When you face a sickness, how quick do you go to prayer? Is it your first response? Is it your second response? Is it even a thought at all?

One of the most powerful ways you can teach yourself to pray is to rewrite the Lord’s prayer in words and examples that make sense for your world today.

As we greet the New Year 2023 with anticipation, I would like to share this prayer with you, wherever you are, so that we start the year aligned in The Spirit…

As we look back over the course of the year 2022 at PORTICO Community Church, the church embodied the nature of God in the way PORTICO families lived and served, sacrificially..

While as a culture we tend to over do the Christmas season with more lights, more parties, more extravagance and more food, the true beauty of the season is actually found in reducing it to it’s simple central message. That God loves us, and that His kingdom is one of humility, not extravagance.

While as a culture we tend to over do the Christmas season with more lights, more parties, more extravagance and more food, the true beauty of the season is actually found in reducing it to it’s simple central message. That God loves us, and that His kingdom is one of humility, not extravagance.

One of my favourite things that the Christmas story remind me about is that God regularly chooses to speak to regular people like a teenager Mary, like farms workers and like and old couple named Zechariah and Elizabeth.

It feels like there are only about 24 hrs when an avocado is in the perfect condition. For weeks, it’s hard and woody, then suddenly it turns brown and mushy.

What’s easier for you? Being given an instruction to do something, or being instructed to wait? For me, being active is always easier than being passive.

You can know a whole lot about something, without it ever really changing your ability to do it. I watch a lot of medical TV shows, but no one wants me anywhere near their surgery table. It’s why driver’s tests are not just written tests, and why everyone’s a critic of politicians. Knowing about something is so much different than actually being responsible for it. Information is not transformation.

Is there a person you find really hard to love? Jesus said that Christians are supposed to be identified simply by the way we love each other. Obviously we haven’t figured that out perfectly yet.

Is there a person you find really hard to love? Jesus said that Christians are supposed to be identified simply by the way we love each other. Obviously we haven’t figured that out perfectly yet.

If you inherited a gift of $200 000, how much would you spend on yourself and how much would you give away?

One of the emotions that grabs hold of my attention, interestingly enough, is peace. The world is fast moving, confrontational, full of pressure and decisions. But when I encounter peace, it causes me to stop and take notice. Participate in it.