Podcast Revival

Episodes

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  Judgement Day: A Message of Hope, Not Fear - Brendan Gloyn 05.11.2026 42m

  “Judgement Day is not a message of fear.” Most people would rather not think about it, yet cultures across history have sensed that humanity will one day answer for its actions. This episode follows the words of Jesus in Matthew 24, Matthew 25 and Luke 21 to explain why we are told to be ready rather than to set dates, how everyday cares can catch us like a snare, and why only what is built on the rock will stand. A clear and encouraging look at living with eternity in mind.
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  An Expected Hope - Pastor Ian Jarvis 02.11.2026 23m

  “You don’t have to live the way you always lived.” When God’s people were captives in Babylon, false prophets only made things worse. Then the truth arrived: after 70 years, they would go home. This episode explores how knowing what God has really promised brings peace and an expected hope, and why nobody today has to wait 70 years for theirs. From Jeremiah to Romans and Acts, it sets out two possible ends, shares stories of healing and changed lives, and finishes with a simple challenge: put God’s promise to the test.
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  The Beatitudes: Mercy, Pure Hearts and Peacemakers - Jacob Riggs 29.10.2026 40m

  “Mercy is our trump card.” The Beatitudes open Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5, and this episode focuses on the four that deal with how we treat each other. Discover what it means to forgive and to care for the vulnerable, why a pure heart accepts God’s will even at personal cost, how Jonathan stood up for David, and the practical steps that make someone a peacemaker. And when peace still can’t be found, Jesus gives a surprising answer: rejoice, because the kingdom of heaven is yours.
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  A Personal Relationship with God - Peter Goodrich 26.10.2026 24m

  “They’re not half dead, they’re half alive.” What does a personal relationship with God look like day to day? This episode starts with the promise of no condemnation in Romans 8, then follows Jesus as he is told his family is waiting outside and answers by widening the circle to everyone who does his Father’s will. It looks at why meeting together still matters, how the prophet Hosea’s faithfulness to an unfaithful wife pictures God’s constant love, and why the good Samaritan saw hope where others saw none. An encouraging reminder that God’s love is personal, that you have a place in his family, and that nobody is beyond hope.
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  What Manner of Persons Ought We to Be - Steve Rowlands 22.10.2026 33m

  “What manner of persons ought we to be? Watchful and ready.” 2 Peter 3 warns of scoffers in the last days who ask where the promise of Christ’s coming has gone. This episode walks through the chapter, from the warning given in Noah’s day to the coming day of the Lord, and explains why God is patient: He wants everyone to come to repentance. It looks at trusting God instead of ourselves, the choice Adam and Eve faced, and what it means to work out our salvation with awe rather than fear. Whether your faith is new or long-standing, this is an encouraging call to live a holy life, stay ready and run the race with patience.
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  Knowing our place in Christ - Pastor Steve Carr 19.10.2026 30m

  “Jesus isn’t asleep on the job.” This episode is about knowing our place in Christ. It begins in Revelation 12, where the accuser is thrown out of heaven and believers overcome him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. From there it shows that our citizenship is in heaven right now, and that the power that raised Jesus is at work in us. Jesus is our advocate, our mediator and the guarantee of a better covenant, always living to speak up for us. Because God justifies us, no charge against us can stand.
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  Losing Your Soul or Finding Your Way Back - Pastor Marc Weber 15.10.2026 33m

  “What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Peter and Judas both failed Jesus on the night of his arrest. Judas sold him for 30 pieces of silver and tried to make things right with money. Peter denied him three times and went out and wept bitterly. Only one of them went back to Jesus. This episode follows both men through Matthew and John to see how Jesus restored Peter with breakfast on the beach, three simple questions and a fresh purpose. It is a clear reminder that humility, not hiding, is the way back after failure, and that God has not finished with you yet.
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  Making a Difference - Pastor Seth Bland 12.10.2026 39m

  “It’s not gossip if it’s true.” That excuse gets a hard look in this episode about how to treat someone who has stumbled. Drawing on the letter of Jude, it shows that making a difference means telling situations apart, because some people need compassion and others need a clear warning. Along the way it explores the ditches of condemnation and indifference. It also covers a prophet and four soldiers who carried defeated captives home in 2 Chronicles 28, and two very different men named Ananias in Acts. The goal is always to restore people gently, not to push them away.
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  Certainty in an Uncertain World - Pastor Darryl Williams 24.09.2026 41m

  "We might not be in control, but God is." This episode goes looking for certainty in an uncertain world, starting where Luke starts, writing so his reader could know for sure what he had been taught. It names what unsettles people now, from conflicts overseas to the mortgage and the washing machine, then works through what the Bible presents as fixed. God's word comes first, then first-hand experience, including a candid account of a sceptic who treated baptism as an experiment in 1969 and spoke in tongues anyway. It finishes with hope as an anchor, and the confidence that what you have entrusted to God is safe.
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  Being Fair - Pastor Steve Murphy 21.09.2026 35m

  "Fairness can have teeth." Being fair sounds soft until you watch it hold its ground. Starting in Psalm 99, where God is described as one who establishes equity, this episode asks what fair looks like, how it works and whether it is worth it. The answers come through stories: a widow who refused a last minute price cut on the family home, a goalkeeper who bent the rules and then explained himself, and a legal system that has always needed fair minded people because the letter of the law cannot cover every circumstance. It closes with Ecclesiastes on nobody being perfectly just, Paul's instruction to Timothy about honest aims, and manna gathered fresh each morning.
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  Help My Unbelief - Grant Hugo 20.09.2026 31m

  "There's a big difference between some unbelief and not believing." This episode looks at the father in Mark 9 who cried out, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief. It explores why that honest prayer is so different from the dismissal Jesus met in his home town, or from Thomas refusing to believe. Along the way it asks how Jesus sounded when he said O faithless generation, compares Bible translations, and explains why faith is a noun but believing is something you do. The takeaway is an encouraging one: help my unbelief is an invitation, not an accusation.
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  Things Learned But Not Yet Mastered - Sam Pearce 14.09.2026 25m

  Some lessons take years to learn, and you can still be a long way from mastering them. Three of them here: hospitality that looks less like a dinner party and more like hunting down a tent for someone with nowhere to sleep; a man lowered through a roof who is forgiven before he is healed; and the slow, frustrating business of change in a church. Daniel is told that God changes the times and the seasons. Isaiah 43 tells people who cling to one great miracle that a new thing is coming. And if you want the ship to turn, the advice is simple: stop shouting from the top deck and go and talk to the captain.
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  The Tower of Babel - Pastor John Van De Giessen 24.08.2026 34m

  "Sometimes the problem isn't what you're building. The problem is the foundation you're building it on." The people on the plain of Shinar had one language, real skill and genuine unity, and they used all of it to make a name for themselves. This episode walks through the Tower of Babel and then asks a harder question about our own lives: with study, work, a mortgage and family filling the calendar, how easy is it to keep putting God off until later? The greatest tragedy is not building something that collapses, but building something that succeeds without God in it. Babel ends in scattering. Pentecost gathers the nations back together.
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  Seeing Things That Are Invisible - Pastor David Kschammer 20.08.2026 39m

  "How can you take your eyes off something that you can't see?" That question sets up a look at one line in 2 Corinthians 4, where we are told to look at the things which are not seen. It sounds like a contradiction, until you notice how much everyone already accepts without sight. Scientists trust instruments and calculations. Atoms were believed in long before anyone saw one. Thoughts, love and patience are invisible and obviously real. The episode works through Hebrews 11 and Moses, then Elisha at Dothan, calm in front of an enemy army because he was sure of what surrounded him. The conclusion is that faith here is persuasion built on evidence, not guesswork.
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  Comfortably Numb - Pastor Ben Smith 17.08.2026 20m

  "We don't want to be a people who are comfortably numb." Jesus warned that as lawlessness increased, love would grow cold, and he had blunt words for a church that had grown comfortable enough to think it needed nothing. This episode sits with that warning and the promise attached to it: the one who endures to the end will be saved. It works through Laodicea, the meaning hidden in the city's name, the writer of Hebrews urging people not to let what they have heard slip away, and the honest question of whether zeal is growing or fading. Encouraging rather than heavy, with a clear call to stay in the race.
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  No Relationship Beyond Repair - Pastor Bill Allen 13.08.2026 29m

  "There's no such thing as an irrevocably damaged relationship for those that look to the Lord." In John chapter twenty one, Peter has denied Jesus three times and gone back to fishing. Then Jesus turns up on the shore with breakfast ready and asks him three times, do you love me. This episode unpacks what is really happening in that conversation. Not a wound being reopened, but a man being lifted out of guilt and pointed at his purpose. Along the way, a look at the friendship between Peter and John, the net that did not break, and why confronting our weakness is what makes us strong.
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  Trusting God's Goodness - David Rocchi 11.08.2026 42m

  God is not looking for excuses to be bad to us. He is looking for excuses to be good to us. This episode takes up the invitation of Psalm 34:8 to taste and see that the Lord is good, and works through Romans 5, Ephesians 2, Psalm 139 and Jeremiah 29 to settle one question: does God want to be good to you personally? The answer was already proven at the cross, long before we did anything to deserve it. There is honest ground covered here on failure, guilt and the habit of writing ourselves out of the picture, along with the simple response God asks for, which is thanks and praise.
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  Well Pleasing in His Sight - Pastor Phil Haddad 06.08.2026 41m

  The Lord is not asking us to bring a perfect work. What he's asked us to do was already perfect. This episode asks a question that sits underneath most of our decisions: who are we really trying to please? Starting with Caleb and Joshua waiting forty years for a promise, it moves through three moments in the life of Jesus that show what God actually responds to. His baptism, his answers in the wilderness, and his silence at the cross all point to the same thing. Not skill, not results, not reputation, but obedience and a humble attitude. It closes with eighteen simple things that please God.
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  The Long Straight Road - Pastor Peter Lord 03.08.2026 45m

  "This road that is there is a road that is straight, it doesn't vary in any direction, and we know where we're going." Using the image of a long, flat outback highway, this episode explores what it means to stay steady in faith rather than drift off course. It looks at how small distractions and gradual losses of focus can pull us away, why God's unchanging character gives us something solid to hold onto, and how the Holy Spirit works like a steering wheel guiding us along the way. It is a practical, honest look at staying the course over the long haul, checking in regularly, and trusting the path even when you cannot see where it ends.
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  Growing in Understanding Through the Holy Spirit - Pastor Tim Cope 30.07.2026 39m

  "Get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get understanding." This episode explores why understanding is treated in scripture as something different from knowledge or wisdom, something that develops over time as faith deepens. Starting with Jesus washing His disciples' feet in John 13, the discussion moves through a surprising connection to modern happiness research, into Psalm 73's honest wrestling with envy and doubt, and finishes in John 3 with Nicodemus's conversation about being born again. It's a practical look at why spiritual growth can feel slow, and what it means to move from simply knowing facts about God to genuinely understanding Him.