Callander Christian Fellowship Podcast

Sunday 6th October 2025 - This Sunday we are joined by a wonderful team visiting from America. In a bit of a different format, we hear the testimonies from two of the members of the team and then guest speaker Mark Chester continues in our current series, New Creation Life, and shares from Ephesians 4: 1-6 on the importance of unity in the body of Christ.

Sunday 28th September - This Sunday we are continuing on in our current series, New Creation Life. Pastor Nate Swisher speaks out of Ephesians 3: 14-21 on the power that the Holy Spirit can have in our lives, challenging us that we should be reflective images of the Spirit who resides in us.

Sunday 21st September 2025 - This Sunday we are still in our Ephesians series, New Creation Life. In light of what is going on in the world right now, Pastor Nate Swisher brings a raw message on the passage Ephesians 3:7-13.

Sunday 14th September 2025 - This Sunday we hear from Sebastian Pinn out of Ephesians 2:19-22 as we continue on in our current series, New Creation Life. He speaks on how important it is that we as Christians build our foundation on, and put our hope in Jesus Christ alone.

Sunday 7th September 2025 - This Sunday we are continuing on in our current series, New Creation Life. Speaking out of Ephesians 3: 1-6, Pastor Nate Swisher talks about the important role we have as Christians to be stewards of grace, having received the same grace from God.

Sunday 31st August 2025 - This Sunday we celebrate another baptism in our congregation! Pastor Nate Swisher shares a short message on water baptism and we hear from Eilidh and her reasons for making this decision today! The rest of the service is not recorded as it took place down at the river for the baptism.

Sunday 24th August 2025 - This Sunday as we continue on in our current series, New Creation Life, Pastor Nate Swisher gives a recap of the series so far and then looks at Ephesians 2: 11-18. He addresses how it is possible, through Christ, for us to put aside all our differences and treat others with kindness and love because He has redeemed us.

Sunday 17th August 2025 - This Sunday as we continue on in our current series, New Creation Life, Pastor Nate Swisher highlights the profound gift of salvation that Ephesians 2:1-10 speaks to us about.

Sunday 10th August 2025 - This Sunday as we continue on in our current series, New Creation Hope, Pastor Nate Swisher speaks from Ephesians 1: 15-23. He focuses on the importance on what can change for us when we know that we have hope, encouraging us that that hope increases more and more as we spend time in prayer and reading the word.

Sunday 4th August 2025 - This Sunday we are back after a technological glitch last week where we unfortunately didn't get the sermon recorded. Pastor Nate Swisher continues this Sunday in our Ephesians series, New Creation Life, looking at the gift that God has given us as highlighted in Ephesians 1: 11-14. We as believers are sealed, marked by God and adopted into his family.

Sunday 20th July 2025 - This Sunday we are beginning our new series in Ephesians, New Creation Life. Pastor Nate Swisher gives some key historical context for the book of Ephesians and speaks about the spiritual blessing of adoption that we are promised as Christians.

Sunday 6th July 2025 - This Sunday we hear from Sebastian Pinn from Colossians 1: 1-14. He speaks on persevering in our faith in Christ, no matter the trials that might come our way. Our ability to do this is rooted in our hope which is laid up in heaven. .

Sunday 29th June 2025 - This Sunday we are joined by guest speaker, Kenn Baird who shares on what it looks like to live authentically as Christians. He emphasises the importance of community and mentorship, not living isolated lifestyles.

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.