LifeSwitch Podcast

Jesus told a story about a farmer who had a very good year, built bigger barns, and told himself to take life easy - and Luke records God’s one-word response. We look at why comfort might be the most successful of the four things we all chase, why it’s the only one that never breaks you, and what it quietly costs: a life rich in only one direction. Then a harder question than last week’s - not “wh...

Jesus told a story about a farmer who had a very good year, built bigger barns, and told himself to take life easy - and Luke records God’s one-word response. We look at why comfort might be the most successful of the four things we all chase, why it’s the only one that never breaks you, and what it quietly costs: a life rich in only one direction. Then a harder question than last week’s - not “wh...

Two weeks ago we introduced a map - stranger, acquaintance, mate, friend, family - and asked you to find yourself on it. This week we ask a harder question: why do people stop moving? For many of us, it's not that we don't want to go deeper. It's that we know what deeper costs. Some of us have paid it before, and it went badly. This week we're honest about that. We look at Joseph - a man betrayed...

Two weeks ago we introduced a map - stranger, acquaintance, mate, friend, family - and asked you to find yourself on it. This week we ask a harder question: why do people stop moving? For many of us, it's not that we don't want to go deeper. It's that we know what deeper costs. Some of us have paid it before, and it went badly. This week we're honest about that. We look at Joseph - a man betrayed...

An invitation arrives with your name on it. Someone wanted you there. And at the bottom, a little box: RSVP, respond, please. Here’s the thing about that box: it doesn’t fill itself in, and not replying is also a reply. This week we introduce some shared language for the journey from stranger to family - five stages you already know instinctively - and meet a woman named Ruth, who was released fro...

An invitation arrives with your name on it. Someone wanted you there. And at the bottom, a little box: RSVP, respond, please. Here’s the thing about that box: it doesn’t fill itself in, and not replying is also a reply. This week we introduce some shared language for the journey from stranger to family - five stages you already know instinctively - and meet a woman named Ruth, who was released fro...

Last week we heard a story about two brothers and a father who ran. This week we look at how the apostle Paul describes that same journey — and what it means for us. In Ephesians 2, Paul gives us the language. No longer foreigners and strangers. Fellow citizens. Members of the household. It turns out the journey from stranger to family isn't just a nice idea — it's the theological destination of e...

Last week we heard a story about two brothers and a father who ran. This week we look at how the apostle Paul describes that same journey — and what it means for us. In Ephesians 2, Paul gives us the language. No longer foreigners and strangers. Fellow citizens. Members of the household. It turns out the journey from stranger to family isn't just a nice idea — it's the theological destination of e...

In what I believe is the greatest story ever told we discover that Jesus wasn’t just telling a story about a son who came home. He was telling a story about two kinds of lostness, and a father who ran for both of them. Whether you’ve never set foot in a church or you’ve been here for years, this story has a place for you in it. The only question is which character you recognise yourself in.

In what I believe is the greatest story ever told we discover that Jesus wasn’t just telling a story about a son who came home. He was telling a story about two kinds of lostness, and a father who ran for both of them. Whether you’ve never set foot in a church or you’ve been here for years, this story has a place for you in it. The only question is which character you recognise yourself in.

Seven ordinary people did what needed to be done in a moment of crisis — and it fuelled a movement that's still going almost 2000 years later. In this message, we walk through one of the most overlooked stories in Acts — a story about jail breaks, jealous priests, a food distribution problem, and a group of believers who simply said yes when something needed doing. We also unpack a few more of the...

Seven ordinary people did what needed to be done in a moment of crisis — and it fuelled a movement that's still going almost 2000 years later. In this message, we walk through one of the most overlooked stories in Acts — a story about jail breaks, jealous priests, a food distribution problem, and a group of believers who simply said yes when something needed doing. We also unpack a few more of the...

While you’re sitting in the main service, something remarkable is happening just down the hall. A 3-year-old is hearing for the first time that God made them and loves them. A Year 8 is wrestling with who they really are — and whose they are. A Year 12 is being asked whether they’re putting others first. In this opening message of the NEXT series, we pull back the curtain on what LifeSwitch is doi...

While you’re sitting in the main service, something remarkable is happening just down the hall. A 3-year-old is hearing for the first time that God made them and loves them. A Year 8 is wrestling with who they really are — and whose they are. A Year 12 is being asked whether they’re putting others first. In this opening message of the NEXT series, we pull back the curtain on what LifeSwitch is doi...

We live in the most connected generation in human history, and yet loneliness is at epidemic levels. We have hundreds of followers, thousands of contacts, and almost no one to call at 3am. In this episode, Clint Craig explores what a vase full of balls, beads, and sand can teach us about the relational architecture we were actually built for — and why Jesus, the most compelling person who ever liv...

We live in the most connected generation in human history, and yet loneliness is at epidemic levels. We have hundreds of followers, thousands of contacts, and almost no one to call at 3am. In this episode, Clint Craig explores what a vase full of balls, beads, and sand can teach us about the relational architecture we were actually built for — and why Jesus, the most compelling person who ever liv...

Six weeks ago we started with a scene — lying in bed at eleven o'clock, scrolling through other people's lives, wondering why you felt so flat. We've spent five weeks naming what's underneath that moment: the loneliness, the hunger for approval, the exhausting performance of connection, the anxiety that kills presence, the conversations that never quite reach. In this message we keep the promise t...

Six weeks ago we started with a scene — lying in bed at eleven o'clock, scrolling through other people's lives, wondering why you felt so flat. We've spent five weeks naming what's underneath that moment: the loneliness, the hunger for approval, the exhausting performance of connection, the anxiety that kills presence, the conversations that never quite reach. In this message we keep the promise t...

Picture two people at a cafe. One of them is talking — sharing something real, something they’ve been carrying. The other is listening. Except they’re not really listening. They’re already three sentences ahead, composing their reply, waiting for the gap. In this fifth message of the OFFLINE series we get honest about what we’ve quietly lost in the digital age — the ability to have a real conversa...

Picture two people at a cafe. One of them is talking — sharing something real, something they’ve been carrying. The other is listening. Except they’re not really listening. They’re already three sentences ahead, composing their reply, waiting for the gap. In this fifth message of the OFFLINE series we get honest about what we’ve quietly lost in the digital age — the ability to have a real conversa...

God's Heart is not distant - it is fiercely protective, emotionally engaged and drawing people into belonging. Jesus "How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings...". Join us for a Mother's Day Special with Johanna Vannathy.  

God's Heart is not distant - it is fiercely protective, emotionally engaged and drawing people into belonging. Jesus "How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings...". Join us for a Mother's Day Special with Johanna Vannathy.  

It’s easy for our digital online world, along with stress and hectic schedules, to distract us and interfere with our ability to connect with others. How can I build stronger connections?

It’s easy for our digital online world, along with stress and hectic schedules, to distract us and interfere with our ability to connect with others. How can I build stronger connections?

When we were kids, community happened by accident. Proximity, repetition, shared boredom. Then we became adults and discovered, quietly and a little embarrassingly, that we had no idea how to build it intentionally. In this message we get honest about the difference between being liked and being known — and why most of us have spent so long curating how we appear that we've lost touch with how to...