Let's be honest. Some relationships have not weathered lockdown well. Normal life stresses seem amplified during this season and if you're feeling anxious, depressed, listless or hopeless, you may have entered the 'season of discontent'. It can seem relatively harmless at first, but it can spiral out of control. So what's the answer? This is the first episode of the Phase Change series, which takes a closer look at how we change under life's ebb and flow of environmental stress. We hear from our audience about their experiences with relationship and marriage. And we take a look into some of the ways God is encouraging us to live differently.

This is the finale of the Crisis Point series - and my aim is to get us thinking about facing the big unknowns. It's a crucial turning point for many of us, where we can choose to acknowledge the amazing things that have happened in the face of tragedy, suffering and loss. The world is not as cruel as we've been led to believe - and if that is that case, what does that say about what we believe about God, creation, life and love?

Athletes are constantly in recovery - recovery from training, recovery from injury, recovery from competition. So many of us live our day to day behaving like athletes, performing with high levels of stress and striving to break through those life barriers. Unlike athletes, so many of us never factor in recovery. Recovery prayer is a crucial part of the spiritual life we're called to live, especially as we begin to emerge from lockdown; and especially as we begin processing the trauma we've experienced.

Music by Scott Buckley

Imagination is a crucial part of our human experience. From our creative thinking to how we interact with others - our imagination can unlock huge potential in our lives. When left unstoked, we stop growing. Prayer is such a huge part of expanding our God-given imagination. It gives us access to a world of real colour, hope and vision. Music by Scott Buckley.

Stress and anxiety may truly be your new normal. As you venture back into post-pandemic life (and who knows for how long), what things have you learned? What would you do differently? I look at the story of a man named Paul who knew a lot about personal and public crisis - and what it took for him to have faith in the midst of it all.

Music by Scott Buckley

Feelings … many of us are feeling the assault of so many emotions and feelings at the moment. In periods of crisis, what happens to us when feelings actually begin to dominate our perception of the world around us? Fear. Anger. Anxiety. Desperation. Faith is more than feelings - and it is that way because it reaches for something outside of us that is more loving, more stable and more consistent than we could ever be. That something is God.

This marks the start of a few sessions that explore where we are in this season of in between things. Many more of us are dealing with feelings of grief and loss than we would have anticipated. Many more of us are also completely unaware of this. This is a chance to launch some faith based questioning at the relative unknown - and see what sticks.