Portrait Church Podcast

How do we stay close to Jesus while staying close to the people He loves? In Proximity, we explore how loving God and loving our neighbors belong together and how following Jesus through today’s hardest conversations forms us into people of unwavering truth and radical love. We hope you enjoy this new series, Proximity.

How do we stay close to Jesus while staying close to the people He loves? In Proximity, we explore how loving God and loving our neighbors belong together and how following Jesus through today’s hardest conversations forms us into people of unwavering truth and radical love. 

In a broken world, cynicism makes sense. But how can we cultivate a sense of wonder that reflects the hope we have in Jesus? In this message, Dale Chamberlain explores the danger of cynicism, as well as its antidote. Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

Today we celebrate 3 years as a church at Portrait. Today we were reminded of the beauty of our limitations and how they make us dependent on Jesus. As we head into another year, we take the same posture, dependent on what God can only do. Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

Pastor Mark Lee of VantagePoint Church (from our sending church) join us by talking about the dangers of mission drift and the person, power, and product of movements.  Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

In the final message of our CONTEND series, Pastor Jay teaches from Jude 24–25 that the God who calls us to contend for the faith is the same God who faithfully keeps us from falling away. Our confidence rests not in the strength of our grip on God, but in His unwavering grip on us—a grace that will one day present us blameless before His glory with great joy. This message invites us to contend fr...

This week, guest speaker Hakeem Bradley walks us through Jude 20–23 and shows us what contending actually looks like: building our lives on the faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, remaining in God’s love, showing mercy to those who are wavering, and helping pull others back from paths that lead away from Jesus. The faith has been handed down to us. The baton is now in our hands. How will we carry i...

Contending for the faith does not mean fighting people about what we believe—it means faithfully fighting for the gospel entrusted to us. Through the book of Jude, CONTEND explores how to remain grounded in truth, guarded by humility, and responsive with both conviction and love in a culture that constantly tries to pull us off balance. This is not a call to throw more spiritual punches, but to de...

Contending for the faith does not mean fighting people about what we believe—it means faithfully fighting for the gospel entrusted to us. Through the book of Jude, CONTEND explores how to remain grounded in truth, guarded by humility, and responsive with both conviction and love in a culture that constantly tries to pull us off balance. This is not a call to throw more spiritual punches, but to de...

Through the book of Jude, CONTEND explores how to remain grounded in truth, guarded by humility, and responsive with both conviction and love in a culture that constantly tries to pull us off balance. This is not a call to throw more spiritual punches, but to develop a holy posture—secure in the God who keeps us and ready to stand firm whatever comes. This week we hear from one of our global partn...

Vanity is not simply thinking too highly of yourself—it is allowing the most temporary part of you to carry the weight of your identity and worth. In this message, Pastor Jay explores how Jesus frees us from managing our image so our bodies can become offerings of worship, service, and self-giving love. Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

This week, guest speaker Christian Dawson, Pastor of Worship and Gatherings at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon explores the sin of gluttony and how we have the opportunity to learn to eat like Jesus. Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

This week, a Portrait church planter and now Pastor at Seasons Church, Troy Lanning explores the sin of anger and how it hollows out our life, relationships, and witness to God. Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

HOLLOW names the seven ancient enemies—pride, sloth, envy, anger, gluttony, greed, vanity—that quietly drain Spirit-formed fruit from our lives, relationships, and witness to the world. But this series doesn't stop at diagnosis; it's an invitation to let Jesus fill those hollow places with himself. Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

HOLLOW names the seven ancient enemies—pride, sloth, envy, anger, gluttony, greed, vanity—that quietly drain Spirit-formed fruit from our lives, relationships, and witness to the world. But this series doesn't stop at diagnosis; it's an invitation to let Jesus fill those hollow places with himself. Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

HOLLOW names the seven ancient enemies—pride, sloth, envy, anger, gluttony, greed, vanity—that quietly drain Spirit-formed fruit from our lives, relationships, and witness to the world. But this series doesn't stop at diagnosis; it's an invitation to let Jesus fill those hollow places with himself. Luke 18:10-14, Daniel 4:37, 1 Kings 19:10 Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

This Sunday we wrap up our PROOF series where we've explored the fruit of the Spirit—not as something we produce to earn God’s love, but as the evidence that his life is already at work in us. Galatians 5:22-23, Genesis 3, Matthew 4 Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

Guest Speaker Alan Fadling from Unhurried Living joins us as we continue in our series called PROOF where we are exploring the fruit of the Spirit not as something we produce to earn God’s love, but as the evidence that his life is already at work in us. Galatians 5:22-23; Matthew 11:28-30 Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

This Sunday we take a special  A series about redefining what a successful life really looks like. PROOF explores the fruit of the Spirit—not as something we produce to earn God’s love, but as the evidence that his life is already at work in us. Galatians 5:22-23; Hosea 1-3; Lamentations 3:22-23 Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

This Sunday we take a special  A series about redefining what a successful life really looks like. PROOF explores the fruit of the Spirit—not as something we produce to earn God’s love, but as the evidence that his life is already at work in us. Galatians 5:22-23; Genesis 12, 15, 16 Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

We continue in our series titled PROOF. A series about redefining what a successful life really looks like. PROOF explores the fruit of the Spirit—not as something we produce to earn God’s love, but as the evidence that his life is already at work in us. Galatians 5:22-23; 1 Corinthians 6:1-8, Matthew 5:38-42 Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

This Sunday we continue in our series titled PROOF. A series about redefining what a successful life really looks like. PROOF explores the fruit of the Spirit—not as something we produce to earn God’s love, but as the evidence that His life is already at work in us. Galatians 5:22-23, Romans 15:13 Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

This Sunday we continue in our series titled PROOF. A series about redefining what a successful life really looks like. PROOF explores the fruit of the Spirit—not as something we produce to earn God’s love, but as the evidence that His life is already at work in us. Galatians 5:22-23, 1 John 4:7-12 Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/

This Sunday we start a brand new sermon series titled PROOF. A series about redefining what a successful life really looks like. PROOF explores the fruit of the Spirit—not as something we produce to earn God’s love, but as the evidence that His life is already at work in us. Galatians 1:1–10; 2:11–14; 3:27–28; 5:1, 7, 13–14, 22  Visit our website at: https://www.portrait.church/