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.

While Christmas Day has passed, the Church continues to celebrate the Christmas season as we learn to let the good news of God With Us shape our lives. Join us as we begin 2026 together by exploring a story in the Bible that teaches about a life that embraces limits in order to be dedicated to the things that really matter.

Merry Christmas! Christmas begins with the mystery that God becomes human to be with us and continues as we trust God’s presence and plans for us. Join us as we follow Joseph through Christmas-time into the New Year, learning of the strength & courage we will need as we commit to grow in God’s ways.

A brief Christmas Eve message.

We are almost there. Throughout Advent we have inched our way through key biblical moments meant to move us toward a child who is coming. In Jesus, God reveals a new way that shatters the paradigms of this world. As you listen, our prayer is that you would sense God's invitation to believe that something greater than power has come into our world. Are you ready to believe and embrace what this could mean for you and your family this Christmas?

As we move closer to Christmas, the Bible introduces us to different people who were shocked & confused about how things are unfolding. Listen in as Pastor Dom revisits the long search by the most unexpected Persian astrologers we call Magi. As we will see, their searching and their questions are very revealing. Most of all, they help us consider, 'How far would you go to find peace'?

We can get so familiar with parts of the Christmas story that we miss the deeper meaning at the heart of this season. For that reason, Advent is meant to help us see where we've missed the ways God is calling us to surrender to His shocking arrival. Listen in as Pastor Dom teaches through some rich promises presented to us by Matthew's retelling of the Christmas story. Our prayer is that you'll sense God's call to build your life on His lasting hope revealed in Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of God.

As we begin Advent, we remember that this season invites us to slow down and pay attention to God, who works in hidden, unexpected places. Through the story of Elizabeth, we learn more about how God meets us in our barrenness—our unmet longings, delayed hopes, and quiet places of shame — and brings life where we least expect it. This week, we’re invited to make space for God in the places that feel empty, trusting that no word from Him will ever fail.

When God asked His people questions, He often did so not only to reveal and remind them of truths about Himself, but to uncover truths they would rather keep hidden about themselves. Join us this week as we wrap up our series on the book of Malachi exploring the subtle ways we can make serving God about what we will get out of it.

God’s loving rebuke in Malachi comes because we have failed to respond to the teaching and blessings of God to love and serve others. Malachi’s message challenges us to learn justice and generosity that is rooted God’s never-changing character and promises.

The Bible draws into the ways God's love breaks into our lives. This week, Pastor Dom walks us through chapter two and the gift of covenants. These were sacred agreements meant to help His people grow in holiness and wholeness. As you'll hear, God’s rebuke was rooted in a loving reminder that a 180 is possible if we turn from our selfish ways. As Christians, Jesus’ love, and the power of the Spirit guides us to grow as those who are part of a new covenant rooted in God’s love for us. May you listen and respond so that you do not ruin a blessing.

Just like the people in the Bible, there are times where our own hearts can grow cold to God’s love or caring to grow in His ways. But God loves us so much that He doesn’t leave us there. Join us as we begin this series on the Book of Malachi, exploring God’s loving rebuke that is meant to turn us back to His love, mercy, goodness, and faithfulness.

This week we wrap up our teaching series meant to ground our beliefs about giving and generosity on God’s Word. In this last sermon, Pastor Dom addresses a teachable moment between Jesus and the Pharisees and their hypocrisy around giving. This would be a reminder to stay on guard against greed and the love of money. We pray this message awakens the freedom from greed that only Jesus can give.

God overflows with generosity because it is His nature to give. We on the other hand have to learn and grow in our generosity. This week, Pastor Dom explores how the earliest Christians were learning to see giving as part of their worship and how Jesus uses a celebration to remind us how easily we confuse knowing what something costs versus being willing to count the cost of sacrifice ourselves.

What we believe about money impacts so many issues in our lives. If we don't slow down to think about this, the greedy ways of our world soon distort what God says to us. For this reason, we want the Bible to help us experience God's wisdom about giving and His faithfulness as a Generous God. Listen in as Pastor Dom begins this series with why God gives wisdom before He gives us wealth. Consider sharing with someone who might need to be encouraged as well.

Whenever Jesus did miracles in the Bible, He was using them to point to something much deeper than what’s on the surface. Join us this week as we wrap up this series by looking at a story where the real miracle of Jesus is the one that’s easy to miss, but that all His other miracles point to.