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The Porch

What I Wish I Knew | Jonathan Pokluda

The Porch

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Are you worried about wasting your 20s & 30s? It's easy to assume you have all the time in the world, but Scripture is clear we don't know how many days we get — so what are yours going to be marked by? This week, Jonathan "JP" Pokluda kicks off our Porch 20 celebration by walking us through five things he'd tell himself if he could go back.

Transcript

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0:00.0

How we doing, Porch? All right, we're up and friends in the room, friends and far! Alright, let's do it. What's up, Porch? How we doing tonight? How are we doing, Porch? How we doing tonight? God!

0:19.0

Good!

0:21.0

I'm Tuesday night, these are the days.

0:28.6

These are the days.

0:31.6

We are this, baby. How we doing, Porch?

0:49.0

I wanted to talk about if I could go back 20 years what I would tell myself. And my assistant knew

0:59.1

that I was going to speak about that tonight. And she started pulling pictures from old porches.

1:07.3

And she was like, I think I know what you need to tell yourself if you could go back 20

1:11.8

years.

1:12.8

You should deal with what you were wearing.

1:16.2

And so she sent this.

1:17.7

This is just a few little slideshows.

1:20.1

She said, are you going to a track meet?

1:23.0

Or like, what are you doing?

1:23.9

She said, did your grandmother make that shirt?

1:26.3

Like, sew something on there?

2:02.2

The deep V's a little deep. It's a little deep. All right, let's hold it on this one, because this is honestly the one I took the most shade for. When I wore that one Tuesday, and then I get here today, and I kind of feel, like, they give me this shirt, you know? Kylan's like, hey, here's a gift for you. You know, and I'm like, oh, it's got stars on it. It's got stars on the back. I feel like it's a commemorative shirt to that moment, you know, 20 years ago. So, yeah, I'm grateful to be back. I love you guys. They asked me, they asked me beforehand, what's it like coming back? And I say, man, better in every way. Better in every way. There is a fresh, the

2:07.6

spirit of God's been moving through young adults for a long time now. There's a fresh work of

2:13.0

this spirit. And I don't mind acknowledging it because it is what it is. The Spirit of God does what he

2:19.9

wants to do, when he wants to do, where he wants to do, how he wants to do to whom he wants to do it

2:26.1

through when he wants to do it. And so what does it say about you that you would get to live

2:31.6

in this time and space where we're seeing this some kind of

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