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City on a Hill Edinburgh

City on a Hillwww.cityonahill.org.uk
Welcome to City on a Hill sermon podcast where Pastor Peter Anderson and others share powerful and inspiring messages straight from the heart of Edinburgh and the Lothians. Join us each week as we dive into the Word, providing practical insights and timeless truths that resonate with your daily life. To stay connected and explore more, visit our website at www.cityonahill.org.uk. Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast to receive the latest teachings and updates. If you'd like to give toward the ongoing work at City on a Hill, you can do so at www.cityonahill.org.uk/giving.
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Episodes

Learning their language

In today’s message, Pastor Pete looks at the concept of love languages. Understanding each other’s differences to improve communication is not just for marriages, it is a life skill that helps strengthen any relationship. We are able to do that because we can know and experience the love languages of God Himself.

Sep 17, 202346 min

How to see the miraculous in our lives

How can we experience the power of Jesus in our lives? Pastor Jim Cymbala from The Brooklyn Tabernacle, New York, unpacks the story of Jesus’ first miracle at the wedding in Cana. Pastor Jim encourages us to invite Jesus into every area of our lives, to tell Him of our needs and to obey His commands.

Sep 17, 202343 min

Conflict resolution

Arguments and conflict are an inevitable part of any relationship. Why do arguments happen, how do we resolve them, and do we always have to forgive? Pastor Sammy explores these important themes in this week’s message.

Sep 10, 202339 min

Wired for intimacy

The Bible says, “It is not good that man should be alone.” In this message, Pastor Pete highlights our human need for contact and intimacy, which can only be achieved by being vulnerable, transparent and honest with each other. This is a message for couples as much as for singles.

Sep 03, 202347 min

True friendship

Using the example of David and Jonathan, Pastor Pete shares a Biblical definition of true friendship. Friendship is costly, it makes space for trust and vulnerability, it always encourages and speaks truth. A friend is not the person who meets my needs, a friend is the person whose needs I meet.

Aug 27, 202338 min

What is love?

What is love? In today’s message, Pastor Pete dismisses the secular view that love is what man makes of it. Instead, he delves into the profound truth that God is love. He who defines everything, also defines love because He is love.

Aug 20, 202338 min

Life in the Holy Spirit

Pastors Tim and Alli Brown share what life in the Holy Spirit is all about. To those who welcome Him, the Holy Spirit changes lives, releasing power, and bringing to pass what God has promised to do for them and through them. We are encouraged to be continually filled with the Holy Spirit.

Aug 13, 202324 min

Faith, healing and miracles

Can we trust God for the impossible in our lives? Yes, the Bible says we can. In this message, Pastor Pete looks at three other gifts of the Holy Spirit – faith, healing and miracles. The God who created the universe is able and still willing to heal and accomplish miracles today.

Aug 06, 202340 min

The Holy Spirit speaks

The Bible is very clear that our God is a relational God who speaks and who delights in revealing Himself and His plans. The gifts of prophecy, tongues and interpretation of tongues are ways in which God continues to communicate with us today. In this message, Pastor Pete unpacks what those gifts are and how to operate in them.

Jul 30, 202346 min

The Holy Spirit reveals

In 1 Corinthians 12, the Apostle Paul introduces us to the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The focus of Pastor Pete’s message today is on three of these gifts – wisdom, knowledge and discernment of spirits – and how to operate in them.

Jul 23, 202346 min

Immersed - Understanding the baptism with the Holy Spirit

Pastor Paul unpacks what it means to be baptised with the Holy Spirit. When we are ‘immersed’ with the Holy Spirit, we experience the reality of who God is! We are also 'awakened' to His power, to the miraculous and to purity, and to be His witnesses.

Jul 09, 202335 min

The Holy Spirit and God’s plan

Pastor Pete’s message today takes us on a journey, looking at the work of the Holy Spirit from the beginning of time. We see God’s plan for the world unfolds as we consider the Holy Spirit’s work from creation, through incarnation, through the death and resurrection of Jesus, and finally through our salvation and our sanctification.

Jul 02, 202342 min

Who is the Holy Spirit?

In the first message of our new series, Pastor Pete answers this important theological question – Who is the Holy Spirit? Dispelling many misconceptions, Pastor Pete affirms the personality and the divinity of the Holy Spirit. He is a Person, and He is also God Himself.

Jun 25, 202338 min

Just do the right thing

Pastor Pete brings this series on 1 Peter to an end with an excellent rule for life. Those who have submitted to Jesus and chosen to live their lives according to His will are likely to experience suffering and persecution, even when they are doing good. But our calling is always to follow Jesus’ example, even if it brings suffering. We do the right thing, just as He did. We trust Him to vindicate us and to bring justice.

Jun 18, 202339 min

A prescription for a healthy church

What does a healthy church look like? In today’s message, Pastor Sammy unpacks the Apostle John’s recommendation that humility is a key ingredient in maintaining a healthy church – humble leaders and church members who are rooted in the Gospel of Grace.

Jun 11, 202338 min

We are Christians

The term ‘Christian’ can mean different things in different generations and in different cultures. In today’s message, Pastor Pete offers a Biblical perspective of what it means to be a Christian.

Jun 04, 202339 min

Go Global

A year and a half ago, Go Global came into being. Today, we celebrate this family of churches, geographically diverse, and yet united in a shared love for Jesus and committed to making disciples. Pastor Pete explains who we are, our calling, our vision, and our purpose.

May 28, 202358 min

Going with a different flow

Very few of us like to stand out and be considered strange. But as followers of Jesus, the Bible says that we are no longer to give ourselves to worldly desires and the passions of our fallen nature; instead, we are to go with a different flow, the flow of the Holy Spirit. Our lives and our actions are now intended to glorify God.

May 21, 202344 min

Called to love like Jesus

Living life as a follower of Jesus is a privilege but it can also be difficult. We can face challenges as Jesus calls us to love others as He has loved us, and we can face persecution for being Christians. However, in the midst of it all, there is great blessing to be found and much hope to share.

May 14, 202337 min

Honour him, honour her

The world’s definition of marriage is a distortion of what God intended it to be. Pastor Pete’s message helps us understand and see how marriages can thrive within the Biblical concepts of submission and honour.

May 07, 202342 min

Living honourably

As Christians, we are exiles living in a country that is not our own and our values are different from those of this world. Pastor Adedoyin unpacks what it means to live radical lives that do not conform to the ways of this world, but instead, are more in keeping with our new status as citizens of God’s Kingdom.

Apr 30, 202337 min

Be and do

Everything we do comes out of who we are. Pastor Pete’s message reminds us of our new identity, a born-again people who have their Father’s nature. Therefore, what we do, now comes out of a heart of love and bears witness to who He is.

Apr 23, 202340 min

Be holy

This week, Pastor Pete’s message encourages us to set our hope on the grace of Jesus and in the same vein, to be holy. This desire for holiness is intended to be borne, not out of legalism, but instead, out of gratitude for everything He has done for us.

Apr 16, 202341 min

Living hope

Easter is the basis for us, as Christians, to have optimism in life. Pastor Pete’s Easter message explains that we can have hope, a living hope, that is based not on this life, but on what Jesus did at the Cross and on His resurrection.

Apr 09, 202322 min

Faith for every storm

Today’s message starts our new series on the book of 1 Peter. The Apostle Peter was writing to believers in the Roman empire just as persecution was being unleashed on them; he was preparing them to have the kind of faith that would enable them to stand. Pastor Pete’s message therefore looks at the nature of true faith that can overcome the storms of life.

Apr 02, 202344 min

Praise together

Psalm 149 looks at the power of praising together. We look at the how and the why of praising the Lord together.

Mar 26, 202331 min

Made for His praise

Pastor Paul encourages us to see that all of creation has been made by God and made for His praise. We find our purpose and meaning when we praise Him.

Mar 19, 202331 min

Praise among the ruins

Pastor Pete ends this series with a call to praise God even in the midst of tough times. There is always hope for broken people and broken lives because our God is a God of restoration.

Mar 12, 202337 min

His House, our priority

In this message, Pastor Pete reflects on King David’s passion for the House of the Lord. We see the huge priority that God Himself places on His House, the Church. This is an encouragement for us, as Christians, to prioritize and not neglect His House. When the Church prospers, so does the nation.

Mar 05, 202340 min
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