the180 Church Podcast

Palm Sunday is a celebration meant to reveal that underneath the waving branches is an uncomfortable tension: Jesus is not the kind of King people were expecting. Those who had followed Him for years are now surely embarrassed. Others watching on are too stubborn to notice they have forgotten the gift of embarrassment. Listen in as Pastor Dom invites us to begin this Holy Week with a warning of how easy we all can go from singing God's praise to silently rejecting His ways.

In moments of pain and suffering, God wants to move us beyond easy answers to gain a new perspective and to trust Him in deeper ways. Join us as we wrap up the Story of Job series and enter the final week of Lent, exploring how what God reveals in moments of difficulty is a deeper understanding of who He is.

Suffering does more than hurt us—it tempts us. Our series on Job draws us into the spiritual struggles that often accompany pain. When life collapses, we are tempted to believe God has abandoned us. In a world where pain can pull us toward despair, Job reveals that we should take another path that leads to resisting the temptations of suffering and hold on to God—even when the answers do not come. You also don't want to miss a special interview Pastor Dom will share.

As we continue in Week 3 of our Lent series, we see how the impact of Job’s suffering spreads to his friends who come to join us. Pain can stress friendships to the breaking point, or reveal the endurance that God is leading us into. Join us as we learn the Biblical pattern of friendships that endure when everything falls apart.

As we step into Week 2 of Lent, we continue in our story of Job series. If you are reading along, no matter how challenging, you will have noticed there are no easy answers. In fact, Job is living proof that goodness does not guarantee protection. Integrity does not inoculate you from pain. Listen in as Pastor Dom invites us to see how God can use times of doubt and suffering to show us that just being good is not enough if we are going to understand Jesus' invitation to pick up our cross and follow Him.

As Lent begins, we enter a season that lacks easy answers. Listen in as Pastor Dom introduces a new teaching series where we walk with a man named Job who goes from a blessed life to deep brokenness without clear explanations. Job’s life brings to the surface issues and questions we face today. How do we deal with injustice? Where is God when pain and suffering seem so meaningless? How should we respond when bad things happen? We pray that as you listen, you'd grow in your desire to seek and worship God with renewed focus no matter what comes your way.

In a culture that is so shaped by the desire for the kind of success that makes our lives easier, it’s hard to know how to pray to God or to trust Him when confronted with the realities of our world. As we wrap up our series on the names of Jesus, join us as we explore Jesus’ invitation to grow in obedience to Him and to follow Him even as He goes to suffer on our behalf.

Prince of Peace is one of the names for Jesus that Christians get from the book of Isaiah. We live in a world looking for and longing for peace. But what kind of peace does Jesus - the Prince of Peace - give us and how does that guide us to pray in a deeper way? Today's sermon delves into the story of the Bleeding Woman and the Sick Girl from Luke 8 and reveals the surprising ways that Jesus gives us His peace.

What if the universe isn’t held together by force—but by a name? Listen in as Pastor Dom explores how Jesus has a special name that reminds us that in Him all things hold together. This can only mean that He is also the one we call on to hold us together through the messy challenges life throws our way. May this sermon encourage you to trust God and to pray with a desire to align your life with his purposes.

What if prayer isn’t about getting good advice, but about becoming whole? In this message on Jesus as the Wonderful Counselor, we will explore how His words don’t just inform us—they heal, transform, and call us into new life. Through Isaiah’s prophecy and Jesus’ encounter with a sick man in John 5, we’re invited to let go of our substitutes for healing and honestly ask: Do I really want to get well?

This year, we want to get serious about having our goals rooted in God's character. In this new teaching series we bring together the importance of prayer and what it means that Jesus' unique names point to a God we can trust in any situation. Listen in as Pastor Dom kicks off this series and unpacks that Jesus is God with us—the nearness of God made visible and touchable. This is Good News!

In this sermon, delivered by Chris Throness, Director of Leader Formation for Alliance Canada, we will explore the question of identity and calling—who we are and what God is inviting us to do—through the lens of Exodus 19. The message emphasizes how God forms His people through grace before sending them into His mission. This sermon is an invitation to consider where the next leaders for the Church will come from. With a hopeful vision for leader formation, the sermon highlights the potential of the180 to become a place where leaders are discerned, developed, and sent to serve Laval, Canada, and beyond.