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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167: 23-03-2025 The Jesus Manifesto (Part 31) "God's precious gifts to you
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23:24Matthew 7 verse 6 which is a pair of parallel proverbs, at first glance seems to stand alone and just tacked in there between all the other passages. Yet, on closer viewing this verse could be viewed as a summary of a number points Jesus makes in his Sermon on the Mount. If you were to reread Chapter 6 you might observe various verses where Jesus t…
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166: 16-03-2025 The Jesus Manifesto (Part 30) The Problem with Judging
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25:14Only God knows the motives of a person and therefore “the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart'” (1 Samuel 16:7). The problem with our means of judging others is that we so often do this through the lens of our pride and prejudice. This has always been the case throughout history. J…
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165: 09-03-2025 The Jesus Manifesto (Part 29) Jesus' Eight Cures For Anxiety
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25:30We all wrestle with anxiety—whether it’s big worries that shake us or the small, nagging ones that add up over time. But Jesus gives us eight reasons not to be anxious. He tells us: Life is more than food and clothing. Look at the birds—they don’t store food, yet God feeds them. Worrying won’t add a single hour to your life. God clothes the lilies …
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164: 02-03-2025 The Jesus Manifesto (Part 28) Jesus the Supreme Treasure
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25:46We live in a world full of distractions, constantly pulling our hearts in different directions. But Jesus calls us to set our hearts on things that are eternal, filled with light, and worthy of our devotion (Matthew 6:19-24). Earthly treasures—money, status, achievements—fade away. But the surpassing worth of knowing Christ lasts forever (Philippia…
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163: 23-02-2025 The Jesus Manifesto (Part 27) The unseen acts of faith are the most revealing of our spiritual health
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22:11This morning’s message challenges us to examine not only what we do, but the motives behind our actions. In today’s talk, we explore Jesus’ teaching from Matthew 6:16-18—a call to practice our faith quietly and sincerely. Instead of seeking the fleeting applause of others, Jesus invites us to focus on the unseen acts of faith that truly reveal the …
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162: 16-02-2025 The Jesus Manifesto (Part 26) Rescue us from the evil one
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24:44Rescue us from the evil one - Mathew 6:9-13 & Acts 16:16-24Af Alistair McNaughton
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161: 09-02-2025 The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
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31:54This sermon unpacks the parable of the vineyard workers to reveal the radical nature of grace in God’s kingdom. It challenges cultural understandings of fairness, success, and meaning, contrasting them with God’s unearned generosity and ultimate authority. Through Jesus, we are offered a new vision for life: one under God’s reign where purpose, jus…
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160: 02-02-2025 The Jesus Manifesto (Part 25) Temptation and superior Joy
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27:56Temptation and superior Joy Mathew 6:9-13Af St Andrews Church Geraldine
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159: 26-01-2025 The Jesus Manifesto (Part 24) From Hard Hearts to Open Hands: Living out the Forgiveness We Receive
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28:53From Hard Hearts to Open Hands: Living out the Forgiveness We Receive Luke 15:11-32, Matthew 18:21-35 & Mathew 6:9-13Af Alistair McNaughton
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158: 19-01-2025 The Jesus Manifesto (Part 23) Daily Bread for Daily Troubles
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26:40Grace for the Grind - God meets us in the daily burdens of life. Dependence in the Desert - Daily prayer for daily needs reflects trust in God’s provision in our Journeys through the wilderness of life. Calm in the Chaos - Trusting in God’s care brings freedom from life’s relentless worries. Phil 4:6-7, 2 Cor 4:8-9 & Mat 6:9-13…
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157: 12-01-2025 Blessings and Curses.
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33:22Blessings and Curses.Af St Andrews Church Geraldine
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156: 05-01-2025 Three Invitations For A Year Of Purpose And Meaning
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30:18Mark 8:30-36Af Alistair McNaughton
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155: 29-12-2024 What Do I Want to Get Out of Church?
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32:43All too often we approach church services with this attitude, so this Sunday we’ll consider being church in the light of the Great Commandment to love God and others, and in the light of St Andrew's mission statement to Glorify God, Grow, and Go. Jn 17:20-26, 1 Cor 12:12-28, Col 3:12-17Af Margaret van Ginkel
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154: 22-12-2024 The Jesus Manifesto (Part 22) A kingdom that has come and is yet to come
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22:09When we pray "your kingdom come, your will be done" do we understand the fullness of those words? It is more than just a hope that we see the world become a better place. It is a prayer that Jesus would come soon and that his reign on earth (the Millennium of peace) would begin God's complete reign on earth as it should be, and as it is in heaven. …
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153: 15-12-2024 The Jesus Manifesto (Part 21) Bringing Honour to God's Name
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18:14The Lord's Prayer is the centrepiece of the Sermon of the Mount. There are endless tangents of approach and we will always learn more about prayer and God everytime we study these verses. It begins with a focus on God, who he is in relation to us and our praise that he retains the honour that he deserves. The four living creatures around the throne…
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152: 08-12-2024 The Jesus Manifesto (Part 20) The Sincerity Of Our Prayers
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28:51God's story shows a range of individuals who pray with sincerity to God: Moses, Hannah, Elijah, Hezekiah, the Disciples and also recorded, is Jesus' prayer for you and me (John 17). In his sermon on the Mount, Jesus warns about hypocritical prayers - prayers for show rather than spoken with sincerity to God. Prayer had become a cultural thing to ma…
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151: 01-12-2024 The Jesus Manifesto (Part 19) The Right Heart Attitude
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27:17Chapter 5 of Matthew deals with Jesus explaining God's deeper meaning to the Law. Now as we begin Chapter 6 we hear Jesus explaining how we should practice the Law - and that it requires the right heart attitude. When giving to those in need, in the name of Jesus, it is better to have God's eyes on us, and turn our eyes, not just inwardly to our ow…
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150: 24-11-2024: Spirit Filled Church
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34:30What 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-based, Christ-focused life…
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149: 17-11-2024 "Christ Focused Church"
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23:28This 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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28:39Today, 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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27:23God is in control so we ought to be humble because he is the only thing worth glorifying Romans 11:33-36Af Ash Scott
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146: 27-10-2024 Romans (Part 72) Divine reversal
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29:58Romans 11: 28-32 & Matthew 20:1-16Af 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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21:20In 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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21:38As 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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23:53Jealousy, 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 21:33-46Af Alistair McNaughton
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141: 22-09-2024 What Race
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33:00What Race 1 Corinthians 9:24-27Af St Andrews Church Geraldine
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140: 15-09-2024 Father Heart of God
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33:52Chris 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 1:3Af Chris Gore
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139: 08-09-2024 Romans (Part 67) The Divine Hardening
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25:17In 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 11:7-10Af Alistair McNaughton
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138: 01-09-2024 Romans (Part 66) The Remnant
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27:42In 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 versesAf Alistair McNaughton
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137: 25-08-2024 Romans (Part 65) Ears To Hear
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20:55Even 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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16:36Treasures from Josephs story Genesis 37: 1-11, Genesis 39:2-6, Genesis 40: 1-4, Genesis 41: 16 & Genesis 41: 32Af 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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35:11Today 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 10:5-20Af Alistair McNaughton
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134: 04-08-2024 Romans (Part 63) Doing or Done
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33:33Romans 10:5-13 Deuteronomy 30:11-20Af Alistair McNaughton
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133: 28-07-2024 Romans (Part 62) Jesus, The Culmination Of The Law
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29:07Today 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 10:1-18Af Alistair McNaughton
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132: 21-07-2024 Romans (Part 61) Saved through Christ
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22:11Paul 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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20:48Paul 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 10:9-10Af Jason Shaw
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130: 07-07-2024 Romans (Part 59) The Raising and lowering of Kings
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22:22The Raising and lowering of Kings Romans 9:17-23Af Alistair McNaughton
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129: 30-06-2024 Leaders In The Church
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24:30Today 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, 4:14-16Af Alistair McNaughton
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128: 23-06-2024 Chosen
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46:04Chosen Isaiah 42:1-4, Colossians 3:12-14 & James 2:1-7Af 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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26:01In 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 25:19-34Af Alistair McNaughton
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126: 09-06-2024 Voice of the Martyrs
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33:42Acts 12v1-16Af 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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32:28The 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 25:19-34Af Alistair McNaughton
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124: 26-05-2024 Romans (Part 56) Grace not Race
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24:13This 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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28:01In 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 9:4-5Af 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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24:52Today 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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24:54At 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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37:12The 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, 5:11-14Af Margaret van Ginkel
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119: 21-04-2024 Saved To Pursue Holiness
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24:17In 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 5:1-20Af Alistair McNaughton
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118: 14-04-2024 From Duty To Devotion
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18:37This 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.Af Alistair McNaughton
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