Port City Church

Encountering Jesus – Ep 09 – Luke 18:9-17

C.S. Lewis famously said, "Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

Encountering Jesus – Ep 08 – Luke 15:11-32

One of the most famous stories that Jesus ever told was the Prodigal Son.

Encountering Jesus – Ep 10 – Luke 19:1-10

The gospel changes us and maybe nowhere is that more evident in the life of a follower of Jesus than in his/her wallet.

Encountering Jesus – Ep 11 – Luke 22:1-23

Jesus became sin so that we could be forgiven of our sin.

What's the Point? – Ep 01 – Ecclesiastes 1:1-18

Is there meaning to life? If so, what is it and is there any way for us to find it?

From Outcast to Evangelist – John 4

The mission of Port City Church is to help others encounter Jesus and follow his way.

What's the Point? – Ep 02 – Ecclesiastes 2:18-26

The saying goes all work and no play but sometimes it can feel like all work and no meaning.

Encountering Jesus – Ep 12 – Luke 24:36-53

It’s been said that last words are lasting words. Here in Luke 24, after Jesus has been resurrected from the dead, he...

The Lost Sheep – Matthew 18

At Port City Church we pursue the one. The Apostle Paul says in Philippians 2 that Jesus "emptied Himself, by taking...

What's the Point? – Ep 03 – Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

Spring flowers, summer breeze, fall leaves, and snowflakes in winter.

What's the Point? – Ep 04 – Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

Sometimes life feels like it would be better if it were just us.

What's the Point? – Ep 05 – Ecclesiastes 5:10-6:12

As Notorious B.I.G. put it best, "mo money mo problems." Thousands of years prior the writer of Ecclesiastes said much...

What's the Point? – Ep 06 – Ecclesiastes 7:1-24

What happens when life’s biggest questions and most difficult issues press in on the foundations of what we believe...

What's the Point? – Ep 07 – Ecclesiastes 9:1-10

Death and taxes... the only two things that are certain in life.

What's the Point? – Ep 08 – Ecclesiastes 10:1-11:8

What’s the plan... for your life that is? Do you know who you want to become and what are you doing to get there?

But God – Ep 01 – Ephesians 1:3-14

Ephesians begins with an astounding statement about who we are but more specifically about whose we are.

Generous Justice – Amos 8:4-10, 9:7-15

As Followers of Jesus we are not saved to pool God’s grace but to create a pipeline from which that grace flows.

What's the Point? – Ep 09 – Ecclesiastes 12:1-14

The end of the matter. After a life of experimenting with work, pleasure, possessions, power and an assortment of...

But God – Ep 02 – Ephesians 2:1-10

But God. It’s in those two words that we find the essence of the gospel. Two words.

But God – Ep 03 – Ephesians 2:11-22

The passage culminates with these beautiful word pictures of who we are in Christ – our identity.

But God – Ep 05 – Ephesians 4:1-16

Every doctors appointment you’ve ever been to involves checking your temperature, your blood pressure, and a host of...

But God – Ep 08 – Ephesians 5:21-33

As the famous line from Princes Bridge goes: “Mawwiage is what bwings us together today.

But God – Ep 04 – Ephesians 3:14-21

A thriving prayer life. We all want one but let be honest – it can often feel elusive.

But God – Ep 09 – Ephesians 6:1-9

Parenting and work can be two of the most pressure-inducing and stress-filled environments in our life.

But God – Ep 07 – Ephesians 5:1-20

“Walk This Way” by Aerosmith became a Billboard top 100 song 45 years ago.

But God – Ep 10 – Ephesians 6:10-20

Sometimes life can feel like an all out war. According to Paul… it is.

Expected Jesus – Ep 01 – Free (Isaiah 61)

Free. We sense it's true... at times we can feel the weight of it bearing down on us.

Thorn in the Flesh – 2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Weakness. Everything in our culture tells us that we are to run from, avoid, and eliminate all forms of weakness in...

Expected Jesus – Ep 02 – Rest (Matthew 11)

Rest. Real rest can oftentimes sound like a pipedream. Whether it’s chaos at work or chaos in the home – rest can seem...

Expected Jesus – Ep 03 – Hope (Isaiah 9)

Hope. In a world that is increasingly full of brokenness, violence, pain, and injustice, hope can sometimes be hard to...

Expected Jesus – Ep 04 – Joy (1 Peter 1)

Joy. Status, security, and stuff. The more of these we possess, we’re told, the happier or more joyful we will be.

Search for a King – Ep 01 – 1 Samuel 1

Self-worth, security, and satisfaction. We are all on a search for these three essential ingredients to life.

Online Content – December 31st, 2023

What the writer of the book of Hebrews promises us is that in the midst of life’s greatest victories and in the valley...

Romans VIII – Ep 01 – Romans 8:1-17

How does one man’s suffering 2000 years ago on a cross have anything to do with my life today?

Search for a King – Ep 02 – 1 Samuel 2:1-11

We are all worshipers. We were all created to love something ultimately because to love is to be human.

Romans VIII – Ep 03 – Romans 8:31-39

In a new year we often need to be reminded of two simple yet profound truths.

Romans VIII – Ep 02 – Romans 8:18-30

The New Year isn’t a magical reset button for the circumstances of your life.

Search for a King – Ep 03 – 1 Samuel 2:11-36

God’s judgment paves the way for the salvation of His people.

Search for a King – Ep 04 – 1 Samuel 3

All of us want or desire a vibrant and purpose-filled life.

Search for a King – Ep 05 – 1 Samuel 4-6

Often imitated but never duplicated. That is a phrase we hear often to market everything from energy drinks to sports...

Search for a King – Ep 06 – 1 Samuel 8

Chapter 8 is a turning point in the book of 1 Samuel because it’s in chapter 8 that Israel makes a demand for an...

This is the Gospel – Ep 01 – Colossians 1:15-20

The gospel depends entirely upon the supremacy of Christ over all things.

This is the Gospel – Ep 02 – Titus 2:11-12

The same gospel that has the power to save us from our sin is the same gospel that has the ability to shape our lives.

This is the Gospel – Ep 03 – John 3:16-17

Martin Luther called John 3:16 “the gospel in miniature”.

Search for a King – Ep 09 – 1 Samuel 17

David and Goliath is probably the most well known Bible story in the entirety of Scripture.

Search for a King – Ep 08 – 1 Samuel 16

Chapter 16 begins with Samuel in despair and grief over God’s rejection of Saul as king.

Search for a King – Ep 07 – 1 Samuel 13

Choking under pressure, King Saul begins to show his true colours.

Search for a King – Ep 12 – 1 Samuel 25

"Why did I do that?" Every single one of us has uttered that phrase at multiple points in our life because every...

Search for a King – Ep 10 – 1 Samuel 18:1-9

Friendship might just be one of the most misunderstood and misapplied concepts in our culture today.

Search for a King – Ep 11 – 1 Samuel 24

No one likes to wait. In fact, waiting might be one of the most difficult and frustrating things we do multiple times...

The Parable of the Talents – Matthew 25:14-30

Is it possible to waste your life? The Bible clearly warns us about this possibility.

Search for a King – Ep 14 – 1 Samuel 31

In 1 Samuel 31 we reach the end of Saul’s time as king and subsequently the end of his life.

Search for a King – Ep 13 – 1 Samuel 28

Is it possible to go to church, serve in your community, give money to charity, be a good person or even tell other...

Neighbours & Nations – Ep 01 – Jonah 1

John Piper famously said, "Missions exists because worship doesn’t.

Neighbours & Nations – Ep 02 – Jonah 2

If missions is about bringing the worship of God to all people, then as missionaries we are bearers and bestowers of...

Neighbours & Nations – Ep 03 – Jonah 3

Everyone likes a good comeback story. In Jonah chapter 3, we see Jonah getting a second chance.

Neighbours & Nations – Ep 04 – Jonah 4

The ending of the book of Jonah is a bit of a quandary. It leaves us with a lot of unknowns but it also leaves us with...

The Book of Psalms – Ep 01 – Psalm 1

The Psalms are the language of the soul and they provide for us the full expression and experience of a real life...

The Book of Psalms – Ep 02 – Psalm 3

All of us have things that we fear in our life - big fears, small fears, normal fears, irrational fears, which is why...

The Book of Psalms – Ep 04 – Psalm 16

Where is man at the greatest point in his life? What experiences of life are enough to fulfill, either in life or in...

The Book of Psalms – Ep 03 – Psalm 8

All of us want to know that we have meaning in life. The bad news, though, is that sin has caused us to completely...

The Book of Psalms – Ep 06 – Psalm 24

Psalm 24 shows us the extent of God’s right over everything. This is good news for those who follow Christ.

The Book of Psalms – Ep 05 – Psalm 23

This life is full of deep, dark valleys—places of hurt, pain and ultimately death.

The Book of Psalms – Ep 07 – Psalm 27

Psalm 27 shows us that there is one thing in this life that we cannot live without.

The Book of Psalms – Ep 09 – Psalm 34

The gospel is an invitation to find our full satisfaction in God.

The Book of Psalms – Ep 08 – Psalm 32

In the quiet moments of life—when all the distractions fade—we are all too familiar with that nagging feeling of guilt.

The Gospel of Mark – Ep 02 – Mark 1:14-34

Every single one of us has been invited to something in our life. However, not all invitations are created equal.

The Gospel of Mark – Ep 01 – Mark 1:1-13

For hundreds of years people have been ignoring the reality of Jesus or pretending that the person and work of Jesus...

The Gospel of Mark – Ep 04 – Mark 5:21-42

What do we do with Jesus? Is He someone to ignore and hide from, or use for our own personal gain?

The Gospel of Mark – Ep 05 – Mark 7:1-23

The Gospel of Mark – Ep 03 – Mark 4:35-41

We arrive at another great miracle of Jesus! Jesus does the seemingly impossible by calming a severe storm to display...

The Gospel of Mark – Ep 06 – Mark 8:27-38

We have come to a major turning point in the book of Mark.

The Gospel of Mark – Ep 07 – Mark 9:2-29

We need Jesus for all of life. In Mark 9 we see Jesus on both the mountaintop and in the valley…And what we see is...

The Gospel of Mark – Ep 09 – Mark 11:1-18

Often the last words of someone’s life (or last acts) are usually lasting.

The Gospel of Mark – Ep 08 – Mark 10:1-12

In Mark 10 Jesus reinstates God’s design for marriage. We see that marriage is sacred and it is established upon an...

The Gospel of Mark – Ep 10 – Mark 12:28-34

Legendary baseball player Frank Robinson said, “Close only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades.

The Gospel of Mark – Ep 11 – Mark 14:22-42

When something becomes commonplace, it can lose its impact.

The Promised King – Ep 01 – Ruth 1:1-22

How many of us have ever wondered… God where are you? God what are you up to right now? God are you even real?

The Gospel of Mark – Ep 12 – Mark 15:42-16:8

To be human is to hope. Hope is an essential part of human existence.

The Promised King – Ep 02 – Ruth 2:1-23

Many of us find ourselves asking, “Is this really all there is? Is this what life has come to?

The Promised King – Ep 03 – Ruth 3:1-18; 4:1-12

Every one of us is trusting in something to take care of us and that thing that you put the weight of their life on.

The Promised King – Ep 04 – Ruth 4:13-22

Our life resembles that of a journey and more often than not we want our life to look like that of a straight and flat...

More Than Enough – Ep 01 – Colossians 1:1-14

What does it mean to be gospel-centred? In Christian circles we may hear this term used, without understanding what it...

More Than Enough – Ep 03 – Colossians 1:24-2:5

What is success in the Christian life? At the end of Colossians 1, Paul says that he has endured a great deal of...

More Than Enough – Ep 02 – Colossians 1:15-23

Blaise Pascal famously said, “All men seek happiness. This is without exception.” We are all on a fulfillment quest.

More Than Enough – Ep 04 – Colossians 2:6-23

Any parent, grandparent, aunt/uncle knows the exciting AND terrifying feeling of watching a child learn how to walk.

A New Creation for a New Year – 2 Corinthians 5:17

As we step into the beginning of a new year, there's something exhilarating about the idea of starting fresh.

More Than Enough – Ep 06 – Colossians 3:18-4:1

All of us want thriving relationships in our life and yet many of our marriages, homes, and work places are full of...

More Than Enough – Ep 05 – Colossians 3:1-17

Here in chapter three, the book of Colossians takes a bit of a turn.

Movement – Ep 01 – Acts 1:1-11

One thing that is true of human nature is that we all want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.

Movement – Ep 02 – Acts 2:1-41

The day of Pentecost is a significant moment in Christian history, even the history of the world.

Movement – Ep 03 – Acts 2:42-47

The church was more than merely an event that happened at Pentecost – it was now the vehicle by which the kingdom of...

Movement – Ep 04 – Acts 3:1-26

In Acts 3, the Apostle Peter is delivering another sermon and the basic title of his sermon is You missed it…but it’s...

Movement – Ep 06 – Acts 4:32-5:11

In Acts 4 we began to see a threat to the church from the outside (i.e. Peter and John’s arrest).

Movement – Ep 05 – Acts 4:13-31

In Acts 4 onward we begin to see a new pattern emerge. The pattern is that every time the church begins to grow they...

Easter 2025 – Ep 01 – John 15:1-8

There’s always something we want to change in our life. Just look at the best selling books or the most popular...

Movement – Ep 07 – Acts 6-7

When we think of changing the world, often our mind goes to the big, the grandios - the Nobel Prizes, the medals of...

Movement – Ep 09 – Acts 9:1-19

We all love stories of life-change. Life-change stories give us a sense of hopefulness. They lift our spirits.

Movement – Ep 08 – Acts 8:26-40

In Acts 8, we see God advancing His mission beyond Jerusalem, as the mandate that was given in Acts 1:8 begins taking...

Movement – Ep 10 – Acts 9:20-31

Saul was the chief persecutor (enemy) of Christians but in the first part of Acts 9 Saul becomes a Christian.

Easter 2025 – Ep 02 – John 10:1-15

There is a longing in all of us for a better life. As Christians we would say that this longing is actually a part of...

God's Design for the Local Church – Titus 2

The church is God’s plan A and God has set it up as a beautiful place where a diverse group of people can unite under...

Movement – Ep 11 – Acts 10

Acts is not a haphazard collection of stories. Remember that it was strategically compiled by Luke to make a point.

Movement – Ep 12 – Acts 12:1-24

In Acts 12, the Apostle Peter makes an incredible escape from a Roman prison.

Movement – Ep 13 – Acts 11:19-30; 13:1-3

Chapter 13 marks a “hinge-point” in the book of Acts for the open door to the international mission that God has for...

The Book of Psalms – Ep 11 – Psalm 46

Psalm 46 is a poem of remembrance — a powerful testament to God’s faithful protection in a time of overwhelming fear...

The Book of Psalms – Ep 10 – Psalm 42 & 43

Psalm 42 & 43 (traditionally one Psalm, not two) begin the second section in the library of Psalms.

The Book of Psalms – Ep 13 – Psalm 78

Whether you and I realize it or not - whether we have a strategy or not - we are passing something (set of values,...

The Book of Psalms – Ep 14 – Psalm 53

Every one of us can think back to a time in our life (maybe last night) when we’ve done something foolish.

The Book of Psalms – Ep 15 – Psalm 55

Our lives are full of burdens that we are carrying around and just when we’re able to get rid of one…it seems like...

The Book of Psalms – Ep 16 – Psalm 63

Some of the worst moments in David’s life brought out his best.

Movement – Ep 14 – Acts 1-14 (Recap)

The Book of Acts is God’s invitation to be a part of his world-changing mission.

The Book of Psalms – Ep 18 – Psalm 62

Sometimes when we approach the Bible we can think…why would we ever need that in real life?

The Book of Psalms – Ep 17 – Psalm 72

In this sermon, we explore the longing for a righteous king that echoes throughout Psalm 72.

The Book of Psalms – Ep 19 – Psalm 67

We live in a Port City, which means we get to see all kinds of ships come into the harbor.

The Book of Psalms – Ep 21 – Psalm 71

There are lots of things in this world that people don’t agree on, but one thing that is universally accepted is that...

The Book of Psalms – Ep 20 – Psalm 69

We all know that feeling when the realities of life are starting to wash over you like the waves of the ocean.

Movement – Ep 15 – Acts 15:1-32

Throughout church history what we see is that the church is always prone to drifting away from this core truth of the...

Movement – Ep 16 – Acts 15:36-41

At the end of Acts 15 we see the band breaking up. The Apostle Paul and his missionary sidekick and friend Barnabbas...

Movement – Ep 17 – Acts 16:1-5

There are just some things in life we were never meant to do by ourselves. The Christian life is one of these things.

Movement – Ep 19 – Acts 17:16-34

Unless your life is built upon Jesus we are setting ourselves up for failure.

As You Go – Deuteronomy 6

When we think of changing the world our home is probably not the place that we go to in our minds right away.

Movement – Ep 21 – Acts 19:11-41

John Calvin said this about our hearts: “Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

Movement – Ep 18 – Acts 16:25-34

In this passage Paul and Silas had been sent to prison in Philippi where we find them praying and singing hymns at...

Movement – Ep 20 – Acts 18:1-11

We’ve all spent time leafing through those all yearbooks from middle and high school.

Movement – Ep 22 – Acts 20:18-35

In the book of Acts, it is often that we see Paul the evangelist, but in Acts 20:17-38, we catch a glimpse of Paul the...

Movement – Ep 24 – Acts 28:11-31

The end of the book of Acts is not a conclusion, it's an invitation.

Songs of the Season – Ep 02 – Luke 1:67-79

There are moments in life when the light finally breaks through—when what was confusing becomes clear, when what felt...

Songs of the Season – Ep 01 – Luke 1:46-56

If you’ve ever observed little kids when they get excited you realize that they will easily and spontaneously burst...

Movement – Ep 23 – Acts 21:1-16

Paul’s missionary journeys have come to an end, and the Spirit of God is leading him back to Jerusalem where he will...

Songs of the Season – Ep 03 – Luke 2:8-21

In Luke 2 we have the greatest baby announcement in the history of humanity that brings with it the greatest news that...

Walking in Wisdom – Ep 04 – Proverbs 5:1-23

Wisdom speaks to every area of life, including how we think about and live out our sexuality.

Walking in Wisdom – Ep 05 – Proverbs 6:6-11

We live in a culture that prizes comfort, ease, and delay but Proverbs 6 confronts us with a hard question: What kind...

Walking in Wisdom – Ep 03 – Proverbs 3

We all want wisdom but wanting it and actually attaining it are two very different things.

Walking in Wisdom – Ep 07 – Proverbs 15:1-4

Your words are building something or breaking something. Proverbs says death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Walking in Wisdom – Ep 02 – Proverbs 2

We’re all digging for something we believe will bring real change—success, security, clarity, control.

Walking in Wisdom – Ep 01 – Proverbs 1:1-7

Every one of us is on a journey (we are walking through life in a certain direction).

Walking in Wisdom – Ep 06 – Proverbs 11:24-25

In Proverbs 11:24-25, we are reminded that wisdom is revealed not by what we guard, but by what we give.

Songs of the Season – Ep 04 – Luke 2:22-35

We all live hopeful because all of us long for change. Change in the violence we see around the world, change in our...

The Understanding Heart – Matthew 13:3-23

We live in an unprecedented moment of access to God's Word.