Podcast Revival

Title What Manner of Persons Ought We to Be? Ready for the Day of the Lord Summary “What manner of persons ought we to be? Watchful and ready.” That question from 2 Peter 3 sits at the centre of this episode, which works through the chapter verse by verse. Peter warns that scoffers will ask where the promise of Christ’s coming has gone, and that many will choose not to know. Just...

Title Knowing Our Place in Christ: Seated in Heaven With an Advocate Before God Summary “Jesus isn’t asleep on the job.” That line sums up an episode about knowing our place in Christ and what it means for everyday life. Starting in Revelation 12, it looks at the accuser being thrown out of heaven and at how believers overcome him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their te...

Title: Peter and Judas: Losing Your Soul or Finding Your Way Back Summary: “What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Jesus asked that question in Matthew 16, and this episode puts it to the test through the lives of Peter and Judas. Both failed him on the night of his arrest. Only one of them found his way back. Judas sold Jesus for 30 pieces of...

Title:  Making a Difference: Compassion, Warning and Those Who Stumble Summary: “It’s not gossip if it’s true.” That excuse gets a hard look in this episode. It asks how to treat someone who has stumbled, whether they are a stranger or sitting in the next seat at church. Starting in the letter of Jude, it explains what making a difference really meant to the King James...

Title:  Certainty in an Uncertain World: What the Bible Says Is Fixed Summary: "We might not be in control, but God is." That line sits at the centre of this episode, which goes looking for certainty in an uncertain world. It opens where Luke opens, writing so that his reader might know the certainty of what he had been taught, and then names the things unsettling people now: conflicts that f...

Title: Being Fair: What It Looks Like, How It Works, and Whether It Is Worth It Speaker: Pastor Steve Murphy Date: 28th June 2026 Location: Medway, England Summary: "Fairness can have teeth." Being fair sounds soft until you watch it hold its ground. This episode starts in Psalm 99, where God is described as one who establishes equity, and asks three plain questions: what does fair look like, how...

Title: Help My Unbelief Speaker: Grant Hugo Date: 9th August 2026 Location: Adelaide, Australia Summary "There's a big difference between some unbelief and not believing." That line sits at the centre of this episode, which looks closely at a father in Mark 9 who brings his son to Jesus and cries out, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief. The episode starts by setting two kinds of unbelief side by si...

Title: Things Learned But Not Yet Mastered Speaker: Sam Pearce Date: 13th September 2026 Location: Adelaide, Australia Summary Some lessons take years to learn, and you can still be a long way from mastering them. This episode works through three things learned but not mastered: what hospitality actually asks of us, why Jesus dealt with sin before sickness, and how to handle change in a church you...

Title: The Tower of Babel Speaker: Pastor John Van De Giessen Date: 16th August 2026 Location: Adelaide, Australia Summary "Sometimes the problem isn't what you're building. The problem is the foundation you're building it on." The Tower of Babel is one of those Old Testament accounts that is easy to skim past, so this episode slows down and looks at what actually happened on the plain of Shinar....

Title: Seeing Things That Are Invisible Speaker: Pastor David Kschammer Date: 21st June 2026 Location: Adelaide, Australia Summary: "How can you take your eyes off something that you can't see?" That question opens an episode built around a single line in 2 Corinthians 4: we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. Seeing things that are invisible sounds like a...

Title: Comfortably Numb: Waking Up from Lukewarm Christianity Speaker: Pastor Ben Smith Date: 14th January 2026 Location: Vancouver, Canada Summary "We don't want to be a people who are comfortably numb." A Pink Floyd lyric turns up in an unlikely place here, and it lands. The subject is lukewarm Christianity, approached through two passages: Jesus warning that love would grow cold as lawlessness...

Title: No Relationship Beyond Repair Speaker: Pastor Bill Allen Date: 26th January 2026 Location: Gold Coast, Australia Summary: "There's no such thing as an irrevocably damaged relationship for those that look to the Lord and love the Lord." Episode 836 opens with a question most of us have asked at some point. Have you ever wrecked something so badly, a marriage, a friendship, a working relation...

Title: Trusting God's Goodness Speaker: David Rocchi Date: 5th April 2026 Location: Dunedin, New Zealand Summary: "God is not looking for excuses to be bad to us. He is looking for excuses to be good to us." This episode works through Psalm 34:8 and its invitation to taste and see that the Lord is good. The idea is simple but easy to lose hold of: God is good, and he wants to be good to you person...

Title: Well Pleasing in His Sight Speaker: Pastor Phil Haddad Date: 15th March 2026 Location: Adelaide, Australia Summary: "The Lord is not asking us to bring a perfect work. What he's asked us to do was already perfect." This episode looks at a question that sits underneath almost every decision we make: who are we actually trying to please? It opens with Caleb and Joshua, the two men who came ba...

Title: The Long Straight Road Speaker: Pastor Peter Lord Date: 27th April 2025 Location: Perth, Australia Summary: "This road that is there is a road that is straight, it doesn't vary in any direction, and we know where we're going." That single image, a long, dead-straight stretch of highway crossing the Nullarbor, becomes the thread for this episode's message about walking steadily with God thro...

Title: Growing in Understanding Through the Holy Spirit Speaker: Pastor Tim Cope Date: 4th May 2025 Location: Perth, Australia Summary: "Get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get understanding." This episode digs into a word the Bible treats as something bigger than knowledge or even wisdom: understanding. It's framed as something that grows in a person over time, through the Holy Spirit, rather t...

Title: Free Indeed Speaker: Pastor Rob Sinclair Date: 19th July 2026 Location: Ballarat, Australia Summary: What does it really mean to be free? This episode traces one thread through the whole Bible: the difference between captivity and freedom, and how that freedom only ever comes from God's Spirit. It starts with Samson, tied up and surrounded by enemies who think they've finally beaten him, un...

Title: The Power of God: Why the Church Needs More Than a Feeling Speaker: Pastor Sascha Bramao Date: 22nd February 2026 Location: Wellington, New Zealand Summary: "When the power of God comes into someone's life, it starts to blow things up." That is the picture at the centre of this episode: real spiritual power is not a nice feeling, it is a force that changes everything it touches. Using the s...

Title: The Double Portion: What Elijah Left Behind Speaker: Pastor Kevin Quirk Date: 1st July 2026 Location: Adelaide, Australia Summary: "If you get a drop of God inside you, that will revolutionise your life." This episode opens with the dramatic account of Elijah being taken up in a whirlwind and Elisha asking for a double portion of his spirit, then uncovers a deeper meaning hiding inside a st...

Title: The Friendship That Never Lets Go Speaker: Ben Campbell Date: 5th July 2026 Location: Adelaide, Australia Summary: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." This episode explores what true friendship looks like, using a personal story about a decades long relationship as the starting point before turning to one of the greatest friendship stories in...

Title: Practical Faith Speaker: Pastor David Sunderland Date: 23rd November 2025 Location: Canberra, Australia Summary: "Be doers of the word and not hearers only" is the line that shapes this whole episode. Episode 827 walks through the book of James as a practical companion to the doctrine we already believe, showing what it actually looks like to live out a relationship with God day to day. The...

Title: The Promise Speaker: Pastor Phillip Rowley Date: 28th June 2026 Location: Bunbury, Australia Summary: "The promise is unto you, to your children, and to all that are afar off." That single line ties together a thread that runs from Moses to the earliest followers of Jesus, and this episode follows it all the way through. The episode traces one specific promise God made to his people, the pr...

Title: Fixing Our Mistakes Speaker: Pastor Chris Jose Date: 23rd November 2025 Location: Melbourne, Australia Summary: "I don't think I should have been in there. I think I should have known better." That thought, borrowed from a tough work meeting years ago, sits at the centre of this episode about mistakes big and small. It starts with a home repair gone wrong: a simple job replacing garage door...

Title: Persisting in Prayer Through the Trial of Your Faith Speaker: Pastor Peter Moore Date: 7th May 2023 Location: Central Coast, Australia Summary: "He prayed seven times not because it didn't work the first time. He prayed seven times because he believed." Elijah is one of the most dramatic figures in the Old Testament, but James holds him up as an example of something every believer can relat...

Title: What It Really Means to Wait on the Lord Speaker: Pastor Jeremy Archer Date: 12th April 2026 Location: Bristol, UK Summary: Waiting on the Lord is not standing still. It is standing firm. That distinction sits at the heart of this episode, which takes one of the most quoted verses in scripture and roots it back in the ground it came from. Isaiah 40:31 is familiar to most people who have spe...