When not naming becomes shaming ... this Super Short Thought from a Welsh hill amongst cattle (yes I ALWAYS use a quad helmet) could keep you and your chapel off the skids.
Isn't that worth a (less than) two minute look?
Super Short Thought:
Small doesn’t mean failing.
In farming - and in church - quality beats quantity.
Jesus looked at a tiny, weak church and didn’t rebuke them.
He commended them.
“You have little power… yet you have kept my word.” (Revelation 3)
Super Short Thought:
Small doesn’t mean failing.
In farming - and in church - quality beats quantity.
Jesus looked at a tiny, weak church and didn’t rebuke them.
He commended them.
“You have little power… yet you have kept my word.” (Revelation 3)
Verse for the Day: This isn’t hype.
Not an empty 'Positive Thought' for a Monday morning.
It’s a claim about reality.
Some doors are quite simply opened by God - and only He carries the keys.
Then the question is not can it be opened?
Then the question is will you walk through it?
(Happy Monday.)
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The Word for the Week has landed ...
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In today's Super Short Thought ...
If you feel overlooked, outnumbered, or as if what you’re doing doesn’t count - this message is for you.
👉 God doesn’t need a crowd to make His work ... work.
👉 He works by His own 'onboard' strength through those who remain faithful.
Verse for the Day ...
"Here is love, vast as the ocean,
Loving kindness as the flood;
When the Prince of Life our ransom
Shed for ...
His precious blood"
(Add your own pronouns as appropriate.)
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Do you see a difference between a church that’s active… and one that’s alive?
Can a church be busy, historic, and well-known… and still be spiritually dead?
Jesus seems to think so (Revelation 3:1).
What do you think?
Happy Easter!
Many like the sound of the Resurrection who can't bear the sight of the Cross
So wo guys walked away from it all that first Easter
We look at them, their disillusionment and their discovery in today's Word for the Week (just 25 mins) here 👇
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This last video short on Easter explores a powerful truth:
👉 If you grasp onto it, the resurrection of Jesus doesn’t just comfort someone, it gives totally fresh and dynamic direction to a life.
So here’s the (genuine) question: which direction are you going to be heading in?
Have you ever felt disappointed with God - like things haven’t worked out the way you hoped?
If you’ve ever struggled with disappointment, doubt, or a sense that God feels distant from your disappointed expectations, maybe this Super Short Thought is for you.
When life doesn’t make sense, when disappointment hits hard and we blame God, the issue may not be the facts - but the frame.
Check out this #Easter Super Short Thought about Cleopas and his mate and the eye-opening 'Aha!' experience that turned them round and sent them back.
When it comes to not feeling able to believe, is the problem really “out there”… or is it something within us?
Using the idea of a 'spiritual bradycardia' (a dangerously slow heartbeat), there's something Jesus Himself says that exposes something deeper than intellectual doubt.
Today's #Easter Super Short Thought 'Disappointed Disciples' sits at the cross roads where misplaced expectation takes leave of the promised reality, producing ... unjustified disappointment.
(But gets put right.)
This Word for the Week deals with maybe the most convincing witness to Jesus Christ in Scripture.
Three really weird signs and the conviction of a man very hard to convince.
Welcome to 'The Executioner's Tale'
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It's a Deep Dive, but no need to hold your nose.
Super Short Thought celebrating a strange sign of Death's Death Day ('The Future Leaks into the Present') is here.
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Are you across what happened inside the Temple the exact moment Jesus died?
It was 'curtains' for the age old curtains that had hung there for about 1,500 years ... but so what?
Check it out in this Super Short Thought.
Often in the Bible, darkness isn't just weather.
So just WHAT was going on that day?
'The Three Big Weird Signs of Easter - 1. The Darkness' is the Super Short Thought for today.
1' 51" - from #BrynichLock
Check it out here 👇
Horribly delayed by glitches with YouTube uploads here (finally) comes
The Word for the Week from a very sunny city of Oxford ... and from there for a reason.
Incoming: another clear and really relevant reason churches shut
Check this out:
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Verse for the Day - Don't look down, look up!
Most of us avoid confrontation.
At work. At home. With friends.
It’s easier to keep the peace than say the hard thing.
But what if staying silent actually costs more than speaking up?
Welcome to today's Super Short Thought!
Verse for the Day
God is for much more than Sundays, and REALLY singing is good for the soul.
The Pergamum church faced enormous pressure to fit in, compromise, and quietly go along with the culture around them.
The real danger wasn’t persecution.
It was slow cultural assimilation and personal compromise.
The Word for the Week tackles that issue.
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Here's today's Super Short Thought: 'Free Food: Hidden Manna'.
"If you feel spiritually unsatisfied ... hungry ... maybe you're looking for your food in the wrong place."
(Check this out!)
Verse for the Day
There are lots of people out there in Wales tonight who've been nailing lambing but feeling the weight of it ... late nights, early mornings, let-downs and losses.
(PLEASE look after yourselves!)
But none of that looks quite like what got done for us here 👇
Super Short Thought
Many feel pressure to go with things they know aren’t right. Society says: fit in, don’t rock the boat.
But what if deep down you know you’re heading in the wrong direction?
Christian faith begins not with a ritual, but with an honest pivot.
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Verse for the Day on a wet Tuesday in Wales ... great news for folks who follow Christ in fearful times.
Christianity isn’t about isolation or strange behaviour - but it is about distinctiveness. Real faith changes how we live (not just what we believe internally) following Christ in a world that prefers comfortable compromise ... because if faith is real, it WILL shape our lives.
Super Short Thought: 'Not Denying my Name'.
Faithfulness.
Loyalty under pressure that shapes the person that you will become.
125 seconds - check it out!
