Andy B Podcasts and Stuff

Send us Fan Mail In order to kickstart this week’s theme Andy B gives some real-life examples of inexperienced people thinking they know better than those with experience, reminding us of the downsides of being proud. He provides reasons for why humility is such a good thing to reach for, and why pride and arrogance are not such good things to reach for. He talks about truck drivers, fact-checkers...

Send us Fan Mail It’s easy to be bamboozled by people telling us their truth. And we’ve seen, during COVID, media sources confuse everybody by spreading their own opinions, while calling their opinions fact and, at the same time, deleting and blocking any, and all, comments that they simply didn’t like. The truth has been belittled to opinions, just shouted ever louder! MSM means Main Stream Media...

Send us Fan Mail We all like to think we’re special and unique. And, in many ways, we truly are. But, we’re gonna have issues when we think that our specific uniqueness is somehow superior to that of someone else. You may not be in to Star Trek. But, whether you are not, there is a fascinating point worth noting from the Mission Statement of the United Federation of Planets, of which earth is a pa...

Send us Fan Mail It’s easy to shut a door, or close a window, without it actually working.  My grandfather once, because he was so busy concentrating on leaving for a holiday, actually was in a taxi, being driven to the airport, when he realised he had lost his keys. When the taxi had popped back for him, he found the keys! They were in the front door, with the door wide open. It’s easy to think w...

Send us Fan Mail Andy B 2 Minute Video, Fires, Vents and Fuel S4, E37 Log Burners are great for romantic nights, or just to warm the room. However, it isn’t always quite as simple as just throwing some wood inside and chucking in a match! You’ve got make sure the wood is dry – in the UK it is really frowned upon to use wet wood in a fire in a home. You’ve also got to think about using any vents on...

Send us Fan Mail Go Deeper with Andy B, as he talks about going back to basics. Andy mentions supermarkets’ basic items ranges as he looks at how the word ‘basic’ means different things to different people. He refers to the life of a character in the film called The 100-foot Journey, as a means of demonstrating how important it is to go back to basics at times. He looks at John 3:16, default posit...

Send us Fan Mail Pancakes are a great way of having fun while you cook AND eat. And we like them a lot in the BerryBunch household! We all take part in both sides of the process, but, of course, the ending – and eating – is always the more popular. And that’s just Andy and Jo! Sometimes it’s good not to fiddle with things – like painting. Paint over the spot too many times, and you ruin your work....

Send us Fan Mail Instructions manuals – they tell us so much, about so many things. Most of which, of course, we ignore because, well, we don’t need those functions. Until we do. Then we wonder where the manual went, or spend endless amounts of time finding out which set of numbers is the model number, so we can find a manual online. Only to find that still isn’t the model number, until we find th...

Send us Fan Mail Jo saw a sign that stated “No Ball Games”. And, she thought, well that doesn’t sound like much fun. So, she has become our first guest for an Andy B 2 Minute Video. Jo takes us through what the sign can mean, whether it means anything, and how it can make us feel! So, have you seen any signs that seem to have the goal of spoiling simple fun? Just a thought… Andy B Support the show...

Send us Fan Mail Andy’s always been careful with mobiles phones (cell phones) and his current phone has - like so many before it - got a screen protector to protect the phone’s screen from scratches, chips or cracks. But, ever since he added his current protector, it’s been on a little wonky. Sure, it’s been put on straight, but it just isn’t centred. Which has irked him quite a bit! Sometimes thi...

Send us Fan Mail Sunflowers always make me smile. They always do! There is something truly happy about a sunflower. And much like sunflowers, we need to try and track the sun. In our case, the Son of God. Little but of wordplay, but you get the idea. Because we can sometimes feel like God has gone cold either on us, or at us. Either way, we’re wrong – if you’re feeling like you’ve lost the warmth...

Send us Fan Mail If you have ever played Snakes and Ladders it is a super simple game. Shake your dice, move the number of spaces you’re told to move and the basic goal is to never land on a snake! Ladders help you jump up the game, to get nearer to the end (first one to the end wins!). But, land on a snake, and it takes you back the way you’ve just come. But, I wonder if we sometimes thank that G...

Send us Fan Mail Andy B is a champion multi-tasker. When you look after children, or the home, it’s just something you become quite good at!  You also get very good at it, when operating a lorry mounted crane with 7 controls – and you’re using 5 of them at the same time – and while offloading an abnormally large item, with pedestrians who seem to be rushing to their own end, and ignoring any numbe...

Send us Fan Mail The word ‘change’ can often conjure up our worst nightmares. It means letting go of things. And learning new things. It means we won’t be able to use that remote control from memory – we’ll have to stop and look for the buttons we want, that are no longer there, because now they’re in a different position, have a different shape and have a different word – so we walk over to the T...

Send us Fan Mail Sitting in my lounge one morning, and I could see lovely, beautiful, skies out of one window. Turn my head, and a window on the other side of the house only showed dark, ominous looking clouds. And life can be like that. Depending on where we’re looking, or even how we’re looking at it, things can appear very different based on our perspective. And we can choose how we wish to see...

Send us Fan Mail WiFi networks have become such an important part of all our lives, whether we’re even aware of that fact or not. It doesn’t matter whether you make use of them – they, just, are! It can be really tough finding a good network though, so you can ‘get online’. There can be problems with security – with open (and often, free) networks; download speeds determined by location, how many...

Send us Fan Mail It’s been a while since a couple of things happened.  The first is Andy seeing his own face, without a beard.  The second is filming any new material for the BerryBunch. With a house move completed successfully, and the BerryBunch Studio, Mk. 3 up and running, and Andy was stroking his beard and pondering how he had arrived at a place where he could actually stroke his own beard!!...

Send us Fan Mail Life can be full of challenges! Sometimes it is the difficulty of making, what should be, a really simple decision. But, with age, comes wisdom. And with wisdom comes arrogance. Without God’s intervention, we’d be doing life on our own. Wait, don’t we do that anyway? The good news for those of us who love Jesus, is that when He died, rose and again and ascended to Heaven, Jesus di...

Send us Fan Mail As a Stay-At-Home-Dad for more than 15 years I’ve thoroughly loved everything with caring for my family and our home. But since catching Covid a little over a month ago, discovering an issue with my heart, getting through a lung infection and adjusting to a whole host of medication to keep me healthy until the heart issue can be resolved, it has taken a lot out of me. The most cha...

Send us Fan Mail We all have ways of coping with difficulties and stress of life. That goes for the good stuff too. We, each of us, have ways of processing what comes our way each and every day. But, sometimes, the daily grind have a negative effect on our ability to cope with the very things we ‘know’ we should be able to easily deal with. Much like the filters on a car, their function degrades a...

Send us Fan Mail After a small mishap, when a pair of woollen gloves tried to take on the heat of a tumble dryer, and lost, Andy B started thinking about a much older memory of a very expensive cardigan that suffered the same, inevitable, outcome. And, much like what happened to those woollen gloves, mistakes happen. But, with God, the Good News is that we can’t mistake ourselves away from God. Be...

Send us Fan Mail So this is one of Andy B’s extended 2 minute videos. But, after a hellish November, and nearly 6 weeks with no filming anything, it seems fitting! As people, we want to control the situations around us, to make us safe. But we also have to learn, as we mature, to be able to discern which battles we should enter, and which battles we simply need to accept. Not accepting them in ter...

Send us Fan Mail Go Deeper with Andy B, as he looks at 2 Corinthians 13:11, which explains that we need to grow up as Christians in maturity, love, peace, and in unity with other Believers. Andy B Support the show Keep in Touch with the BerryBunch www.berrybunch.org Support Us Online www.berrybunch.org/supportus

Send us Fan Mail Is reverence something we need, as Christians, in the current world? Is reverence a bygone requirement for believers, surpassed by the death and resurrection of Jesus? Is reverence something we should be bothered about in our churches and families? Andy B takes a look at something that he has been thinking through, and about, for more than 2 and a half years; pondering and chewing...

Send us Fan Mail Go Deeper with Andy B, as he explains how we make sure we’re going in the right direction. He touches on the armour of God, in particular the shoes of the gospel of peace. In reference to Habakkuk 3:19, he looks at deer, climbers, and athletes being sure-footed and confident due to knowledge, practice, and experience. He relates his experience of learning to ride a motorbike. He e...