St Andrews CHB Sermons

John 17#3 (verses 13-19)

John 17 #2 - Prayer

John 17#1

Curious Questions #11 - Do all religions lead to God?

Curious Questions #10 - Is Christianity Good? Andrew Chesswas shared with us today

Curious Questions #9 - God's love... love is love right?

Curious Questions #7 - Why do Christians hate lgbtq people?

Curious Questions #8 - Did God commit genocide? 2022-9-25

Curious Questions #6 - How can you trust the bible? 2022-9-18

Curious Questions #4 - How do you know God is real? 2022-9-4

Curious Questions #3 - How is Hell Fair? 2022-8-28

Curious Questions #2 - Election 2022-8-21 The bible talks about election, predestination, and God choosing us, but how is that fair? Does that mean that we are just robots or without any choice? Today we look at these questions and the important answer that the bible gives us.

2022-8-14 God's family is a large family! Far larger than we know or generally appreciate. Today Jeff from Barnabas Aid opens our eyes to what many of our brothers and sisters in the faith face daily. This is an encouragement to know! This is an encouragement to care. It is an encouragement to pray!

Curious Questions #1 2022-8-7

Ecclesiastes #12 - Remember Your Creator 2022-7-31

Ecclesiastes #11 - Faithful Risk 24-7-2022

Ecclesiastes #10 - How Not to Stink 2022-7-17

Ecclesiastes #9 - Memento Mori 2022-7-10

Ecclesiastes #8 - Living Wisely Amongst Evil 2022-7-3

Ecclesiastes #7 - What is Good? 2022-6-26

First Things First 2022-6-19

Ecclesiastes #6 - Meaningless Appetite 12-6-2022

Ecclesiastes 5 - Meaningless Faith 2022-6-5

Ecclesiastes #4 - Meaningless Justice 2022-5-29

Ecclesiastes #3 - Meaningless Work 2022-5-22

Ecclesiastes #2 2022-5-15

Ecclesiastes #1 2022-5-8 What are we chasing?

Encouragement to Sow! Sunday 24th April How is our sowing going? In the parable of the sower Jesus calls us to keep going. To keep sowing.  It is not easy and He knows it. In fact He is realistic about it, but He still calls us to keep going!

Easter Sunday - What does Christ's resurrection mean for us? Sunday 17th April 2022 What does Jesus' resurrection mean for us? Many things, but key amongst them is that Jesus' resurrection is the proof of who He said He was and what He promised us. And that gives us a solid hope!!!

Why the Cross? Sunday 10th April 2022 This Palm Sunday we consider why the cross? Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die? (question 24 from the New City Catechism).  We look at 13 points that show that Jesus' cross was necessary for our salvation!

Stacking Wood #7 2022-4-3 Question #7 Q) What does the law of God require? A)  Personal, perfect, and perpetual obedience; that we love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; and love our neighbor as ourselves. What God forbids should never be done and what God commands should always be done. 

Stacking Wood #6 2022-3-27 Question #6 Q) How can we glorify God? A)  We glorify God by enjoying him, loving him, trusting him, and by obeying his will, commands, and law. 

Stacking Wood #5 2022-3-20 Q) What else did God create? A) God created all things by His powerful word, and all His creation was very good; everything flourished under His loving rule.

Stacking Wood #4 2022-3-13 Question #4: How and why did God create us? Answer: God created us male and female in His own image to know Him, love Him, live with Him, and glorify Him. And it is right that we who were created by God should live to His glory. 

Stacking Wood #3 2022-3-6 Taken from the New CIty Catechism. Question #3 Q) How many persons are there in God? A) There are three persons in the one true and living God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are the same in substance, equal in power and glory.

Stacking Wood #2 2022-2-27 Taken from the New CIty Catechism. Question #2 Q) What is God? A) God is the creator and sustainer of everyone and everything. He is eternal, infinite, and unchangeable in his power and perfection, goodness and glory, wisdom, justice, and truth. Nothing happens except through him and by his will. 

Stacking Wood #1 2022-2-20 St Andrews CHB This term we are learning together the New City Catechism.  That we all (young and old) have things to learn about God, about this world, and about ourselves either for the first time or to remember again.  We're calling this series Stacking Wood, because we want to have the wood (truth) of God in our lives ready for the fire of God to ignite!

The Greatest Threat to Following Jesus 2022-2-13 Matthew 16:24-27 The bible talks of three threats or foes to our faith in Jesus. The world, the Devil and our flesh.  The latter of these is threat we can never escape in this world because it is in us. Part of us, but Jesus calls us to follow Him by dying to our flesh.  Surely one of Jesus most radical calls to us ... and one of the most important.  The risk is great, but so is the reward, if we will take up our cross!

Confidence - In the Eternal God 2022-2-6 Philippians 3:1-11

Confidence - God's Eternal Providence Genesis 37-50 2022-1-30 God is always at work. In, through and behind the events of our lives and this world He is at work - but do we trust Him in His work? If we do we can find rest in this wild world and the motivation we need to keep working.  Today we look at the intricacies and scale of God's providence in the life of Jospeh and how it even includes us.

God's Eternal Family Ephesians 1:3-14 2022-1-23 The church is the family of God (Ephesians 2:19), but in Ephesians 1:3-14 Paul gives us an introduction to how it all starts with God's family, the trinity! That God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are all in on our salvation. Planning, calling, saving, and perfecting us.  We couldn't ask for a better family!

God's Eternal Way 2022-1-16 What is the way to God? The bibles resonding answer is JESUS! He is the way to God. But it is as we see the pointers that God has arranged for us that we start to feel the wonder of this truth.  Adam, Noah, Moses, Abraham, and David are five key people of the bible that point us to Jesus.  They prepare us to meet the one who fulfils God's promises to them and to us!

The book of Job is a serious book, but sometimes we have serious questions in our lives. Questions about why we suffer. Questions about what our suffering means for us and of the God we proclaim is in control. Today Job asks us three questions: 1)...

Racism is not a new problem, but it is a problem, a sin, that we are particularly aware of. With all our differences though, we have a lot in common and God calls us into His plan. His goal. A plan for a large family filled with people from ever...

Today we have two baptisms. Two baptisms acts of obedience which point to the One who is perfectly obedient for them. Two baptisms which take hold of the One who fulfills all righteousness for them.

Tim Stevens finishes our holiday series on: Fear, Love, the Kingdom of God.

Tim Stevens brings us the second part of his series - Fear, Love the Kingdom of God

There is a lot of fake news in the world. People have varying opinions. The truth can seem distant, even unreachable, but the good news of Jesus is that God is true, Jesus is true for us, and the Holy Spirit is true in us. Come and delight in the...

Kindness is something we all know, but not necessarily in the sense that God talks about it. Christians are called to the kindness that God has shown us. Kindness to enemies. Kindness to foes. Kindness to the ungrateful.

We live in a lust saturated world. A world that encourages us to fulfill the longings of our flesh, but the Spirit calls us elsewhere. The Spirit wants us to be holy as God is holy. The Spirit wants us to become what we have been redeemed to be...

Gentleness is one of the most misunderstood and undervalued qualities of the Christian life...but that probably means we don't value it in Jesus. Instead of been a sign of weakness, biblical gentleness is a sign of strength and power...