Passion City Church Podcast

As the church, it can feel like we have to have it all together all of the time, to avoid talking about where we are, where we’ve been, or what we’ve walked through. Our prayer is that this message is just the starting place for us to let go of those expectations, to be a church where we open up and ask Jesus to use our stories in order to shine His light into the darkness. — “I will not die, but...

“If we could see what happens when we pray, we would never cease to pray.” Everybody is a candidate to put their faith and trust in Jesus, and God wants you, a carrier of His light, to be in the story when they do. The Be Bright series may be over, but really it’s just getting started. As each of us goes out into our week, as we shine the light and love of God in our workplaces and classrooms, to...

“To all of us who have found freedom, forgiveness, and hope in Jesus, we need to be thinking about the people around us and doing whatever it takes to take that message to them.”   In week four of our series, BE BRIGHT, Pastor Louie Giglio digs into the story of Paul in Athens as a perfect example of what it means to be bright to the people around us whenever we are.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsW...

“We are God’s Plan A for reaching the city and the world.” In week three of our series, BE BRIGHT, Pastor Grant Partrick reminds us that although it may be intimidating to share the Gospel with the World if we can get the reward in our sight we will endure the trial because at the end of the day that is why we have been sent into it, to be bright. “Even though I am free of the demands and expectat...

“You cannot be bright in a darkened world unless you have walked in the path of truth.”   In week two of our new series, BE BRIGHT, Pastor Louie Giglio wants us to remember that what the World needs is for all of us to be transformed by the Word of God so that when God sends us into the World we shine brightly. It’s not enough just to be right all of the time if we are not shining with the love, t...

“God is not designing you to blend in, God has designed you to shine bright.” Kicking off our new series, BE BRIGHT, Pastor Louie Giglio brings a powerful message of hope. For those who have put their faith in Jesus the need to strive in order to stand out is over. Just as a lightbulb shines bright because the power running through it illuminates the filament, we are at our brightest when the powe...

“You will never be fully you without us and we will never be fully us without you.” Pastor Ben Stuart dives into the book of Philippians reminding us that no one unifies just for the sake of unity - we unite around a common purpose. We need community, and we are in a community, that has linked with the best of all causes; running with the best of all Kings! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company...

In this incredible message from Sunday, Jay and Katherine Wolf recount the journey they have walked through with God and show us that you can survive anything when you learn to redefine everything. Suffering will come to all of us, it's part of being human, but through knowing Jesus we can come to a place where we suffer with strength. Learn more about SUFFER STRONG and pre-order here: https://www...

“Any act of love that is given to our amazing God will be used as a weapon of unbelievable breakthrough if we understand just how much God loves people.” This week Hillsong NYC Pastor, Carl Lentz, brings us an incredible message around how we can see people the way God does, and in the same way, begin to love them that way as well. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for...

In this week's closing talk from our EXTRAVAGANT series, Pastor Louie Giglio shares a message that's for everyone. We have an invitation today—God is seeking worshippers! Love is what produces worship. The Church owes it to the world to present a decent representation of the person and finished work of Jesus as we gather to worship. Jesus' sacrifice of love for us in the form of radical grace, tri...

“We can move the heart of God.” — That is no small thought, that each of us can touch the heart of God through our sacrifice of worship. As Pastor Louie Giglio continues our EXTRAVAGANT series he reminds us of the true nature of worship; that as we lay things on the altar of praise, God is paying attention. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our col...

This week, Pastor of McLean Bible Church, David Platt, gives us three critical questions for us to use to evaluate how we are following Jesus. Are you going to choose comfort or are you going to choose The Cross? Are you going to settle for maintenance, or are you going to sacrifice for the mission? Will your life be marked by an indecisive mind or an undivided heart? With as many as two billion p...

This week, Pastor of Fresh Life Church, Levi Lusko, gives us three crucial instructions when it comes to putting a line in the sand and deciding to fight for the person God intended us to be. — Whether you recognize it or not, you're at war with yourself. There's anxiety. Selfishness. Self-sabotaging tendencies. Narcissism. The black dog of depression. The inability to do the great things you long...

For worship to take place there has to be a sacrifice. If we want the fire to fall on our lives, we have to ask ourselves if we have laid anything of value on our altar? This week Pastor Louie Giglio dives into the true meaning of worship, and what it looks like to live a life committed to bringing glory to Jesus: What are you trusting in more than God that needs to go onto the altar today? Which...

"Sacrifice equals new ground." — In this kick-off message to our new series, EXTRAVAGANT, Pastor Louie Giglio reminds us of the sacrifice that God made on our behalf through Jesus, and how our response to that says everything about how that sacrifice has influenced us. — Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess...

There are words that change everything for us. Words that build us up, and words that tear us down. There are words we welcome, ones we invite into the deepest parts of our hearts, and there are words that no matter how we try to fight them they find their way in to hurt us. This week Pastor Louie Giglio wants to encourage you around which words are which so that you can know the words that Jesus...

"To make Jesus a part of your life, but not the point of your life, is to waste your life." — This week, Breakaway Ministry leader, Timothy Ateek wants us to know that with Jesus there is always more than we can see. Yes, what is in front of us is important. Yes, sometimes it's hard to see past the circumstances and challenges of life. But with Jesus, in Jesus, there is always more. — Fo...

This week, Pastor Brad Jones wants to know what our mindset is like day in and day out as we navigate the external pressures of life. Are we acting like we have to take on every challenge on our own? The mindset we view the obstacles we come up against ultimately says everything about our view of God as well. Do we trust that God is for us? Do we live like we know the God of all grace has promised...

“For many of you, your biggest problem is not your problems, it’s your anxiety about your problems.” — Jesus presents anxiety as one of the biggest impediments to seeking the Kingdom of God. For many of us, worries and anxiety in life keep us from all we are meant to be under God. This week, Pastor Ben Stuart reminds us that there is an invitation to cast our cares on Him. Our anxieties are not to...

The power of genetics is happening right before your eyes. You can deny it or try and beat it all you want, but eventually, we all begin to look more and more like our parents. This is the normal outcome of growing older. Here's what is also true; You have the potential to grow up and look like your Heavenly Father. In appearance and attitude, we become what we model ourselves on, and in the same...

Every one of us has a family tree. We may or may not love every branch, some may be more complicated than we care to admit, but as we walk through life the limbs of our tree can determine a lot about us. That is until we realize that through Jesus we have been adopted into a new family tree. One where our perfect Heavenly Father has brought us into His fold as a loved son or daughter. That’s the t...

In one way or another, each of us has experienced some brokeness in our Earthly Dads. Some have been Absent or Abusive, others saw love as a reward to give out based on our performance. There were passive dads and antagonistic dads. Each of these left us with flawed views of fatherhood in general, and therefore flawed truths about what our Heavenly Father must be like. In part two of our series, N...

Fatherhood matters. It matters to God, and it matters to us. So many of us are growing up fatherless, whether it’s because of illness, absence, or attitude. We carry these wounds with us for the rest of our lives, and even if don’t mean to we attach those same feelings to our relationship with our Heavenly Father. But God is not a reflection of our Earthly father, He is the perfection of him. In t...

Friday night and Sunday morning. The account of all that happened that weekend adds up to one truth; that when Jesus died, was buried, and rose, people put their faith in Him. Jesus knew that we were both spirit and flesh, and just as our flesh will fade, sin will lead to the death of our spirit. This is why Jesus did what He did. It’s why He gave His life on a cross, why he gave up His last breat...

Leading into Holy Week, Grant Partrick reminds us of the ultimate “yes,” that Christ gave in the Garden of Gethsemane. Faced with death, and even worse, separation from His Father for the first time in history, Jesus looked at what was in front of Him and said, “Not my will, but Yours.” Our obedience is measured in the same way. How do we respond to God when our desires come to an intersection wit...