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MY WORD FOR 2024
February 1, 2024
Matthew 26:6-10 NIV 6 While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, 7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was...
GOD’S PRESENCE: HOW WE SEE OUR LIVES
January 11, 2024
GOD WITH US. This is the familiar message of Christmas, right? O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. My hope for us though is that we see “Emmanuel” as so much more than a familiar Christmas message. My...
GOODBYE IS NOT GOOD RIDDANCE
December 22, 2023
It’s time to say goodbye to our words, can you believe it? There’s value in acknowledging the end of something. Some of us may avoid endings because it’s bittersweet. We hate to see...
A Christmas Ritual
December 1, 2023
I hate decorating for Christmas. I have decided this is a fact that is true about me. I’m a husband, a father, a surfer, and I do not like decorating for Christmas. Not at all. Hatred might be...
SEEING WHAT YOU THINK- The Formative Power of Words
November 9, 2023
“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals; and revelation is always formative – we don’t know...
REFLECTION: KEEP GOING
November 1, 2023
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...
REFLECTION: FIDELITY
October 18, 2023
Written by Wes Tongue, Worship Service Programming Coordinator, Leland Campus Port City Community Church As a perpetual daydreamer, I have a hard time being present. If you’ve seen “The Secret...
REFLECTION: REMEMBER
October 11, 2023
Written by Polly Clawson, Equipping Coordinator at Port City Community Church Emotions well up within me that are difficult to articulate when I reflect on the past year. There’s a mixture...
REFLECTION: THEY PILE UP
October 4, 2023
Written by Rick Shafer, Executive Director of Faith Formation at Port City Community Church This year I will be receiving my 17th word. I say receiving because they have been God’s grace in my...
REFLECTION: HOPE
September 27, 2023
Written by Kayla Daughtridge, Grow Zone Volunteer Coordinator at Port City Community Church I have been choosing a word every year since 2011. In seasons, I have struggled to stick with my word...