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YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Super Short Thought - WHY on EARTH is a Pastor doing THAT!

The (kinda) Super Short Thought for today is a little bit different.
It's just over 4 minutes and it explains why I was 'missing' last week, and where
youtu.be/AD1LM-ko96Q?...
Give it a look!

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Super Short Thought - God is a farmer. (Prepare a good seedbed).

Thought for the Day: God is a Farmer - prepare a good seedbed
youtu.be/dlr6NbrIjvI?...
(2.5 minutes - sound on!)

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Verse for the Day Walking through life in the light of Christ makes sense of it. Ask questions.

Verse for the Day. C.S. Walking through life in the light of Christ makes sense of it
Find a Bible-believing church.
Go there.
Ask questions.
It'll be ok.
youtu.be/goGcOhqCc4Y?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Verse for the Day - are these boots you are up for stepping into?

Verse for the Day - are these boots you are up for stepping into?
youtu.be/O9_jQSyoeB8?...

What use is hearing a sermon?
None, if it's all information (for the mind) and no formation (of your character).
James 1:22 "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves."
Have a great Sunday!
:-)

Busy enough at the @NockDeightonAg breeding sheep sale in #Carmarthen Mart this evening.
Young people buying ewes here ... what can possibly go wrong for them?
(No. Seriously. Lovely to see young couples here bidding, discussing, bidding again ...)

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Word for the Week - a hut in a cucumber patch. Isaiah 1

The Word for the Week - 'Like a hut in a cucumber patch' is available here now:

youtu.be/8GQhyQnW8m8?...

I was dodging the showers over at Dryslwyn Castle this week so it's just 18 minutes long ... give it a go!

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Super Short Thought - When your words reveal what your theology can't hide

Thought for the Day: the thing that makes a person's religion worthless gets revealed here now in this Super Short Thought:
youtu.be/9TpydZn7kuU?...
Under three minutes.
Check it out.

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Verse for the Day: It may be a tired-out Thursday, but Son-day's coming. (Sound on & subscribe.)

Verse for the Day: It may be a tired-out Thursday, but Son-day's coming.
(Sound on and be sure to subscribe.)
youtu.be/ZiYeEPsKVkk?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Verse for the Day. Redemption (for) requires a radical response (from). Can you deal with this?

Verse for the Day. A God Who is not 'tame' can both do for and seek from His people things that can seem challenging
Here their redemption (for) requires a radical response (from)
Can you deal with this?
Consistent believers will be onto this
So let's think this through...
youtu.be/pXwz2n90VqQ?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Super Short Thought - Wipe the paste off your face!

The Thought for the Day ... a Super Short Thought involving tooth paste (and a Thought that's more significant) has been released here this morning:
youtu.be/hxO2q-La0e8?...
Every Super Short Thought is between just two and three minutes.
It might be worth the small time investment.

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Word for the Week video - Taking responsibility for your temptations - James 1 vv 12-18

The Word for the Week tackles blaming God for everything ... including stuff that's down to us ... and what James has got to say about that common but often unacknowledged phenomenon
youtu.be/pzfSyZiFgbs?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Verse for the Day: Don't knock it 'till you've (really) tried it, baby! (Sound on?):

Verse for the Day: Don't knock it 'till you've (really) tried it, baby!
Sound on.
youtu.be/ufpnnF3Ysgw?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Super Short Thought - James 1 v 15 - Sin grows up

Thought for the Day from the Black Mountain. When stuff you shouldn't have done bites you back, and how to take action to sort it. Happily, there's help to be had. youtu.be/tMu2HRFR3Ls?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Super Short Thought - James 1 vv 13-14 Adulting when it Comes to Temptation

Thought for the Day: 'Whoops, I did it again!' - Adulting when it comes to temptation.
youtu.be/e8CA-Uv3xc8?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Verse for the Day On the importance of curating your cares

Verse for the Day On anxiety and the importance of curating your cares ... carefully
youtu.be/HDuJBZolgr0?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Verse for the Day ... as we continue to hope for a world without fear.(Sound on, please.)

Verse for the Day
On this day of painful remembrance, we hold in our hearts those affected by the 7/7 bombings.
May this verse bring comfort, courage, and resolve as we continue to hope for a world without fear.
(Sound on, please.)

youtu.be/QCZpmClFmCU?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett The Word for the Week video - Grinding through griefs to a great big Crown of Glory -James 1 vv 2-12

The Word for the Week from Llansteffan Beach: 'Grinding through your Griefs to a Great Big Crown of Glory' is live here now:
youtu.be/uSn49xYuCS8?...
Check the description for extras by way of two extra Super Short Thoughts from the same passage of Scripture.

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Verse for the DayDwelling on the past or living for the future God promises HIS people?

Verse for the Day
Dwelling on the past or living for the future God promises HIS people?
The one hangs on faith and the other on (failing) sight.
(Sound on ... bit of blues!)
youtu.be/m41JZjxSSIk?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Super Short Thought - What Stress Wants is Wisdom James 1 v 5

Sadly my Thought for the Day has been delayed by a bad back ... but here it is.
Two and a half minutes: 'What Stress wants is Wisdom'
youtu.be/yLMwOCqlxpw?...

Working 33 month fresh Holstein heifer giving 39 litres/ day leaves the ring @NockDeightonAg #Carmarthen mart today at £3,200

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Verse for the Day: here's the way that life can taste better ...(Be blessed!)

Verse for the Day: here's the way that life can taste better ...
(Be blessed!)
youtu.be/4FsitcJxBcE?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Super Short Thought - Don't ask me, then try to 'fix it' yourself!

Thought for the Day: 'Don't ask me for help then try to fix it yourself!'
(God).
youtu.be/1PpbC8eZymc?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Word for the Week video - James and his 'Meeting without Coffee' - James 1:1

Happy Sunday!
My Word for the Week 'James and his Meeting without Coffee' has gone live here:
youtu.be/zoI1E1PnadU?...
There are links to two subject-related but separate Super Short Thought videos c. 90 seconds each in the description: 'Why does God allow hard things?' & one other. Check them out!

YouTube video by ForwardToChrist Professor John Lennox STUNS Room Full of Atheists

Here's a Saturday Special for a day when I'm working but not publishing content myself ...
#ProfessorJohnLennox speaking at the Oxford Union (university debating society) arguing for the motion that 'God is real and worthy to be trusted'

youtu.be/Y7ZATMal_XQ?...

Food for thought!

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Super Short Thought - Really hard times meet the Crown of Life

My Thought for the Day today is the Super Short Thought: 'Really Hard Times Meet the Crown of Life' (under two and a half minutes) that has gone live here:

youtu.be/7suTOuednm4?...

It's part of a package.

The other videos in the package are linked to in its description.

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Verse for the Day: what if our world was headed THAT way, instead?

Verse for the Day: what if our world was headed THAT way, instead?
youtu.be/TGQoKR2pcik?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Super Short Thought James 1 v 4 Why does God allow hard things?

Thought for the Day is a Super Short Thought 'Why does God allow hard things?' is up and running here:
youtu.be/J137W9qSbBE?...
This may not be one for the faint-hearted, but it's definitely one for the faith-hearted.
(And sefinitely not all lambs and daffodils.)

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Verse for the Day: making sense of building Monday out of a superb spiritual Sunday. (Nice audio!)

Verse for the Day: making sense of building Monday out of a superb spiritual Sunday ...
(Nice bit of drumming in the audio)
youtu.be/IlQMqrX--Z4?...

YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett Word for the Week video - Anxious dogs don't work sheep well - 2 Thessalonians 3:16

My Word for the Week 'Anxious Dogs Don't Work Sheep Well' is live here now
youtu.be/OvQ_RY3QW34?...
Peace is what we were built for, and it comes from where you might not expect.
Check it out here in the next 30 minutes and let me know your thoughts in the comments.