VA Benefits: From a Veteran and PBC Alumni

Ben’s Story. After Ben got out of the military, life quickly went downhill for him. He felt directionless, stagnant, and lost like he didn’t really know what in life he was supposed to hold onto anymore. Ben found himself being dragged along to church with his brother and found that he connected almost instantly with […]

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Pastoral Guide: Dealing with Sexual, Racial, and Political Identity

ONE Conference Youth Pastor Workshops are always popular and the 2023 ONE Conference was no exception. PBC professors taught three workshops on key issues facing youth pastors today. In this workshop, Professor Lanny Hubbard provided a pastoral guide to help youth and youth pastors deal with sexual, racial and political identity. He covered the importance […]

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Holding Absolute Truth in an Anti-Truth Culture

ONE Conference Youth Pastor Workshops are always popular and the 2023 ONE Conference was no exception. PBC professors taught three workshops on key issues facing youth pastors today. In this workshop, Portland Bible College professor and alum Sarah Nashif-Tan taught on the difference between relative and absolute truth and why understanding that difference is so […]

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Counseling Teens: Pastoring Mental Health

ONE Conference Youth Pastor Workshops are always popular and the 2023 ONE Conference was no exception. PBC professors taught three workshops on key issues facing youth pastors today. Veteran professor, prophet, and counselor Glenda Malmin taught what it takes to counsel and pastor teens facing mental health challenges. Drawing on biblical wisdom and decades of […]

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Alumni Highlight: John J. Peters

About John: After graduating from Portland Bible College in 2000, John J. Peters moved back to California to help with the church planted by his parents. John eventually wanted to further his education and started on-campus classes at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada in 2005. While in Vancouver, he enjoyed several PBC alumni connections at […]

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Book Highlight: Sharpening Little Arrows

About the Authors: About the Mission Joy Sukadi is the mission and teaching pastor at International Full Gospel Fellowship in Seattle. Discipling and equipping the young generation has been her passion and calling for the past 20 years. She is currently taking a Theology degree at Portland Bible College to equip herself with biblically sound […]

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Lanny Hubbard: Mannahouse Romans Series

Over this past summer, we had the privilege to have our very own Lanny Hubbard teach two portions of a fourteen-week series to the Mannahouse Church congregation. The church staff alongside Portland Bible College professors came together to create this series and bring the congregation into the PBC classroom. Romans Introduction: For the Podcast audio […]

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Sanctity of Life

Roe v Wade Overturns Response We want to take a moment to respond to the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding the sanctity of life. Because of this decision’s significance in society and impending challenges and discussions, PBC and Mannahouse Eldership teams developed two primary documents. Our prayer is they help shape your biblical position on […]

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“Yoked” – New Book

In the Great Commission as recorded in Matthew’s Gospel Jesus left his followers with clear instructions: They were to make disciples by teaching people to obey all he had commanded them. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never really thought about Jesus as giving commandments. We all know about the Ten Commandments in the book of Exodus but Jesus came “full of grace.” Surely fullness of grace did not involve commandments, let alone the need to obey those commandments. But there it was, recorded plainly in these famous words of Jesus. If making (and being) disciples requires us to teach people how to obey the commandments of Jesus, maybe we should focus more attention on what those commandments are, and how to obey them.

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