Canopy Church Podcast

This week on Third Space, Wendy guides us in a beautiful reflection on the life and transformation of Paul. It is peppered with contemplative promptings and invites us to step into a transformed life that draws us towards one another --Christ's body. 

This week we are joined by Jonny and Amy Hughes. They lead Trinity Church in Nottingham, England, with a passion to see "the church on fire and the city alive." They carry so much that we want to receive and embody as a church.Amy shares a message on becoming people who depend on God, shed old lies, and receive His power. 

This week Bryan, Michelle, and Shayla have a conversation on Spiritual Maturity. They reflect on Paul's charge to grow up from infants to mature men and women 1st Corinthians chapter 3, and share personal reflections on their own journeys of maturity.

1 Corinthians 3:10-4:21 with Bryan Rouanzoin

This week Michelle guides us through a reflection on the past month of diving into scripture and specifically into the book of 1st Corinthians. 

1 Corinthians 2:6-3:9 with Bryan Rouanzoin

1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5 with Bryan Rouanzoin

Bryan & Michelle have a conversation on Paul's urging to be a church without division. They discuss the vulnerability of conflict, tribalism, navigating differences and more while reflecting on the words of Paul in 1st Corinthians.

1st Corinthians 1:10-17 with Pastor Bill Dogterom

As we begin our new series, Becoming the Church, Bryan & Shayla invite us to lean in as we explore the letter of 1st Corinthians. 

We begin a new series through 1st Corinthians: Becoming the Church; in which we will explore how God forms a holy people not by removing them from the mess, but by bringing the cross, the Spirit, and resurrection into the middle of it.1st Corinthians 1:1-9 with Bryan Rouanzoin

Mark 2 with Bryan Rouanzoin Sabbath teaches us to feast -- to truly delight in all God has provided. We remind ourselves of God's abundance in a world of scarcity. 

Matthew 11 with Bill DogteromThis week Bill teaches on the ways embracing Sabbath works its way into the rest of our lives -- its changes how we keep time, how we release control, and how we learn to trust God more wholly.

Shayla has a conversation with a member of the Canopy Church community, Katie, on the experience of practicing sabbath. They touch on their journey to practicing sabbath, the challenges that have emerged, and the things they are learning along the way from God! 

This week Pastor Bill Dogterom teaches on learning to rest which requires surrender and trust.Matthew 11:28-30 & Psalm 23

Sabbath is more than a day off. It is a weekly invitation to reorder our lives around the presence, goodness, and provision of God.In a world shaped by hurry, productivity, and endless striving, Sabbath teaches us another way. We begin by ceasing—stopping our work, our anxiety, and our need to prove ourselves. We learn to rest—receiving God’s gift of renewal for our bodies, minds, and souls. We embrace God’s values, purposes, and invitations, allowing him to reshape our loves and priorities. And we feast—celebrating God’s abundance with joy, gratitude, worship, and community.Throughout this four-week journey, we’ll explore how this ancient practice creates space for deeper communion with God, healthier rhythms of life, and a renewed vision of what it means to live as God’s people in the world.Sabbath is not an escape from life. It is a weekly return to the life we were created for.

At the end of our 16-week long series, we pause to look back and tell stories of what God has done in us. 

Philippians 2:12-13 & Timothy 4:7 with Bill Dogterom

This week, the Canopy staff have a dialogue around the practice of simplicity. They touch on how simplicity confronts our desire to control and our patterns of worry. The invitation of Jesus reminds us to slow down and to become available and attentive to His presence.

Matthew 6:19–34 with Bryan Rouanzoin

This week, we lean into the practice of silence together! Join us for a guided 10 minutes of stillness.

Mark 1:32-38, Matthew 14:13-14, Luke 5:15-16 with Bryan Rouanzoin

With Pastor Bill Dogterom

Matthew 6 & 7 with Bryan RouanzoinWhat kind of life actually holds when everything else starts to fall apart? Drawing from the Sermon on the Mount and the witness of the early church, this teaching invites us beyond what is easy toward a way of life that can form us—and endure. 

Genesis 22:1-14 with Bethany AllenThis week, Bethany Allen brings a word of encouragement and challenge from the life of Abraham where God asks him to sacrifice the very son that was promised to him. Are we the kind of people that will surrender our lives completely to God in obedience and faith? 

Ephesians 3:14-21 - 4:1-6 with Bryan RouanzoinOn the other side of Easter, we are reminded by the words of Paul that we cannot live out Resurrection Life alone -- we need a covenant community. We explore three visual metaphors that have been used throughout to church history to understand the role of the church: a river, a womb, and a hearth.

John 20:1-18 with Bryan Rouanzoin

This week in Third Space, we reflect on the tension that arises during Holy Week. The tension the disciples and people of Israel felt, and the tension we feel even now. Jesus has come -the Messiah is here- but his way of saving us is often not what we expect. 

Hosanna means "God save us." On Palm Sunday we explore the ways we long to be saved but how we often misunderstand the ways God wants to truly save us. 

This week, in our Third Space episode, Michelle leads a reflection on what it means to renew our minds. She shares personally about how the Lord has slowly transformed her thought patterns of fear and anxiety and then leads us in a breath prayer to ground us in the reality of who God is.To pick up at the breath prayer you can start at 

Romans 12:1-2 with Bryan Rouanzoin Transformation into a person of love does not happen on our own or by our own effort - but it does require our involvement. Paul teaches us that a major inroad into partnering with God in our transformation is through renewing our minds. Bryan gently reminds us that our wills can't choose what our minds cannot yet  imagine. 

This week, we reflect on the ways discipleships in our ordinary lives can often come through consent and constraint.

1 John 4:7-21 with Bryan Rouanzoin

This week Canopy Staff - Bryan, Shayla, and Michelle-- sit down to have a conversation on Bills teaching on Shame, Hiding and the False Self. They reflect on what it means to name emotions, embrace vulnerability, and return to remembering what God has done.

Luke 15:11-31 with Bryan RouanzoinAs he teaches through the foundational parable of the Lost Sons, Pastor Bryan reminds us how important the picture of God we have is. 

Pastor Bryan goes deeper in The Apprentice Loop, a practical pattern to invite discipleship to Jesus in our ordinary life -- our frustrations, reactions, numbness, etc. The Apprentice LoopNotice. Name. Consent. Align. Abide.

Matthew 11:25–30 with Bryan RouanzoinSpiritual formation begins when we step into Jesus’ yoke and learn to obey him not as rule-keeping but as relational trust. Over time, that embodied obedience reshapes our souls from the inside out, forming new reflexes, desires, and loves. As we live beside him, we discover the Father’s true character, gentle and humble, and slowly become like Jesus ourselves.

Romans 5-7 and Mark 12: 29-31 with Bryan RouanzoinAs Paul describes, we are whole beings made up of parts - with a heart, mind, soul, and body. Pastor Bryan unpacks these parts and how we often end up drifting from the very way of life in Jesus that we are longing for. It is God who can draw these parts together into wholeness. 

Mark 1: 14-20 and 2 Peter 1: 1-11 with Bill DogteromJesus invites his disciples to follow him, and to over time become like Him. He believed that abundance was truly available to us. Pastor Bill emphasizes that it doesn't matter what Jesus believes about us, if we don't believe it ourselves. This teaching invites us to lean in to the invitation of Jesus, to daily add to our faith through embodying the goodness he offers in abundance.