WelshRev's Podcast

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

In Mark 4:35-41, Jesus calms a violent storm on the Sea of Galilee with two words. The point of the story isn't the weather, it's the question the disciples ask afterwards: "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" In the Old Testament, only God has authority to command the sea (Psalm 89, Psalm 107, Job 38). Mark is telling us who Jesus is by showing us what he does. How come? When Jesus calms the storm on the Sea of Galilee in Mark 4:35-41, he isn't just performing