Passion City Church Podcast

Pastor Ben Stuart // “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:8-10 — New identities bring new activities. When we accept the gift of grace and are raised with Chri...

Pastor Louie Giglio // Written with the single purpose to display the supremacy and sufficiency of Jesus, the book of Colossians answers the two questions every person asks: 

Who am I?
 Why am I here? This week, Pastor Louie Giglio takes us through the book of Colossians to find the answers to these questions; the answers to which determine the direction and quality of all of our lives. Hosted by...

Pastor Ben Stuart // The best change is not a change in circumstances but a change in perspective. — In week two of our Worthy series, Pastor Ben Stuart walks us through the second half of Ephesians 1. Here, Paul prays for the Church in Ephesus with a notable approach. Paul doesn’t ask God to do something new for His people. Instead, he asks that our eyes be opened to the beauty of who God is and...

Pastor Louie Giglio // Pentecost. One of the most significant days in the history of the Church, and yet most of us don't stop to contemplate what took place on that day, and what it means for us today. — The power of the Holy Spirit. That's what was given to us on Pentecost. The power to carry out the calling on our lives to spread the name and fame of Jesus. If we aren't aware of it we can spend...

Pastor Ben Stuart // Partakers become proclaimers. When we taste and see that The Lord is good, the most natural thing to do is celebrate Him! — To kick off our new series, Worthy, Pastor Ben Stuart walks us through the spiritual blessings we’ve been given in Christ (Ephesians 1). These gifts are offered freely to us. All we have to do is say yes! — As we begin to understand the gifts we have in C...

Pastor Louie Giglio // "Do not gloat over me my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light." Micah 7:8 — God has a message for you today. By faith, even a tiny bit of faith in Jesus, you are going to rise. No matter how hard or far you have fallen, you are going to rise.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for...

Pastor Ben Stuart // Because the world of information can be tapped into at any moment, it has invaded every moment. — What do we run to when we’re in pain? What do we do when we’re uncomfortable? The truth is, many of us tend to look for ways to distract ourselves from what’s really going on within us, usually through technology. — This week Pastor Ben Stuart challenges us to turn away from diver...

Pastor Louie Giglio // "You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows." Psalm 23:5 — Jesus has prepared a place for you and Him to be in a relationship. A place where you can come to Him and receive the truth of who He says you are. The trouble is that too often there is a third party at our table. The enemy is constantly prowl...

Pastor Ben Stuart // There’s a tendency in us to run from the leadership of God, and there’s a tendency in God to chase after us. We love that about Him when it involves us or people we like, but what about when that same grace is extended to our enemies? — In Jonah chapter 4, Jonah is angry with God for offering grace to his enemies. Jonah’s problem is with love. This week Pastor Ben Stuart chall...

Pastor Louie Giglio // Even when war breaks out against me, I will remain confident. In the second part of our EVEN THOUGH series, Pastor Louie Giglio encourages us to build a defiant faith which can stand despite the very visible arrows of our enemies. — In 2 Kings 6 Elisha's, his eyes were open to see what his servant could not; Elisha had a defiant faith that allowed him to see the unseen prote...

Pastor Ben Stuart // The grace of God is powerful enough to save anyone. The heart of God is compassionate enough to want to. — If your heart is going to beat in rhythm with God’s, you need to know what His heart is like. God never counts people out. In compassion, He moves toward the hurting. He dives into the depths and rescues the lost, and He doesn’t stop there! He uses our pain as a platform...

Pastor Louie Giglio // So many stories sound like this, “I was a person of God, I heard the messages and sang the songs, and then life happened; the night grew dark, and when I couldn’t see what God was doing, I swore to never darken the door of the Church again.” — As we kick-off our new series, EVEN THOUGH, Pastor Louie Giglio has a goal for all of us; That we would become a people who move from...

Pastor Ben Stuart // There’s a tendency in God to chase us and give us life, not because of something beautiful in us; because of something beautiful in Him. — That's the thing about a gift. Whether you feel worthy or not doesn’t matter. God's love is not motivated by or contingent upon your worthiness, after all, grace is when undeserving people receive an unbelievable gift from an unobligated gi...

Pastor Chad Veach, ZOE CHURCH // It's not if, it's when. There will be times when life isn't working out; when you fail; when disappointment and destructive thinking get the better of you. These are the critical moments where our minds become battlefields and the stakes are so high. — “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what...

Pastor Ben Stuart // Washington D.C. In 1981 Steve Callahan's 21-foot sailboat was holed beyond repair sometime in the middle of the night. For the next 76 days he drifted in nothing but a life raft. Having lost a third of his body weight, dehydrated and starving, Steve Callahan fashioned three pencils into a device that allowed him to gather his bearings from two fixed points in the sky, steer hi...

Brett Younker   For so many of us, the word "Calling," has become equivalent with our role, or even our job. We agonize over it, stress about what and who we will become one day, and feel useless when our position doesn't match up with the calling we've felt led to. — But the truth is this; our ultimate and primary calling is to follow God. That's it. To study His Word so that we can kno...

Grant Partrick // Rankings. We're a culture that is obsessed with them. Check any website these days and you'll find any number of Top 10 articles and videos. No matter how old or young we are we find ourselves constantly measuring ourselves against some system designed to give everyone else a metric of our worth. — Except for Jesus. In the Kingdom of Jesus, there is only one ranking system, for e...

Pastor Ben Stuart // We all love stories; tales of good and evil, legends of heroes and tragedies of villains. It's why we flood into bookstores and theatres, to escape into stories we believe could never be our own. — But here's the thing, many of us will walk through life without realizing that we are actually a part of the greatest story that has ever unfolded. The life, death, and resurrection...

Pastor Louie Giglio // In 1977 Voyager left our atmosphere carrying with it a golden record. Filled with the ambient sounds of Earth, greetings spoken in languages from all over the World, and instructions on how to listen to them was it ever found, this record was our message to the stars. — Four decades later, we have the opportunity to hear a different message, one that has come from significan...

Pastor Ben Stuart // Each and every one of us will slip up, make a mistake, chose something other than Jesus. The fundamental question that we have to ask ourselves is; What does God think of me when I fail? For most of us, it’s natural for us to assume that on the other side of failure lies judgment, shame, and abandonment; after all, that’s what we see all around us. — But God… — God responds to...

Pastor Louie Giglio // All of us have experienced failure. Maybe it was the disappointment of dreams unrealized, or the death of a relationship we thought would last forever. No matter what it was, each of us has felt the sting of something coming to an end and had the thought, “surely this is unredeemable.” — But, there is Good News. — In the economy of God, nothing is unredeemable. Whatever you...

Pastor Louie Giglio // Euangellion. Gospel. Good News. — So many of us walk through life with the idea that God is the bearer of bad news. It holds us back from Him, preventing us from even desiring a relationship with the King of the Universe. But here's the truth. Jesus is the Good News. His message of redemption, His very life on this Earth and His sacrifice on our behalf are the greatest news...

Pastor Louie Giglio // Eventually, we all have to have a Lift-Off moment in our lives. Yes, we need to prepare, to train, to rehearse, but if the lift-off never happens then it’s possible we’ll have wasted our journey around the Sun. — Today can be the day that you say to God that you are ready to do something with Him this year. Today could be the day that you start to repair that relationship, t...

Pastor Brad Jones // None of us are on this journey alone. We fly through the galaxy surrounded by 7+ Billion other people, and yet amidst all of them, the feeling of loneliness is at an all-time high. It’s a wild thought, that in the most connected time in human history we can genuinely feel as though we have no one in our corner. — On this trip around the sun you and I have the opportunity, and...

Pastor Louie Giglio // None of us our on this journey around the Sun alone. 7+ Billion people share our planet, and the truth is that throughout the World, throughout your Country, and even in your Neighborhood and church are people who disagree with you on the matters you hold closest. and yet... they will know us by our love. On this journey around the Sun, we can choose to be peacemakers and un...