Fifteen minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online and https://yGRWP.com the key lost art on how to 'do' church, learn God's Word and Way when you can't do church the way that you WANT to.

Show Notes

"‘The days are coming,’ declares the Sovereign Lord,

    ‘when I will send a famine through the land –

not a famine of food or a thirst for water,

    but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord." - Amos 8:11

So how do you survive spiritually in times when you can't get what you feel you need to feed your soul in your accustomed and (no doubt) favourite way?

In 1 Thessalonians 2 , Paul knows that in spite of the way God usually works, that wasn’t how God was working at that time in Thessalonica, so he does NOT emphasising congregational preaching in this context.

Here he is emphasising the power in proclamation of what he'd been such a big part of in rabbinical Judaism.

It is CONSCIOUSLY relationship-building stuff ... but there's a lot more going on here than that.

Get this short prequel then check below on this podcast for how this teaching works out practically in the worked example of 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16.

Thrty four minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online and https://yGRWP.com on  Hebrews 11

Show Notes

Introduction

1) What Biblical faith truly IS, vv. 1-2

2) The cruciality of faith, v. 6

3) Faith lives on the future in trust not the present by sight, vv. 13-16

4) Moses: the ‘Law-Giver’ unpacked, vv. 24-28

5) So here’s the point, vv. 39-40 

Conclusion

Transcript

A transcript  of this podcast can be found HERE

Ten minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online and https://yGRWP.com in the 'Little Extras' series of opinion pieces about the significance of a pray er prayed in the U.S. Congress.

Transcript and resources

You can find the resources referred to by checking the transcript of this episode on the blog that you can gain access to here:
https://welshrev.blogspot.com/2021/01/winding-us-up-with-amen-and-awoman.html

Show Notes

Winding up with Amen and aWOman

     The text of the Blunder of the Day

        ‘Amen and aWOman’ is nonsense

        An exclusive personal god only the Congressman knows about

        Calling the same what is obviously different

   This is important for several reasons

Conclusion

Thirty minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online and https://yGRWP.com on the rightness and wrongness of fear

Show notes

Introduction

Firstly, fear leads to militant denialism.

Secondly, fear leads to cowering de facto atheism.

Causing fear becomes the greatest offence.

1) Is it rational to reject fear just because it’s fear?

a) Protecting from Danger

b) Teaching and maintaining Discipline

Family

Society

2) Is it Biblical to reject fear just because it is fear?

a) Natural fear

b) Sinful fear

c) Godly fear

a) It is God’s work in the human heart

b) It builds a consciousness that the eye of God our Master is upon us, His servants

c) It leads to a glad willingness to do the will of God

d) Strengthens us to avoid displeasing God

Conclusion

A transcript is available here:

https://welshrev.blogspot.com/2021/01/its-time-we-had-chat-about-fear.html

The exposition of Isaiah 8 on this subject that is mentioned in this podcast is now available here:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/47879/7101982

Thirty five minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online and https://yGRWP.com on Isaiah 8 and disarmjng the threat of the fear of mankind

Show notes

Isaiah 8 vv 12-17

I.       Introduction

II.      The setting in Isaiah 1-12

A.      The context

B.      The cotext, vv. 9-11

1.      International collapse, v. 9

2.      Fruitless consultation over the crisis, v. 10

3.      Isaiah set apart from the people by the Word of the Lord, v 11

III.         The fear of the ungodly, v. 12

IV.         The fear of the godly, v. 13

V.      The privilege of the godly, v. 14a

VI.         The fate of the ungodly, vv. 14b

VII.        Consequences, vv. 16-22

A.      Isaiah and disciples set apart for the Word of the Lord, vv. 16-18

B.      Fruitless consultation, vv. 19-20

C.      National collapse, vv. 21-22

VIII.      Conclusion

The transcript is available here:
https://welshrev.blogspot.com/2021/01/transforming-fear-of-man-isaiah-812-17.html

A supplementary background podcast is here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/47879/7103353
The transcript of the supplementary is here:
https://welshrev.blogspot.com/2021/01/its-time-we-had-chat-about-fear.html

Seven (not a misprint!) minutes for the Sunday service after Christmas, recorded on a  very muddy farm walk from https://twitter.com/WelshRev at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online and https://yGRWP.com on the sadness when the party is over ... kicking the guilt, the bitterness and the bereavement that all too often get magnified around Christmas.

Twenty seven minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online and https://yGRWP.com on Matthew 2:1-12 (with possibly a few surprises in store)

Show notes

Introduction: the Christmas conjunction

• Exposing an underlying Structure
  •  Who actually were the guys on the camels?
    • Magi
      • How many?
      • What were they?
      • Where were they from?
      • When did they come?
  • What led them to journey to Bethlehem?
    • Faithful Daniel
    • Micah's promise
    • The conjunction of Bible, astronomy and astrology
• Unfolding that structure's significance (like, Who cares?)
  • A tale of two outsiders and enemies
  • Their key roles in Matthew's Nativity
• Conclusion
  • Historical faith
  • Christ's universal Kingship
  • Grace to the most unexpected (worshipping) outsiders

Forty minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online and https://yGRWP.com on how to fathom out our response to what's happening to us with the novel coronavirus pandemic

Show notes
Introduction – I’m dreaming of a weird Christmas

     Our situation

       Our ‘desolation’

•Daniel’s problem, vv. 1-2

     •Exile from his destroyed homeland

     •The Scriptures and Jeremiah’s prophecy

•Daniel’s prayer, vv. 3-19

     •Focused prayer, v. 3

     •Confession, vv. 4-8

          •I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed, vv. 4-6

          •I prayed to the Lord my God and lamented my shame, vv. 7-8

     •Daniel’s Biblical, rational analysis, vv. 9-14

          •This is because of the Covenant

          •YOU have done this to us

     •Daniel’s faithful resolution of the matter, vv. 15-19

Conclusion – the call on our hearts of a weird Christmas

Twenty minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online and https://yGRWP.com on The Second song of Christmas Luke 1:46-55 ... 'Singing with Substance'

Podcast notes
Luke 1:46-55

•Introduction

•Mary rejoices, vv. 46-47

•Here’s why, vv. 48-55

•What He’s done for her, vv. 48-49

•Here’s how I’m SURE, vv. 50-55

•The basic principle, v. 50 “His mercy extends to those who fear him,

      from generation to generation.”

•Six aorists:

•Scattered the proud
     Politics

     •Brought down the mighty

     •Lifted the lowly

     Social Justice

     •Filled the hungry

     •Sent off the rich

Point: Theologically-informed Experience of God in history

Leads to  practical confidence in God that SINGS in the crises of now

•Helped His servant Israel (the one who 'prevails with God')

Conclusion

Just under 45 minutes of carols, readings and God-thoughts from from https://twitter.com/WelshRev  and the people of https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online and https://yGRWP.com