Beyond Church AU

Most people think God gets angry when we wander off. Jesus said the opposite: God throws a party when we come home. This message kicks off a brand new series with a question that's hard to shake: if this church...

You can be connected to more people than ever and still feel completely alone. We live in the most connected moment in human history, and loneliness is at epidemic levels, and the two are far more related than we’d like...

You don't think of yourself as an angry person. So why does ten minutes of scrolling leave you fuming at strangers you'll never meet? Anger is the number one emotion the apps use to keep you hooked, because outrage is...

Seven out of ten of us secretly hope our job will prove that our life matters. It was never built to carry that. Most of us don't hate our jobs, we've just quietly started surviving until Friday. This episode digs into...

Only about 1 in 4 people feel engaged at work on an average day. If Monday feels like something to survive, this one's for you. Most of us spend more waking hours working than doing anything else, and a lot of us...

You send a message, see it marked “read,” and then… nothing. A lot of us feel that way about God too. This week we look at an old story about a kid working in a religious temple who hears a voice calling his name in the...

We've all bought something that felt like a great deal at the time, and now we're still paying it off, wondering what we were thinking. If money has ever kept you up at night, this one's for you. This is the final part...

<p>Cost of living is up. Groceries are brutal. And somehow, no matter what you earn, it never quite feels like enough.</p><p>In this episode, Chris Podlich sits down with a pretty uncomfortable question: why doesn't...

<p>We all love a good upgrade.</p><p>Free business class. Getting the corner office. That little rush when your name gets called first. Be honest, it feels good. We're wired for it.</p><p>But what if that feeling, that...

<p>Most of us know what it feels like to have our peace under attack. The news, the parenting load, the work stress, the comparison spiral, it's relentless. And no matter how much we try to solve or control our way to...

<p>What's actually giving you confidence right now? Maybe it's what you own, what you've accomplished, or what people think of you. And if you're honest, those things matter more than you'd like to admit.</p><p>We all...

<p>There's a version of life we all picture. More joy. More peace. More of those moments where you think to yourself, this is living. But if we're honest, most of us feel something else: striving after something that...

<p>Of all the questions people submitted for this series, one came back more than any other.</p><p>This one: if God is good and God is powerful, why is the world this broken?</p><p>It's the question that has ended more...

<p>We all have questions when it comes to faith. This week, we take some of the questions you've submitted throughout this series and have a conversation with Chris about them.</p><p>Got a question for Jesus? Submit it...

<p>If God is all-powerful, why couldn't he just forgive without the cross? Why did Jesus have to die at all? And honestly, given the state of the world, was it even worth it?</p><p>These are some of the most common...