WelshRev's Podcast

Is it actually okay to be a patriot ... to love your country, your people, your language?Yes.Absolutely, yes.The Bible is full of it: Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, Paul saying he could almost wish himself cut off from God if it would save his people, Nehemiah in tears over a broken city.Passion…

There's a song in heaven celebrating a Lamb who was killed, who purchased people for God from every tribe, every language, every people, every nation. But that word "from" matters more than you might think.It doesn't mean every single person from every nation automatically ends up in God's story. …

Standing on Penarth seafront, Simon asks a simple question: what does God think of Wales?Revelation 5:9 describes a heavenly scene where people are gathered "from every tribe and language and people and nation" before God's throne, every language included, every nation kept distinct, not erased in…

A Saturday morning in Capernaum.An ordinary synagogue.An ordinary Sabbath.And then Jesus walked in.What happened next left the entire congregation 'struck out of themselves', using a word Mark chooses carefully: cognitively dislocated, categories broken.Not impressed. Not entertained.…

What happens when an ancient power-naming strategy meets Jesus of Nazareth in a Capernaum synagogue?Across Egyptian magical texts, Greek exorcism manuals, and fairy tales like Rumpelstiltskin, the logic is consistent: know the true name of a being, gain power over it.When the unclean spirit in Ma…