Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

Made Alive

Alive is gathering thousands of young adults across south Sydney for worship, stories, and a moment to encounter Jesus at Inaburra School.

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Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

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.

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Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

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.

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Stuart Crawshaw Stuart Crawshaw

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.

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Jai McMordie Jai McMordie

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.

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Jai McMordie Jai McMordie

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.

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Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

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.

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Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

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.

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Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

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.

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Jai McMordie Jai McMordie

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.

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Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

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.

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Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

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.

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Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

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.

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Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

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?

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