Callander Christian Fellowship Podcast

Sunday 22nd June 2025 - This Sunday brings an end to our Nehemiah series, Rebuilding and Restoring. Using Nehemiah 13 as an example, Pastor Nate Swisher speaks on what it looks like to deal with disappointment. He wraps up the series with an encouragement that while we will all face disappointment, if our hope is in God, not ourselves or our outcomes, that will make all the difference.

Sunday 15th June - This Sunday we jump back into our Nehemiah series and hear from Pastor Nate Swisher out of Nehemiah 11 and 12. He speaks about the power that praise and thanksgiving have to help us frame our reality around the nature and character of God instead of the circumstances of the past or the present.

Sunday 8th June 2025 - This Sunday Pastor Nate Swisher is back with us, sharing on the Pentecost. He shares on the significance of the day of Pentecost and the importance of the Holy Spirit to us as Christians then and now. In this sermon, we play a video from The Bible Project and the link for it can be found below. https://bibleproject.com/videos/holy-spirit/

Sunday 1st June 2025 - This Sunday we hear from Rob Westwood on what it looks like to be a people of hope. He gently challenges us to think about where we find our hope, in our circumstances or our God. Identifying how hopeless a lot of what is happening in the world can feel right now, he encourages us that with God, there is always hope no matter what.

Sunday 25th May 2025 - This Sunday we hear from Sebastian Pinn on the importance of being on guard against the attacks of the enemy. Highlighting that Christians will always face opposition when walking with Christ, Sebastian speaks out of Ephesians 6: 10-18 on the importance of wearing the armour of God at all times and living in fellowship as the body of Christ.

Sunday 18th May 2025 - This Sunday we are joined again by Brian Gooding who shares on what it means to look at the face of Jesus. Using three different examples from scripture, Brian reminds us that Jesus was a man that looked like any other but we must never forget that He is God and we are not.

Sunday 11th May 2025 - This Sunday we hear from Jon Connell out of Acts 9: 1-20. Using Paul as an example, Jon speaks on the amazing transformation that happens in our lives when we come to know Jesus Christ.

Sunday 4th May 2025 - This Sunday we are continuing in chapter 9 in Nehemiah for our current series, Rebuilding and Restoring. Pastor Nate Swisher teaches on the importance of having healthy rhythms in our lives which are shown to us in God's word.

Sunday 27th April 2025 - This week we are back to our Nehemiah series, Rebuilding and Restoring. Looking at chapter 9 in Nehemiah, Pastor Nate Swisher focuses our attention on the importance of simply coming and being with God, spending time in His word and allowing the simple acts of worship, reading His word and confession to change us.

Sunday 20th April 2025 - This Easter Sunday we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the incredible gift that He gave us. Pastor Nate Swisher speaks from Luke 24 and 1 Peter 1:3-5 and highlights how the resurrection of Jesus changed everything.

Sunday 13th April 2025 - This Sunday we take a break from our Nehemiah series as we stop to celebrate Palm Sunday in the lead up to Easter weekend. We hear from Jon Connell out of John 12:1-19 on the events that led up to the sacrifice that Jesus made. Jon challenges us to think about who in this story we are most like and if we need to make any changes in our lives.

Sunday 6th April 2025 - This Sunday as we continue on in our Nehemiah series, Rebuilding and Restoring, we are now in chapter 8 of Nehemiah. Pastor Nate Swisher shares on the importance of having God's Word be central in our lives, emphasising that God's Word shapes how we see Him and how we see Him shapes how we live our lives.

Sunday 30th March 2025 - This Sunday we are continuing on in our Nehemiah series as Pastor Nate Swisher teaches out of Nehemiah 7. He addresses the prevalent issue of loneliness and despair and how important fellowship within the church is.

Sunday 23rd March 2025 - This Sunday we are taking a break from our Nehemiah series to hear from guest speaker, John Caldwell out of Ephesians 4: 1-16. He shares some of his own personal testimony and reminds us about the importance of the church being outward focused, drawing attention to what God is doing in Scotland right now!

Sunday 16th March 2025 - This Sunday as we continue on in our Nehemiah series, Rebuilding and Restoring, we hear from Pastor Nate Swisher on a topic that is relevant to us all - Facing Temptation. Using the examples that Nehemiah 6 shows on this topic, Nate addresses the common misconceptions about temptation and how we can follow Nehemiah's example of resisting it.

Sunday 9th March 2025 - This Sunday we are joined by a guest speaker from our congregation, Sebastian Penn, continuing on our Nehemiah series, Rebuilding and Restoring. He speaks to us out of Nehemiah 5 on living a life filled with the fear of the Lord and the overflow of generosity towards others that that should cultivate.

Sunday 2nd March 2025 - This Sunday as we continue on in our series, Rebuilding and Restoring, Pastor Nate Swisher focuses on Nehemiah 4. He draws attention to the importance of knowing the bigger picture of what God's plan looks like and how what is taking place in Nehemiah 4 fits into that. Again, we see the importance of prayer and how we are called to action even as we wait on the Lord.

Sunday 23rd February 2025 - This Sunday we are continuing on in our Nehemiah series as we hear from Pastor Nate Swisher on what it looks like to have resilience in the face of opposition. Particularly focusing on when we see delays in the promises of God, Nate encourages us that resilience looks like placing our trust in who God is and not our own abilities. *Apologies for the lack of recording la...

Sunday 9th February 2025 - This Sunday we are resuming our Nehemiah series after our break last week. Pastor Nate Swisher speaks on the ideas of grace and favour shown in Nehemiah 2: 1-10.

Sunday 2nd February 2025 - This Sunday we hear from guest speaker Mike Bave from Acts 17: 26-28. Focusing on the theme of boundaries, Mike speaks about how each of us are exactly where we need to be in terms of time and location. We all have the same purpose within the boundaries God has placed us, and that is to seek Him.

Sunday 27th January 2025 - This Sunday we hear part two of last week's sermon on right perspectives. Using Nehemiah's prayer from Nehemiah 1: 5-11, Pastor Nate Swisher highlights the impact that our understanding of God's nature has on how we approach Him in prayer.

Sunday 19th January 2025 - This Sunday Pastor Nate Swisher is continuing on in our series in Nehemiah, Rebuilding and Restoring. Challenging perspectives, Nate talks about the true meaning of God's love, how it is far greater than just a feeling and how that impacted Nehemiah's prayers and should impact ours as well.

Sunday 12th January 2025 - This Sunday we are beginning a new series called Rebuilding and Restoring which is based out of the book of Nehemiah. Pastor Nate Swisher starts the series off with a historical overview of what was happening leading up to this book. He encourages us particularly in the state of the world today, to keep our eyes fixed on God.

Sunday 5th January 2025 - We are starting off the new year with a sermon all about the importance of gratitude! Speaking out of Psalm 100 and Ephesians 5:15-21, Pastor Nate Swisher emphasises the importance of cultivating thanksgiving in our day to day lives. He asks some challenging questions to help us rethink our perspectives and regain our wonder of our incredible God.

Sunday 29th December 2024 - We are back after the Christmas break for our final Sunday of 2024! This week we are hearing from Steve Burch on the different stages of the Christian walk based on the gates around Jerusalem. He explains the meaning behind each gate and how each has an important place in the Christian life.