Avenue Podcast

What are you going to trade your life for? At just 18 years old, Dave Ferguson wrestled with that exact question, and it changed the trajectory of his entire life. Today, as the CEO of Exponential and founder of...

Text: Judges 14 Here, we tackle the danger of letting our physical impulses override our spiritual boundaries. We often make decisions with our heart and justify them witho ur head. Samson repeatedly lets his eyes...

Text: Judges 14 Samson had the unique calling of being a Nazarite from birth. His purpose was to begin to free Israel from the Philistines. His job was never to finish the task but to begin. Join us for an introduction...

Lachlan Campbell started a church in a park on the Sunshine Coast of Noosa. He loves seeing and creative innovative church plants that break outside of the typical mould of conventional churches. Ultimately, he hopes to...

Philip Kua is a church planter and leader based in Melbourne, Australia. After spending many years leading a large, contemporary church, Philip felt a calling to radical simplicity. In 2016, he and his family started a...

Sam was born in Malaysia and raised in Singapore, but has called Australia home for over 20 years, having lived in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne where he served for many years as a pastor. After studying theology at...

We’ve learnt to rush through life like stopping means falling behind. But God invites us to slow down. Not because everything is done, but because he is enough. Rest is where we learn to trust.

How we keep the Sabbath can be a subjective thing? There aren't clear cut guidelines on how we keep Sabbath in scripture but there are a few principles we see that can guide us so that we can experience rest in it's...

Luke 6:6-11 In this episode, we dive into Jesus' intentional choice to heal chronic illnesses on the Sabbath day. Rather than breaking the Sabbath, Jesus was revealing its truest form: a day of radical freedom and...

Matthew 11:28-30 The Sabbath was never meant to be a burden, yet religious legalism turned it into one. In this episode, we dive into Jesus’ revolutionary perspective on rest. While Jesus doesn't promise a life devoid...

Genesis 2:1-3 We don't choose the Sabbath; we step into a rhythm that God has already woven into creation. In this episode, we challenge the modern hustle culture by looking at the very first Shabbat. Adam and Eve...

Johnny Wong is a renowned church planter around the world and is known for the training and systems that he has built for training leaders. He has seen great success as a church planter by trusting and investing in...

Ministry is a high-stakes calling, and the external pressures can easily overwhelm even the most passionate leaders. In this episode, we sit down with Roy Kim, who has transitioned from the frontlines of planting to...

How does a massive, world-changing movement start? According to veteran church planter and author Dr. Peter Roennfeldt, it starts by keeping things incredibly simple. In this episode, we sit down with Peter to unpack...

Revelation 21 and 22 Moving away from traditional pop-culture myths about the afterlife, we unpack the vibrant, tangible reality of the "Garden City." It’s a place where heaven and earth finally overlap perfectly, where...