WelshRev's Podcast

What do you actually need on the worst day of your life? An explanation. A nice theory? What about the question: is there any reason not to give up right now? That is exactly where Jairus is standing in Mark 5:21-43. His daughter was dying, Jesus agreed to come, and then there was a delay. Messengers arrived and told him what we call 'The Worst'. It's too late (they said): "your daughter's dead, don't bother the teacher anymore." And Jesus turned to Jairus and said, "Do not fear, only b

Two people. Same afternoon. Same town. Both facing the worst day of their lives, and neither one knows the other exists. A woman who has been bleeding for twelve years, spending everything she has on cures that never worked. A little girl, just twelve years old, whose life is about to end before it has properly begun. Jesus meets both of them on the same afternoon, and speaks the same authority over both. "Daughter, your faith has made you well." "Cariad, get up." This Super Short Thought loo

On the way to save a dying child, Jesus stops ... not for the crowd pressing all around Him, but for one woman who was DESPERATE, who reached out with nothing left to lose. Here's a Super Short Thought on Mark 5:25-34: the woman who had spent everything, tried everyone, and risked one moment of covert contact as her very last chance. Jesus knows the difference between a crowd touching Him and a person actually reaching for Him. And Jesus ... did something very unexpected. Part of the Discover

The Show's over. But the horseflies are still biting. And something I saw at the boot sale won't leave me alone. Nearly 2,000 years ago, a man named John opened a letter with words we now toss around without thinking: "I pray that you may prosper and be in health, just as your soul is prospering" (3 John 1:2). Walking the showground this week, that line gripped me differently, because what I saw wasn't just a nation carrying the weight of years indoors and years of the wrong fuel. It was a qu

A young handler burns her leg at the Royal Welsh Show. Her mam knew exactly what to do: cold water, straight away, twenty minutes, no fuss. That's the kind of quick, practical, action-packed compassion rural Wales runs on, and it's exactly the shape of the story Jesus tells in Luke 10, the Good Samaritan: - Two religious men walk past an injured stranger. - A despised outsider stops and gets on with it ... treats his wounds. - No lecture, no hesitation, just action. In this Super Short Thou

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