Port City Community Church Podcast

Our vision for the future isn’t simply about reaching the next generation but rather about working together so that a generation yet to be born will have a view and reverence for God… a vision for His Kingdom, and to find their place in the story of His redemption.   On today's Midweek Meditation, Mike leads us through a contemplative reflection through week five of our series, Radical.

A church is only as strong as its willingness to prioritize the next generation, so we want to be a church that invests in those who come after us - to know them, love them, and share the love and hope of Jesus Christ. God’s love involves a generational expression and generational responsibility. It requires a shared commitment displayed through personal ownership. Serving is the language of love....

On today's Midweek Meditation, Geoff Banks leads us through a contemplative reflection through Psalm 16:1-5 and week three of our series, Radical.

During this special worship gathering, Mike Ashcraft leads our community through a reflective exercise utilizing Psalm 16. While reflecting on the words, we take a moment to breathe and fill ourselves with hope, courage, and faith. 

Today we will take a look at John 13, the story of Jesus washing his disciples' feet. We can learn much about God's character from this passage, but today we will focus on humility. Humility is the security that comes from a clear and accurate view of yourself. On today's Midweek Meditation, Zack leads us through a contemplative reflection on Jesus' humility and week three of our s...

We live in a culture where we will likely be taken advantage of, so it makes sense to “keep first” and experience the need to preserve. Unfortunately, the posture to preserve finds its root in the soil of distrust. However, the gospel invites us to live differently amid a broken world filled with broken trust. If our posture isn’t self-centered, then it must be directed outward. The expression of...

Often, our conscious or subconscious thought is that if we give  too much , there won't be enough, and we will be left wanting, needing, or without. So, we tend to withhold or ensure we have what we need first and then offer our surplus. But when we trust God, we find He is working to help us want to do what is good- and even more, He gives us the power to do it! On today's Midweek Meditat...

Living in a culture of distrust, we hesitate to give ourselves away fully. Having been burnt, taken advantage of, or let down, we resist getting involved and responding to the needs around us. Life without love is to live without an adequate foundation for the relationships we long for. Nothing holds us together, so we drift apart— disintegrated, distrusting, undermined. The opposite of serving is...

This past Sunday, we began a new teaching series on serving called "Radical." But what does serving have to do with "the life we are searching for?" On today's Midweek Meditation, Clay leads us through a contemplative reflection through Mark 8:35 and week 1 of our series, Radical.

The way of Jesus stands in stark contrast to that of the world.  In God’s Kingdom, greatness doesn’t come from selfish ambition, entitlement, and making a name for ourselves but instead takes root through humility, sacrificial love, and giving ourselves away for the sake of those around us.  Christ redefined greatness by flipping its pursuit upside down. The world’s version and vision for greatnes...

"Can I lose my salvation?” is the question that emerges when we view grace through a transactional model and a crime and punishment view of the Gospel. Instead of trying to figure out if we can lose our salvation, what if instead, we learned to find it? We find salvation by finding His grace sufficient in the moment for the moment. We allow the weight of our desires and emotions to rest on th...

What is Holy Week? Why is it important? How do we participate? In today’s Midweek Meditation, we discuss all these things and more! To further engage with our Holy Week resources and plans, check out portcity.church/holyweek 🕊️

We live in a world where force or threat of force ultimately gets stuff done and makes things happen. Our violent tendencies are more subdued than we might think. Yet, violence is often the most natural overflow of disappointment or threat to our way of life. Palm Sunday confronts us with two opposing ways of ordering our lives. There is a confounding and disruptive nature to the way of Jesus. He...

The church is simply a community of ordinary people gathered around an extraordinary God! When we gather on a Sunday we bring with us our everyday ordinary, often messy, lives. We show up with our victories and defeats, our successes and failures, and our hopes as well as our fears. When we are courageous enough to bring both, a beautiful collision takes place where we as a community can be known,...

Mistakes, failures, and shortcomings are not a sign of weak faith, but rather a sign of being human. Often we evaluate the health of our life with God with a scorecard of successes and failures, when in reality we could better measure it by our readiness to return to God. There are no shortcuts for formation. We must be committed and continue. A life with God will inevitably be marked by mistakes,...

Keeping in step with the Spirit is an unfamiliar way in the grind of life. The middle is where we want to speed up and get on with it or get out of it. Working for the weekend often has us walking right past Wednesday. Yet, we must create a space in the middle to pause and reflect. By finding hope in the middle, we honor the mundane. God breathes life in the little moments, where we experience a d...

Your everyday ordinary life matters extraordinarily. The small moments that make up your day matter more than you realize. Life with God is not primarily experienced in a Sunday Gathering, a midweek Small Group, or even a daily quiet time- no matter how good or how critical we believe them to be. Rather your life with God is experienced and expressed in the everyday ordinariness of your actua...

The journey of faith isn't a quick fix for a good life, but rather a way of life that requires attentiveness, resolve, and stubborn faithfulness. It can be easy to let our lives drift toward apathy, but devotion to God leads us to continue pursuing God, trusting that when we draw near to God, God draws even nearer to us! Gracious resistance prioritizes God’s presence over our comfort. We pray that...

Because of the way Daniel had served and been helpful in the past, he was remembered in a time of need and called upon. Despite the fact that Daniel had a different God, served the previous king, and came from a different culture, he was still valued and trusted. When we do life with God well and live as citizens of heaven in the midst of today's culture, even outsiders see value. There is a perva...

The world's wisdom is unfulfilling and empty - we demand things from it that it will never be able to give us. The rule of fear that governs worldly wisdom is a force that operates out of deficiency, while the power of God's love works out of abundance. Disorder follows anywhere endless comparison and competition are present. Where the world's wisdom fails, God's wisdom prevails. When we learn to...

As followers of Jesus and citizens of God’s Kingdom, Daniel’s story is our story- we too live exiled in a foreign land, in a culture that is drastically different from the culture of God’s Kingdom. We can respond to this dynamic in several different ways. We can attempt to force the world’s culture to make ourselves more comfortable or we can slowly begin to assimilate into the culture we are surr...

Choosing a word isn’t the finish line, but the starting point. We might not know what the new year will bring or the circumstances we will encounter, but by committing to a word, we have a lens to assess our response to them and see God at work. Mark a moment, draw a line in the sand, and gather stones to build a monument that declares your dependence on God for all He has in store for you in 2023...

We are always becoming, always being formed. The question is what is shaping us? Are we going to fall into old habits and thought patterns that keep us repeating what we’ve always done? Or can we see something different? Can we develop a vision for who God wants us to become and remain with Him as He forms His heart in us? The steps we take determine the life we experience. By choosing a word, we...

Change is possible, but focus is required. God created us to live in a way and at a pace that He established. He made a way for us to experience the life He has intended us to live and become the kind of person He's calling us to be. Rather than doing nothing about everything, My One Word invites us to do something about one thing.  In today's Midweek Meditation, we sit down with our College...

We live in a constantly and chronically distracted world, leaving us in a state of partial attention. The pace of our lives seems to force us to divide our attention to get everything done. Our diverted mind takes an unintended toll on our hearts. What catches our eye will capture our hearts and garner our affection. We need to pay attention to what we pay attention to. God is always at work aroun...