When the World Hates You
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

When the World Hates You

"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first." Jesus isn't talking about casual annoyance—He's describing spiritual disgust, eternal rejection, and why following Him means being hated by the world (and why that's a far lighter burden than knowing people you love face eternal destruction).

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The Greatest Love
Stuart Crawshaw Stuart Crawshaw

The Greatest Love

A stadium full of people waves to sick children in a hospital, making them feel like they belong. But Jesus offers something even greater: the love with which the Father loves the Son, and the choice to abide in it or abide in the world.

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Revealing the Spirit
Jai McMordie Jai McMordie

Revealing the Spirit

If Jesus is the Messiah, why didn't He split the sky and shock the world into belief? In John 14, Jesus reveals something far better than spectacle: God making His home in you through the Holy Spirit, bringing peace that transcends understanding even in your chaos.

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Life With Jesus — Not Just Life From Him
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

Life With Jesus — Not Just Life From Him

Everyone seems to be rediscovering the value of Christianity right now: except they mostly want the fruit without the vine. Joel and Tim trace a line from Bluey through the culture wars to Skye Jethani's brilliant framework, and ask the question every church leader should be sitting with: are the people in your church pursuing Jesus, or just the benefits of proximity to him?

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Revealing the Way
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

Revealing the Way

Standing in a hospital hallway after his wife's death, a man asked the question we all fear: "Will I ever see her again?" In John 14, Jesus makes four promises about death that no doctor, philosopher, or religion can match—starting with "Do not let your hearts be troubled."

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Have We Forgotten About Friendship?
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

Have We Forgotten About Friendship?

Most churches have the Sunday gathering and the small group sorted. But there's a whole layer of community sitting between those two — and its absence is why people keep saying "I don't feel like I belong here." Bonhoeffer called it an ecclesial category. Your church might just call it the thing that's been missing.

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Revealing the Father
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

Revealing the Father

What if you're not as alone as you feel? In John 14, Jesus makes a promise that sustained martyrs facing flames and carries believers through hospital rooms today: "I will not leave you as orphans", because the Spirit of God lives in you.

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He Has the Right to Tell Me How to Live
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

He Has the Right to Tell Me How to Live

God has the right to tell us how to live, and because He's the perfect Father who uses His authority to love us, that's not oppressive, it's beautiful. From parenting styles to parasocial AI relationships to abiding in Jesus, this conversation explores what authentic faith actually looks like in 2026.

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Servant and Betrayer Revealed
Stuart Crawshaw Stuart Crawshaw

Servant and Betrayer Revealed

What if everything you thought about power was backwards? In John 13, the King of the universe gets on His knees to wash dirty feet—including those of His betrayer—and shows us the kind of love that actually changes everything.

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From Buddhism to Bishopric: The Kanishka Raffel Story
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

From Buddhism to Bishopric: The Kanishka Raffel Story

January 1986. A humid Sydney night. A 21-year-old Buddhist university student couldn't sleep, so he reached for a small book a friend had given him weeks earlier—thinking it might bore him to sleep. Instead, he read John's Gospel three times before morning and woke up a different person. Decades later, he's the Archbishop of Sydney. This is his story.

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Yellow: How is Your Friendship with Jesus?
Stuart Crawshaw Stuart Crawshaw

Yellow: How is Your Friendship with Jesus?

Cicadas live underground for seven years in darkness before they emerge, grow wings, and fly, weeing out of pure joy. The yellow bead means living in the light again, because Jesus changes everything.

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How LIT Camp Equipped Me to Lead and Share My Faith
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

How LIT Camp Equipped Me to Lead and Share My Faith

Last week, Lucy and 19 other Year 10-12 students spent a week at LIT Camp alongside 450 teenagers, growing in faith, developing leadership skills, and forming friendships that will last. Hear how this experience equipped Lucy to confidently share God's word and step into leadership.

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Red: From Enemies to Friends
Jai McMordie Jai McMordie

Red: From Enemies to Friends

Romans 5 doesn't flatter us, it calls us powerless, ungodly enemies of God. But here's the beauty: we're more sinful than we dare believe, yet more loved in Jesus than we dare hope for, because He died for His enemies to make them friends.

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YELLOW — New Life and Eternal Hope
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

YELLOW — New Life and Eternal Hope

The final colour, yellow, represents light restored and future glory. When we trust in Jesus, God gives us his Holy Spirit to live in us — a sure promise of the life to come.

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Black: Rebellion, Sin, and Stumbling in Darkness
Jai McMordie Jai McMordie

Black: Rebellion, Sin, and Stumbling in Darkness

Genesis 3 doesn't start with violence or murder, it starts with doubt: "Did God really say?" The black bead represents how sin enters through suspicion, shatters three perfect relationships in oe, and leaves us stumbling in darkness.

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Red: Jesus and the Cross
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

Red: Jesus and the Cross

The red colour brings us to the heart of the Christian message. Jesus is the promised serpent crusher who stepped into the darkness for us.

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White: Light, Relationship and Life with God
Stuart Crawshaw Stuart Crawshaw

White: Light, Relationship and Life with God

The white bead represents that God made us to be His friends—to walk in the light of His ways. You are created in God's image, formed from dirt yet dignified by God's breath, designed for relationship, and placed under His joyful, life-giving authority.

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