The Kingdom Creatives Podcast

She’s a storyteller, historian, Alpha Youth voice, and a guide for a generation wrestling with faith, identity, and purpose. In this raw and deeply moving conversation, Xenia James opens up about grief, bullying, anxiety, faith, and the moment she encountered a love that changed everything. From childhood trauma to discovering Jesus in a packed London church, this episode is an honest look at how God meets us in our deepest pain and redeems it.IN THIS EPISODE:✅ Growing up with faith but without a personal relationship with God✅ Experiencing death, grief, and trauma at a young age✅ How bullying and anxiety shaped her teenage years✅ Panic attacks, people pleasing, and searching for belonging✅ The moment she encountered the Holy Spirit for the first time✅ Why truth not achievement heals deep wounds✅ Wrestling with doubt, calling, and career direction✅ How God redeems lost years and gives purpose to pain✅ Why Gen Z is hungry for faith that’s honest not performativeKEY QUOTES:“You can only fight lies with perfect truth.”“I didn’t know I was searching for Jesus but He knew where to find me.”“I thought I was broken but I was just unheard.”“God didn’t erase my pain He redeemed it.”ABOUT XENIA JAMES:Xenia is a creator, historian, and speaker passionate about helping young people explore faith, purpose, and life’s biggest questions. Known for her work with Alpha Youth and her ability to communicate deep truth with clarity and compassion, she uses storytelling to help a new generation encounter Jesus in a real and meaningful way.CONNECT WITH XENIA:Instagram: @missxeniajamesCONNECT WITH KINGDOM CREATIVES:Instagram: @kngdmcrvsWebsite: www.kingdomcreatives.com.auSubscribe for more honest conversations about faith, identity, purpose, mental health, and following Jesus through the real, messy moments of life.💬 Drop a comment: What’s one moment that changed your faith journey forever?#faith #testimony #genz #mentalhealth #anxiety #purpose #alphayouth #christianpodcast #kingdomcreatives

In this chaotic and hilarious episode, Sam and Josh read real YouTube and Instagram comments from past podcast episodes, delivered one by one by Shawn and try to guess which episode each comment came from. What starts as a simple guessing game quickly descends into confusion, self-roasting, forgotten guests, and uncontrollable laughter — all while Shawn quietly enjoys the chaos he’s created. This is Kingdom Creatives at its most self-aware, chaotic, and unfiltered. This is Comment Carnival. ⸻ IN THIS EPISODE: ✅ Sam and Josh guessing episodes based only on viewer comments ✅ Shawn reading unhinged, savage, and hilarious comments ✅ YouTube comments with absolutely no mercy ✅ Forgetting their own episodes (more than once) ✅ Chaos, banter, and overlapping conversations ✅ When the comments completely derail the game ✅ The moment everything falls apart ✅ Proof that reading the comments is always a mistake ⸻ KEY MOMENTS & QUOTES: “Who are these guys?” “Literally nothing of substance was said.” “You suck, bro.” “That probably should’ve been cut.” “This episode is just the comments roasting us.” ⸻ ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Comment Carnival is a game-style Kingdom Creatives episode where Shawn reads real viewer comments, and Sam and Josh attempt to identify which past episode each comment came from. From thoughtful critiques to one-word insults, nothing is off-limits — and no one is safe. ⸻ CONNECT WITH KINGDOM CREATIVES: Instagram: @kngdmcrvs Website: www.kingdomcreatives.com.au ⸻

He’s a creative pastor, a worship leader, a husband and dad of two (with two more on the way), and someone who spent a whole year crippled by anxiety while still leading, preaching, and travelling. In this raw and unfiltered conversation, Lochie Hogarth opens up about panic attacks, pressure, fatherhood, faithfulness, and why Gen Z is hungry for something real — not polished religion.IN THIS EPISODE:✅ The hidden anxiety battle Lochie faced while leading worship and preaching✅ How pressure, fatherhood, and ministry can quietly pull your feet off the ground✅ Panic attacks explained — and what actually triggers them✅ Why Gen Z doesn’t want “cool church,” they want authentic people✅ The rise of Extol and creative unity across Australia✅ How to embrace the mess of ministry without losing order or conviction✅ The cost of calling: when passion, pressure, and purpose collide✅ Why the world is desperate for hope — and why Christians must be unapologetically realKEY QUOTES:“Sometimes you don’t realise how high the water’s gotten until one small wave knocks you under.”“I’ve tried to run from ministry my whole life, but God keeps pulling me back to the church.”“Gen Z don’t want polish — they want the real you.”“The end of our suffering isn’t success. It’s hope in Christ Jesus.”ABOUT LOCHIE HOGARTH:Lochie is a creative pastor, songwriter, and worship leader based in Adelaide, serving his local church while helping pioneer Extol, a worship movement shaped by authenticity, unity, and a passion for the next generation. He’s spent over a decade leading teams, writing songs, and championing young creatives across Australia.CONNECT WITH LOCHIE:Instagram: @lochiehogarthCONNECT WITH KINGDOM CREATIVES:Instagram: @kngdmcrvsWebsite: www.kingdomcreatives.com.auSUBSCRIBE for more conversations about faith, creativity, ministry, mental health, and following Jesus in the real, messy, everyday moments.💬 Drop a comment: Creatives — what’s one thing that helps you stay grounded in pressure?#anxiety #worship #ministry #testimony #panicattack #genzchurch #extol #kingdomcreatives

He’s a globally recognised entertainer, dancer, actor, charting artist, who grew up between cultures, lived under the pressure to perform, carried rejection for years, and secretly battled pornography while the world applauded him. In this raw and unfiltered conversation, Timomatic opens up about identity, brokenness, faith, fame, and the healing that only Jesus can bring. This is Tim like you’ve never heard him. ⸻ IN THIS EPISODE: ✅ Growing up Nigerian–Australian & feeling like an outsider everywhere ✅ How rejection became the root of his double life ✅ The hidden addiction that followed him from childhood into fame ✅ Why talent, success, and applause can’t heal your soul ✅ The power of confession, accountability, and marriage in healing ✅ How Jesus broke decades-long strongholds ✅ The generational faith story behind his family’s move to Australia ✅ Identity vs performance — how creatives get trapped ✅ The danger of living for public approval while dying in private ✅ Why daily encounters with God are the only way to stay free ⸻ KEY QUOTES: “Everything in my life looked successful on the outside, but inside, I was breaking.” “I realised I was trying to heal my broken inner child with my own brokenness.” “The power of Jesus Christ was the only thing that pulled me out.” “Pornography doesn’t just destroy you, it destroys everything that comes from you.” “You can’t heal yourself. Only God can do that.” ⸻ ABOUT TIMOMATIC: Timomatic (Tim Omaji) is an award-winning Australian entertainer known for So You Think You Can Dance, Australia’s Got Talent, charting singles, major tours, and leading roles in musical theatre. Behind the stage lights is a man transformed by faith, passionate about showing people that freedom, healing, and identity are found in Jesus alone. ⸻ CONNECT WITH TIMOMATIC: Instagram: @timomatic ⸻ CONNECT WITH KINGDOM CREATIVES: Instagram: @kngdmcrvs Website: www.kingdomcreatives.com.au

She’s a pastor, a practicing psychologist, and someone who grew up in the chaos, then found God and learned how to heal. Sabrina Peters sits down to tell a raw story of faith, family trauma, therapy, and what churches (and creatives in churches) really need if they want longevity. IN THIS EPISODE: ✅ How childhood dysfunction sent her into ministry and psychology ✅ Why forgiveness is the gateway to healing (and how to do it well) ✅ Practical counsel for creatives in church—avoiding identity = work traps ✅ How to hold leaders accountable while still honouring them ✅ What healthy formation actually looks like (not just talent + platform) ✅ How to hear God, the quiet, the outdoors, and making space ✅ Real talk on identity, feelings, and submitting our hearts to Scripture ✅ Walking with people through suffering — you’re not alone KEY QUOTES: “God was like my anchor point in the middle of all of the mess.” “Forgiveness is letting them off the hook and not holding it against them.” “Your worth and your value is not your work.” ABOUT SABRINA PETERS: Sabrina is a Brisbane-based pastor and registered psychologist who works in private practice while serving in leadership at Kingdom City. Her calling is to meet people in their pain, build resilience through formation, and help church creatives and leaders stay humble, healthy, and faithful over the long haul. CONNECT WITH SABRINA: Instagram: @sabrinapeters (replace with actual handle if different) CONNECT WITH KINGDOM CREATIVES: Instagram: @kngdmcrvs Website: www.kingdomcreatives.com.au SUBSCRIBE if you want deeper conversations about faith, mental health, ministry formation, and the messy reality of following Jesus in public spaces. 💬 Drop a comment: Creatives, what’s ONE thing your church does really well? #church #psychology #forgiveness #creativesinchurch #testimony #ministry #kingdomcreatives #sabrinapeters

He sees a demon in Italy. Becomes Catholic. Now Christians call him "closet gay" for reviewing their churches. Marco from @acrossthepews sits down to tell the wildest conversion story we've heard—from growing up on welfare and food parcels, to a haunted Italian apartment that shattered his reality, to becoming the internet's most controversial church reviewer. This isn't your typical testimony. Marco was living his best life as an agnostic philosophy student when God literally knocked him over the head in Florence. Now he visits churches across denominations asking the questions no one else will ask—and Christians are BIG mad about it. IN THIS EPISODE:  ✅ The terrifying demon encounter in a 600-year-old Italian apartment that changed everything  ✅ Why his girlfriend destroyed him in theological debates (and he became Catholic because of it)  ✅ Growing up in a broken home on Centrelink and church food parcels  ✅ The REAL reason he reviews churches (hint: "the atheists are watching")  ✅ What happened inside the Mormon temple in Brisbane  ✅ Why Christians call him "demonic" and "closet gay" in the comments ✅ The one thing that made him cry talking about Mary  ✅ What Catholics can learn from Protestants (and vice versa)  ✅ Why he thinks there's a massive shift coming around communion/Eucharist  ✅ His mantra: "The atheists are watching" - and why it guides everything he does KEY QUOTES: "Every time I make a video, I just have this one little sentence that runs through my mind: the atheists are watching." "This woman, her whole essence was darker than the room itself. I could see her outline. It was just like blacker than pitch black." "If you can't handle a question, especially if it's innocent, that says a lot more about you than it says about whoever is asking the question." "I pursued God and I ended up here [Catholic]. I wasn't seeking tradition. I genuinely just loved God and kept pursuing Him." "When you understand the gravity of what Jesus did on the cross and how that would have felt for His own mother Mary... it breaks you apart completely."  ABOUT MARCO: Marco Boon is the creator behind @acrossthepews, where he visits churches across denominations to understand how different Christians worship—and asks the questions that make everyone uncomfortable. From Presbyterian to Pentecostal, Anglican to Mormon temples, Marco's mission is simple: help Christians understand each other better, and show atheists that Christianity is worth investigating. CONNECT WITH MARCO: Instagram/TikTok: @acrossthepews CONNECT WITH KINGDOM CREATIVES: Instagram: @kngdmcrvs Website: www.kingdomcreatives.com.au SUBSCRIBE if you want more honest conversations about faith, culture, and the tension of Christian unity. We're done with surface-level church talk. 💬 Drop a comment: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, or somewhere in between—what's ONE thing your tradition does really well? #catholic #protestant #churchreview #testimony #conversion #demon #italy #mormon #eucharist #acrossthepews #christianunity #kingdomcreatives #faith "The atheists are watching." - Marco's reminder to all of us that how we love one another matters. Unity doesn't mean agreement, but it does mean showing the world that we actually follow Jesus. If this conversation challenged you, hit LIKE and SHARE. Let's show Christians and non-Christians alike that we can have hard conversations with grace.

What do you do when your body won't give you what you're praying for?  Worship leader and pastor Jessie-Rose Rayner opens up about her ongoing journey through infertility, IVF, miscarriage, and the brutal question every person in ministry faces: How do you keep leading when you're barely holding it together?  This is an honest conversation about worshiping in the wait, writing songs you can't sing without crying, and finding God's presence in hospital rooms and infertility clinics. WHAT WE COVER: ✅ The reality of spending $100K on IVF with no guarantee ✅ Leading worship while going through IVF treatments ✅ The unique pain of miscarriage that only those who've experienced it understand ✅ Writing "I Can't Wait to Meet You" - a song to a baby she's never held ✅ Navigating a devastating church scandal at 21 years old ✅ What worship leaders won't tell you about ministering through personal pain ✅ Why Jesus performed his greatest miracles right after grief ✅ The difference between victimhood and victory ✅ What Gen Z is demanding from the church (and why they're right) ✅ Her neighbor being stabbed to death—and what it revealed about the fragility of life KEY QUOTES: "I don't want to stand before God and say that grief had sidelined me.""What are the songs for the hospital rooms? What are the songs for the infertility clinic? What are the songs for the marriage that feels like it's on the rocks?""It's less about what happens to us and more about the story we tell ourselves through it.""The pain of a miscarriage is like the most hardest thing to understand unless you go through it.""The giants are my bread." TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 5:04 - Jesus's response to grief will change your perspective 10:27 - Can you minister in immense pain? 16:40 - The pain of miscarriage no one talks about 20:38 - The church conference during her first miscarriage 24:01 - What story are you declaring over your life? 29:16 - The giants are your bread 34:03 - "My eyes have seen, not just my ears" 39:15 - The church scandal that almost destroyed everything 42:01 - Why she stayed when everyone left 48:32 - Writing songs for the infertility clinic 52:00 - When the right song drops on your worst day 55:01 - Is everything really an offering to God? 57:45 - Life can end in an instant 59:09 - Still in the thick of IVF - $100K invested 1:00:18 - Battling anxiety as a worship leader 1:05:15 - What's happening in the Australian church right now 1:08:03 - Gen Z wants the REAL thing ABOUT JESSIE-ROSE: Jessie-Rose Rayner is a worship leader, pastor, and songwriter at Kingdom Culture Church. She's walked through years of infertility, IVF, miscarriages, and church crisis—and somehow still believes God is good. Her music has ministered to thousands walking through their own valleys. CONNECT WITH KINGDOM CREATIVES: Instagram: @kngdmcrvs Website: www.kingdomcreatives.com.au SUBSCRIBE for more raw conversations with creatives who are actually living out their faith in the trenches. No fluff. No fake testimonies. Just real people, real pain, and a real God. Drop a comment: What's YOUR giant right now? 👇 --- #worship #testimony #infertility #miscarriage #christianpodcast #worshipleader #ivf #faith #kingdomcreatives --- ⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains candid discussions about miscarriage, infertility, church abuse, and violence. Viewer discretion advised. -If this episode impacted you, please LIKE and SHARE so others who need to hear this can find it. Your click might be someone else's breakthrough.

What happens when a Protestant youth pastor experiences three devastating church splits and starts questioning everything he believed about Christianity? In this explosive episode, we sit down with Peter Pelicaan, a former Protestant minister turned Catholic deacon, who reveals the shocking journey that led him to abandon his Protestant faith. WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER: The real reason behind Protestant church splits that church leaders won't tell you Why Peter believes the Catholic Church is the "original" Christianity The controversial prayer practice most Protestants reject (and why Catholics embrace it) What really happens during Catholic mass that Protestants don't understand The theological bombshell that made Peter question his entire ministry Why Protestant "Scripture alone" doctrine might be fundamentally flawed The unity crisis plaguing modern Christianity EXPLOSIVE REVELATIONS: Peter doesn't hold back as he exposes the structural problems he witnessed in Protestant churches, from pastoral authority issues to theological inconsistencies. He shares intimate details about his crisis of faith, the backlash he faced from his community, and why he believes Catholics have preserved something Protestants lost centuries ago. This isn't your typical interfaith dialogue - it's a raw, honest conversation about religious conversion, church politics, and the price of following your convictions. Whether you're Protestant, Catholic, or just curious about Christianity, this episode will challenge everything you think you know about church unity and biblical interpretation. WARNING: Some viewers may find Peter's critiques of Protestant theology controversial. We encourage respectful dialogue in the comments. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Introduction & Peter's Background 15:30 - The Three Church Splits That Changed Everything 28:45 - Why He Started Reading Catholic Philosophy 42:10 - The Eucharist Revelation That Shocked Him 58:20 - Addressing Protestant Misconceptions About Catholics 1:12:35 - The Authority Crisis in Protestant Churches 1:18:50 - Prayer for Unity CONNECT WITH US: Subscribe for more bold conversations about faith, creativity, and culture Instagram: @kngdmcrvs Website: www.kingdomcreatives.com.au #CatholicProtestant #ChurchUnity #ReligiousConversion #ChristianDebate #FaithJourney

When Ethan Beer was 12 years old, doctors told his family that his mom had 6 months to live. Brain cancer. Terminal. But she didn't die in 6 months. She lived for 5 more years. In this raw and emotional podcast episode, 21-year-old singer-songwriter Ethan Beer shares the incredible story of watching his mother battle cancer with unshakeable faith. From a pastor's kid struggling with his own relationship with God, to finding hope in the darkest moments of loss. You'll hear: • The exact conversation when his parents told him about the diagnosis • How his mom's faith grew stronger as she got sicker • The promises he made to her in the hospital room • The song "Room 18" that came from this experience (performed live in the episode) • How one Muslim listener became Christian after hearing this story This isn't just about death and loss - it's about finding unbreakable faith in the middle of tragedy. Ethan's story will challenge how you think about suffering, hope, and what it means to trust God when everything falls apart. Full conversation with Kingdom Creatives Podcast hosts Sam and Josh. Subscribe for more real conversations about faith, creativity, and finding purpose. You can find Ethan on all platforms: @ethanbeermusic

What happens when worship stops being about God’s presence and starts looking like a product? 👀 In this raw conversation, worship leader Dylan Hibbit (Citipoint Worship, Nashville) opens up about: Leaving full-time ministry for corporate work — and the painful call back again The harsh truth about why some worship songs never make it to church The cost of revival: when pastors say “revival or bust” even if it means losing people How creatives can know the difference between calling, hype, and burnout This is more than just a worship chat. It’s an inside look at the struggles, sacrifices, and revival fire shaping church creatives today. ⚡ Question for you: Do you think worship today is shaping real theology — or just creating hype? Comment below 👇 👉 Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe to Kingdom Creatives for more conversations that inspire, challenge, and equip creatives in the church. #WorshipLeader #Revival #ChurchCreatives #KingdomCreatives