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Written by Mandy Hughes, Care Groups Coordinator at Port City Community Church “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” Isaiah 43:1 It’s time to...

The end of summer is bittersweet. Bitter because it’s the end of the best season ever. Sweet because we return to a kind of normalcy of rhythm that we tend to like. Or, at least, this is how...

Today, we are officially half way through the year, so it’s kind of like a mid-year check-in (which, of course, is better than a mid-life crisis!) This exercise does not require a new...

It was just last month we celebrated Easter. I had intended to post the excerpt below on Good Friday. But that Wednesday before, something shocking happened…my dad passed away unexpectedly from...

We’ve just finished this series, Everyday Ordinary, and the challenge was (and is) how we work out the implications of what we believe about Jesus in our everyday, ordinary lives– the...

Last week was the 1 year anniversary of the release of my book To Be Concluded. Below is an excerpt, exploring Confession and Repentance. As Easter approaches, this is an invitation to prepare...

Currently, I’m teaching a series, Everyday, Ordinary. Our church is learning what it looks like to walk with God in our actual lived lives. We know that God is always at work in us and that His...

ANIMATE It’s done. I have finished My One Word for 2022: IMAGINATION. But rather than just stopping one word and picking another, I have spent the first few weeks of 2023 seeing what IMAGINATION...

John 7:38 (NIV) Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. My One Word for 2022 was IMAGINATION. It has been my favorite. This word has...

I studied architecture in college. Mostly, this means I got to use colored markers and draw a lot of pictures. But architecture school taught me the incredible importance of process – how an...