Island ECC Podcast

Our default setting is to focus on the externals. We perform, we manage our reputations, we dress to impress. But so often, our focus on externals comes at a great expense. Our inner lives go untended.

“Work hard, Play hard”. Is that the sum total of life purpose? Many people embrace this, whether they realise it or not. But there certainly is a better way. Finding your purpose and living it out is your chief goal of life. Regardless of your job, your status, your talent, or your personality, you have a God-designed purpose awaiting you.

Most of us don’t think of worship as a skill to be developed. Are you a good worshipper? Consider making a goal of your 2025 to be a better worshipper of God.

This message speaks to the value of making good life resolutions, rather than the more typical new year resolutions. The most important life resolution is being connected to God in Christ. The sermon gives a clear presentation of the gospel message of Jesus Christ.

The fourth candle of this advent series is the candle of love. For many of us, the struggle is not that we don’t know how to love, rather it is that we don’t know how to receive love. Many of us are so scarred from relationships that we have made it impossible for ourselves to experience love of any sort. We look to the example of Mary to learn about how we can experience the love of God in greate...

Joy can’t be produced, but it can be managed.

Many of us seek to make peace something tangible – something we can grasp and claim as "our peace". However, true peace cannot be manufactured. When we lack this genuine peace, it can weigh heavily on our hearts and burden our souls. Listen closely and open your hearts to receive the transformative Gift of True Peace.

Hope is a word that gets thrown around a lot at Christmas. It’s found on Christmas cards and in song lyrics. But what does it really look like to experience deep and abiding hope?

We have a generous God who gives us all our money and possessions. However, that’s not the end of the story. God desires us to multiply them and share them with others. We are meant to be generous, just like God is so generous to us.

How can singleness become a season of purpose and service? What if marriage is more about sacrificial love than personal happiness? How can we understand parenting as a mission to raise God-centred children? Today we explore how to glorify God and reflect His love in every stage of life by realigning our priorities with His Word.

The topics of life and death are some of the weightiest realities we are all called to carry as humans. And despite our inclination to look away and avoid, the healthiest thing we can do is face these questions head-on while in the safe presence of a loving God. His words will keep us from regret and rewire the way we think about these vital topics.

There are many sacred texts which provide inspiration for how to live. How is the Bible unique, and how does it demonstrate reliability?

Like a pair of glasses, your worldview is the lens through which you view life. It forms your values, determines your decisions, and reveals your priorities. But so many don’t even realise what their worldview is.

What triggers you? Chances are, you’ve got some things that just really annoy you, and invoke in you a response that you might not be proud of... But what if you became un-triggerable? What if you were able to manage your reactions in a way that revealed a confidence in God more than an easily triggered reaction?

Finding contentment has always seemed elusive. Try as we might to be satisfied with our current life, we still have ambitions and goals. It’s a natural human instinct to have those. But oftentimes that leads to undue stress and anxiety, and can drive others away from us. In this sermon, we will explore different ways of finding true contentment in our lives.

Like fish in water, most of us don’t realise that we swim in a world of shame. We are unaware of its presence and even more unaware of its effect on our lives. However, we are told that Jesus “despises the shame” in His own life, a principle that could unlock freedom and joy in our lives like nothing else.

Empathy is vitally important when it comes to experiencing a full life. It helps us to be compassionate and caring, while building connections with others and expanding our worldview. We can’t fully understand what everyone goes through in life, but we can imagine what it would be like to be in their shoes. And when we take those steps, we encounter a vast diversity of people who are made in God’s...

God’s invitation to the abundant life goes well beyond simply becoming unabrasive when we think of self-awareness. It is instead a call to discover and pursue what it means to be made in His image, and the people we will be forever with Him.

Does Jesus desire us to be happy? We know that we are to consider all our circumstances “joyful”, but what about happiness? Is that the same thing? Happiness is a journey, but the path isn’t always easy to navigate.

A seeking world, mixed with an energized church, deserves a creative strategy.

It’s easy to miss the work of God in our lives. But in the big picture, it’s the most important thing we can ever notice.

Most of us assume a very passive posture toward our faith. Our unspoken approach is “let go and let God”. Even as we are ambitious in our careers, our studies, and our relationships, often our spiritual life gets the leftovers. Just a slight shift in our priorities can make a world of difference in our spiritual experience.

There is a shared desire among all Christians to share their faith and win people over to the gospel. However, it comes with many challenges and difficulties. Especially to those who really immerse themselves with the people they are trying to reach. In those circumstances, how can one keep their own faith? 

Our culture conditioned us to look only to the future for things that are bigger and better. The Bible, however, teaches us to look back. By remembering how God helped us in the past, our hearts will be infused with gratitude and hope for the future. Thus far the Lord has helped us. He was faithful in the past. He will continue to be faithful in the future.

Our world is full of stressors. We are constantly bombarded with emails, text messages, and news alerts. So many things happen at the speed of light and they can cause our anxiety to skyrocket. Today, we’re going to look at a bookmarked Bible verse that helps to alleviate this stress and keep us on the right track.