WelshRev's Podcast

At the end of a long, hot day at the Royal Welsh Show, here's a word for anyone running on empty. Psalm 23:3 says "He restores my soul", not "He keeps me going." A shepherd who never rests isn't a good shepherd, he's heading for a breakdown, and that's bad news for the flock too. Rest isn't the reward for finishing the work. Rest is what makes you fit to do it again tomorrow. This SST was filmed live among the stockmen and exhibitors at Europe's largest agricultural show, after they'd spent

"He will feed his flock like a shepherd, He will gather the lambs in his arms and carry them close to his heart." (Isaiah 40:11) Filmed in the sheep shed at the Royal Welsh Show, this Super Short Thought looks at the difference between driving a flock and carrying it. At feeding time, some stand outside the pen and throw the feed in. Others get right in among the flock. Isaiah pictures God the same way: not shouting from behind, not shoving the flock into a pen, but gathering the lambs up an

There's no mess like 'oxen' in the barn, and there's no increase without them either. Proverbs 14:4 puts a choice in front of every farmer, and in front of every one of us: keep things clean and empty, or carry the cost and mess of real strength in your enterprise (see these bullocks) and get the 'increase' in your (metaphorical) fortunes that comes with it. Faith works the same way. It was never meant to be tidy or risk free. This Super Short Thought looks at what an old Proverb says about

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