Big Breakfast

Durone Stokes is starring in Dick Whittington and his Catford Cat at The Broadway Theatre, Catford. He sat down with Lydia to chat about navigating fame and success in showbiz, being a light in a dark industry and how we can be like Jesus when he head to a pantomime this Christmas!

Author and speaker Hannah Miller, church pastor Damilola Makinde, and musician Charles Merritt join Lydia & Max for a lightning-speed performance of the Nativity. Expect cheesy sound effects, misplaced scripts, and generous amounts of creative licence.

Can men and women ever just be friends in church? How do you create healthy boundaries with the opposite sex when you're married? And what does it take to get out the friendzone? Phil Knox, author of The Best of Friends: Choose Wisely, Care Well, shared his wisdom with Max.

Helena Whitwell and Naomi Musegula are both Christian doulas who walk with women through pregnancy, birth, and the early days of parenthood. They joined Max and Lydia for 'Just Like Jesus' to talk about the dos and don’ts of speaking to expectant parents, how to support them in this vulnerable time and, of course, whether you should ever comment on a baby’s cuteness… especially if the baby isn’t, well, conventionally cute.

Manchester pop-dance duo Saintz join Max and Lydia to talk about their unlikely partnership, bringing the gospel to sleepy teenagers, and how Forrest Frank is shaking up worship music.

How can we be like Jesus on the side of the pitch? Ian Lancaster, Head of Mission for Christians in Sport, spoke to Max and Lydia about competitiveness, toppling the idol of sport in our lives and what the Church can learn from the sport community.

How can you be more like Jesus at your local leisure centre? Estelle Wallace is a fitness coach who runs a gym in a church. She spoke to Max about overcoming self-consciousness, seeing people physically healed on the gym floor, and whether there'll be a place to work out in heaven.

Have you ever seen a miracle? Or experienced one for yourself? Kimberley Clarke was healed 7 years ago and ever since has been obsessed with hearing more stories of God doing the miraculous. She is the creator and executive producer of Angel Studios' new series, 'Miracle' and she sat down with Lydia to chat about how the miracle she experience completely transformed her view of God and why it's so important people know He still does miracles today.

Christian Vargas joined Lydia this week on Big Breakfast to chat about how we can be more like Jesus when we pop down to the tattoo studio for some new ink. Christian is the founder of Think Plus, a coffee shop, hair salon and tattoo studio with multiple sites in London and Lydia asked him about the assumptions people make of him, the worst tattoos he's seen and the tattoos he refuses to do!

YouVersion CEO Bobby Gruenewald joins Max to celebrate one billion Bible App downloads. They chat about changing our scrolling habits, hearing from God, and why he’s instinctually excited about AI —plus, the story behind his short-lived rap career.

Indi Kent, founder of Pink Letters, spoke with Lydia about the often harsh realities of secondary school life and why she set out to give young girls the encouragement and wisdom she wishes she’d had through the simple, powerful form of handwritten letters.

How can we be more like Jesus on a night out? On this week's Just Like Jesus, Max & Lydia chat to award-winning DJ Dan Sterry about living out his faith in the nightlife industry.

Should Christians see Halloween as a chance to celebrate life over death? This week on Just Like Jesus, Max talks with Rev Peter Laws — former Baptist minister, author, and host of Into The Fog on YouTube — about fear, death, Halloween, and why he thinks Christians get him (and his “spooky gene”) wrong.

Max and Lydia sat down with London City Mission missionary Emmanuel Gill this week to ask how we can be Just Like Jesus during the Hindu festival of Diwali.

On Just Like Jesus, Max and Lydia were joined by Instagram and TikTok stars Ben Barber and Barney Sampson to chat about their new-found fame with '2 Blokes Running'. They chat about staying humble, why running is so popular and how we can be more like Jesus at the Park Run!