Village Talks

In this episode of the Village Church Podcast Show, Pastor Mark sits down with Dave Morgan, a Church Planting Apprentice who is working toward planting a church in the Whalley area of Surrey. Dave discusses his challenging upbringing which led to quitting school, getting addicted to drugs and alcohol, and seeing his family torn apart. They even talk about how Dave turned to gang affiliation in an effort fuel his addiction which resulted in his involvement in a murder plot and escaping his own potential death at gunpoint. Dave then speaks about his miraculous turn around and how God pulled him out of addiction and gangs and brought him to the place of wanting to plant a church in Whalley, where many struggle with addiction, gangs and destructive behaviour.

In this episode of the Village Church Podcast Show, Pastor Jeremy interviews Pastor Mark about his recently released book, Radical Sex. They begin by discussing why Mark decided to publish a book on the topic of sex and then talking about the surprising things Mark has learned from doing classes with newly married couples. He talks about the major issues and obstacles most young couples he works with face that are preventing them from having a great sex life. In the book, Mark describes why he is passionate about orgasms and Jeremy asks him to elaborate what he means by that and why this is such an important issue for married couples. This episode also dives into explaining how the biblical view of sex has been misrepresented both inside and outside of the church and why Christians have a lot to offer culture on this issue. You can get your free copy of Pastor Mark's ebook, Radical Sex at, www.pastormarkclark.com/buythebook

In this episode of the Podcast Show, Pastor Mark continues his interview of the Village Church pastoral team. We open up the Village Church mailbag and answer your questions!

We discuss whether we should announce Mark's preaching schedule and whether it's important to worship together as a church.

Then we tackle the biggest questions we are asked as pastors: Why is the world in chaos? Why do we experience suffering?

Why doesn't God save everyone?

How do we know God's will for our lives?

One pastor even shares about being told by someone that God's will for his life was that he was going to die on the way home from church. m

In this first episode of the Podcast Show, Pastor Mark interviews the Village Church pastoral team. He begins with rapid fire Q and A, asking about their favourite movies, and music to the most influential theologians in their lives, what books they are reading and even what kind of dates they take their wives on.

The pastors share stories from the frontlines of church ministry - everything from telling a woman her husband was dead when he wasn't, to being asked to prophesy on a drum kit. One declares his love of "Dumb and Dumber" and another describes what sounds like the lamest concert imaginable.

They also discuss some of the biggest mistakes they've made as pastors, and share about the most common issues that they see in marriages such as sex issues and other failed expectations.