Andy B Podcasts and Stuff

Send us Fan Mail Andy B starts this week’s GoDeeper with a prime example of hypocrisy, in which someone balances precariously on a ladder which is balancing on two tables and says, “don’t do this at home.”  He draws our attention to the Pharisees of the Bible who were very hypocritical, so much so that Jesus called them ‘white-washed tombs’. They knew the law like the backs of their hands but did...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve finished another book writing project. I’m pretty thrilled about it, but when I say I’ve finished, that’s just the initial editing. Next up is my middle son – Nathan – who follows behind me cleaning up any spelling mistakes or grammar issues. He’s a star! After that it’s simply down to finalising the cover while waiting for the foreword being written by a friend, set a date f...

Send us Fan Mail Every day is a learning day! And I learned that you can be made to learn the same thing over and over! Because, today, I learned that it can be too early to count your chickens. Again! Having struggled with fitting a replacement TV to our supposed universal TV stand, I thought I had sorted the issue with being unable to fit cables in the back - due to the way the universal TV stan...

Send us Fan Mail Every day is a learning day! We saw some friends recently who gave us a TV they no longer needed. It’s bigger than the one we have, so we were really grateful for such a kind gift. And, at home, we have a universal flat screen stand – which we knew could handle the job of holding up the TV. I don’t know about you but I’ve recently come to the conclusion that the something designed...

Send us Fan Mail Our studio camera is great! The quality is outstanding, and it can even record 4k video should we want to. When setting it up I popped in an SD memory Card I had kept for a while in a drawer. I figured it’d work no problem! But, with the best will in the world, there’s so much data our camera can hold onto while waiting to write data (video) to the memory card in it’s side. And, a...

Send us Fan Mail Andy B begins GoDeeper by explaining the idea of a tactical retreat when it comes to the military. He adds that making a tactical retreat is more deliberate than just retreating.  Andy then gives multiple examples of Jesus making tactical retreats, often to pray, but on a few occasions, he retreated to simply get out of harm’s way. Jesus’ example is obviously helpful to try to imi...

Send us Fan Mail We’re enjoying the mature garden we’ve inherited with our home. It’s stunning to see all sorts of flowers, bushes and wildlife taking shelter in the various places that such a garden creates. Our house sits in ¼ acre, so there is plenty of it! We’ve spent time, recently, mowing the grass, and trimming the hedges  - our home is almost completely hedged in by hedges, which we love!...

Send us Fan Mail In the garden, to one side of our home, sits a bush. It has the most stunning, beautiful, purple flowers, that literally can take your breath away, such is the colour. But that’s only half the story. Because the other half of this same bush is looking rather barren and dead. In our lives we often need pruning to keep us looking at our best – like having a hair cut. It keeps us loo...

Send us Fan Mail Holidays. From the south of France to Alaska, from Venezuala to New Zealand, people like holidays, and we all need downtime, one way or another,  to help recharge those batteries so we can serve God better. Do you see your holiday as time for you? Or do see holiday as an opportunity to give to God in a different way? If you are able to enjoy some annual leave, remember that the sk...

Send us Fan Mail Andy B unpacks this week’s theme by first defining what we mean by the expression: “If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got.” He further explains taking risks with examples of stepping out in faith from his own life. In addition, he gives an example from Bear Grylls climbing Mount Everest.  Andy B also looks at some of the risks Benaiah...

Send us Fan Mail Whenever Jo needs to be in the office for just a few hours I take the opportunity to take her in. We get some time together, and I can get some shopping done. With 5 of us in the house, there’s always more food shopping to be done! As a family we’ve been so blessed by two gifts of money, from two very different people, who have wanted to partner with us in what we’re doing. This h...

Send us Fan Mail Through life things are always changing around us. Whether it’s the latest development in mobile phones or the most recent, progressive opinion on what society should look like, there are always these shifts around us that we need to pay attention and deal with. Sometimes it is accepting those changes – like getting old. All the plastic surgery in the world can’t increase your lif...

Send us Fan Mail Feelings come and go. They can be like the changing of the winds at the seaside and, if we let them, they’ll blow us round in circles. Feelings are a great way of measuring our emotions. They act as a thermometer for our body. But, feelings can lie too! I’ve used this illustration many times, but it is so true: you can eat a pudding, following a huge meal, but then feel ill becaus...

Send us Fan Mail We might change the wallpaper or some paint to refresh a room. It can change our mood and lift that room so we want to spend more time with it. From haircuts to wallpaper, and cars to our favourite restaurant, things change. Sometimes, the simplest things can make something appear entirely new and different. In our lives as Christians it can beneficial to refresh our Christin fait...

Send us Fan Mail Ever found yourself wondering around the house looking for something you already have in your hand? Or perhaps you put the milk in the cupboard and the tea bags in the fridge? Now, of course I’ve never done those things myself. I’m just using the examples a friend told me about. We all can have moments when we simply can’t get our head in the game. We are going through our day wit...

Send us Fan Mail #GoDeeper Andy B delves deeper into this week’s theme from the angle of knowing who we are in Christ, i.e., knowing that we are free from our sins. He unpacks Psalm 139:23 by pointing out that being a Christian not only involves God encouraging us but also involves God cleaning out all the sin in our lives. Andy B also talks about how a rock climber training for a really difficult...

Send us Fan Mail When we spend too long staring at a computer screen we can end up being a little too deep in the Virtual World. It’s easy to be absorbed into what is virtual, missing the reality of the Real World. Ever been watching your washing on the line, getting soaked by a downpour - while looking at an app on your phone that ells you there is 0% chance of rain that day? Maybe that’s just me...

Send us Fan Mail #GoDeeper Andy B unravels this week’s theme with some examples of adapting well and adapting poorly. He explains how witnessing to French people in German would not work, because they wouldn’t understand you. He looks at the idea of joining in the bad activities of others in order to witness to them.  This, of course, is wrong, because God will never command us to sin. He challeng...

Send us Fan Mail Andy B begins this week’s episode of Endurance by first explaining what exactly we mean by the mundane with the emoji “meh.” He goes on to compare short-term happiness with the eternal joy of the Lord. Short-term happiness, or pleasure, obviously doesn’t last and could become a bit of an addiction. He touches on Ecclesiastes, the Psalms, and 1 Thessalonians as he walks us through...

Send us Fan Mail On my cycle today I ended up at the coast. It’s a beautiful, if rather barren place. But I loved it. The wind was hitting my face. The sound of the waves incredibly relaxing crashing on each other, or the shore below me. It was wonderful – I even met some friendly who each made a point of saying good morning. I munched on some fig rolls, a few energy tablets, and drank some water,...

Send us Fan Mail If you buy something in a concentrated form, they you need to add water, usually, in order to make it user friendly. From screen wash for our cars to squashes in our kitchens and washing up liquid, we routinely buy things that need to be watered down to use. The obvious advantage is that, just like Ikea, furniture that arrives flat packed, you can transport more of the end product...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes, the simplest solutions are the best – when something electronic freezes, hangs or stops working, turn it off an on again is often the simplest way to help it reset and start working again. As a family we share a digital calendar and a digital to do list. It’s a great way of us each knowing what the others are doing, and helps us to stay on top of things like shopping li...

Send us Fan Mail Music. It can move in pretty amazing ways, and God designed, and hand made us, to be able to enjoy music. Vinyl records were once at the height of technology for listening to music at home. Later CDs took over, and now digital music is streamed to us in better quality than those discs we used to play on record players. With advancing technology we can see improvements. But I’m alw...

Send us Fan Mail A friend in the US sent me a photo from her garden. And it struck me just how much the old vegetation had protected the new flowers growing, because the old had literally covered over the new, during the winter. With Easter just a week away at the time of writing this theme of old becoming new, is very much on my mind! I’m reminded how the terrible eruption of Mount Saint Helens r...

Send us Fan Mail While being the awesome husband I am, I kindly drove jo to work again. It meant I could do some shopping without making a second trip, and we could some time together in the car. She got to have a couple of hours in the office and come home again. By the time I’d got in the car, Jo had already pressed the button to raise the electric garage. We drove out the garage and started our...