction shapes nearly everything else. In “The Battle Belongs To The Lord,” hardship is treated through Exodus 14 as a question of ownership: if the battle belongs to God, the believer is not meant to carry it the same way. “Rescue Me” continues that line through 2 Chronicles, using King Jehoshaphat’s crisis to speak about fear, threat, and dependence on divine rescue. The seed-life messages take a different route, but they land with the same confidence. Apples, seed packets, tomatoes, peas, corn, germination windows, orchards, and harvest timelines become living pictures of faith, expectation, provision, and generational thinking. Short-term thinking gets challenged. Legacy matters. Children and grandchildren matter. The teaching also moves into home life with “Family Matters,” where scripture becomes a framework for parents passing faith to children through normal daily rhythms rather than rare formal moments. The show can be humorous in passing, with side comments and props breaking up the intensity. It can also become urgent quickly. Sermons slide from explanation into appeal, then into prayer, asking for surrender, perseverance, blessing, and renewed commitment. The result is warm, direct, Bible-saturated preaching for listeners who prefer church teaching with momentum and certainty. It is not a detached theology roundtable. It is practical pulpit ministry, full of repetition, everyday analogies, family concerns, and a steady belief that scripture should change how people carry pressure, plan for the future, raise children, give, hope, and pray.
Made for: Best for Christians who want lively, scripture-heavy church preaching with practical application for family, stress, provision, and spiritual growth. It especially suits listeners comfortable with direct exhortation and prayer.
What sets it apart: The show’s strongest signature is its concrete sermon imagery: battles become questions of ownership, seeds become lessons in harvest, and household routines become places of discipleship. It keeps the cadence and participation of a live church service rather than smoothing everything into studio conversation.
NOW Church began in May 1990 and is located in Ocala, Florida. Led by our Senior Pastors, Richard and Gail Perinchief, NOW Church's mission is building a RELEVANT, CREATIVE church, EMPOWERING people to REACH OTHERS. We will always encourage you, inspire you to move forward, and help you find your purpose! Join us each week to hear a NOW word from God that will affect your everyday life!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Richard Perinchief and fellow pastors connect biblical teaching to family relationships, honest self-examination, daily habits, and life within a church community.
NOW Church with Richard Perinchief turns recorded church services into practical sermons about family life, personal change, faith, and belonging.
At NOW Church with Richard Perinchief, peas and sweet corn might make your hope feel less abstract.
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Seed packet timelines give this sermon a concrete way to talk about sowing and expectation.
A seed packet gives this sermon its shape. The speaker reads the planting and harvest timelines for tomatoes, peas and sweet corn, then asks what it means to sow while waiting for a result. He ties that question to his belief that God built multiplication into creation.
A seed-centered sermon about trusting God's creative word, surrendering to Jesus, and expecting growth from what he plants.
"Seed Life" frames spiritual growth through the image of seed, starting with the idea that God's Word is seed and that every life begins from seed.
A closing message on making everyday family routines part of steady faith formation.
Family Matters closes Now Church's House and Home series by placing faith formation inside the daily rhythms of family life. The message begins with the conviction that God sets the solitary in families, then turns to Deuteronomy for a practical charge: love for God has to take…
A direct sermon on honest self-examination, faithful friendship, and turning to God as the start of change.
Breakthrough Begins With Honesty treats change as a matter of truth before it becomes a matter of behavior. Pastor Chad Braswell grounds the message in Proverbs 27:5-6, drawing out the value of a faithful friend who is willing to speak hard words when silence would be easier.
A graduation service links milestones, persistent prayer, and a salvation invitation to faith carried into the next generation.
The episode treats graduation less as a finish line than as a faith marker. As students move from fifth grade to middle school, eighth grade to high school, and on through high school and college, the service frames those changes as moments to remember God's past faithfulness…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Catholic arguments with pint-table warmth.
Daily headlines under Christian judgment.
Serious Bible questions, patiently reasoned.
Catholic homilies for the next faithful step.
Catholic teaching for ordinary discipleship.
A sermon encouraging listeners to rise above depression and worldly distractions by grounding themselves in the Bible and the Spirit of God during a time of shaking and revival.
Jesus asks a man paralyzed for 38 years, 'Do you want to get well?'—a question that reveals deeper truths about our willingness to change.
["NOW Church\u2019s \"Child Of God\" Promotion Sunday honors fifth graders moving to middle school, eighth graders moving to high school, and graduates from high school and college.", "Pastor Richard and Pastor Kristen use Joshua 1:7, Psalm 78, and Acts 20:24 to define success as knowing Jesus Christ and finishing His work.", "David, Joshua, Jesus, Picasso, Joseph, Elijah, and Elisha are each used to show that preparation and apparent defeat can sit behind public success.", "The closing section adds Havilah Cunnington, Forest Frank, Dr.
Richard Perinchief closes NOW Church's 'Badges of Honor' series by arguing that an 'honor-deficient generation' needs restoration, anchored in Isaiah 58:12 and Proverbs 23.
A church service introduction welcoming a guest pastor from Switzerland who is about to lead a European pastors network.
A sermon about trusting God to rescue you in battles, using the story of King Jehoshaphat from 2 Chronicles 20.
A sermon encouraging listeners to surrender their battles to God, emphasizing that the Bible is the authoritative Word and that believers do not own their problems.
A sermon about the power of seeds as a metaphor for generational blessing and leaving an inheritance for future generations.
A pastor teaches about seed faith, expectation, and God as the source of blessing, beginning a new series on seed life.
NOW Church with Richard Perinchief centers on "seed life" and "seed faith," using 2 Kings 4, 1 Samuel 1, and Luke 6:38 to connect sowing with expectation.
NOW Church's Richard Perinchief uses Genesis 1:11 and Mark 4 to present "seed life" as a pattern in which God says, "the sower sows the word." He ties that teaching to an apple with "eight seeds," saying one seed can become "300 to 350 apples" and then an orchard.
In the sermon 'Family Matters,' Pastors TK and Kristen of Now Church close out the House and Home series by outlining what a spiritually vibrant home looks like, citing 'Barnard group' research on faith, 'loud tables,' open doors, and 'messy prayers.' TK teaches from Matthew 7:24 on building life 'on the rock' and tells the men in the room that following Jesus, not physical strength, defines manhood.
Speaking at NOW Church as part of a series on 'home, house and home,' the pastor teaches from Psalm 68, which describes God as one who 'sets the solitary in families,' and reveals he never had a father living in his household for a single day of his life.
A church service on Vision Sunday where the pastor discusses the importance of having and writing down a vision, using Habakkuk 2:2-3 as the scripture.
A sermon exploring Jesus' identity as the Son of God, contrasting Christmas traditions with true worship, and referencing Daniel 3.
A church service introduction welcoming guest pastor Chad Braswell and highlighting his ministry partnership.
A sermon encouraging believers to rise above depression and worldly influences by grounding themselves in the Bible and the Spirit of God during times of shaking and revival.