Welcome to Pentecost Sunday 2023 with y GRWP and the DIY Sunday Service Kit!
Let's face it, some of us have been around in church for quite a few Pentecosts now, and crucial though Acts chapter 2 is ... there can be a certain sense that we've been here a few times before1
I thought this year that this video from Wycliffe Bible Translators gave us a fresh angle ... what do you think?
(Click below).
Let's pray
Father, help us to grasp again we pray the importance to your purpose of bringing all things and all people together again under the Headship of Christ and fixing the brokenness born of the Fall.
And to that end, help us to reset our own priority and resolution that all people should hear the message of the Bible in the language of their own culture and of their own heart.
Help us to be part of putting your message where people can most readily and most thoroughly receive it, starting right where we are today. We ask for Jesus sake.
Amen.
The Holy Spirit inspires prayer and worship in the people of God ... let's seek His presence as we sing this well-prove old hymn given fresh life with Celtic Worship
Here's a trailer for where OUR Bible ministry is going today for Pentecost ...
Let's pray
Llandovery and 'the Urdd'
Next week, the Urdd Eisteddfod comes to Llandovery and whilst I am pretty disappointed, to be honest, that we still don't have a place or opportunity to be reaching out to eisteddfod goers ourselves it is GREAT that Memorial Chapel are doing this 👇
There's no website as such for this but I grabbed this screenshot from their Pastor, Rob,'s own Facebook profile so ... sorry for the poor quality!
Let's just pray for them and the big effort they are making?
Ukraine
It looks pretty much as if things are hotting up in Ukraine with gentle warnings being put out by the Ukrainian Army to Russia that they are about to start their delayed Spring offensive.
I can only imagine they are letting the Russian Army know what is coming in the hope that the Russians won't do anything disproportionately ... precipitous! We know the Russian state has got access to doomsday weapons, and I'm sure we are all praying that no-one does anything catastrophic with them during this conflict.
Let's also pray for the Ukrainians who have this war in their towns and cities, who are bearing terrible things already due to the conflict.
And let's pray for those inside Russia who also suffer very badly and unwillingly from this war. The Lord has His people deployed in both countries involved in this conflict and brethren on both sides can be innocently and unwillingly caught up in violence.
Bala
(Yup ... north Wales ... Bala!)
It's an honour to have been asked to be a speaker at the Bala Ministers' conference next week and to speak there about mission in Rural Wales.
Normally they have people filing the conference's missionary slot who are doing exciting sounding things in exotic places around the world. Normally, too, mission in rural Wales is not really on the radar in conferences like this.
Would you pray that I don't muck it up, that God gives rise to a real concern for the Gospel in rural Wales and that it leads to fresh prayer, and for both practical help and personnel coming forward to strengthen the things we are doing here?
I'd also love to know if there's anyone anywhere else doing anything like the stuff we are doing, because it currently seems to be a fairly lonely 'gig'!
(Obviously, I'll be asking them to pray too about somewhere for us to meet ... aargh!)
So ... there are some prayer points. Let's pray, as the Spirit leads!
When you've prayed, please click the traditional Pentecost hymn in the box below ...
Click the Bible below to be taken to today's Bible reading
Click here for this sermon on the StudioCam
It always feels a bit dangerous to finish with a new song, but this one seems to fit ... so here it is!
(And as usual, the giving link is on the next button below. Thanks.)
Now let's pray
Our Lord and Father we thank you for every reminder of the Glory and the Supremacy of the One Who is OUR Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
As you know the inner depths and the deepest thoughts of our hearts, please would you apply to our hearts today the things that we have seen in your Word, and cause us to lean more heavily day by day on the grace of your Spirit's strength to walk more closely with our supreme Saviour in His ways.
We ask for Jesus' sake and for His greater Glory ...
AMEN.
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