Missed the Sunday message or want to check out our church’s messages? Welcome to the St Andrew’s Geraldine online podcast. We have all our recent messages and series located here for you to subscribe or select from as we dive into the Word of God together. St Andrew’s is a thriving church in the Geraldine community catering for all ages. Check out our webpage for more https://www.standrewsgld.org.nz as we strive to follow the Lord Jesus Christ.
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St Andrew's Geraldine Contemporary Service Sunday 24 November 2024
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"Spirit filled Church" What Does It Mean to Be Spirit-Filled? The Holy Spirit is central to the Christian faith, not only as God's presence but as a transforming force in believers' lives. While every Christian receives the Spirit upon repentance and faith, being Spirit-filled is about actively yielding to God. It happens through living a Bible-bas…
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149: 17-11-2024 "Christ Focused Church"
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This sermon explores what it means to live a Christ-focused life, grounded in Colossians 3:1-17. A Christ-centered focus transforms our lives by helping us recognize what to let go of and what to take on as part of our new nature in Christ. Living a Christ-focused life isn’t about duty or performance but a response to God’s overwhelming love. As we…
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148: 10-11-2024 "Bible Based Church"
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Today, we're exploring the first of our church’s guiding values: being Bible-based. At Bible Based Church, we believe wholeheartedly that the entire Bible is God's inspired Word, guiding us in what is true and showing us when we’re off track. Scripture isn’t just a historical text; it's reliable, divinely authoritative, and as alive today as when i…
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147: 03-11-2024 Romans (Part 73) The Only One Worth Glorifying
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God is in control so we ought to be humble because he is the only thing worth glorifying Romans 11:33-36Av Ash Scott
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146: 27-10-2024 Romans (Part 72) Divine reversal
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Romans 11: 28-32 & Matthew 20:1-16Av Alistair McNaughton
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145: 20-10-2024 Romans (Part 71) Themes of Romans 9-11 God's Word Has Not Failed
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144: 13-10-2024 Romans (Part 70) All Israel will be saved
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In Romans 11:25-27 Paul introduces the concept that "all Israel will be saved," emphasizing God's continued plan for the Jewish people. This passage has been the subject of much debate within Christian circles, particularly about whether it refers to a future turning of ethnic Israel to Christ or if it has already been fulfilled spiritually through…
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143: 06-10-2024 Romans (Part 69) God's Greater Plans
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As we draw towards the end of Romans 11, we build up to the climatic doxology, praising God for all his wonder and awe. We get a taste of His greater plans by how he has set us apart to be holy for him, how he overturns human logic (and the logic of an arborist) by grafting the gentiles (a wild olive tree) into the covenant he made to Abraham. We a…
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142: 29-09-2024 Romans (Part 68) Do We Make People Jealous?
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Jealousy, often seen as a negative emotion, is something most of us don’t want to embody. Yet in today’s passage, we see God’s intent for making the Jewish people "jealous" through the salvation of the Gentiles. It’s a strange idea, but one with a divine purpose. Romans 11:11-15 & Matthew 21:33-46Av Alistair McNaughton
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What Race 1 Corinthians 9:24-27Av St Andrews Church Geraldine
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140: 15-09-2024 Father Heart of God
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Chris Gore is a New Zealander, married to Liz and has three daughters – Charlotte, Emma and Sophie. Chris teaches clearly and simply on our identity as believers and living in that. Hebrews 1:3Av Chris Gore
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139: 08-09-2024 Romans (Part 67) The Divine Hardening
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In our ongoing series on Romans we are looking at God hardening hearts, we will look at three things. What is divine hardening? How does God harden a heart? And what should our response be to this text? Romans 11:7-10Av Alistair McNaughton
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138: 01-09-2024 Romans (Part 66) The Remnant
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In our ongoing series of messages in Romans we will look at the question has God rejected the Jewish nation? Romans 11:1-6 and 1 Kings 19 selected versesAv Alistair McNaughton
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137: 25-08-2024 Romans (Part 65) Ears To Hear
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Even though the Jewish nation had heard the Good News of salvation through Jesus Christ, and they understood what it meant, they refused to have faith in Jesus. Yet, God has not forgotten his promise to Israel and we look forward to a time when the nation of Israel does proclaim Jesus as their Saviour. The parable of the sower (Matthew 13:1-9) remi…
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136: 18-08-2024 Treasures from Josephs story
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Treasures from Josephs story Genesis 37: 1-11, Genesis 39:2-6, Genesis 40: 1-4, Genesis 41: 16 & Genesis 41: 32Av Kevin Andrews
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135: 11-08-2024 Romans (Part 64) The Joy Of Sharing The Hope Of Christ With Others
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Today in our ongoing series on Romans, Alistair is looking at the joyful necessity of sharing the hope of Christ with others. Romans 10:14-15 & Matthew 10:5-20Av Alistair McNaughton
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134: 04-08-2024 Romans (Part 63) Doing or Done
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Romans 10:5-13 Deuteronomy 30:11-20Av Alistair McNaughton
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133: 28-07-2024 Romans (Part 62) Jesus, The Culmination Of The Law
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Today we are looking at how Jesus fulfilled the Mosaic law and provided the way of being made right with God. Romans 10:1-4 & Hebrews 10:1-18Av Alistair McNaughton
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132: 21-07-2024 Romans (Part 61) Saved through Christ
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Paul continues to the end of Chapter 9 of Romans, explaining how we are saved by faith alone. This is how the Gentiles were receiving salvation: realising that they could not earn it by anything that we might do, and only through Christ's righteousness could they be saved. Israel was still relying on gaining righteousness by obeying the Law - somet…
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131: 14-07-2024 Romans (Part 60) Good news for all Creation
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Paul continues to explain how God's masterplan of salvation is for all nations. We see that God planned to draw even the Gentiles right from the beginnings of Israel through the story of Ruth Romans 9:24-29, Romans 10:9-10Av Jason Shaw
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130: 07-07-2024 Romans (Part 59) The Raising and lowering of Kings
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The Raising and lowering of Kings Romans 9:17-23Av Alistair McNaughton
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129: 30-06-2024 Leaders In The Church
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Today as part of our commissioning of Jason Shaw as Locally Ordained Minister, we are going to have a look at leadership in the church through the lens of selected texts in first Timothy. 1 Timothy 3:1-7, 4:1-2, 4:14-16Av Alistair McNaughton
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Chosen Isaiah 42:1-4, Colossians 3:12-14 & James 2:1-7Av Grant Norsworthy
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127: 16-06-2024 Romans (Part 58) God's Sovereignty And Our Free Will (Part II)
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In this second look at this challenging passage we are looking at Esau: free-will choices and the implications of God's sovereignty over our lives. Romans 9:10-16 Genesis 25:19-34Av Alistair McNaughton
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126: 09-06-2024 Voice of the Martyrs
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Acts 12v1-16Av St Andrews Church Geraldine
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125: 02-06-2024 Romans (Part 57) God's Sovereignty And Our Free Will
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The unsolvable riddle of our choices and faith decisions which are precious and crucial in God's sight AND God's decisive choices that are made before we are born that influence so much of our lives including our eternal destinations. Romans 9:10-16, Genesis 25:19-34Av Alistair McNaughton
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124: 26-05-2024 Romans (Part 56) Grace not Race
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This mornings message on Romans 9:6-8 , we are looking at "Grace not Race" That while God chose people from Abrahams line to carry the promise, the fact that not all descendants of Abraham were children of the promise and that God included people who were not children of Abraham to be children of God means that we are saved by Grace not Race.…
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123: 19-05-2024 Romans (Part 55) Israel's Past Blessings, Current Status, Future Prophecies
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In this episode in the continuing series on Romans, we are looking at the past Blessings, current status, and future prophecies of the Jewish people. Romans 9:4-5Av Alistair McNaughton
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122: 12-05-2024 Romans (Part 54) Paul's Broken Heart For The Jewish People
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Today we start our Winter series in Romans by looking at Paul's broken heart for the Jewish people who had rejected the gospel in Romans 9:1-3. 1. Paul's broken heart for the lost Jewish people 2. His willingness to do anything to save his compatriots 3.The reality of the plight of the eternally Lost and the hope of the Gospel.…
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121: 05-05-2024 Romans (Part 53) Praise: The Final Word In Our Relationship With God
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At the end of the segment of Romans chapters 9-11, Paul writes a hymn of praise (a doxology) due to his discussion and enthusiasm of what he understands of God's plans for both Jews and Christians. Today we begin our winter season of studying the book of Romans by exploring this doxology and reflecting on the place of praise in our lives too. Psalm…
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120: 28-04-2024 Avoiding Cyclists: Seeing Or Looking
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The need to be awake, alert and self-aware when living our Christian life. Genesis 18:16-33 Matthew 13:1-23 Hebrews 4:1-2, 4:14-16, 5:11-14Av Margaret van Ginkel
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119: 21-04-2024 Saved To Pursue Holiness
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In this weeks message we will look at the pursuit of becoming Christ-like. We will Look at: We are saved by God to become Christ-like The differences between Holiness and religiosity We start the journey of Holiness by pursuing intimacy with God as revealed in Jesus. Ephesians 5:1-20Av Alistair McNaughton
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118: 14-04-2024 From Duty To Devotion
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This morning in our message from Duty to Devotion, we will look at the area of giving, both the right way and the wrong way to give, this comes from 2nd Corinthians 9:6-1.Av Alistair McNaughton
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117: 07-04-2024 The War Against Bitterness And Grumbling
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We will be looking at Bitter waters of Marah and how the external circumstances of Israel's suffering revealed internal spiritual truths of their state. Exodus 15:22-27 Hebrews 3:7-19 Psalm 95:7-9 Philippians 2:14-15Av Alistair McNaughton
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116: 31-03-2024 Jesus our Substitute. Easter 2024
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Jesus our Substitute. Easter 2024Av Alistair McNaughton
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115: 24-03-2024 Intermediate State
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In this message we will look at the "Intermediate state"; what happens to us between the time we die and the final resurrection of the dead? Hebrews 6:1-3, Philippians 1:18-26, 2 Corinthians 5:1-10Av Alistair McNaughton
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In this mornings last message on the Sermon on the Mount till next Summer we are looking at love your enemy. We will look at the following three things. 1. Who are our enemies today? 2. We show the Love of God, the nature and character of God when we love our enemies because like Gods love there is no self interest in it. 3. We can start the journe…
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In our ongoing series on the Sermon on the Mount, we will be looking at an eye for an eye; what was Jesus getting at when he said do not resist an evil person? Should a Christian never use force to defend themselves? Matthew 5:38-42Av Alistair McNaughton
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Jesus' main point wasn't simply not to make any oaths or vows - he wanted us to strive to meet God's absolute standard or truth and to show integrity and honesty in all areas of our lives. Only Jesus accomplished this and so, again, we recognise it is his righteousness by which we are saved. As God calls you to be 'fishers of people' imitate Him in…
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111: 25-02-2024 Where is God In All Of This?
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By the 1st century AD, the teachers of the Law had reinterpreted God's instructions (Deuteronomy 24:1-4) and were permitting divorce for any reason. God hates divorce. He neither commands it or condones it. But He recognises its existence in our fallen world, hence Scriptures such as Deuteronomy 24:1-4 and Exodus 21:10-11. Jesus corrects the Pharis…
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110: 18-02-2024 The Art of Heart Surgery: Repentance
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Although awkward and uncomfortable to talk about, we must recognise that we all have sinned and constantly fail to live up to the standard of God’s Law. Jesus again challenges his audience with the sin of adultery in the heart. He doesn’t do this to condemn us, but to make us truly realise that we can only be saved when we accept Him as our righteo…
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No matter what challenges and trials we may face in this life, we have a Sovereign God who overcomes everything we may face. This is a blessed assurance we have when we accept Jesus Christ as our Saviour and Lord. Psalm 139 Job 42:2 Daniel 3:16-18 Romans 8:38-39 Revelation 21:1-7Av Jason Shaw
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108: 04-02-2024 Am I my brother's keeper?
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One definition that we could use for the anger that Jesus warns us of is: 'an anger that cherishes resentment and does not want reconciliation.' While we strive to rid ourselves of such heart attitudes, Jesus has not left us as orphans - he has sent the Holy Spirit to dwell in us and to replace our sinful heart attitudes with the fruit of the Spiri…
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107: 28-01-2024 The Fulfillment Of The Law And Our Attitude
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So far in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus has described what the character of a believer should be (the Beatitudes), the function of the believer (salt and light) and now Jesus teaches the foundations for those inner qualities (our attitudes). To introduce this he focuses on the purpose of the Law - God's Word. Today we consider moving from the Beat…
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106: 21-01-2024 Who is your Captain?
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Who is your Captain? John 10:10, Ephesians 2:10, Matthew 6:19-21 & 24, Exodus 20:3, Proverbs 27:9Av Kevin Andrews
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105: 14-01-2024 Who Do You Say I Am?
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Pearls cast before swine. What is sacred given to dogs. The interface between culture (world view) and faith. Jeremiah 7:1-10 Matthew 7:1-6Av John Jensen
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104: 07-01-2024 Ruth’s Courage & Gods Providence In Our Suffering
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Ruth's Courage & Gods Providence in our suffering. Ruth 1:1-22Av Alistair McNaughton
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103: 31-12-2023 New Year’s Eve Message 2023
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1. Spending time with God puts things in perspective 2. Spending time with God Refuels us 3. Being connected to God helps us make the right calls in life. Matthew 14:1-23Av Alistair McNaughton
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102: 25-12-2023 Christmas Day 2023
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Along with the call to reflect on who Jesus is, we are also called to respond to Him. The responses of the shepherds, Simeon, Anna and the Magi are all recorded in the Bible. How will you respond to Jesus Christ today? Isaiah 9:1-7Av Jason Shaw
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101: 24-12-2023 How Do You Picture Jesus? (Christmas Eve 2023)
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How do you picture Jesus Christ? At this season we obviously picture infant Jesus lying in a manger. But he is so much more than just this. As we reflect on the Christmas season, so too reflect on how God reveals His son, Jesus Christ throughout history and to you personally today. Isaiah 9:1-7Av Jason Shaw
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