Plainspoken sermons for practiced hope.
C3 Imagine is a sermon feed shaped by Sunday service teaching, often moving between English and Dutch. Its messages turn ordinary pressures, from bad coffee to debt and housing, into direct Christian reflections on hope, generosity, and trust.
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C3 Imagine is a feed of Sunday service messages with the texture of a live church room. It is warm. It is also direct. The speakers work from scripture, then bring the teaching down into ordinary life: coffee at an airport, moving countries during COVID, losing a job, managing debt, feeding a family, paying for a home, and choosing what comes first. Recent messages gather around two main series, Hero of Hope and More Talents. Hero of Hope returns again and again to Jesus as the basis for hope when circumstances disappoint. The resurrection is presented not as a vague comfort but as the center of Christian confidence. Speakers ask whether people run toward that claim or away from it. They also spend time with suffering, perseverance, loneliness, disappointment, and the moments when faith feels tested. More Talents shifts the same pastoral urgency toward money. Finances are treated as a spiritual mirror, not a private side topic. Spending, saving, investing, generosity, debt, and fear all become ways to talk about devotion. The language stays practical, with money examples sitting beside Bible passages and gospel stories. Translation gives the show its cadence. English and Dutch often move together, with lines restated until the point has weight. That repetition can feel unpolished, but it also makes the messages intimate and communal. The show is not detached commentary about Christianity. It is preaching for people in the room, preserved for people outside it. It challenges behavior, invites prayer, and expects faith to have visible consequences. For listeners who want polished theological essays, it may feel too congregational. For listeners who want practical church teaching with warmth, urgency, and everyday examples, it is clear about what it is trying to do.
Made for: C3 Imagine is for Christian listeners who want Sunday-style teaching that connects scripture to money, work, suffering, community, and personal faith. It also suits people comfortable with bilingual church cadence and repeated live translation.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the lived-in sermon rhythm: scripture, anecdote, repetition, and direct application all happening in the room. The English-Dutch movement gives the messages a patient, relational pace that feels different from a studio Bible podcast.
Welcome to our podcast channel! Here, you can find all of our Sunday service messages in English and Dutch, as well as some extra bonus content. We hope this inspires you and encourages your faith.We'd love to connect with you on social media too! Simply head to our website, www.yourc3.church, or find us @c3imagine on Instagram or Facebook.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
C3 Imagine turns sermons on money, family, attention and mission into concrete appeals for lived Christian commitment.
C3 Imagine carries the texture of a church service into its sermon feed. Prayer, worship references and direct addresses to the congregation frame teaching that repeatedly moves from scripture toward lived commitment.
A tapas board becomes a spiritual warning, and suddenly your distractions look less snack-sized.
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Bad airport coffee opens into a grounded sermon on resurrection hope and resilient faith.
Hope gets tested in ordinary places here, starting with bad airport coffee at JFK and widening into a sermon on resurrection faith. The speaker draws a clear line between hope as a passing feeling and hope as a foundation, then works through James, Romans, and Peter to frame…
A plainspoken sermon on money pressure, debt, and the danger of letting mammon crowd out devotion.
C3 Imagine frames a sermon about money as a larger claim about devotion. Pastor Peter moves from bold prayer to debt, financial pressure, and the rich young ruler, keeping the attention on what changes when mammon starts competing for the altar.
A direct Christian sermon on giving, first fruits, financial worry, and trust in God's provision.
Generosity lands as the guiding spiritual priority in this episode, shaping how money, need, and trust are understood. The host ties a sudden building milestone and about 90,000 in running costs to a message on giving, while carefully saying the sermon is not a fundraising…
A warm, urgent call to faith, fire, and being sent.
C3 Imagine reads like a church gathering built around one steady burden: God still meets people, still stirs faith, and still sends believers back out. The speaker moves from prayer to memory to direct challenge, and the repetition gives the message its force.
A live sermon turns spiritual appetite into a call to clear space for God.
The episode frames spiritual hunger as a question of capacity: a life packed with small satisfactions can lose its appetite for deeper desire for God.
A warm sermon on Romans frames church life as family, service, and belonging.
The episode opens a new series by moving from the practical machinery of church governance into a warmer question of belonging. Romans gives the sermon its frame: members belong to one another, and love is treated less like an organizational value than a family bond.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Pastor Steve Warren kicks off a new series called 'The Power of the Gospel' based on Romans, focusing first on love.
Ps Steve Warren delivers a sermon titled 'Hero of Hope | The Triumph of Hope' on the C3 Imagine podcast.
This episode offers encouragement and guidance for young Christians aged 17-23 on navigating faith and making a difference in the world while facing unique challenges at school and work.
C3 Imagine’s sermon centers on Jesus’s instruction in Matthew 6:33 to “seek first the kingdom of God.” Ps Monique Jacobsz connects that instruction to her memories of her earthly father and her reliance on God as a heavenly Father.
Gerry Van der Klei’s C3 Imagine sermon, “Child-like Faith,” draws on Jesus’s words in Matthew 18:1–5 to urge adults to become like children.
C3 Imagine speaker Gerry van der Klei contrasts disappointing JFK Airport coffee with the “living hope” described in 1 Peter 1.
This episode explores the concept of hope, discussing personal disappointments, disguised hopes in daily life, and biblical perspectives on promises.
Pastor David Campbell preaches about the reality of hope and dealing with disappointment through faith in God, based on Romans 5:1-5.
This episode introduces a new series called 'Hero of Hope' focusing on Jesus as the source of hope, encourages bringing friends to church for Easter, and previews a guest speaker discussing hope through suffering.
This episode introduces a Christian podcast focused on encouraging listeners with the message that God can do more than we ask or imagine, building lives on hope.
The sermon opens with prayer and a confident claim that God is able to do far more than we can ask or imagine.
This episode discusses integrating faith into financial practices like spending, saving, investing, and generosity, emphasizing that finances reflect life priorities and connecting to biblical teachings from Matthew 6.
Ps Steve Warren teaches C3 Imagine’s “More Talents” series through 2 Corinthians 8:7, arguing that giving is a discipline people can grow in rather than a trait everyone naturally possesses.
The speaker begins in prayer and treats the gathering as a genuine encounter with God.
C3 Imagine’s “More Talents | ps.Steve 1-3” teaches generosity through 2 Corinthians 8:7, Proverbs 3:9, Matthew 6:21, and the parable of the talents.
The message opens with a prayer for troubled hearts.
This episode introduces a new series while honoring church board members, particularly Wilco van Wijk, for their behind-the-scenes contributions to governance and finances.
This episode focuses on how to be a personal witness for Jesus through prayer, the Holy Spirit, and outreach in daily life.
This episode discusses the nature of true worship based on John 4:20-24, emphasizing worshipping God in spirit and truth.