Port City Community Church Podcast

Port City Community Church
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Port City Community Church's mission is to Reach People and Help Them Walk With God. This podcast includes audio messages from Senior Pastor Mike Ashcraft and others. You can visit Port City online at www.portcity.church for additional content.

  1. "Heart of the Law" - Carson Goslee | The Way That Leads To Life, Part 4

    6d ago

    "Heart of the Law" - Carson Goslee | The Way That Leads To Life, Part 4

    The Sermon on the Mount isn't a list of demands — it's an invitation. Jesus is after something deeper than rule-following; He's after your heart. God's law was always meant to be about trust and surrender, and when we truly trust Him, grace stops being just something we received and starts shaping who we're becoming. But that kind of heart-level transformation requires honesty about the small things we quietly justify — the anger we hold onto, the words we use about people, the conflicts we refuse to settle. Left unchecked, those things slowly pull us away from the life and relationships we actually want. When our hearts are genuinely captivated by God, though, something shifts — and real, lasting flourishing becomes possible.

    42 min
  2. The Way That Leads To Life: Scripture Reading (Matthew 5:17-30)

    6d ago

    The Way That Leads To Life: Scripture Reading (Matthew 5:17-30)

    Join us this summer as we journey through the Sermon on the Mount, slowing down to sit with the words of Jesus and discover The Way That Leads To Life: a life rooted in the love of God, formed by the wisdom of God, and lived in the freedom of God. Each Monday morning, we will release a companion podcast episode that invites you to slow down and sit with the words of Jesus through a guided Scripture reading and reflection on that week’s passage from the Sermon on the Mount. This week, we will contemplate Matthew 5:17-30. For more information, head to www.portcity.church/theway.

    8 min
  3. "You Are Salt" - Jake Smith | The Way That Leads To Life, Part 3

    Jun 22

    "You Are Salt" - Jake Smith | The Way That Leads To Life, Part 3

    You are not an accident, and you are not an afterthought. Long before you started asking what you were supposed to do with your life, God had already answered that question — you were made to preserve what matters, restore what's broken, and bring the quiet but powerful activity of his Kingdom into the everyday moments right in front of you. That purpose flows directly from your identity, and your identity was never meant to be found in your accomplishments, your reputation, or anything else the world offers. When we root ourselves in who God says we are, something changes — not just in us, but in the people and places around us. And when we drift, we don't lose our faith overnight; we just slowly lose our distinctiveness, our flavor, our why. The invitation isn't to try harder. It's to stay close — to God, to each other, and to the people we're called to bring along with us — and to trust that a life lived that way is quietly, faithfully changing the world.

    45 min
  4. The Way That Leads To Life: Scripture Reading (Matthew 5:13-16)

    Jun 22

    The Way That Leads To Life: Scripture Reading (Matthew 5:13-16)

    Join us this summer as we journey through the Sermon on the Mount, slowing down to sit with the words of Jesus and discover The Way That Leads To Life: a life rooted in the love of God, formed by the wisdom of God, and lived in the freedom of God. Each Monday morning, we will release a companion podcast episode that invites you to slow down and sit with the words of Jesus through a guided Scripture reading and reflection on that week’s passage from the Sermon on the Mount. This week, we will contemplate Matthew 5:13-16. For more information, head to www.portcity.church/theway.

    6 min
  5. "A Long Welcome" - Laurelyn Shaw | The Way That Leads To Life, Part 2

    Jun 15

    "A Long Welcome" - Laurelyn Shaw | The Way That Leads To Life, Part 2

    Blessed isn't a feeling you chase — it's a life others can see. In the Beatitudes, Jesus doesn't wait for people to have it all together before He speaks blessing over them. He meets them in the mourning, the meekness, and the mess. What He's painting isn't a checklist to complete, but a portrait of a life genuinely oriented toward God's Kingdom — one where mercy, purity, and peace aren't performed, but grown. And here's the secret: you can't force that kind of fruit. You tend the roots. Stay close to God, surrender the climb, and watch what He produces in you. Blessing was never found in comfort or self-protection — it's found in openness, in kneeling, in the quiet and powerful act of letting God do what only He can do.

    38 min
  6. The Way That Leads To Life: Scripture Reading (Matthew 5:1-15)

    Jun 15

    The Way That Leads To Life: Scripture Reading (Matthew 5:1-15)

    Join us this summer as we journey through the Sermon on the Mount, slowing down to sit with the words of Jesus and discover The Way That Leads To Life: a life rooted in the love of God, formed by the wisdom of God, and lived in the freedom of God. Each Monday morning, we will release a companion podcast episode that invites you to slow down and sit with the words of Jesus through a guided Scripture reading and reflection on that week’s passage from the Sermon on the Mount. This week, we will contemplate Matthew 5:1-15. For more information, head to www.portcity.church/theway.

    6 min
  7. "What Happened?" - Mike Ashcraft | The Way That Leads To Life, Part 1

    Jun 8

    "What Happened?" - Mike Ashcraft | The Way That Leads To Life, Part 1

    The Sermon on the Mount isn't a list of rules to follow — it's an invitation to something better. Jesus steps onto the scene and redefines everything: greatness, justice, love, and what it truly means to be alive. He didn't come to pile on more religious obligation; He came to fulfill what the Law never could — real transformation, from the inside out. This upside-down Kingdom He describes isn't reserved for the spiritually elite. It's for all of us. And the deeper we step into it, the more we discover it's actually the right-side-up way to live — freely, fully, and together.

    41 min
  8. "Miraculous Witness" - Geoff Banks

    Jun 1

    "Miraculous Witness" - Geoff Banks

    Becoming a devoted people isn't about checking boxes or earning a reward at the end — it's about experiencing something so genuinely beautiful that you can't help but give everything to it. The early church showed us what that looks like: wildly different people, deeply committed to one another, living in a way that left the world around them in awe. That kind of community doesn't happen by accident, and it doesn't happen when we all look, think, and act the same. It grows when we choose to stay at the table across difference, lead with our lives before our words, and ask not what we get out of it — but what we could become together. In a world that feels increasingly divided and worn down, that way of living isn't just countercultural. It's miraculous.

    39 min
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Port City Community Church's mission is to Reach People and Help Them Walk With God. This podcast includes audio messages from Senior Pastor Mike Ashcraft and others. You can visit Port City online at www.portcity.church for additional content.

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