Simon Bowkett's Podcast

One hour drive-in service for y GRWP Rural Chaplaincy at Llandovery Livestock Market on October 11th. 2020 with hymns and songs, an interview with the new vicar at Llandingat Rev. Paul Pritchard and a sermon on Psalm 14 from our rural chaplain.This comes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online and https://yGRWP.com  and is about the foolishness of functional atheism.Support the show

Just over 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  unpacking Acts 17:1-4 and Ministering faithfully from the Margins of societyThe church in our time and culture has failed to keep up with how ‘way out’ we’ve become, and still acts with what looks to the differently-minded majority like a legalistic sense of entitlement.Unjustified entitlement, at that!In Acts 17:1-4 Paul teaches us in ministering from the margins of society ...to go where we can get a hearing, if not an immediately appreciative audience.And then to Explain, reason and prove … and do it from the available Scriptures or (later in the case of Athens) from the philosophy they already hold to be true. (Clearly it goes better if they already hold the Scriptures!)(There’s your method.)Then to make it all about Jesus, the crucified and Risen Messiah … the Saviour long-foretold.(There’s the message.)And here's what we must seek as

Podcast notes•IntroductionTemptation is what unveils the shop window, or swings open the door and beckons us onto a path that leads AWAY from God, and therefore AWAY from our Strength, our Sustainer and our Saviour …Now, SOLITUDE gives STRENGTH to TEMPTATION ... so we need to know how to deal with it ... and Jesus shows us how in Luke 4•The POWER of temptation, vv. 1-3, 5-7, 9-11•The POWER of Godly resistance, vv. 1, 4, 8, 12•Conclusion, v. 13 ff.Later, Paul will describe the Word of God as the Sword of the Spirit.Jesus is decisive and discerning in the desert because He is filled with the Spirit and depends on – that is doesn’t doubt the authority of – the Word of God.And therefore the Lord survived His solitude’s temptations … and the devil went off with his tail between his legs:   “When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left Him until an opportune time.”.Support the show

Soundtrack from the y GRWP Chaplaincy  Drive-In Sunday service on a farm yard in the village of Myddfai in Carmarthenshire September 27th. 2020 by kind invitation.Episode NotesPsalm 23:4•IntroductionAs Christians we see strong responses from people to COVID which indicate great insecurity in the face of serious illness and human mortality.Our response needs to be less about microbiology and more about addressing the fear of death with the vision of Psalm 23:4•The Valley of the Shadow of Death  Valley – Shadow – Death•I will fear no evil•For YOU are WITH me•The nature of the relationship•Rod•Staff•The implication of being 'shepherded' – a life of discipleship•These things COMFORT me•ConclusionCovid?No we shouldn’t be blasé about COVID, nor live in craven fear either … it’s a serious thing and it’s quite often an avoidable thing and that’s what we should do with it but … here’s its’ proper perspective:He is with me when I walk in His way, following my Lord that Eastern Shepherd, protected by His staff

Thirty eight 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 finding real hope when things are looking pretty bleak ... from the preaching of the prophet Jeremiah.Support the show

A little over twenty minutes from drive-in church at Llandovery Livestock Market 23/08/2020Support the show

Just 27 minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online/  and http://ygrwp.com at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail/ on Bible teaching as a means of spiritual survival.We post every week so please SUBSCRIBE to our podcast to stay up to date!Support the show

Just under 30 minutes on handling solitude well from https://twitter.com/WelshRev for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online/  and http://ygrwp.com  meeting as https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail/ We post every week so please SUBSCRIBE to our podcast to stay up to date!Support the show

Thirty 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 Support the show

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 Preserving Worship's Purpose as part of The Spiritual Solitude Survival Kit, episode 3Support the show

Just a touch over thirty minutes on the fundamental issue of doing 'Fellowship' (which isn't the same as 'Friendship') for our spiritual survival through enforced solitudeSupport the show

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 enforced solitude and how to maintain spiritual resilience..Support the show

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 Ruth 4:13-end ‘Redemption, restoration and … response?’Support the show

Twenty seven minute podcast from https://twitter.com/WelshRev for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online and http://ygrwp.com at https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Llandeilo  on Integrity and Grace in introducing Ruth 4:1-12Support the show

Forty minute podcast from https://twitter.com/WelshRev for www.ygrwp.com and https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online/ from https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Llandeilo/ on Ruth 3:1-18 about waiting and acting decisively.Support the show

Just 30 minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online/  and http://ygrwp.com on Ruth 2:17-23 about coping with not having enoughWe post every week so please SUBSCRIBE to our podcast to stay up to date!Support the show

Forty minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online/  and http://ygrwp.com on Joel, a prophet for weird times like these.We post every week so please SUBSCRIBE to our podcast to stay up to date!Support the show

Just over 40 minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online/  and http://ygrwp.com at  on Ruth 2:1-16We post every week so please SUBSCRIBE to our podcast to stay up to date!Support the show

Just 28 minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online/  and http://ygrwp.com at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail/ on Christian Commitment and Ruth 1:13-18We post every week so please SUBSCRIBE to our podcast to stay up to date!Support the show

Just under 30 minutes from https://twitter.com/WelshRev for https://www.facebook.com/Grace.Wales.online/  and http://ygrwp.com at https://www.facebook.com/TyrBugail/ on John 1:19-34We post every week so please SUBSCRIBE to our podcast to stay up to date!Support the show