Verse for the Day You can wash dirt from your hands with soap and water. Deep down we know it takes more to wash responsibility for our actions. So that's why we've got this thing called 'Easter'. ✝️ (And the resurrection seals the promise that it works.) #Easter #Hope
Verse for the Day What price peace? ✝️ ⛓️💥 (Now THAT'S a plus!)
Verse for the Day Tree planting. Very much an issue in Welsh agriculture atm. But this verse is all about being the tree in the right place, I reckon. (Be like that tree.)
Verse for the Day Worship. Commit to it (SHOUT) and go for it (come before Him with joyful songs). It bucks the trend, and it's good for the soul!
Verse for the Day 'Caught' pregnant, but not by your fiancée ... When the road ahead looks like it's heading downhill with sharp bends on the way ... it really is time to try to look beyond the immediate, and count your blessings. (But possibly, it really doesn't feel like…
Verse for the Day A thought about the positive value of blessing: It's personal. It's positive. It brings hope from outside ourselves. It's prayer for people that you want to see good things. May the God of hope send you joy and peace in trusting Him today ... all of…
Verse for the Day Elephant in the room: doing what you feel is best for you is very often what's hurt you. It's mercy and inner personal renewal we need, not the self-asserting justification of self-indulgence.
Picture credit: Bob Davies (Yscoedreddfyn)
Verse for the Day In a social media age when 'performative individualism' seeks to counter lurking internal guilt, shame and self-doubt with distracting acts of public 'charity', Jesus looks pretty ... 'alternative'. (Who's 'up for' His lifestyle revolution?)
Promptness with forethought can be necessary. Rushing in is fraught with the risk of far greater complexity. There is an alternative. This would be a good one.
Verse for the Day Some things are so right but so generally unacknowledged, you've got to be ready to stand out from the crowd.
There sometimes appears to be a direct correlation between the emptiness of the vessel and the noise emitted ... let's not be deceived by that.
Verse for the (post-budget) Day Where do we stand now? "What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?"
Verse for the Day To know what you are doing, to know where you are going, and why .. gives point and meaning to a human life. But then to know you're doing this with the very best of most capable companions ... ? Solid gold.
Verse for the Day This cap doesn't only fit in rural Wales (on bad days you may recognise it and agree!) It's a cap that fits wherever people are found. Isaiah foresees a cosmic solution for catastrophic humanity. And he puts it down to what God was doing at #Easter
He's not a God to sit still doing nothing, so if you want to shelter in His shadow, you've got to walk in His ways.
Verse for the Day When you know you need to talk, but somehow just find the words to ... (Yup. That happens.) How about this? Give it a try! Does this help?