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What If Christianity Was Never About the Rules Ever felt like you had to sort your life out before God would want anything to do with you? This week Will Sopwith looks at a story where Jesus does the exact opposite. Speaking on Mark 2:13–17 in the Jesus the Revolutionary series, with Anna Kettle and Matt Edmundson hosting, it is an honest conversation about grace, belonging, and being welcomed as...

Stop Shrinking to Fit In Ever quietly edited yourself down so you'd fit in with the room? This one is about what that costs you. About this talk Matt Edmundson opens with a confession. On a packed London Underground escalator he walked straight past an elderly man who looked like he was having a heart attack, because everyone else was walking past too. From there he digs into why we take our cues...

Stop Trying So Hard to Be Good Enough Worn out from trying to earn your place with God? This conversation is about putting that effort down. About this episode Dave Connolly joins Matt Edmundson and Anna Kettle to look at the moment Jesus calls his first followers — four ordinary fishermen mending their nets by the Sea of Galilee. The talk sits inside the Jesus the Revolutionary series and opens a...

Worry hums away in the background of most of our lives, so it's strange to hear Jesus tell anxious people to go and watch birds. In this talk from the Jesus the Revolutionary series, Sharon walks through Matthew 6:25–34, where Jesus points us at the birds and the wildflowers as evidence of a generous God who provides. It's an honest look at how to stop striving, seek God's kingdom first, and take...

Why God Doesn't Just Fix It When you're in real pain, you don't want company. You just want it gone. About this episode Mike Harris looks at John 11, where Jesus hears his friend Lazarus has died and then waits two whole days before going to him. Instead of rushing in to fix things, Jesus enters the grief, gets angry at death itself, and weeps. It's an honest conversation about why God sometimes s...

When Having Everything Isn't Enough What if you've worked hard, achieved a lot, and still feel like something's missing? In this episode, Crowd Leader Ade Birkby — engineer, physicist, and Bible college student — takes a fresh look at one of the most recognisable stories in the Gospels and asks what success is actually for. Timestamps 00:00 Welcome to Crowd Church 02:13 Tonight's Topic — The Purpo...

Have you been pushing for so long you can't remember what rest feels like? Fuel light on for weeks, still driving? This one's for you. About this episode Dave Connolly opens up Matthew 11:28 — Jesus's invitation to everyone who's worn out and weighed down. In a culture that treats hustle as a virtue, Dave names what a lot of people quietly feel — plenty of Christians are running on empty, trying t...

Ever found yourself genuinely busy — and quietly relieved? Dan Orange on Mary, Martha, and the excuse we all hide behind. About this episode Dan Orange takes the well-worn Mary and Martha story and lifts a question most of us would rather not answer — what if our busyness isn't the problem, but the disguise? Through three moments at Jesus' feet (Mary listening, Mary anointing, Jesus washing the di...

When God Seems Too Calm About Your Crisis You've cried out for help and God seems… relaxed. Will Sopwith on Mark 4 and the storm Jesus slept through. About this episode Why does God sometimes feel completely unbothered about the thing that's wrecking you? Guest speaker Will Sopwith opens up Mark 4, where the disciples are bailing out a sinking boat while Jesus is asleep on a cushion at the back. T...

When You’ve Prayed for Years and Nothing’s Changed You’ve prayed and prayed, and nothing has shifted. You’re not the only one. About this episode This week on Crowd Church, guest preacher Mark Buchannan walks us through Mark 5 and the woman who’d been bleeding for twelve years — broke, exhausted, ceremonially unclean, and shut out of community. She’d tried everything. She had every reason to give...

When You Don't Fit at Church Ever felt like you turned up to church at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with nothing to bring? This one's for you. About this episode Mike Harris joins Crowd Church to walk through one of the strangest, most tender moments in the Gospels — Jesus reaching out and touching a man with leprosy. It's a story about a guy who broke every rule about how to come to God an...

Show Notes — When You're Tired of Hiding Ever come to the end of a long week of pretending and wondered if there's a version of faith that doesn't need you to polish yourself up first? In part two of the Jesus the Revolutionary series, Dave Connolly opens up John 4 and the story of the woman at the well — and what happens when Jesus goes out of his way to meet someone who's spent years hiding. Wha...

Ever had the nagging suspicion that the Jesus you were handed as a kid is too small for the world you actually live in? We kick off our new series Jesus the Revolutionary with an honest look at the Jesus most of us were never warned about. In this first conversation, Matt opens Luke chapter 4 and walks us through the moment Jesus stood up in His hometown synagogue, announced freedom for everyone (...

What If the Easter Story Is Actually True? Historical Evidence for the Resurrection What if the resurrection really happened? This Easter, Dan examines the historical evidence behind the most extraordinary claim in history. Rather than treating Easter as simply a feel-good story, he walks through the eyewitness accounts, from the women who first discovered the empty tomb to the 500 witnesses the a...

What do you do when life throws something at you that feels impossible to face? In this powerful episode of Crowd Church, Ade Birkby tackles the raw reality of suffering, fear, and what it truly means to follow Jesus through the hardest moments of life. Ade opens with a disarming question about vulnerability before sharing a gripping story about a kayaking crisis at sea [05:09] . From there, he ta...

What if the most valuable thing you leave behind has nothing to do with money? In Part 5 of the Stewardship series, Dave Connolly explores what it means to build a living legacy — one shaped not by financial wealth but by faith, relationships, and the stories we pass on. Joined by John Birch and Matt Edmundson, the conversation moves through biblical examples of generational impact, the power of t...

The number in your bank account has nothing to do with how much you matter. In Part 4 of our series on money, Will Sopwith explores what the Bible actually says about wealth, poverty, and human worth. Using the contrasting stories of John D. Rockefeller and St. Francis of Assisi, Will unpacks why money has become a false measure of value — and why God sees things very differently. Drawing on resea...

Ever noticed how tightly you hold onto money — and how uneasy you feel whenever someone mentions generosity? Matt Edmundson explores why giving feels so risky, and why it has very little to do with your bank balance. We look at what Paul meant when he called giving "grace," why a poor widow's two coins outweighed millions, and what happens when you finally open your fist. Jump to a section: 09:19...

Does your job feel like it's slowly becoming the whole of who you are? When someone asks what you do, does your answer make you stand a little taller — or quietly shrink? You're not alone. And you might be living inside a story about work that isn't serving you well. This week, Mike Harris — former professional footballer, PE teacher, and now full-time gardener — brings an honest and surprisingly...

Does the question of money keep you up at night? Or do you ever wonder why — no matter how much you have — it never quite feels enough? Pete Farrington opens a new five-part series at Crowd Church with a question that gets to the heart of it all: is money your servant, or your master? This is a refreshingly honest conversation about something Jesus talked about more than almost any other subject....

In this Crowd Church conversation, Sharon introduces the idea of "covenant dating" — an ancient framework built on shared values, character revealed in the mundane, and the wisdom of community. She also shares the moment she turned down someone she was genuinely attracted to, and why she's never regretted it. --- Ever swiped through a dating app and realised you're browsing people the same way you...

Ever noticed how the word "submission" clears a room faster than a fire alarm? Whether it's marriage, church, or life in general, most of us carry real baggage around authority. Dave Connolly doesn't pretend otherwise. This week, Dave — a church leader with decades of experience walking alongside people through the best and worst of life — tackles submission and authority head-on. He acknowledges...

Ever talked yourself out of having someone over because the house isn't tidy, the food won't be good enough, or you just don't have the energy? Dan Orange gets it. And he's got a refreshingly honest take on why biblical hospitality looks nothing like a dinner party. In this warm and practical conversation, Dan — who grew up as a pastor's kid in a house church full of "aunties and uncles" who weren...

Got someone in your life you're supposed to love but honestly struggle to even like? Mike Harris tackles one of Jesus' most uncomfortable commands with refreshing honesty—admitting he's nowhere near where he wants to be either. In this conversation, Mike unpacks the Good Samaritan story and reveals why it was designed to shock its original audience. Samaritans weren't the nice charity shop people...

Do you have hundreds of social media friends but struggle to name someone you'd call at 3am? You're not alone in feeling alone. In this refreshingly honest conversation, Matt Edmundson tackles the modern epidemic of shallow friendships and offers something better. Drawing from Jesus's friendship with Peter (who denied him three times and was still restored), Matt explores what true friendship look...