City Collective Podcast

Through a few technical difficulties and some rocky audio, we dove head first into the second installment of Final Words and talked all about Forgiveness. Open up your bible, get to Luke 23:32-38, and let’s get going! If you are in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, come join us for a Sunday! We meet at HD Stafford Middle School in Langley, BC at 10:30am. See you then! 20441 Grade Crescent, L...

Final Words is all about Jesus’ journey to the cross and all the way through Easter, we’re going to follow him there by taking a look at some of the things he said right before this moment. Here’s the catch though, if you don’t believe that the words of Jesus have a lot of impact than talking about his final words won’t have any impact either. Ps Jason challenges us with the question of “What happ...

Boldness & Blessing, a series on the vision of City Collective Church, wrapped up this weekend with an awesome series of messages brought to us in 5 For 5! 5 of our team members took to the platform to speak life and truth into our community. Speaking out of Luke 6, the team spoke on the position of our hearts, the habits that rule us, foundations, obedience, and actually listening to God. Bre...

“Boldness and blessing. Boldness is our responsibility, blessing is God’s, but boldness comes from a place of obedience and placing God as the priority in our story and allowing his desires to become our desires along the way.” The blessing of God is not your responsibility but rather having the boldness to follow Jesus in every facet and every turn of your life is. The call of our community isn’t...

This week Pastor Jason brought us an awesome and real word on love and relationships. With Valentine’s Day coming up, and just in life, we tend to spend a lot of time thinking about relationships and our relationship status. Relationships are awesome but sometimes we place our relationship status with others over our relationship status with God. Ps Jason challenged us with the idea of taking the...

What a weekend!! Baby dedications and baptisms made for an incredible morning and we are so grateful to have been apart of it! This week, we wrapped up our first series of 2020, entitled LONELY, and Pastor Jason brought us a message asking “In a life in which God promises us peace and invited us to experience joy, I am left with the question… Why am I anxious?” We dove into what is the difference...

Intimacy is hard. This week, we kicked off our Lonely series with Guest Preachers Neil and Sharol Josephson. Lonely is all about loneliness and mental health and Neil and Sharol kicked us off by speaking on the topics of intimacy and sex. They challenged us with what it looks like to be intimate with God and others and equipped us with some tools to help grow that intimacy.

These are our essentials. worship. This week Ps. Jason Charles unpacked what makes worship essential in our lives.

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This week Pastor Jason talked about the Apostle Paul and how even though he got a new start on the road to Damascus, It was really just the beginning of His Journey.

What a Sunday!! We got to hear from 5 of our Collective Team Members (Becca, Audry, Benji, Jenn, and Anthony). We gave each of them 5 minutes to preach on the same passage (Romans 5:1-11), and we couldn’t be prouder and more inspired!

We were so excited to have Pastor Nic Arkley join us this past Sunday. Pastor Nic, his wife Sarah, and their two kids, recently moved to Vancouver to plant a new life giving church. This past Sunday, Nic talked about six words in the book of Luke that changed his life and just might change yours.

Have you ever found yourself in a wilderness of some sort. Relational, spiritual, emotional dryness that has been frustrating to navigate through. The story of Jesus in Luke 4 tells of his experience of the wilderness as well but also resonates with the element which often causes us to feel that way: CHANGE. This week Pastor Jason talks about the Tension in the Transition and how the story of Jesu...

This past Sunday we loved having Pastor Shanda Millar from Horizon Church sharing with our community. She opened up our two week series on the Wilderness and the journey that Jesus finds himself on in Luke 4. It was a powerful morning that we hope encourages you today!

We reached the final week of our Throwdown in Torah as Jacob is brought face to face with his brother Esau. 20 years have passed and Jacob is a changed man. However, the last moment he shared with his brother remains the lasting memory of who he believes his brother to be but it is clear that just as Jacob has changed so has Esau. A journey of hurt and mistakes comes together as we see how God is...

This past Sunday we reached the namesake story of our series in Genesis 32 as we find Jacob wrestling with God. Heartache, betrayal, deception and running all have seemingly been common themes in Jacob’s life up to this point and yet in this moment where it seems like he is about to face the consequences for a lifetime of poor decisions God meets him. And not from the sky or in the distance but in...

We all have Bethel’s in our life, these moments that change the trajectory of our lives. Jacob has a moment like this and then experience some pretty extreme family drama. But for the first time instead of being met with anger from his Uncle his met with forgiveness. Pastor Neil considered it all this week from unresolved generational family strife to fear of rejection and ultimately searching for...

Are there moments in your life that you just aren’t yourself? We often think this is a behaviour issue but God leads us to see it is a source issue. Our continued story of Jacob reveals that his pitstop in Bethel was more than a moment where God met him, but it was a moment where God changed him. His actions that followed in the years that followed paint the story of a different man than the one a...

What are you willing to do to achieve your destiny? And what lengths are you willing to go to when you believe that it is a God-given destiny? This is the question we see Rebekah confronted with in the story of Jacob. As he continues to covet the life of his brother Esau. In a culture that is fascinated with the success of others we can relate with the drive behind Jacob’s actions. Desiring the su...

Have you ever made a bad trade? In many ways the story of Jacob and Esau seems ridiculous. A hungry brother, a bowl of red stew, and the trading of a birthright don’t seem to make much rational sense but yet this is our story today. In a world of instant gratification we are constantly find our rationality and our need for a quick fix at odds with one another. Money, Sex, Power and so many other a...

It can often feel like we are simply passengers in the grand story of life. Situations happen, conflict hurts, and our story seems like it is moving quicker than you can respond. In this first week of our journey with Jacob we see how the story seems predetermined for so many of the characters but God is revealed over and over. We dive into the idea of perhaps our journey being important than our...

In the final week of our series on RHYTHMS we talked about the idea of play. If work is about our participation in the ongoing creation of the world around us, and rest is about our intentional stepping away from productivity being our source of value. Then Play is about investing ourselves in a completely different type of outcome. C.S. Lewis said that the greatest thing that the Psalms did for h...

As a church we believe deeply in the need and importance of women within our community. Not simply as a bystander but as leaders, pastors, preachers and care givers of our community. For too long the church was negligent in identifying and celebrating the beauty and importance of woman within our faith. We are missing the fullness and beauty offered to us through Jesus when we do not include or li...

A large portion of our life is committed to the idea of rest but in many ways we treat it as a space of recovery or simply resent how we aren’t being productive in the midst of it. From the very beginning God introduces and models the idea of rest and then invites the Israelites to include it in the rhythms of their lives as well. Rest however, was always about more than simply being a space betwe...