Soul Revival Church Podcast

Dave Jensen's first talk at WA2026

There is a sign above every church that believes in Jesus. It's not made of timber or metal. It reads: love one another. Observable, unglamorous, everyday love between ordinary people who probably wouldn't even know each other if it weren't for Jesus. In this message from John 13, Jai unpacks what it means that we are saved not as solo Christians, but into a community. The gospel reconciles us to...

We started this series with Habakkuk crying out: how long, Lord? Why won't you do anything? We end it with a song. In this final message of the Living by Faith series, Jai takes us through Habakkuk's closing - three movements that trace the whole journey. Habakkuk remembers who God is and what he has done. He trembles before a God so enormous. And then, knowing exactly what is coming, he rejoices....

Why do bad things happen to good people? It's the oldest question in the book. But Tim argues there's a more urgent version of it, the one a generation with near-constant exposure to war and violence is actually asking: why don't bad things happen to bad people? In this message from Habakkuk 2:2–20, Tim unpacks God's answer to Habakkuk's complaint. Five woes. One overarching verdict: justice is co...

When Stu was learning to hunt with his friend Kyle, he had to do something hard — sit quietly and trust someone who knew what they were doing, even when he didn't understand what was happening or why. Stu unpacks Habakkuk 1:12–2:1, his next round of complaint to God. How can a holy God use an evil nation like Babylon to bring justice? God doesn't give Habakkuk a neat answer. He gives him something...

Have you ever prayed a prayer so many times you've lost count? Or felt like God's answer, when it finally came, made things worse not better? That's exactly where Habakkuk is in chapter one. In this message from Habakkuk 1:1–11, Jai unpacks the prophet's raw, unfiltered cry to God — and God's astonishing, unsettling response. The invitation is to bring your real prayers to God, messy and unpolishe...

Most of us have prayed prayers that felt like they went nowhere. Shouted into silence. Kept doing the right thing while quietly wondering whether God was actually listening. That's not a modern problem, it's what Habakkuk is doing from the opening lines of his book. In this introduction to our new series Living by Faith, Tim Anderson sets the stage for one of the most honest, human books in the Bi...

When you're generous, with your money, your time, your energy, what runs through your head first? If you're honest, it's probably not as pure as you'd like. In this message from Luke 18, Jai unpacks why that is, and why the fix isn't about trying harder. Generosity isn't fundamentally about money or time or energy. It's a spiritual identity. It flows from understanding how much grace and mercy has...

Nahum 3 is not comfortable reading. It's violent, confronting, and hard to place. But Brayden says that's exactly why we need it, because without passages like this, our faith gets thin, and our understanding of sin stays small. In this final message in the Storming the City series, Brayden unpacks what Nineveh's fall actually teaches us about God: that he is not indifferent to evil, that sin is m...

Stu opens with Jesus' words: "Do not store up treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy, but store up for yourselves treasure in heaven." Where are you building your treasure? Do you find yourself caught by this world's sparkly things—career, success, money? The reality is one day someone else will be living in your house, driving your car, spending your savings. He shares a story about David...

Ethan admits he felt uncomfortable preparing this sermon. Was he going to be one of those "hellfire and brimstone" guys? But here's the tension: Nahum, whose name means "comfort", speaks about God's wrath against Nineveh. How is this comfortable? What makes us uncomfortable? Injustice. Scrolling past news about families destroyed by war, greed, and power. The boss who gets away with it. The bully'...

God's Justice and Mercy: An Introduction to Nahum | Nahum 1:1-8 Stu launches our new series "Storming the City" by tackling Nahum, a confronting book about God's anger, jealousy, and judgment on the Assyrian Empire. But this isn't a different God from the New Testament, it's the same God who is just, powerful, patient, and our refuge. A hundred years before Nahum, God sent Jonah to preach judgment...

What If God Wants to Take You Somewhere New This Year? | Luke 15:11-31 Guest preacher Sean Nolan (author of The Way He Walked ) joins us in a sermon gap week to share a life-changing moment: sitting in a Sydney restaurant with three of Billy Graham's crusade directors, listening to impossible-sounding stories of stadiums filled with 80,000 people and radical salvations. Driving home, he thought: "...

Jesus Prayed for You Before You Even Existed | John 17:1-26 "Have you ever had someone say, 'I'll pray for you,' and then actually do it?" Yes? Some of us. And what's even more awesome is when they actually follow up weeks later and ask, "How did it go?" You feel amazing, don't you? You feel seen, loved, cared for. In John 17 Jesus, before the cross, before you even existed, prayed for you and for...

The Quiet Before Everything Changed: Easter Saturday's Hidden Hope | John 19:38-20:10 It's the weird one between Good Friday's crucifixion and Easter Sunday's resurrection. The filler episode. The Saturday when, as a kid, Brayden would wake up annoyed: "Still no chocolate?!" But Easter Saturday isn't filler. Brayden slows down to dwell in a moment most churches skip over. It's the moment when the...

"Every time I shed a tear, every time I'm cold with fear, when I've got a broken heart, every time I fall apart... it matters. It matters." Tim kicks things off with lyrics from 90s Christian ska-punk band The OC Supertones—and summarises his entire sermon in one line: The Father cares for you. But then, like a Christopher Nolan film (Tim's favourite metaphor tonight), we work our way back from th...

Would you rather have Jesus physically beside you or the Holy Spirit living inside you? At first, it seems like an obvious answer, of course we'd want Jesus right here with us! Jai tackles one of the most profound truths in Christianity: "Very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you" (v. 7). Wait, it's good that Jesus left? It...

"I hate these moths." "I hate that guy." "I hate you, Mom!" We use the word "hate" casually these days, it's flippant, attached to immediate emotions. But when Jesus uses the word "hate" in John 15, He's talking about something far deeper and far more serious than Michael Scott hating Toby from The Office . Why does the world hate Jesus? And why will it hate us? The answer isn't comfortable, but i...

The Greatest Love: Abide in Jesus or Abide in the World | John 15:1-17 Stu opens with a video that made him cry: a children's hospital next to a football stadium where the entire crowd waves to the sick kids in the windows. One child has a sign: "Go Hawks." They made him feel like he belonged, like he was part of the team, even though he's fighting cancer. But as beautiful as that act of kindness...

Ever been to a party that went completely sideways? That's the Last Supper. Jesus washes feet, announces His betrayal, tells Peter he'll deny Him, and drops the bombshell He's leaving. Then Judas asks: "Lord, why show yourself to us and not to the world?" Fair question. If Jesus is the Messiah, why not go big? Why not split the sky and silence the critics? Jesus' response changes everything: "Anyo...

"Do you think I'm ever going to see her again?" Standing in a hospital hallway after his wife's death, a grieving husband asked Paul the question that haunts us all. After decades together, suddenly she's gone. Suddenly he's alone. Will they ever be together again? In our latest message from the "Revealing Jesus" series, Paul tackles the anxiety we all feel about death: our own and those we love....

Never Abandoned: God With Us and In Us | John 14:8-21 Ever feel spiritually orphaned? Like you're walking through life alone, wondering where God actually is? Tim Anderson tackles Philip's simple but profound request: "Lord, show us the Father." What Jesus says next changes everything about how we understand God's presence in our lives. Drawing from his own experience from losing both parents, Tim...

We're kicking off our new series "Revealing Jesus" through John 13-17, and it starts with a scene that'll turn your understanding of power completely upside down. Jesus, knowing He's about to be betrayed and killed, gets down on His knees and washes His disciples' feet. Including the feet of the guy who's about to sell Him out. That's not weakness, that's the kind of power that actually changes ev...

The final colour. The yellow bead. Heaven. We begin with Soul Revival's vision week, where Stu outlines Soul Revival Church's vision for 2026: a church that proudly calls itself "boring" because all it's doing is putting into practice a textbook written 2,000 years ago about a bloke called Jesus. The vision: Jesus Changes Everything. And the mission? Share the truth and love of Jesus with everyone...

Romans 5:6-11 doesn't start well. It calls us powerless, ungodly, sinners, enemies of God. We're spiritually bankrupt, down and out for the count. No amount of effort, morality, or religion can fix this problem. But here's the beauty: we're more sinful and flawed than we dare believe, yet more loved and accepted in Jesus than we dare hope for. Jesus doesn't die for His friends, He dies for His ene...