BerryBunch Family @Berrybunchfamily@dingdash.com

Andy B 2 Minute Video, Crutches Aren't About Weakness

https://youtu.be/WkBtm2GUhas

Crutches can be a hindrance to getting on with life, easily. However, if you’ve broken your leg, it is a necessity to enable you to be walk, while your leg heals.

Christians can be negatively accused of using our relationship with Jesus, or our choice to become a Christian, as some sort of ultra negative thing.
As a Christian, I’m happy to state that I lean on Jesus more than I’ve ever leaned on any other crutches in my life.

I’ve used all sorts of things to help me get through life, from drinking alcohol, to working harder than my body can cope with, or caffeine to get me up in the morning, or keep me going late into the night.

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For the rest of this post, a full transcript, or to listen to the podcast visit our website --> https://www.berrybunch.family/andy-b-2-minute-video-crutches-arent-about-weakness-season-4-episode-43/

Andy B

Andy B 2 Minute Video, We All Need A Friend, Season 4, Episode 42

https://youtu.be/g37djOCFDZE

It’s so encouraging when we can advise someone, or help them, and see a burden lifted from their shoulders.

It could be as simple as lending someone a phone, or giving them a life. Perhaps we take them a meal or two when they’re ill, or even just moving house, so they don’t have to think about preparing a meal for themselves.

It can be so very simple, easy and straightforward to help others.

There are some very specific skill sets, which the church will have within it’s walls. It’s no wonder that many churches choose someone who runs a cleaning business to help organise the cleaning in the church. Or a builder to help ensure the buildings are maintained well.

For the rest of this post, a full transcript, or to listen to the podcast visit our website --> https://www.berrybunch.family/andy-b-2-minute-video-we-all-need-a-friend-season-4-episode-42/

Andy B

#TestimonyTuesday – God on the move in Ukraine

This one comes from a fellow DingDashers - thanks @Cherishingsparrows2020

Every Tuesday well post a Testimony with the hashtag #TestimonyTuesday.

It’s a great idea I was inspired to imitate, from another blogger. Testimonies are so powerful because they are truths from our life. I love reading them, and look forward to reading many more.

Testimonies are so wonderfully powerful!

Read the rest of this post --> https://www.berrybunch.family/testimonytuesday-god-on-the-move-in-ukraine/

Andy B

(Bit of a plug for DingDash and BTJ too...)

Why we do what we do (it’s kind of an update)

We’ve been working on what we stand for; who we are; what we do and why we do it.

We started, two years ago (2020), simply wanting to create an online, digital, resource – where material we had been creating and using in full-time children’s ministry, could be used to inspire others, or to simply resources others. It was meant to become something of a digital filing cabinet.

And we’ve done that!

At the time of writing these words, we have nearly 450 videos on our YouTube channel. These have been viewed many thousands of times, and many hundreds of minutes of being viewed. Which is a bit humbling!

For the rest of the post visit our website --> https://www.berrybunch.family/why-we-do-what-we-do-its-kind-of-an-update/

Andy B and the BerryBunch

Andy B 2 Minute Video, Resting Is Proactive! Season 4, Episode 41

https://youtu.be/ujfxoeZ7h0I

We love accomplishing things. Perhaps, like me, you use a digital To Do List. It is immensely satisfying clicking that little tick box, and having the satisfaction of having accomplished something else.

It can be addictive.

We can end up working so hard in order to have achieved something, that we miss out on the actual achieving!

We’re really good at being busy. The church excels at this, sadly. I think we sometimes feel that if we work really hard then, perhaps, God will love us more, or we’ll feel less guilty about something else.

And, yet, there is a pattern of working and resting that was set in stone by God, when He made the world in 6 days, resting on the 7th.

That cycle of working and resting is important! [READ MORE]

For the rest of this post, a full transcript, or to listen to the podcast visit our website – https://www.berrybunch.family/andy-b-2-minute-video-resting-is-proactive-season-4-episode-41/

Andy B

Spent a couple of weeks working on the vision for our online ministry, and this is our finished effort.

Andy B

Bit chilly this morning. We usually run the fire in the morning, but even more so today. The needle was touching 14 degrees...

Busy day of editing and transcribing ahead today, and we've finalised a vision for our online ministry, which we've been crafting for a couple of weeks - will share that properly at some point.

Did I mention we've created well over 400 videos - all on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram - since starting what was, originally, just gonna be a digital storage vault and resource centre. It's still that, but so much more now. Which is kind of cool!

Jo's left for work, with an extra coffee - in a flask - for her arrival. Older lads are having a well earned, slower start, today, but Peter is up and making us both some porridge.

Andy B

Endurance, Season 4, Episode 2, God Opposes the Proud.

https://youtu.be/0euhRT7lA4Q

#GoDeeper
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, diesel engines, and more…

#GoDo
Nathan and Steven discuss the theme for this week – “God Opposes the Proud.” They point out that it’s a bad idea to be proud, and they discuss a couple of likely scenarios in which we can easily become proud. They also remind us that when we strive for humility we will be honoured.

For the rest of this post and a full transcript --> https://www.berrybunch.family/endurance-god-opposes-the-proud-season-4-episode-2/

The BerryBunch

Marriage Matters, The Dating Game, Season 1, Episode 7

https://youtu.be/Fsy5Is0-gT0

In this week’s Marriage Matters, Andy B and Jo talk about dating - that period when we hang out with someone, do things together, get to know one another, that time before marriage….

As always, Andy B finds us some relevant bible verses to see what the bible says about dating and as Jo points out, it doesn’t say anything specifically about ‘The Dating Game’, but there are principles in the bible to be found:

1 Corinthians 7:1-9

As Andy B points out, the purpose of dating should be marriage, not to try out different partners. And both Andy B and JoJo together explore the issues around dating and the dangers, giving as usual some of their own experiences to help us get our heads around this stuff.

#RealTalk – The Dating Game

Andy and Jo

For a full transcript, listen to the podcast or watch the video, visit our website – https://www.berrybunch.family/marriage-matters-the-dating-game-s1-e7/