Young-adult sermons for complicated faith questions.
theprojectyeg is a sermon-and-teaching feed shaped for young adults wrestling with faith in real life. Its messages move between casual humor, direct challenge, and Bible-rooted answers to questions about doubt, intimacy, dating, conscience, and trust in God.
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theprojectyeg is a sermon-and-teaching podcast from The Project in Edmonton, Alberta. The room it records is clearly young, informal, and used to live worship. Speakers open with jokes, crowd work, and ordinary stories, then steer toward Bible passages and direct application. It can be funny. It can also be very pointed. Recent episodes spend a lot of time with the questions that tend to surface in young adult faith: doubt, deconstruction, church hurt, dating, sex, marriage, shame, and conscience. The Smoke and Mirrors series frames some of that work by treating questions as something faith can face rather than something faith must hide from. Genesis becomes a way to talk about mistrust and temptation. Romans becomes a way to talk about conscience and the pain of resisting God’s design. Song of Solomon and First Corinthians become sources for teaching on intimacy, marriage, and sexual restraint. The show’s style is conversational, but its convictions are traditional and explicit. It is comfortable naming pornography, masturbation, sexual compatibility, betrayal, loneliness, and insecurity in the same breath as worship, prayer, baptism, and obedience. That mix gives the feed a distinctive texture. One minute a speaker is riffing on a catfish story or a restaurant tip; the next, the message is pressing listeners to examine whether their choices are forming trust, generosity, holiness, or hidden shame. The tone is not detached commentary. It sounds like teaching aimed at people in the room who may be deciding what kind of Christian life they want to live. The podcast is best suited to listeners who want contemporary Christian messages with humor, emotional candor, and a clear call to follow Jesus. It is less suited to anyone looking for interfaith discussion, academic theology, or neutral cultural analysis. The center of the show is persuasion: Scripture applied to real habits, real relationships, and real spiritual uncertainty.
Made for: theprojectyeg is for young adults and church-connected listeners who want contemporary Christian teaching on doubt, dating, sexuality, conscience, and spiritual growth. It especially fits those who prefer sermons that sound live, informal, and direct.
What sets it apart: The show pairs casual, room-aware humor with unusually frank teaching on subjects many sermon feeds soften or avoid. Its recent episodes keep hard questions close to Scripture while speaking in the language of dating apps, restaurant tables, church wounds, and young-adult insecurity.
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A direct sermon that uses one warning story to press the question of trust versus instinct.
The message treats a coal-mine story as a lesson about conscience, trust, and the cost of ignoring what is said to be right. The canary image gives the point its sharpest edge, and the speaker keeps pressing the same question: whether God’s order can be trusted over instinct.
A direct Christian dating sermon that argues for character before chemistry.
The episode takes a blunt Christian dating approach, moving from a public correction into a wider question about what should matter in a spouse.
A clear Christian case for dating, restraint, and marriage as covenant.
Thomas keeps the emphasis on Christian sexual restraint, covenant, and the longer view of intimacy. He speaks with the certainty of someone addressing young people at a turning point, and the strongest passages tie relationship choices to identity, God's call, and the future…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Scripture, surrender and faith put into practice.
At The Project YEG, Ruben Valeny frames sex before marriage through a Christian sermon on sexual boundaries and restoration.
Abbey Froese’s “The Life of Joseph” at theprojectyeg connects her mother’s approaching first anniversary with Joseph’s suffering across Genesis 37–50.
The Project YEG message “Cain & Abel” by Ruben Valeny interprets Genesis 4 as the gradual making of a murderer rather than only a story about sibling rivalry.
Ruben Valeny builds the talk around the phrase "Is your canary singing?" and the old coal-mine practice of using canaries to detect carbon monoxide before miners were harmed.
Harrison Chokka delivers a sermon titled 'Smoke and Mirrors' focusing on Genesis chapter 3, exploring the story of Adam and Eve and the serpent's temptation in the Garden of Eden.
This episode explores the painful experience of being hurt by the church, using relatable analogies like catfishing to discuss trust betrayal and questioning faith without losing it.
A church sermon introducing a new series on deconstructing faith, explaining the concept and its implications for believers.
Ruben Valeny opens by publicly challenging Project YEG attendees who leave no tip at restaurants, saying a waitress linked the behavior to people who call themselves Christians and even calling the 5 percent charge "tax." He then shifts into a personal story about Alandra replying to his Instagram story from News Bay Bible Camp on Vancouver Island, using their DM exchange to frame the episode’s central question about dating boundaries.
A pastor shares his experience as a new father and introduces a sermon series on sex from a Christian perspective.
A pastor delivers a sermon on sexual purity, referencing 1 Corinthians 6 and urging the congregation to flee from sexual sin.
A pastor delivers a sermon encouraging the congregation to persist in overcoming sexual sin and pursue spiritual wholeness.
Thomas Belchior uses Romans 12, Ephesians 5, and 1 Corinthians 13 to argue that dating is shaped by God’s call, not just personal preference.
This episode introduces a sermon series called 'Rumble Strip' that uses the metaphor of road rumble strips to discuss spiritual guardrails for avoiding life mistakes, focusing on aligning with the Holy Spirit.
A historical narrative about Walt Disney's mother's death from carbon monoxide poisoning and the subsequent invention of affordable carbon monoxide detectors.
A sermon about how hard news and tragedy clarify what truly matters in life.
A pastor and his wife discuss the biblical passage 1 Peter 3 about marriage, offering a relaxed, conversational sermon.
A pastor humorously discusses pain tolerance and uses a junior high conversation to introduce a sermon on choosing a pain-free life.
A pastor introduces a new sermon series called 'Confessions of a Christian' addressing common fears among believers.
A pastor uses a personal anecdote about shopping with his wife to introduce a sermon on differing expectations and reactions.
This episode explores the phrase 'the show must go on' in the context of Easter, connecting circus history and Shakespeare to the resilience and message of Christianity.