Andy B Podcasts and Stuff

Send us Fan Mail In his first video of Series 4, this is more of a special Edition Andy B video! With all that has been happening recently, Andy B has been finding sleep rather elusive! Afghanistan; vaccination passports; President Biden; forced Covid vaccinations for under 12s in Finland; global temperature fluctuations being used for political control and financial gain; China and Taiwan; a forc...

Send us Fan Mail In his first video of Series 4, this is more of a special Edition Andy B video! With all that has been happening recently, Andy B has been finding sleep rather elusive! Afghanistan; vaccination passports; President Biden; forced Covid vaccinations for under 12s in Finland; global temperature fluctuations being used for political control and financial gain; China and Taiwan; a forc...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve spent most of my adult, working life, wearing a hard hat, glove and steel toe capped boots. Because I love my head and my toes and wish to keep them the way they should be. I banged my head, pretty badly, early on – because I thought hard hats were stupid and annoying and uncomfortable. I had a very bad head for a while after that encounter! And I also discovered that standin...

Send us Fan Mail If you think of a spring, they’re fitted everywhere! From DVD players to cars, from bicycle derailleurs to pens and staplers, from watches to door handles! We can find springs, in one form or another, almost everywhere. And they have a really simple job – to make something move in a predictable way. On my bike, the part I fitted has a huge spring which forces the derailleur to be...

Send us Fan Mail We all have experiences in life which can be super helpful for ourselves, and the people we come into contact with. One assembly I remember vividly contained this question – would you rather see an older doctor who was covered in blood and muck, but who was very experienced. Or a young doctor, fresh out of college, who was wall presented. I can’t speak for my peers, but give me th...

Send us Fan Mail This is Part 3, of a 3-part Teaching series on Prayer and Faith. With discussion around Fish and Chips, Sweet and Sour Sauce and Gloves hands, Andy B does his usual and takes ordinary, every day objects and situations, and helps us dig deeper into the basics of how Faith and Prayer work together. With a very strong reminder, and warning - from the book of James - about why we need...

Send us Fan Mail How often do we learn to become comfortable with the uncomfortable?  Pain is a brilliantly designed tool, that God gave to us for our own protection! It’s been said that if we didn’t feel pain when a stone got in our shoe, we’d keep going until our feet had been permanently damaged – that pain is a warning that we need to do something. But we can, often so very slowly, become accu...

Send us Fan Mail We all know the game spot the difference. Sometimes those differences can be so subtle, they can appear almost identical. But look long enough, and you’ll start to see the difference. The longer you look at the two images, the more they can look the same. But if we compare to just one of them, those differences start to stand out! It’s like with spotting counterfeit money – we che...

Send us Fan Mail Andy B starts a 6 part series of Andy B 2 Minute Videos, all because he replaced a bike part, and God revealed many ways in which this part can teach all of us about life! Andy B’s mountain bike came second hand, and happens to have had the wrong part fitted. For 6 years Andy B struggled with issues, before finally replacing this one little part. It’s an important part for sure, b...

Send us Fan Mail This is Part 2, of a 3-part Teaching series on Prayer and Faith. Starting out the real basics of Prayer, Andy B takes a good look at what Prayer is. He also looks at when we should pray, how we should pray. He also answers the question of what we can pray! Returning to the most simplest forms of prayer – conversation – Andy B seeks to show us how prayer is a gift from God, that Go...

Send us Fan Mail This is Part 1, of a 3-part Teaching series on Prayer and Faith. With discussion around Fish and Chips, Sweet and Sour Sauce and Gloves hands, Andy B does his usual and takes ordinary, every day objects and situations, and helps us dig deeper into the basics of how Faith and Prayer work together. With a very strong reminder, and warning – from the book of James – about why we need...

Send us Fan Mail Returning home after a mountain bike ride, Andy B approached a roundabout. We love these in the UK (it seems). Simply put, you come to a junction, with a circle in the middle. You give way to the right, and proceed carefully. But they’re super simple to use! Indicate on your approach, and as long as nothing comes from your right, you have right of way (and of course, the British d...

Send us Fan Mail Life is full of ups and downs. Some days we can fly along, and others it’s like were tasked with stirring treacle, with an oversized paddle, on a cold day! But sometimes, flying isn’t helpful. And sometimes that treacle simply needs stirring! So how do know when we’re walking in our own strength, not God’s? And how do we know when something that seems easy, is actually what God is...

Send us Fan Mail Heat can do funny things to us. But so can our memories! How easily can we forget how good we may have been at something, because our failures always shout louder don’t they? When we’re hot we need to drink more. But Andy B was struggling with the current heat wave until his wife – Jo – reminded him of what he used to be able to do in the heat! Thank God for great friends who can...

Send us Fan Mail A wonderful friend of Andy B – Olly, from Nigeria – posted a really funny look at how Africans and Nigerians pray, against how the rest of the world prays. As funny as it is, it also should make all Christians a little uncomfortable because doesn’t it wonderfully illustrate how we can come to God ourselves? We come at God, reminding Him of His failings; how God has not done what w...

Send us Fan Mail Modern Christianity has skewed how we see God and the devil. It has skewed God into some sort of best mate or pal. And we absolutely should see God as always approachable. But we should do so, seeing Him with the respect we’d have for an earthly father, than just a mate. In the same way, we’ve seen modern Christianity skew our perspective on our enemy - the devil.; that we somehow...

Send us Fan Mail Go Deeper with Andy B, as he talks about how to be flexible. He looks at the importance of being flexible physically, and how that relates to being flexible spiritually. Andy B also touches on skyscrapers. Just as they must be not only strong, but flexible, otherwise they would simply break with earthquakes, so we must be flexible, and able to adapt to constantly shifting circumst...

Send us Fan Mail God made us in His image. And God is emotional – just look at the life of Jesus, who is God, and you see the perfect Man, with emotions! So emotions and feelings, clearly, are how Go made us to be! But how much credence should we give to our feelings and emotions? Ever walked out your front door feeling on top of the world, to find you have a flat tyre? Your mood changes, and you’...

Send us Fan Mail We get reminders to renew our house insurance, our car insurance, our breakdown cover and host of other things. But do we put as much effort into ensuring our car doesn’t suddenly become illegal to drive on the road, or let our house insurance run out ; if we’re renting in the UK this is something we can’t, not, have. Time with God can be so easily squeezed out of our days due to...

Send us Fan Mail Andy B was having a little quiet time with God, and was reading Isaiah 66. In the second verse of this scripture, God tells us the sort of people He is looking to. This comes just after we’re reminded of how God made the universe and everything in it, during the first 144 hours (6 days) of the universe. But, as spectacular as all of that is, and all of creation - that is nothing,...

Send us Fan Mail As Christians - when we pray - are we praying to a loving, Father God who desires us to spend time with Him? Or do we prefer to pray using a non-permanent pen, just in case we got our prayer wrong and don’t want to look foolish. When we’re praying, as David Wilkerson wonderful pointed out and illustrated in his book “The Cross and The Switchblade” when we pray we should pray out l...

Send us Fan Mail Go Deeper with Andy B, who talks about ‘the warm up’ in relation to church and that uncommonly used word “edification”. He looks at the idea of going to church, not to be served and to ‘consume’, but to edify fellow Believers, just as it says in our Scripture, 1 Corinthians 14:26. We wouldn’t go the gym and expect to get fit by spectating. In the same way, we shouldn’t got to chur...

Send us Fan Mail Doing what God asks us to do can often start out really exciting. But are we doing it to be liked, or get likes or more downloads? Or are we serving God, out of obedience and trust? If we’re serving God we’ll always get what is needed to do what God is asking of us. From his own experience, Andy B can recount many times that ‘that thing we need’ invariably comes much later than we...

Send us Fan Mail Some days and weeks can be easier than others. Sometimes, we can hit Tuesday morning and feel like the end of our working week is further than we can manage. But God reminds, us repeatedly, that when we put our hands and lives in His, we’ll always what we need, to accomplish what He desires for us to accomplish – when we walk and work with Him Andy B Support the show Keep in Touch...

Send us Fan Mail We’ve recently had to change the software we use to edit the audio on everything we do! It was a bit of a shock to think I’d have to unlearn a bunch of stuff, in order to use something new. And, of course, it meant finding something new………. In life, as with this software issue, things can come up which cause us issues. They may be fairly small issues – like audio editing software!...