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Thirty five 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 The Christian Way - transformative relationships not religious Rules - Podcast Notes1 Thessalonians 1:5-8•Introduction•Giving Glory to God for their genuine faith, vv. 2-3         •“We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. 3 We          remember before our God and Father your         •work produced by faith, your         •labour prompted by love, and your         •endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.”•Giving Glory to God for their genuine conversion, vv. 4-5        •The grounds of it, v. 4 “For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has         chosen you …”   The evidence of it, v. 5a “because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction.”•Giving Glory to God for their genuine discipleship, vv. 5b-8 “You know how we lived among you for your sake.      •v. 6 You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit.      •v. 7 And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.      •v. 8a The Lord’s message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia – your faith in God has become known everywhere.     •v. 8b Therefore we do not need to say anything about it, 9 for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us.”ConclusionBiblical assurance is based on election not presumption.It is based on the Gospel coming to people not simply with words but with power, with the Holy Spirit and with DEEP CONVICTION.And that results in a life of discipleship to Christ characterised by •      Work produced not by self-justification or virtue signalling but by faith•      Toil prompted by love, and•      Endurance INSPIRED by Hope in our Lord Jesus Christ … the Messiah, the Son of God: crucified, raised and returning.It gives rise to fruit which the Apostolic team led by Paul then expands on in the remainder of the chapter …That fruit shows itself in genuine conversion, discipleship and changed lives, and that also impacts the lives of others.That discipleship is PERSONAL .It is discipleship to CHRIST, the first Apostles learned it personally from Him, and we (not having his physical body here now) learn it personally from Him through the Holy spirit and also in-the-body from those we walk with as brothers and sisters here below …And that is CRUCIALLY under pressure and must be safeguarded and preserved in times of pandemic, pestilence and prohibition on Christian assembly. We HAVE to find ways to be setting this as a priority especially during times of COVID isolation.Support the show (https://www.give.net/20229353)

Thirty six 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 Assurance, doubt and the mistakes we make from 1 Thessalonians 1:4-5Show Notes1 Thessalonians 1:4-5IntroductionGiving Glory to God for their genuine conversion, vv. 4-5•The grounds of it, v. 4 “For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you …”     •We KNOW     •Brothers and sisters     •LOVED by GOD     •He has CHOSEN you•The evidence of it, v. 5a “because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction.”     •Power     •The Holy Spirit     •Deep convictionConclusionSupport the show (https://www.give.net/20229353)

This Act of Remembrance was  recorded a St John Baptist Church, Claines, WorcesterNovember 2018Played on original Royal Military College 1914 BugleBugler: Geoff SansomeIt has been edited and is reproduced here for our use only in connection with the Remembrance Day Service of Ty'r Bugail online by kind permission of Geoff Sansome.For further information please contact yGRWP.com©y GRWP2020 Support the show (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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 on keping the chin up so you can see to go forward.Support the show (https://www.give.net/20229353)

Thirty two  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  what Real Deal Christianity actually IS ...Podcast notes•Introduction•Giving Glory to God for their genuine faith, vv. 2-3   •“We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. 3 We remember before our God and Father your    •work produced by faith, your     •labour prompted by love, and your     •endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.” | Observable phenomenon | Causal mechanism | Motivation | Work | produced | faith | Labour | prompted | love | Endurance | inspired | hope in the Lord Jesus•Giving Glory to God for their genuine conversion, vv. 4-5    •The grounds of it, v. 4 “For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you …”    •The evidence of it, v. 5a “because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction.”•ConclusionSupport the show (https://www.give.net/20229353)

Just under 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 the Big Picture overview of Paul's first letter to the Thessalonian church.Episode notes:IntroductionWhat do you SAY to new Christians who have suddenly, in coming to Christ, come under huge pressure, precisely BECAUSE of their new-found faith in Christ?(And what crumbs from this lesson fall under the table to the rest of us to help us along?)•Celebrate faithfulness, chs. 1-3     •Paul thanks God for all that He’s given them, 1:1-5     •Remembering their conversion, 1:6-10     •Remembering the campaign they were converted in, 2:1-12     •Realising as they suffer they participate with Jesus, 2:13-16     •Paul’s anguish and Timothy’s discovery, 2:17-3:10•Challenge to grow, chs. 4-5   (Ymlaen!)      •Holiness and sexual purity, 4:1-8      •Love expressed in practical service, 4:9-12      •Answering death’s challenge to faith, 4:13-18      •The Christian hope is what fires your faithfulness, 5:1-11•Conclusion      •Following Jesus leads to a counter-cultural life      •That responds to hostility with love & generosity      •That is motivated by going forward in holiness inspired by HOPE in the coming Kingdom of JesusSupport the show (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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 on the  founding experience of the exemplary church Paul writes to at Thessalonica.A church born in and for battle and going forward with God.An inspiring example with clear lessons for our time.Notes: Last week we began a series of sermons looking at Paul’s very encouraging letter to the reasonably young church in Thessalonica by opening up the account of how that church came into being – it is necessary background to understand Paul’s subsequent letter to them. And the issue we’re looking at today in the origins of that church is what the response of their community was TO that new church, and how that was handled by them and by the Apostles whose preaching had brought that church into being. That’s relevant for us as we increasingly live in a world that doesn’t know what a Christian is or is about and marginalises those of us who hold to a Biblical pattern of faith and conduct. We are ourselves going back to what over the course of history has been the more normal experience of Christians, the experience and some might say the calling to minister from … not TO but FROM … the margins of society..•In the Synagogue, vv. 1-4•There WAS a synagogue•The missionary strategyCultural apologeticBiblical teaching•Outcome•Jews persuaded•God-fearing Greeks persuaded•Role of womenAnd they all JOINED the Apostles•At the market place, v. 5•Jealousy•Alliance with bad characters•Populism (mob)•Violence v. 5c “They rushed to Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd.”•Before the magistrates, vv. 6-9•Hostility directed at the preachers•Frustrated hostility fell on new converts who were WITH them•Jews alleged defiance of Caesar•Turmoil caused v. 8 “When they heard this, the crowd and the city officials were thrown into turmoil.”•Conclusion, v. 10 “As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue.”The believer and the local church are born for battle.Christ’s death on the Cross sealed the victory of God’s Kingdom but these are days when that Kingdom must be established in a mopping up campaign against the enemy.it is a battle that is won but there are still casualties and costs in the on-going campaign that presses the advantage and inaugurates the new era.But trouble is NOT what we look for … the establishment of God’s Kingdom truly ISGiven the feeling that was generated against the Apostles and the legal bind-over applied to the new church’s leaders, there was nothing to be gained FOR THE GOSPEL by Paul and Silas carrying on slugging it out.New believers and old can be entrusted to GodThere’s a very spiritually realistic and humbling principle to be learned here: the promise of Matthew 10:17 following doesn’t simply apply to ‘super-saints’, it applies to all the followers of Jesus who trust in Him.And it is those who persevere to the end that are saved.Support the show (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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 (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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 our goal in doing so:Look for the work of the Spirit, deep conviction and call people to come together, follow Jesus together, leave the old life and join the assembly of the people of God as His covenanted, New Covenant people.Support the show (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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 (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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, handled and nurtured with His rod – His light dispelling the fear of evil and the shadow of Death’s Valley.Confident of His ability to take care of death and its sting, so that I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.Please feel free to dip into our DIY Sunday Service Sheet which this week deals with Jeremiah 31:31-34 It comes with its' own contact form and WhatsApp messaging feature to get in touch ... here's the link:https://churchserviceplanner.co.uk/p/omoov1tdeuSupport the show (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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 (https://www.give.net/20229353)

A little over twenty minutes from drive-in church at Llandovery Livestock Market 23/08/2020Support the show (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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 (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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 (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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 (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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 (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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 (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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 (https://www.give.net/20229353)

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 (https://www.give.net/20229353)