Connexus Church Audio Podcast
Welcome to the Connexus Church audio podcast. Whether church has been part of your life or not, these 40 minute messages can help you grow in your relationship with God. Our vision at Connexus is to create a church that unchurched people love to attend. See www.connexuschurch.com for more.
Episodes
If you want to make sure your heart never gets broken, there's one guaranteed way to do it: never open it up to anyone. That's the trade every real relationship asks you to make, and most days, it feels like too much.
In this episode, Mark Clark walks through nine simple postures from Colossians 3 that actually make relationships work: compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, bearing with one ...
If your mind has felt like it won't settle down lately, like you're carrying more than you were built to carry, this episode is for you. Mark's honest about his own lifelong struggle with anxiety and mental health, and he offers something better than "just pray about it." He talks about what real peace actually looks like, peace that doesn't wait for your circumstances to get better first, and how to stop carrying ever...
Have you ever felt like something that happened to you, a mistake, a diagnosis, a rejection, is now a label over your life that you can't shake?
There's a woman in Luke 13 who carried a painful condition for eighteen years. Every week she showed up, prayed, gave what she had, and went home unchanged. Then one day, Jesus saw her. He called her forward. And he gave her a name nobody else was using.
If you've been waiting a long time ...
Ever prayed the same prayer for weeks and felt like you were talking into silence?
In this bonus episode of Honest to God, Sydney Jackson sits down with Toni Nieuwhof and Sarah Piercy, two of the contributing authors behind the Honest to God book, for an honest, unfiltered conversation about what to actually do in the seasons when God feels distant. They talk through breath prayer as a way to stay grounded...
Have you ever said yes to something before realizing you had no idea what you were doing?
In the final week of Honest to God, we look at what happens when the thing you're being called toward is bigger than what you feel capable of. If you've ever talked yourself out of something because you didn't feel ready, smart enough, strong enough, or qualified enough, this one's aimed straight at you.
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Have you ever prayed the same question over and over, hoping that if you asked enough times, God would finally explain himself? Why this. Why now. Why me.
In week two of Honest to God, Toni Nieuwhof shares her own story of watching her son face a life-threatening illness and the moment she realized her prayers had turned into demands, trying to take control instead of trusting God with the outcome. Drawing...
Why does a good God allow suffering? It's the question every pastor gets asked, and usually there's a bigger question underneath it: does God still love me when my life falls apart?
In this message, Jeff Brodie kicks off a new series called Honest to God by walking through Romans 5, where the apostle Paul, a man who was beaten, imprisoned, and shipwrecked for his faith, writes about suffering from experien...
Why do you still feel empty?
Most people have a list of things they've gone back to hoping they'd finally deliver. The relationship. The achievement. The habit. Different wells, same emptiness at the bottom.
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Born again. Two words most people have heard and very few have had explained in a way that actually makes sense.
Jesus said it to Nicodemus — one of the most respected religious leaders of his time, a man who had God completely figured out by every external measure. And yet ...
Most people asking "is this all there is?" aren't in crisis. They're just going through the motions. Doing the right things. Living a life that looks fine from the outside but feels hollow on the inside.
In this second episode of the Never Settle series, Mark Clark unpacks the sto...
Most people have quietly decided their life doesn't really mean anything. Not out loud. Not as a formal belief. Just as a background assumption they've never quite shaken.
In this first episode of the Never Settle series, Mark Clark challenges that assumption directly. Drawing f...
You're making plans to feel okay. But what if your plans can't actually get you there?
Jeff Brodie closes out the Undivided series with James 4 and 5 — looking at why the pursuit of self-sufficiency quietly erodes your relationship with God, what wealth actually does to your sense of need, an...
Showing up and belonging aren't the same thing.
Sydney Jackson and Jeff Brodie work through the final chapters of James in this bonus episode — covering prayer in suffering, the healing power of confession, and why community isn't optional when life gets hard. Plus: does prayer actually work ...
Same fight, different day. The topic changes but the argument stays the same.
Jeff Brodie unpacks James 4 and makes the case that your external conflicts are almost always driven by internal desires — things you're trusting in that were never designed to carry that weight. This isn't about co...
Is it gossip if you're "just venting"? Is forgiving someone the same as trusting them again?
Sydney Jackson and Jeff Brodie dig deeper into James 3 in this bonus episode, working through the harder, more practical questions: how to tell the difference between gossip and seeking advice, what boundar...
Your words aren't the problem. They're the symptom.
In this episode Jeff Brodie works through James 3 and unpacks why the things that come out of your mouth are actually telling you something about what's going on underneath — the division, the jealousy, the stuff you haven't dealt with yet.
...Faith vs works — it's one of the most debated questions in Christianity. Paul says we're saved by faith alone. James says show me your faith without any evidence and he'll wait.
In this bonus episode Jeff Brodie and Sydney Jackson unpack James chapter 2 and work through the tension: it's not faith plus works, and it's not works instead of faith. It's a faith that works — one that shows up in your life in ways others can...
How you treat people reveals what you really believe. We all have a seating chart for our lives — people we honour, people we overlook, often based on status, appearance, or what they can offer us. James calls this discrimination and says it reveals the division in our soul.
This week Jeff Brodie unpacks James chapter 2, the difference between evaluating people by culture's values versus kingdom values, and why faith without ...
Sunday covered trials, divided trust, and what it means to be double-minded. But James 1 has more to say.
In this first bonus episode, Jeff Brodie and Sydney Jackson dig into what didn't make the Sunday message — the rich and poor illustration, the difference between trials and temptation, an...
We all know how to survive a hard season — white-knuckle through it, get to the other side, go back to who we were. But James, the brother of Jesus, opens his letter with a strange instruction: when trials come, consider it an opportunity. Not for happiness, but for something that actually lasts.
This week Jeff Brodie talks through why hard times reveal exactly who — or what — you're trusting, and what it looks li...
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