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Freedomhouse Ballito
by Freedomhouse Ballito
Freedomhouse is a growing family of everyday people who are hungry to live out an authentic and powerful Christianity together. We are a community of real people living very real lives in pursuit of God, desiring to see God’s kingdom come in every place and space we have influence. We deeply cherish the person and presence of God and we long to see every person become who Jesus has destined them to be – free of the grip and shame of sin, free of religious obligation and free to be the loved world changers they are!
Episodes
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2026.10.04 | Ryan Matthews | Overflow
What if you stopped worrying about whether you were “enough” and started recognising what you carry? In this message, we’re reminded that God isn’t looking for an elite team of people who have it all figured out. He works through ordinary people who are willing to hear Him, obey Him and carry His...
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2026.09.27 | Greg Nixon | I-A-M : P.S. I Am Sending You
Closing out the Identity, Authority and Mission series, Greg picks up where the last few weeks left off: chosen, redeemed, sealed, saved for service, ordained to serve. Now what? He goes back to Genesis, to the original call to rule, subdue, serve and keep, and makes the case that this was never...
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2026.09.20 | Ryan Matthews | Deacons and Servant Leadership
This Sunday, Freedomhouse ordained/appointed deacons. Ryan looks at Philippians 1 and the ordination of a group of deacons, and unpacks what that word actually means: not a title, not a task list, but a description of a life laid down in love. He traces it through Paul's letters and back to Jesus...
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2026.09.13 | Alexander Venter | I-A-M Series: Seven Things True of You
Ephesians opens as a prayer, and Paul does something bold with it: he takes the language of Jewish blessing and points it at a new king. In this message from our Identity, Authority and Mission series, Alexander Venter reads Ephesians 1 in its original context, as a subversive letter about a...
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2026.09.06 | Ryan Matthews | Celebration of Grace (Saved for Service)
Continuing the Identity, Authority and Mission series, Ryan turns to Ephesians and asks what it actually means to be seated with Christ. Not as a badge to wear, but as a vantage point Paul keeps opening wider: first grace, then power, then purpose. Ryan is honest about how easy it is to get stuck...
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2026.08.30 | Ryan Matthews | Freedom from Self
Ryan opens this message from 2 Corinthians 5 with an admission that he's preached this passage before, with a different emphasis. The line we usually take from it, "you are a new creation," is true, but it's only half the sentence. The other half is harder to sit with: that newness was never just...
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2026.08.23 | Nicholas Graham | The Northcoast Scoreboard
Nick Graham brings a message that's specific enough to sting a little and honest enough to land well. Living on the Ballito coast means living somewhere with very visible measurements: where you live, what you drive, where your kids go to school, how you look, who you know. None of that is wrong,...
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2026.08.26 | Greg Nixon | I AM Series (Authority) - Pushing Back the Darkness
Greg Nixon brings the third message on authority, and he lands it somewhere unexpected: not in the dramatic or the spectacular, but in the ordinary Tuesday afternoon. Building on Peter and John's encounter with a man who hadn't walked in forty years, he makes the case that the people around them...
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2026.08.09 | Alexander Venter | Part 2 : Authority - The Title Deeds of Earth
Alexander returns with the second part of his message on authority, and this time he brings a story that makes the whole thing land differently. In ancient Israel, if your family fell into debt and lost their land, the nearest relative was obligated to come and pay what you owed and return what…
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2026.08.02 | Alexander Venter | I - A-M Series: Authority
Alexander opens a new thread in the I Am series, shifting the conversation from identity to authority, and he starts somewhere most teaching on this topic doesn't: with a clear-eyed look at how badly authority has been misused, in homes, churches, governments, and workplaces, and why that matters...
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2026.07.25 | Ryan Matthews | Becoming What We Behold
Ryan returns with a message that's simple on the surface but cuts deep: what you fix your gaze on is quietly shaping who you are. He opens with heliotropism (sunflowers tracking the sun across the sky) and builds from there, making the case that identity doesn't just come from what we believe…
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2026.07.19 | Patrick Munsamy | The Father Loves Me
Patrick picks up where Marilyn left off the week before, still in Luke 15, still with the prodigal son, but this time through the lens of a question the Father quietly asked him in his own devotional life: do you really know how much I love you? It's a message that's been brewing in him for…
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2026.07.12 | Marilyn Duke | The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Marilyn Duke is a gift to the Freedom House family, and in this message she brings the parable of the Prodigal Son to life through narrative preaching. But before she tells the story, she gives us something just as useful: a way of reading any parable. What is Jesus saying about himself? What...
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2026.07.05 | Ryan Matthews | A Spring not a Well
In this message, Ryan explores Jesus' invitation to live not as empty wells that constantly need refilling, but as springs overflowing with the life of God. So often we approach our relationship with God from a place of striving or spiritual depletion, believing we must continually earn or…
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2026.06.28 | Alexander Venter | Identity
In this message, Alexander explores how Jesus' baptism reveals the foundation of every believer's identity. Before Jesus performed a single miracle or began His public ministry, the Father declared Him to be His beloved Son. This affirmation became the secure place from which Jesus lived…
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2026.06.14 | Greg Nixon | I AM - Like Father, Like Son
This Father's Day Greg brings a timely reminder that if you don't know what God looks like, you just need to look at His Son. Listen in for an exploration of what it actually means that God calls himself Father. Not a lofty theological title, but something deliberately familiar, the kind of word...
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2026.06.14 | Nicholas Graham | I AM Series: Stop the Cycle
Nick continues the I Am series with a message that works two ways: the great I Am interrupting our cycles, and the decision to be the generation that says enough. Working through Gideon's story, Nick looks at how God tends to speak to people based on who he's calling them to be, not their current...
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2026.06.07 | Kean de la Hunt-James | Stop Running
In this message, Kean shares deep encouragement from his own life , his first time preaching, just before heading off to minister in the US. He's honest about years of living two different lives: one version of himself at church, another with his friends, and the exhausting effort of keeping the...
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2026.05.24 | Ryan Matthews | The Purpose of Righteousness
Ryan picks back up on 2 Corinthians 5 in this message, building on last time's idea of the great exchange. The case he makes is that righteousness was never meant to function like a ticket, something that gets you in the door and then sits in your pocket. Instead, it's the basis for an actual...
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2026.05.17 | Ryan Matthews | Not a Renovation
Most of us picture spiritual growth like a renovation project: same house, slowly getting fixed up. Ryan pushes back on that picture in this message, working from 2 Corinthians 5 and what he calls "the great exchange": Jesus takes what's wrong with us and hands over what's right about him, not as...
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2026.05.03 | Cedric van Duyn | Fan into Flame
Cedric van Duyn is a dear friend and our guest who has shared many times at Freedomhouse. He and his beautiful wife Angie lead a church in Gig Harbour, America. He digs into a phrase Paul uses with Timothy: the "good deposit", something real that God has placed inside every believer through…
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2026.04.26 | Ryan Matthews | I AM Series: An Operating System Update
Ryan Matthews opens a new thread in our Identity, Authority and Mission series: the grace of God, and he starts with a pretty candid bit of his own story. After becoming a Christian as a teenager, he spent years quietly running on fear of messing up and the need for one particular leader's...
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2026.04.19 | Nicholas Graham | I AM Series : Practice Makes Permanent
Practice Doesn't Make Perfect, Practice Makes Permanent That's the line Nicholas Graham opens with in this message, part of our Identity, Authority and Mission series, this time looked at through the lens of discipleship. Using Abraham's story (a man God called a "great nation" long before there...
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2026.04.12 | Greg Stevens | Next To, Or In?
What's the difference between following someone and actually being part of them? In this message, guest speaker Greg Stevens who leads Immanuel in Durban North and also a key leader in Catalyst Connect, the wider family of churches we're connected to. Greg walks through a subtle but massive shift...
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2026.04.05 | Ryan Matthews | Ressurrection Sunday
On the first Easter morning, Mary didn't recognize Jesus — she thought he was just the gardener, until he said her name. In this Resurrection Sunday message, Ryan Matthews picks up that thread and asks what actually changes once Jesus is back from the dead. Not just a legal technicality that gets...
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2026.04.03 | Greg Nixon | Good Friday
Before you press play: this message ends with communion, so it's worth having some bread and a little grape juice on hand if you'd like to take it together, wherever you're listening. It's Good Friday, and in this message, part four of our Identity, Authority and Mission series, Greg Nixon sits...
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2026.03.29 | Greg Nixon | I AM - Part 3
In this message from our I AM series, Greg Nixon gets honest about the narrative he carried about himself for years, and holds it up against what's actually said about us in Christ: chosen, adopted, made new. A look at why identity has to come before authority, and what it takes to start…
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2026.03.22 | Ryan Matthews | Authority, Identity and Mission | Part 2
In the second message of our new series on identity, Ryan Matthews unpacks the lenses we all carry — the ones we didn't choose and probably don't notice — and how they're quietly shaping the way we see God, ourselves, and each other. Drawing on stories from Jesus' own life and right back to the...
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2026.03.15 | Ryan Matthews | Identity - Authority - Mission
In this message, we begin a new series exploring Identity, Authority, and Mission, starting with the question of who we really are in Christ. Ryan unpacks how our identity is often shaped by the “lenses” we carry - formed through experiences, wounds, culture, and the stories we believe about...
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2026.03.22 | Ryan Matthews | Identity - Authority - Mission (2)
Ryan continues on the theme of lenses that we wear see through. We hope this series encourages you to ask God to show you where you might be wearing/carrying a lense and that the Holy Spirit would free you and lead you in to greater truth in how you follow Jesus.
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2026.03.08 | Ryan Matthews | The Power of the Spirit To Serve (3)
Rooted in Luke chapter 4, Ryan continues in this theme reminding us what being filled with the power of the Holy Spirit to serve the world.
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2026.02.22 | Ryan Matthews | Power On - Continued
Ryan continues in his message on being filled with the power of the Holy Spirit for works of service and to see the Kingdom come for the sake of freedom in ourselves and in those around us.
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2026.02.15 | Nicholas Graham | His Creation leads us to Himself
Nicholas reminds us that the created world (nature) points us to God in remarkable ways, catalysing connection to God and ourselves. He suggests ways to be regulated as God designed it through His creation and offers us the practise of rest and space to reflect. Creation leads us to awe and…
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2025.02.08 | Ryan Matthews | Power On
In this message, Ryan unpacks what it means to live a Spirit-empowered life. Drawing from Luke 4, he shows how Jesus moved from the river of love, through the wilderness of surrender, and into the power of the Spirit to announce freedom and favor. Love creates safety. Surrender creates...
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2026.02.01 | Ryan Matthews | Hunger for the Kingdom
As Freedom House steps into a five-day fast, Ryan opens an honest conversation about hunger—what stirs it, what it does in us, and why it matters. From Luke 11 and Luke 18, he explores Jesus’ framework for prayer and the posture behind it: a bold, persistent “keep asking, keep seeking, keep...
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2025.01.25 | Ryan Matthews | Baptism of Surrender
In this message, Ryan continues exploring the baptisms of Jesus in Luke 3 and 4, moving from the baptism of the Father’s love into the baptism of surrender. Drawing from Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness, he reminds us that Christ confronted the deepest roots of human brokenness on our behalf....
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2026.01.18 | Ryan Matthews | Love, Purity & Surrender and Power for Service
With our February fast approaching, we're invited to examine what we're truly hungry for Jesus Himself. Ryan remindes us that following Jesus is never passive; it is active, intentional and responsive. We move with Him. Even Jesus, God in the flesh and the perfect example of life with the Father,...
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2026.01.11 | Nicholas Graham | Roots to Fruit: Getting in the Mix
In this message, we explore what it means to be planted for purpose and called to move in mission. Drawing from Isaiah 61, we’re invited to step out of hidden seasons and into action, bringing our gifts, our presence, and our hearts into the mix. Nick unpacks how God calls us to grow through...
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2025.12.14 | Ryan Matthews | Growing Our Capacity
In this message, we explore what it means to grow our capacity to carry God’s favour, purpose, and promises. Drawing from Luke 19 and the parable of the minas, we’re invited to move beyond small thinking and embrace a life of faithful stewardship, practical action, and big-hearted dreaming. Ryan...
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2025.12.07 | Nicholas Graham | The Shepard Tree
Nick reminds us of what it is to be unseen and overlooked. A place deeply precious to God. Throughout scripture of accounts of those trained, matured and anointed in private, not public. Like the Shepard Tree which survives the harshest summers in the Kalahari because it's roots grow down further...
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2025.11.30 | Nicholas Graham | Welcome the Stranger
Before any of us submitted to Jesus as King, we were strangers. Scripture calls this philoxenia, the love of the stranger and it sits at the very centre of God’s heart. Who is the stranger in Scripture? Do they need to look like us, think like us, or fit our categories to receive our hospitality?...
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2025.11.16 | Ryan Matthews | Love Serves
In this message, we return to the centre of our house: grace, restoration, and the calling to love one another well. We explore what love looks like when it becomes a lifestyle: devotion, honour, generosity, and a freedom that expresses itself through service. Ryan reminds us that biblical…
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2025.11.09 | Bazil Sarafidis | Grace, the Divine Ability at Work in Me
Bazil Sarafidis encourages us to lean on the grace that has been poured out for us. The ability to walk the hard roads and stay faithful is not from conjuring up or manufacturing it. It is by grace provided. Often we don't see the grace in time moving forward but we it looking back how God made a...
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2025.11.02 | Cedric van Duyn | Dry Bones and a Living Body
Cedric and Angie van Duyn lead a church in Gig Harbor, Washington (Seattle, USA). They are dear friends of our house, carrying a long and meaningful history with us. Cedric shares from Ezekiel 37—looking at what it means for dry bones to become a body. He looks at the accountability of living...
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2025.10.26 | Ryan Matthews | Love Does
This Sunday, Ryan shares from his own testimony and from the Scriptures. In love, we devote ourselves to one another (Romans 12:10). In love, we carry a continuing debt—not a financial one, but the ongoing call to love one another (Romans 13:8). You owe me nothing.But I owe you the continuing…
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2025.10.19 | Ryan Matthews | One Another Each Other
God doesn’t just want to visit us for a moment; He desires to dwell with us to be one with us and with each other. This changes everything. Unity isn’t something we manufacture; it’s the work of God in us.This Sunday, Ryan takes us through the “one another” scriptures, showing how love becomes…
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2025.10.12 Ryan Matthews | Connected by Grace
In this message, Ryan unpacks what it means to be a community truly connected by grace. Drawing from Ephesians 2 and 2 Corinthians 5, he reminds us that the same grace that rescued us is the grace that keeps shaping us, teaching us how to see one another through God’s eyes.The glory of God isn’t...
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2025.10.05 | Greg Nixon | Fullness in Family: Christlike Characteristics of His Church
Welcome to Jesus Community where we have the mandate to contrast starkly with society. We carry a Christ-focused spirit into our days, the conflicts playing out and in places of division. Greg leads us through the characteristics carried by those in Jesus. When it comes to the messy parts of...
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2025.09.28 | Alexander Venter | Jesus Community and Relationships
Alexander Venter continues on the theme of relationships, focusing on life together within the Jesus-follower community. Rooted in Ephesians 3, he unpacks God’s eternal intention to create a family—rich, diverse, and united—not defined by ethnicity or tribal factions, but by love that overcomes…
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2025.09.25 | Ryan Matthews | The Shame Game
Shame is a story we inherit, a whisper that tells us we’re not enough. But in Christ, that story is undone. To live as a new creation in community is to discover belonging that is not earned but extended, to see differences not as barriers but as a kaleidoscope of God’s image, and to let love…
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Freedomhouse is a growing family of everyday people who are hungry to live out an authentic and powerful Christianity together. We are a community of real people living very real lives in pursuit of God, desiring to see God’s kingdom come in every place and space we have influence. We deeply cherish the person and presence of God and we long to see every person become who Jesus has destined them to be – free of the grip and shame of sin, free of religious obligation and free to be the loved world changers they are!
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