St Andrews Church Geraldine‘s Podcast

The Rapture Part 1 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18

In this message we continue looking at the final Antichrist, moving from his rise to his nature, method, and end. From 2 Thessalonians 2 and the wider biblical picture, we see that the Antichrist is not merely a political ruler, but a satanically empowered counterfeit who seeks the worship and allegiance that belong to God alone. His method is deception before coercion: false signs, persuasive wor...

In this fifth message of our End Times series, we begin exploring the Bible’s teaching on the final Antichrist by focusing on his rise. Rather than speculating about names or current events, we carefully examine Daniel 7 and Revelation 17, allowing Scripture to interpret Scripture. Together these passages reveal a future beastly world order from which the Antichrist emerges, rising through politic...

In this message we look at John’s warning that, before the final Antichrist appears, the spirit of antichrist is already at work in the world. Scripture teaches that Christians already face tribulation, deception, and lawlessness, even as it also points forward to a final intensification before Christ returns. We will consider how the spirit of antichrist denies and redefines Jesus, produces many...

In Matthew 24:9–14, Jesus gives a sober but hopeful picture of the age before his return: his followers will face opposition, deception, betrayal, lawlessness, and the danger of love growing cold, yet the gospel of the kingdom will still be preached to all nations before the end comes. This message explores how God’s apparent delay is not forgetfulness or failure, but patience and mercy for the sa...

The King Is Coming: End-Times Views Through History This message gives a clear overview of how Christians have understood the return of Christ throughout church history, especially through the question of the thousand-year reign in Revelation 20. It briefly explains historic premillennialism, amillennialism, postmillennialism, dispensational premillennialism, and other niche views, while reminding...

Why Preach the End Times? Why Some Churches Avoid It — and Why We Still Need It Bible passage: 1 Thessalonians 5:1–11 This opening message begins a winter series on the End Times by asking why many churches avoid teaching on the return of Christ, especially when it can become divisive, speculative, and difficult to teach well. Looking at Scripture through the lens of the early church, the message...

Feed My Sheep Luke 4 v18-21 & Isaiah 58.v 1-11

George Müller’s Psalm 37 Roadmap for discerning God's will. This message explores how to discern God’s will through the life and practice of George Müller, anchored in Psalm 37. Rather than offering a formula, it presents a pathway: a heart that delights in God and is surrendered to His will, a life shaped by Scripture, sustained in prayer, attentive to providence, guided by sanctified judgment, a...

In this message on Luke 5:12–16, we see Jesus meet a man with leprosy who was not only physically diseased but also socially excluded, ritually unclean, and burdened with shame. The message explores the compassion and power of Christ, who is willing not only to heal but to make clean, restoring the outcast to community and fellowship. Drawing on the wider biblical theme of the great exchange, it s...

Peter’s journey into discipleship begins with listening to Jesus, grows through trusting him in the face of failure, and ends in surrender before his holiness and call. In Luke 5:1–11, this message explores how Christ meets us through his word, asks us to trust him when life makes no sense, and calls us into a life of grace, mission, and eternal significance. Luke 5:1-11

A sermon on Luke 4:38–44 exploring Jesus’ early-morning withdrawal after a day of intense ministry, showing how he stepped away from the crowd, sought the face of the Father, and stayed on the path of his calling. Drawing on related texts such as Mark 1:35–39, Luke 5:16, and John 15:4–5, the message reflects on how Jesus’ pattern of solitude, prayer, and focus speaks into our own distracted and pr...

(We take a break from the Gospel of Luke this week!) The gospel of Matthew concludes with a final character revealing all the characters at the resurrection of Jesus Christ: there are the two women coming to mourn but leave rejoicing; There's the angel in all magnificence  sitting on the stone that he has rolled away; there are the guards who witness it all but are prepared to let money and deceit...

So far in chapter 4 we have seen Jesus tempted in the wilderness, rejected in his hometown, but now we see Jesus overcome evil by casting out a demon from a man. While we don't understand everything about the spiritual realm, we know that it is real. The incident of Jesus casting out the demon from the man in the synagogue teaches us that: 1 - evil is confrontational to God's plans and His works;...

This passage is considered one of the most sacred of passages because Jesus had to have shared it himself to his disciples as there were no other observers.  In this passage we see how the Son of God, fully divine, also being fully human faces the battle of temptation.  The temptations are not of the sort that only relate to Jesus, for at the heart of all three recorded temptations is the attempt...

In this sermon on Jesus’ genealogy, we see that Christianity dares to be historical: the gospel is not built on myth or moral advice from a legendary teacher, but on the claim that God entered real human history in Jesus Christ. We then see that grace runs through broken bloodlines, as God works through ordinary, obscure, and morally messy people to bring about his purposes. Finally, Luke’s geneal...

The Baptism That Reveals God (Luke 3:21–22) — When Jesus steps into the Jordan “with the crowds,” heaven opens, the Spirit descends like a dove, and the Father’s voice declares, “You are my dearly loved Son, and you bring me great joy.” In this moment we see the Triune God at work and the gospel beginning in public: (1) Jesus joins us in our mess (Identification)—the sinless Son stands in the sinn...

Scripture: Luke 3:1–20 Three points: (1) Repentance comes in the wilderness. (2) Repentance comes with conviction of sin. (3) Repentance comes with changed direction.

In this message from Luke 2:41–52, we explore the often-overlooked “hidden years” of Jesus’ life. Apart from his birth and one childhood scene in the Temple, nearly thirty years of the Son of God’s life are summed up in a single verse: “Jesus grew in wisdom and in stature and in favour with God and all the people.” Why does Scripture give so little detail about most of his life? Because the silenc...

Waiting, Recognising and Receiving Salvation Luke 2:21–40

We are to 'exegesis' God's word not 'eisegesis' it, meaning we draw out the original meaning of the text, not read into it through our bias or life experiences.  My (Bryan Morgan) life's story will feature strongly in the Message. Psalm 23 & 2 Corinthians 3: 16-18

The story of the birth of John the Baptist ends with a beautiful hymn/prophecy sung by Zechariah - it breaks the silence of unbelief and praises God for what he has done, what he is doing and what he will do. From being mute, Zechariah is finally loud and clear in his praise to God. In the late 1990's Soul Survivor Church in Watford, England found that they needed to relook at how they worshipped...

God has broken the silence of the past 400 years and made his plans known to Zechariah and Elizabeth.  In doing so he has removed the shame that society had placed on them for having no children.  Now at the birth of John the Baptist, society still tries to pressure them to do what society expects of them rather than what God has told them.  Society and the fears, pressures and worries within this...

It had been 400 years of silence from God through his prophets until the birth of John the Baptist. Then God penetrated that silence and His kingdom collided with this worldly kingdom to bring the best news ever! The coming of God's kingdom turned the world's kingdom's values upside down. Elizabeth, who had been held in shame for being barren, could proclaim that God had taken away all her shame....

Psalm 90 reminds us that while our days are short, God is eternal. In this New Year message, we are invited to start with God rather than the calendar, to face the reality of time honestly, and to learn what true wisdom looks like when our lives are placed back into God’s hands. Moses’ prayer teaches us that numbering our days is not about fear or productivity, but about living with humility, depe...