WelshRev's Podcast

He had no name, no home, and no hope, until Jesus crossed the lake to find him. In this episode of the Word for the Week, we work carefully through Mark 5:1-20, the account of the Gerasene demoniac, from the Greek text (NA28) outward. We look at why the demon's chosen name, Legion, would have landed as a politically loaded word for an audience living under Roman occupation. The governor Quinctilius Varus, who commanded legions from Syria to crush a revolt across Galilee and the Decapolis after

What value do you put on a human life? Filmed live at Carmarthen livestock market, where the price of sheep and cattle was being weighed up all around, this Super Short Thought asks a harder question. In Mark 5, Jesus set a higher value on one broken man than on an entire herd of pigs, a man everyone else had already written off. Whatever value the people of this world have put on you, Jesus puts a bigger one. He crossed the sea in a storm at night and risked His own life for one person others t

Jesus didn't manage the man in the tombs, He restored him. Chains were the town's solution. Redemption was His. A quick look at Mark 5:1-20 and the cost of choosing restoration over restriction ... the way to view broen people the Jesus way. Watch the full Word for the Week teaching on Mark 5:1-20: [insert WftW video link] Read Mark's Gospel free online: https://live.bible.is/bible/ENGNLH/MRK/1 More Super Short Thoughts on Mark's Gospel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_nqRcLJvtchcs

They gave him chains instead of a name ... a man so broken that his own family and neighbours gave up and left him among the dead. This is the true story of the Gerasene demoniac in Mark 5, and what happened when Jesus refused to just manage him. If your life, or someone you love, feels chained by habits or wreckage that keep breaking loose no matter what you try, this story says there is a rescue that actually works. Not another chain. A rescue. In person. Want to get to know this Jesus b