The Word from St. Andrews

To be led by God's commands we should be lead into His love and into Jesus' perseverance.

God forgives us of our confessed sins. This calls us to forgive others. Our forgiveness should empower us to forgive others.

Discipleship is an individual commitment involving actions that lead us to experiencing God’s victories.

Are we spending the patience of God wisely? Every day is an opportunity to know repentance and redirect our lives to holy living closer to Him. This is spending God’s time wisely.

God is outside time and space, but we see in our time is His timeliness, timelessness, and his ability to bring fullness to our time.

Freedom in Christ leads us to share Him with one another in His Body, share Him with those who are lost and find our lives being transformed more and more in His glory.

We live in a secondhand world which needs fathers who have a firsthand faith. Jesus demands a firsthand faith in Him, shared firsthand and benefited firsthand in fellowship with others in Christ.

We can’t be perfect, but Christ makes us perfect. Paul said he would boast about his weaknesses. It is what we do with our imperfections that makes us better for being imperfect. We sometimes give in to our imperfections which keeps us from fulfilling our potential, but our weaknesses are God’s opportunity to give us His strength and others in Christ can help us.

We can live with the expectation that Jesus has more for us. Let’s expect something from God each day; expect the Holy Spirit to lead us; and expect the unexpected.

We welcome interim Pastor Lawrence Dennis as he shares his Mother's Day sermon. Moses' mother applied faith, hope, and love to give him the best chance she could of living in God's hands... By faith she gave up Moses, by giving him up, she was able to love him when he was given back to her to nurse and raise; and her hopes for him came to fruition when he led God's people out of Eg...

Pastor Dee asked one of his friends and ministry mentors how many messages he had on file. His friend replied, "I have scores of sermons, but only one message." Every life has a message we're delivering to the world each day. In his final sermon before retirement, Pastor Dee shared what he hopes the message of his life in ministry has been and challenge us to live a message that poin...

As we dive in Philippians, we learn about the character of God. As His children, it is important to be like Him, and follow His example. Sunday, we learned just a few of the ways that we can follow His example in humility.

No one needs convincing that life is difficult at best. Those who've lost someone they love know that death is a terrible enemy. But the resurrection of Jesus gives those who know and trust Him a new identity and a living hope.  Sunday, we celebrated how, for "Easter People," everything is changed.

A centurion who witnessed Jesus’ death was so moved by what he saw and heard that he decided Jesus was, in fact, God’s Son. What can we see at the cross of Jesus that will stir our hearts to faith and lead us to confess him as God’s Son? Sunday, we looked through the eyes of this Roman soldier that we, too, may be changed by the cross.

What changed Judas from a devoted follower of Jesus to a betrayer who led Jesus’ enemies to him to arrest him and put him to death? Sunday, as we continued our study of people changed by the cross, we saw that Judas betrayed Christ because he couldn’t accept the cross as God’s way to save lost humanity. Rejecting the cross will lead us to betray Jesus, too.

Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea believed in Jesus but followed him secretly and in silence because they feared rejection by their people. But after Jesus died, these two men boldly step forward and ask to be allowed to care for Jesus’ body. What changed them? Sunday, we considered how seeing the cross brought these men, and can bring us, out of the shadows and into Christ’s service.

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" We read that verse and think that it is directed to atheists. In fact, this warning is for those who may believe God exists, but that He doesn't matter in their lives. Sunday, we explored the faith of a fool and seek the wisdom that leads us to honor God in all things.

Christians aren’t called to enjoy hardship, but we are invited to find joy in what God can do for us through hardship. As we continue our study of ways Christians can be transformed, we will see how remembering God’s presence and seeking His purpose will change the way that we experience trials when they come.

The attitude and experience of thankfulness transforms the believer's life. "Giving thanks in all things" opens our eyes to see good and to see God at work. That is why thankfulness in all things is God's will for us in Christ Jesus. Sunday, we explored how thankfulness restores our vision of God's presence and work in our lives and in the world.

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). For better or worse, your thoughts shape your life. Paul says that an essential part of Christian transformation is the “renewal” of our minds. Honoring Christ in how we see our lives, approach our problems, resolve our differences, and recognize our blessings will bring a more obedient and more abundant life.

When you come to church, which are you more likely to leave at home; your cell phone or your Bible? The Bible has become, for many, a book on the shelf rather than a transforming power at work in our lives. Sunday, we explored approaches to Bible study that will help you experience the life-changing power of God’s Word.

Nicodemus came to Jesus, looking for the way to make his spiritual life complete. Jesus shocked him by saying that his life couldn’t be fixed; he needed to begin a new life transformed by God’s grace. We, too, must be transformed by the gospel. The answer, Jesus says, is not what we do for God, but what we allow Him to do for us.

Daniel and his friends were pressured to do something wrong, worship a golden idol, but chose to stand strong in their faith and their loyalty to God. Their example can teach us much about standing strong in our day.

Coping with illness requires the sufferer and those who love them to accept some things they cannot change. But, in the words of the Serenity Prayer, we can also claim the courage needed to change the things we can. Sunday, Pastor Dee shared how this discovery changed his life and his family.

Thanksgiving is a time to remember our many blessings, but it's also a time to rediscover the purpose of the good things God gives us. Sunday, as he shared some family Thanksgiving memories, Pastor Dee challenged us to see that our blessings are not fragile treasures to be guarded in a china cabinet as much as they are tools to be put to work in God's kingdom.