You Shall Not Make for Yourself an Image in the Form of Anything
The second commandment isn't about statues. It's about the plastic Jesus we construct in our imagination. The real one is infinitely bigger than anything we could make.
Faith Over Feelings: From Scumbag to Shepherd
Dave Jensen grew up in a house full of Christians. His father was the Archbishop of Sydney. His uncle, his brother, his cousin, his brother-in-law, all in ministry. He understood exactly what genuine Christianity looked like. He just didn't have it himself.
You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me
The first commandment doesn't tell you to worship — it assumes you already do. The only question is what. Brayden unpacks the sin beneath every other sin.
Why the Ten Commandments Matter
The Ten Commandments aren't there to make us good. They're there to show us we can't be — and that we need Jesus. Stu Crawshaw opens a new series in Deuteronomy 4.
We Are Saved Into Community
There's a sign above every church that believes in Jesus. It reads: love one another.
Jai asks what it actually means that we were saved not as individuals, but into a community.
From Consumer to Contributor — What a Third Place Church Actually Asks of You
There's a difference between a church you attend and a community you belong to. Henri Lefebvre calls the first a dominated space and the second an appropriated space — and the distinction explains more about why people struggle to belong at church than most welcome strategies ever will.
Yet Still I Will Rejoice
We started Habakkuk with a cry. We end it with a song. Jai unpacks the three-letter word that holds the whole book together, and what it means to rejoice when everything is falling apart.
Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
Why do bad things happen to good people? Habakkuk's asking a harder version — why don't bad things happen to bad people? Tim unpacks God's answer from Habakkuk 2.
Trust Him When You Don't Understand
How can a good God use evil people to accomplish his purposes? Stu doesn't offer a neat answer, he offers something harder. Faith.
Final Destination: A New Album About the Journey with God
What happens when our good plans collide with God's great plans? Woman to Woman explores faith, wellness, and the real stories of women who've discovered that trusting God transforms everything. Read Carolyn's challenge and meet three courageous Christian women whose faith perseveres through hardship.
Woman to Woman: God's Greater Plans & Faithful Courage
What happens when our good plans collide with God's great plans? Woman to Woman explores faith, wellness, and the real stories of women who've discovered that trusting God transforms everything. Read Carolyn's challenge and meet three courageous Christian women whose faith perseveres through hardship.
Deeper Than Just Community
Community isn't enough. It never was. The research from Stu's PhD keeps showing that the people who stayed at Soul Revival Youth Community were the ones who became Christians — and the community worked because the gospel was proclaimed clearly every single week.
Joel, Stu and Tim unpack the difference between two kinds of belonging, the commitments group, and why the hip hop night before the Cronulla riots is one of the best illustrations of what gospel-centred community actually produces.
When God’s Answer Unsettles You
Habakkuk keeps praying the same prayer and keeps getting silence. Then God answers — and it makes things feel worse. Jai unpacks what that means for the prayers we're carrying right now.
LiT Junior Leadership Camp
Soul Revival's Year 9-12 leaders are invited to Youthworks' LiT camp this January, where they'll explore Relentless Hope through the prophet Micah and discover what it means to lead with justice, walk with humility, and live with hope. Registration opens Wednesday 3 June.
Enhanced Christianity
Manufactured greatness doesn't connect, and it turns out the same is true in church ministry. Stu's PhD research is revealing six themes from the Soul Revival Youth Community, and the one that keeps surfacing above the others is this: relationships were the front door. Not events. Not programs. The relationships.
How Long, O Lord?
Habakkuk doesn't open with a polished speech. He opens with a cry. Tim Anderson introduces one of the most honest, most human books in the Bible.
Christ-Centred Friendships at Living Water
Each Saturday Anna Ware has been at Living Water in Redfern where kids are discovering Jesus in a safe, welcoming community.
What We've Lost — Technology, Physicality and the Trade-Offs
Behind a wedding vow written by ChatGPT, there is no I who says I do. Joel and Tim trace a thread from new creation theology through rally driving, unwrapping CDs and Zoom fatigue — and build a framework for asking the question every church leader and parent should be asking about technology: what exactly have we traded?
Generosity is Who You Are in Christ
The Pharisee's hands were full. The tax collector's were empty. One went home justified. Jai unpacks what that means for how we give.
Sin is More Serious Thank You Think
Nahum 3 is the kind of passage we instinctively want to put distance between ourselves but that instinct is exactly the problem.