The GMC Podcast is a production of Gillespie Memorial Church, Chapel Street, Dunfermline, Scotland. Our website is www.gillespiechurch.org where you can find details about who we are, how to contact us and how to financially support our work and ministry for the Kingdom, just click on the ‘ Support us with Stewardship ’ icon. This episode was produced by Ronnie Aitken and Rev Mike Weaver. It was mixed by Mike Weaver and Barbara-Anne Hoey. It was edited by Barbara-Anne Hoey. Our music is ‘A...
Jan 28, 2024•34 min•Season 21Ep. 3
In life, there is much tragedy. Anyone who has lived will know this truism, that we cannot live life without disappointment and difficulty, but for the Christian, the question is can the tragedy of life result from God’s love? In this podcast, Pastor Mike Weaver looks at chapter 2 of Hosea, where it appears the wrath of God is upon the unfaithful wife and unfaithful Israel, but the rebuke is not out of anger but rather love. Like a parent wants the best for their child, this sometimes results in...
Jan 21, 2024•44 min•Season 21Ep. 2
There is no greater book in the Bible that reveals the heart of God, than that of Hosea. The prophet begins by revealing to us how hurt and angry God is with his people. He is torn between wanting to punish them for their unfaithfulness and restoring them because of his great love for them. God shows his great love for his people, comparing himself to a husband whose wife has committed adultery, using this image as a metaphor for the covenant between God and Israel. Ultimately it is a book of ho...
Jan 14, 2024•45 min•Season 21Ep. 1
GMC opened our worship for 2024 with a 'Covenant Service' giving opportunity to our congregation and listener to re-commit once again, or for the first time to commit to the serving God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Listen and contemplate God's word in your heart and also God's place in your life, and your walk with Him. The GMC Podcast is a production of Gillespie Memorial Church, Chapel Street, Dunfermline, Scotland. Our website is www.gillespiechurch.org where you can find details about who ...
Jan 07, 2024•25 min
The GMC Podcast is a production of Gillespie Memorial Church, Chapel Street, Dunfermline, Scotland. Our website is ww.gillespiechurch.org where you can find details about who we are, how to contact us and how you can support our work and ministry through a financial offering, Just click on the ‘ Support us with Stewardship ’ icon. This episode was produced by Rev. Mike Weaver. It was mixed by Mike Weaver and Andrew Kember. It was edited by Jack Wiggall and the theme music is 'Christmas Magic...
Jan 01, 2024•39 min•Season 20Ep. 6
As the clock moved toward midnight on Christmas Eve, Pastor Mike Weaver continued his Advent-Christmas series looking at what is important to Christians at this time of the year. Specifically Pastor Mike considered Matthew 1.v22-25, as Joseph wakes from his dream where the angels tells him of impending fatherhood. This passage speaks of essential truths for Christian today, and Mike ask what is ' fundamental faith'. IN other words, what are the non-negotiables for Christ followers today. The GMC...
Dec 25, 2023•30 min•Season 20Ep. 5
What traditions do you and your family celebrate around the season of Advent and Christmas? And what becomes the focus of this season? Rev. Mike Weaver continues the Advent series challenging the worldview and societal norms of the west that Christmas isn’t about what the commercial world would have us believe. The turkey and tinsel so to speak are the peripheral stuff of Christmas. The focus should Jesus. It was, is and always will be Jesus and when we allow Him to be the focus of our lives, we...
Dec 24, 2023•37 min•Season 20Ep. 4
With so much bad news going on in the world, there is a real temptation to escape. Have fun and celebrate all that Christmas has to offer at this time of year, some respite, at least for a while. But this deal also comes with a great deal of stress and financial burdens many can't afford, which follow them into the following year. That first Christmas, during equally troubled times, an angel brought good news that offered great joy to all people. It's still good news today. Don't miss it amongst...
Dec 17, 2023•37 min•Season 20Ep. 3
Food, Glorious Food is the song from the musical Oliver, and food indeed can be glorious, but it is much more than that... it is necessary for life. Food can just sustain life or it can in the right balance bring all the nutrients one need for a thriving life. How much more so our spiritual food? Where do you find food for your soul today? Pastor Mike considers the Word of God, in the person of Jesus and as the written Word found in the Scriptures of the Holy Bible and argues these provide all t...
Dec 10, 2023•39 min•Season 20Ep. 2
What matters to you most as Christmas starts to creep up on you. The season of Advent for Christians is a time of preparation to celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Christ child. But of course it is a time for many other preparations too - present for gift giving and receiving, organising holiday breaks, work parties and family visiting. Of course family is so important at this time of year, and whether you will all be together, whether folk will be missing, through distance or because they have p...
Dec 04, 2023•38 min•Season 20Ep. 1
In our 6th instalment of the Testimony Time Podcast, we hear from three women of faith who worship and serve the church family at GMC. Listen for an insight to the ways of God, his work and ministry to people in the everyday of life, whatever stage of life., as we hear from Fiona Boyle, Janice Aitken and Isobel Burnett If you liked what you heard, then please share with friends and family. Gillespie Memorial Church, Dunfermline Scotland (SCO11659) can be reached at www.gillespiechurch.org or by ...
Nov 27, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 6
For Christians, Paul's passage about 'putting on the armour of God' is well known and perhaps folk do pray each morning for the armour of God, but do we understand the importance of the whole passage and accept that the wearer of God's armour stands in a place of spiritual warfare? Pastor Mike Weaver states that the church ignores the spiritual world, the 'powers of this dark world' and 'the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms', at its peril. The church's fight is against evil and fo...
Nov 26, 2023•46 min•Season 19Ep. 14
Relationships are not always easy, whether in the family or in the workplace. Many of us face challenges as Christians living out our faith in such a way as to honour God and one another. It can often be the case that it is easier said than done. In our passage from Ephesians 6, the apostle Paul gives us advice on how to overcome in a difficult relationship to honour the people in our lives even if they are not always honourable. The GMC Podcast is a production of Gillespie Memorial Church, Chap...
Nov 19, 2023•39 min•Season 19Ep. 13
Wives and Husbands. Women and Men. How we get along and are joined in marriage matters to God, for marriage is a God-ordained union. Marriage is a mystery that reveals the relationship between the people of God and their bridegroom, in other words between the church and Jesus Christ. Pastor Mike Weaver considers the challenging words to both wives and husbands in Ephesians 5.21-33. Wives to submit to your husbands as to the Lord, and, husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved His church. Bo...
Nov 12, 2023•45 min•Season 19Ep. 12
Looking where we walk is a very sensible thing to do. When you step out of your home into the world, walking somewhere with intention, whether to the car to head out to work or to visit friends, whether to walk the dog or just walk for the sheer sake of it, you walk with intention and you better watch your step so you don't trip, fall or worse. The same goes for your spiritual walk! The world doesn't walk as Christians do, and what God expects of Christians is not what the world expects. So, lis...
Nov 05, 2023•41 min•Season 19Ep. 11
In today’s podcast, Pastor Mike explores the relationship between the church, who are the people of God, and the world. The call to the Christian is to be LIGHT, but that entails a change in the heart and actions of the believer, that they are different to the world. Different in understanding and behaviours relating to sexual activity, the language we use and views on covetousness that lead to greed. Mike argues that if you accept Jesus as Lord and Saviour, as all Christians must, then you are ...
Oct 29, 2023•40 min•Season 19Ep. 10
Youth Pastor Lee Whitecross delves into Ephesians 4:17-5:2 where Paul gives us instructions for how we are supposed to live as Christians. Walking in truth and love! The GMC Podcast is a production of Gillespie Memorial Church, Chapel Street, Dunfermline, Scotland. Our website is www.gillespiechurch.org where you can find details about who we are, how to contact us and how you can support our work and ministry through a financial offering, Just click on the ‘ Su...
Oct 22, 2023•38 min•Season 19Ep. 9
Pastor Mike Weaver challenges the worlds assumptions that the way things are is the way they are meant to be. The Christian worldview is not that of the world - which includes the worldviews of the atheist and other religious peoples. Christians know Jesus as Saviour and Lord, and in that space should be clothed anew, clothed differently from the world. Is the church so clothed today? Listen and understand from God's word the call to be radically different from the world. The GMC Podcast is a pr...
Oct 15, 2023•39 min•Season 19Ep. 8
Unity is something we hope for and desire as a church but is it possible with all our denominations and differences? God desires and blesses unity in the body but it does not mean uniformity. We are all uniquely made to reflect his image and each of us is given gifts with which to function and serve as part of the body of Christ. Paul reminds us in this passage from Ephesians 4: 'We are all ONE BODY, we have the same Spirit, and we have been called to the same glorious future. There is only one ...
Oct 08, 2023•46 min•Season 19Ep. 7
What is possible with Prayer? Do Christians today doubt the viability and the power of prayer to affect change. Pastor Mike considers the power prayer of St. Paul from the second part of chapter 3 of Ephesians. He discovers an imprisoned Paul praying mightily for God to intervene in the powerful name of Jesus and the effecting work of the Holy Spirit to change the lives of Christians and maybe more importantly, the collection of believers who are the Church of Jesus Christ. The power of this pra...
Oct 01, 2023•36 min•Season 19Ep. 6
The GMC Podcast is a production of Gillespie Memorial Church, Chapel Street, Dunfermline, Scotland. Our website is www.gillespiechurch.org where you can find details about who we are, how to contact us and how you can support our work and ministry through a financial offering, Just click on the ‘ Support us with Stewardship ’ icon. This episode was produced by Minister Mike Weaver and Rev David Melville. It was mixed by Mike Weaver and Jack Wiggall. It was edited ...
Sep 24, 2023•34 min•Season 19Ep. 5
The GMC Podcast is a production of Gillespie Memorial Church, Chapel Street, Dunfermline, Scotland. Our website is www.gillespiechurch.org where you can find details about who we are, how to contact us and how you can support our work and ministry through a financial offering, Just click on the ‘ Support us with Stewardship ’ icon. This episode was produced by Rev Maggie Lane and Rev David Melville. It was mixed by Mike Weaver and Andrew Kember. It was edited by Bar...
Sep 17, 2023•46 min•Season 19Ep. 4
The GMC Podcast is a production of Gillespie Memorial Church, Chapel Street, Dunfermline, Scotland. Our website is www.gillespiechurch.org where you can find details about who we are, how to contact us and how you can support our work and ministry through a financial offering, Just click on the ‘ Support us with Stewardship ’ icon. This episode was produced by Mike Weaver. It was mixed by Mike Weaver and Andrew Kember. It was edited by Jack Wiggall. Our theme music ...
Sep 10, 2023•28 min•Season 19Ep. 3
Paul comes before the Lord in prayer after his introductory remarks to the church in Ephesus. Pastor Mike Weaver sheds light on seven steps that lead the one coming to Christ to beleif, rather than enlightenment. Today many people seek enlightenment, whether from self-analysis using tools and self help guide, or whether in the materials things of thi9s world, but ultimately none can satisfy the desire to know who we truly are. There is a deep need in the church to turn away form personal spiritu...
Sep 03, 2023•41 min•Season 19Ep. 2
A new sermon series in St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians kicks off with Pastor Mike Weaver considering the introduction to this letter, not to a single church but to a wider body of believers in Jesus. It is a letter in which Paul ranges overt the world, past, present and future where he considers God's all encompasing presence before the foundation of the world through to the fullness of time embracingf all things in heaven and on earth. It is a letter that calls the church to unity and holy l...
Aug 27, 2023•37 min•Season 19Ep. 1
No is a word we must be instructed to say. It is an anti social word. It goes against the tide. It takes courage and commitment to say it. It needs strong motivation, and grace motivates powerfully. Grace teaches us to say No! This sermon focusses on the Amazing Grace of God and how this grace was and is central to our salvation and transformation. The GMC Podcast is a production of Gillespie Memorial Church, Chapel Street, Dunfermline, Scotland. Our website is www.gillespiechurch.o...
Aug 13, 2023•49 min•Season 18Ep. 2
Pastor Mike Weaver starts a new short, 3-sermon series looking at 'Authentic Faith' as a challenge for those who know Christ to grow deeper roots in their faith, and maybe for those who don't know Jesus to start the journey to germinate your faith. Mike starts by countering on oft heard narrative that Christian faith is a form of 'blind faith' and has little evidence to back up its claims. The truth of the Christian faith though IS backed up by evidence and belief in and expereince of God, Fathe...
Aug 06, 2023•38 min•Season 18Ep. 1
The GMC Podcast is a production of Gillespie Memorial Church, Chapel Street, Dunfermline, Scotland. Our website is www.gillespiechurch.org where you can find details about who we are, how to contact us and how you can support our work and ministry through a financial offering, Just click on the ‘ Support us with Stewardship ’ icon. This episode was produced by Mike Weaver. It was mixed by Mike Weaver and Andrew Kember. It was edited by Barbara-Anne Hoey. Our theme music is ...
Jul 30, 2023•35 min•Season 17Ep. 9
The GMC Podcast is a production of Gillespie Memorial Church, Chapel Street, Dunfermline, Scotland. Our website is www.gillespiechurch.org where you can find details about who we are, how to contact us and how you can support our work and ministry through a financial offering, Just click on the ‘ Support us with Stewardship ’ icon. This episode was produced by Sally Sheail. It was mixed by Mike Weaver and Barbara-Anne Hoey It was edited by Jack Wiggall. Our theme music is ‘...
Jul 23, 2023•32 min•Season 17Ep. 8
In this episode, we hear from three people with different lengths of time spent as part of the GMC family, but in all cases stories where God has drawn them into faith and trust in Jesus and to serve Him in the heart of Dunfermline through this church. First up, Ronnie Aitken who has a long affinity with GMC, is an elder and served in many areas but especially in youth work and as part of the preaching team tells us some of his faith story. Then Fiona Wiggall, a mum and teacher who serves the ch...
Jul 17, 2023•40 min•Ep. 4
