Freedom lives inside your mind, your soul ... but is sourced from outside and when sourced carries outside world impacts. (Deep, for a Friday, but real.)
Verse for the Day Fulfilling your #Purpose #GivingHelp These can be costly but reap benefits by making you not just be better but FEEL better. Like going to the gym, or taking intentional exercise. Worth thinking about for a range of reasons. Peter speaks wisdom. Listen to Peter.
Verse for the Day Helga the heifer is having a bad hair day. It's not a first order problem. She wasn't too embarrassed to show her face for a chat and a scratch. But God is there for when we are.
It's not unusual to need a hand to hold when you're on steep ground, from time to time.
Verse for the Day What's that 'Therefore' pointing back to? Paul's assurance that Christ's resurrection brings their own personal resurrection (together) to His followers. (Should've used AI to summarise that better ... check the chapter for yourself!)
Did you know that doing random acts of kindness have been shown to be better at lifting your mood than a range of more conventional therapeutic approaches? Hebrews says (real) church 'spurs' you to do them. ... just a thought.
Verse for the Day They'd spent a very wet and stormy night (with cover of those trees) but knew I'd turn up to give feed from that bin in the morning. So they stood there steaming in the rising sun, and waiting ...
Verse for the Day The cold dark nights of the winter needn't become the cold dark night of the soul. Hebrews says Christ came to prevent it. Don't just vegetate in the cold and dark. Step up!
Verse for the Day Large and small cycles of violence all over our world - really bad for a person's mental health! Do something radical: nip the little ones in the bud before they become big ones. 👆 (It's in The Book.)
Verse for the (back to work after the holidays) Day Turn to Him each time your foot drags and take heart ... He does what it says in The Book.
Five minute thought as we approach the new year
Twenty-one minutes on Malachi 3:13-4:6
Four-minute Word for the Week from the farm, and the railway station.