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Connexus Church Audio Podcast

Connexus Church Audio Podcast

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Starve The Monster - Part 2 - Overvalued Monster

What do you value? And more importantly, why do you value it? Often, the belief that what you’re pursuing has greater value than what you have drives the sense of entitlement most of us feel. But what if the monster has caused you to overvalue what you’re chasing?

Jul 13, 201444 min

Starve The Monster - Part 1 - Friends With The Monster

When is enough...enough? You take a little more each time, but you still don’t feel satisfied. Enough always seems to be changing, doesn’t it? Why is that? Maybe it’s because you’re friends with the monster. Understanding how the monster works is the first step toward containing it.

Jul 6, 201439 min

Skeptics Wanted - Part 9 - If God Is Good, Why Do Bad Things Happen?

How can you have a perfectly good God and still have evil? This question has bothered people for thousands of years. It probably also really bothers you. Why do bad things happen to good people? And where’s God amidst the mess that far too often is life?

May 25, 201448 min

Skeptics Wanted - Part 8 - Why Should I be Part of a Church When Christianity has Such a Terrible History?

Between the Crusades, the Inquisition, abuse, scandals and so much more, why would anyone choose to be part of the church? It’s a great question. Maybe God was trying to do something different in the church...something that could touch your life personally

May 18, 201442 min

Skeptics Wanted - Part 7 - Why On Earth Are Christians So Judgmental?

For some strange reason, many Christians today are known for their judgment more than for their love. This is almost criminal, as Jesus said that the defining hallmark of his followers should be love. Why is that? And what’s stopping Christians and the church from changing?

May 11, 201440 min

Skeptics Wanted - Part 6 - How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?

Almost everyone is comfortable with the idea of heaven. But few people—including Christians—are comfortable with the idea of hell. Why, after all, would a loving God send people to hell? We’ll explore that subject and what it says about the character and heart of God...and what it says about you.

May 4, 201442 min

Skeptics Wanted - Part 5 - Doesn't Evolution Disprove Christianity?

Did everything start 6000 years ago, or 13 billion years ago? With so much debate swirling around creation and evolution, how do you know what to believe? We’ll look at who’s right, who’s wrong and the limits of the debate.

Apr 27, 201441 min

Skeptics Wanted - Part 4 - How Can Anyone Prove Jesus Rose from the Dead? (Easter Sunday)

Most people would agree that Jesus is a good moral teacher. But do we seriously have to believe that he rose from the dead? That’s he’s God? Is there any convincing evidence that Jesus rose from the dead? Actually, there’s more than you think.

Apr 20, 201438 min

Skeptics Wanted - Part 3 - Did Jesus Really Have to Die for My Sin? (Good Friday)

It sounds so strange. God loved us so he sent his son to die for us. Really? Why did Jesus have to die. And why did anyone have to die for us? Are things really that bad? What does Jesus’ death say about God’s character?

Apr 18, 201426 min

Skeptics Wanted - Part 2 - How Can Jesus Be the Only Way to God?

It’s pretty widely believed in our culture that there are many equally valid paths to God. To each his own. But Christianity makes a radical claim: that Jesus is the only way to God. Isn’t that far too exclusive? What about different cultures and different beliefs?

Apr 13, 201443 min

Skeptics Wanted - Part 1 - Can I Really Trust the Bible?

Can you really trust a book that was written thousands of years ago by multiple authors? And even if it was helpful then, does the bible still have relevance now? The answers to this age old question may surprise you.

Apr 6, 201442 min

Accomplished - Part 5 - How to Find Your Sweet Spot

Do you have a unique contribution to make? You likely do. But what is it? Part of that is finding out what you’re best at. We’ll show you three questions that can help you identify what you’re uniquely equipped and maybe even called by God to do.

Feb 2, 201445 min

Accomplished - Part 4 - Why Work-Life Balance is a Myth

Is work life-balance possible? Maybe. But what if that’s not the best way to live? We’ll see how the most effective people rarely shoot for balance. They shoot for something radically different. And if you do it could change so much in your work, your family and your life.

Jan 26, 201441 min

Accomplished - Part 3 - Never Enough

Accomplishment itself isn’t always enough. In fact, most people experience some kind of let down after they accomplish a even an astounding goal. Even astounding accomplishment can leave us with an unsettling feeling that there’s something more. What is it? When you discover it, it changes everything cover it, it reprograms your life.

Jan 19, 201441 min

Accomplished - Part 2 - Why Your Dreams Haven't Come True

So many people are frustrated with the lack of progress they make in life. It’s especially confusing since so many of us feel like we’re so busy. How can you have that much activity and yet have so little productivity? We’ll look at some practical, biblical strategies for getting more accomplished.

Jan 12, 201443 min

Accomplished - Part 1 - Future You

It’s New Year’s. You’ve got goals. Resolutions. Some will be easy. But there are probably one or two issues that seem too big for you to tackle. What do you do with those? We’ll ask a question that can lead you to an answer that just might change everything for you.

Jan 5, 201429 min