Crucible Church Podcast

Send us Fan Mail As we continue in our series on Christian Community, this message tackles one of the most vulnerable and costly practices of community life: confession. Drawing from Proverbs 28:13 and James 5:16, Pastor Sam explores why hiding our sins and secrets is so exhausting—and why God designed the church as a place where we can finally step into the light. In this teaching, you'll di...

Send us Fan Mail As we continue in our series on Christian Community, this message asks a question worth sitting with: who in your life actually knows what you're carrying? Drawing from Galatians 6:1-5, Pastor Sam explores Paul's urgent letter to a church in crisis and what it teaches us about restoration, shared burdens, and guarding against pride — practical, costly love in action. In...

Send us Fan Mail As we continue our series on Christian Community, this message asks a question every church community must answer: what actually holds the church together? Is it programming and church events? No. More activity doesn't mean more love. Drawing from John 13:34 -35 and 1 John 4:7-12, Pastor Sam explores Jesus' new command to love one another — not as a warm feeling, but as...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing our series on Christian Community, this message tackles a question many believers quietly wrestle with: does the church really need me? Drawing from 1 Corinthians 12:12 -27, Pastor Sam unpacks Paul's powerful metaphor of the church as one body with many parts — and why every member, whether visible and celebrated or quiet and behind-the-scenes, is essential to the...

Send us Fan Mail Kicking off our new series on Christian Community, this message tackles a question many of us feel but rarely name: why do we still feel lonely, even when we're surrounded by people? Drawing from Genesis 2:18 and Acts 2:42 -47, Pastor Sam explores what Scripture says about our deep, built-in need for authentic relationship — and how God's answer to human loneliness has a...

Send us Fan Mail As we wrap up our journey through the book of Acts, this message by P. Lawrence explores Paul's shipwreck, snakebite, and arrival in Rome as a prisoner in Acts 28 — and what his story teaches us about how to keep on keeping on when life feels uncertain. Through four acts drawn from Paul's final chapter, we discover how to persevere in faith: ✝️ Trust God's grace, no...

Send us Fan Mail Life is like a roller coaster — and when the storms hit, how do we respond? In this message, Pastor Sam speaks from Acts 27:13 -44, where Paul finds himself in the middle of a violent, life-threatening storm at sea — and shows us what it looks like to trust God when everything is out of control. Whether you're navigating grief, uncertainty, loss, or a season of darkness — thi...

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Dan Forest continued our Acts series with a message on Festus — the Roman governor who barely gets a mention in Scripture, yet made a choice that helped set Paul on his path to Rome. Most of us won't be remembered like Paul, Peter, or Stephen. We're side characters. But Festus reminds us that side characters still matter — their choices ripple through God's s...

Send us Fan Mail What does it look like to have a heart for mission in a city like Richmond, BC? In this message, guest speaker Pastor David Leung — a hospital chaplain at Vancouver General Hospital — explores Paul's remarkable ministry in Athens and its meaning for us today. Athens was a city full of idols. But the idols of Paul's day aren't so different from the idols of our moder...

Send us Fan Mail Are you so focused on what God did in the past that you're missing what He's doing right now? In Isaiah 43:18-19, God speaks to the Israelites in Babylonian captivity — a people who loved their deliverance story so much they couldn't see the new thing God was preparing for them. They kept commemorating the Exodus, the parting of the Red Sea, while God was saying: &q...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when rumours, misunderstandings, and personal convictions threaten to tear a church apart? In Acts 21:15 -25, the Apostle Paul arrives in Jerusalem and is immediately faced with a conflict — false rumours are circulating about his teaching, and the unity of the early church hangs in the balance. In this message, we look at what Paul does next — and why his response is...

Send us Fan Mail What does faithful, authentic Christian ministry actually look like? In this message from Acts 20:17-21 and 28, Pastor Sam walks through Paul's farewell address to the Ephesian elders — one of the most powerful and pastoral passages in all of Scripture — and unpacks three marks of genuine ministry that apply to every follower of Jesus. In this sermon, you'll discover: Wh...

Send us Fan Mail "You Can Be Religious and Still Be Running on Empty" | Acts 19:1-10 | Crucible Church Richmond, BC Have you ever felt like you're doing all the "right" things spiritually, but something still feels missing? In this message from Acts 19, Pastor Sam explores Paul's encounter with a group of sincere, devoted disciples in Ephesus who were missing one cruc...

Send us Fan Mail Who is Jesus — really? In Mark 9:2-9, Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up a high mountain, and something extraordinary happens. His appearance is transformed before their eyes — his clothes becoming a dazzling, radiant white. Moses and Elijah appear alongside him. And then a voice comes from a cloud: "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him." The disciples are terri...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever felt a deep longing you couldn't quite name — a sense that there has to be something more? When Paul arrives in Athens, he finds a city full of temples, idols, and an altar inscribed "To an Unknown God." Rather than condemning the city, he sees something else: people honestly searching for a God they haven't met yet. And Paul knows exactly who tha...

Send us Fan Mail When Paul arrives in Thessalonica and then Berea, he encounters two very different responses to the same Gospel message. The Thessalonians react with jealousy and hostility, shutting themselves off from what challenges them. The Bereans do the opposite — they receive the word eagerly, then open their Scriptures daily to examine whether what Paul says is actually true. Luke calls t...

Send us Fan Mail What do you do when you're in a situation you can't get out of? In Acts 16:25-34, Paul and Silas are beaten, chained, and locked in a windowless prison cell — not for doing something wrong, but for doing something right. And at midnight, instead of despairing, they pray and sing. An earthquake shakes the prison to its foundations. Every door flies open. Every chain comes...

Send us Fan Mail A closed door can feel like rejection. But what if it's actually redirection? In Acts 16:6-15, Paul and his team are actively pursuing God's mission — and the Holy Spirit stops them. Not once, but twice. No explanation given. Just a clear "no." Rather than falling apart, Paul and his team keep moving, and eventually God leads them to Macedonia, where a woman na...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when two of the most fruitful ministry partners in the New Testament have a falling out? In Acts 15:36 –16:5, Paul and Barnabas — close friends and fellow missionaries — reach a sharp disagreement over whether to bring John Mark on their next journey. John Mark had previously abandoned them mid-mission, and Paul wasn't willing to give him another chance. Barnabas...

Send us Fan Mail In Acts 14:8-28, Paul and Barnabas arrive in Lystra — a small, culturally diverse Roman colony with no synagogue, no Jewish heritage, and no prior exposure to the Gospel. It's an unlikely place for God to move. And yet, God was already there. When Paul encounters a man who had been lame from birth — a man with no medical hope, no community of faith praying for him, and no fra...

Send us Fan Mail In Acts 13:4-12, the Holy Spirit sends Paul and Barnabas on their first missionary journey to the island of Cyprus. There, they encounter a man named Elymas — a false prophet who had attached himself to the Roman proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a spiritually curious man who wanted to hear the word of God. Elymas actively worked to turn Sergius Paulus away from the faith, standing as a...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever feel stuck in the same patterns of sin, no matter how hard you try to break free? In Romans 6:1-14, the Apostle Paul offers something far more radical than a call to try harder — he declares who we already are in Christ. Paul tells us that when we placed our faith in Jesus, something decisive happened: we died. Our old self — the person enslaved to sin — was crucified...

Send us Fan Mail Written over 700 years before the birth of Jesus, Isaiah 53 contains one of the most remarkable prophetic declarations in all of Scripture. In the midst of Judah's exile, moral decay, and spiritual wandering, the prophet Isaiah speaks of a coming Suffering Servant — one who would carry the pain, guilt, and sin of the people not as punishment for His own wrongdoing, but out of...

Send us Fan Mail In Acts 13:1–3, the church in Antioch worships, fasts, and listens—and the Holy Spirit sets apart Barnabas and Saul for God’s mission. Paired with 1 John 3:19–4:6, we are reminded that a Spirit-led life requires both discernment and confidence rooted in God’s truth.  This message, from P. Dan, calls us to be a church that listens attentively, tests what we hear, and responds with...

Send us Fan Mail We live in a world built for self-promotion — personal brands, platforms, and carefully curated images. The hunger for recognition is nothing new. But Acts 12:20 –25 gives us a sobering and freeing answer to where that road leads. God will not share His glory. And that truth, as uncomfortable as it is, is one of the most liberating realities in Scripture. Join us as we look at the...