The Word from St. Andrews

Jesus says that you and I must enter His kingdom as children. What we need to know most about God, we probably learned as children through the songs of the faith we were taught. Sunday morning, Pastor Dee lead us in singing some of those childhood songs and remembering the great truths they teach us about being God’s children.

When Phillip accepted Jesus’ invitation to follow him, Philip hurried to find his friend, Nathanael, to invite him to meet Jesus, too. Nathanael had questions and doubts about Jesus, but Philip offered him a simple invitation, “come and see.” Sunday was Friend Day. Pastor Dee shared the story of Philip and Nathanael and invite everyone to lay aside their questions and doubts and “come and see” Jes...

God speaks to us through the simple beautiful moments of life. Sunday, Pastor Dee shared an experience God used to teach him how and why Christians help others find the place where they can see Jesus for themselves and know that He is coming to them in love.

The Apostle Andrew had a gift for bringing people to Jesus. The New Testament gives us three clear examples of him doing this. Sunday morning, Pastor Dee shared what he believes to be our church’s most important step forward; for each of us to cultivate an “Andrew” lifestyle, creating and seizing opportunities to bring others in touch with our faith and our church.

People will often say “That’s my song” when they enjoy a song’s melody or connect to its message, but you have a song in a deeper spiritual sense.  Your life has a message and a melody that fills you with joy or sadness and touches all of your relationships.  Sunday morning, Pastor Dee lead us in hearing our songs and asking God to make it new.  

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—t...

Paul writes that Jesus “has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility.” Still, in our hearts and our world, many barriers divide us. For Jesus’ sake, they must come down. Sunday, as we observed World Communion Sunday, we remembered that Christ came to make us one and to call us to join Him in tearing barriers down.

Welcome to the Word from St. Andrews, the weekly sermon podcast from St. Andrews Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina.