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The Super Short Thought 'Take the Posture' is live here now:

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How risky can it be for you to pretend you're in control?
(Check this out!)
Super Short Thought - Take the Posture - James 4:15
YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett
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November 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Super Short Thought: When you know the good thing you ought to do, but then don't do it ... what?
(And why?)

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Ninety five seconds.
Check this out!
SuperShort Thought - Avoidance - James 4 v 17
YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett
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November 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Verse for the Day: Here's Monday faith and Christian assurance ... Mondays are a good time to check out that we really are following Him.
(Sound on?)
November 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Today we've got a Super Short Thought for you here:
'Control Freaking' is a 90 second look at one aspect of the Word for the Week coming out on Sunday.

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Give it a look ... and better still, a good think?
Super Short Thought - Control Freaking - James 4 vv 13-14
YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett
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November 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Super Short Thought: When down leads up.
How does THAT make sense?
Ninety seconds.
Check it out here:
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SuShTs When Down Leads Up James 4v6
YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett
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November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Last evening was spent rescuing a cow (surprisingly, miraculously) from a bog so supper was desultory.
But this evening, my easy 'Hunters chicken' with boiled Pembs. potatoes and peas alongside the Saint-Saëns organ concerto is doing a great deal to restore the situation.
Grateful.
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Super Short Thought: Here's what someone's Free Speech reveals of them. (And it's something that's really worth thinking about!)
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Super Short Thought - When words BITE BACK - James 4 vv 11-12
YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett
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November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Verse for the Day Jesus: freedom fighter, not slave master. Check it out.
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Todays's Super Short Thought (90 seconds) tackles the question: 'What causes fights and quarrels among you?'
Check it out here:
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Super Short Thought - Quarrels - James 4:1-12
YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett
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November 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The thirty-six minute Word for the Week 'The Big Fat Free Speech Fallacy' is a deep dive into James 4:1-12.
Did you realise the way you use words opens a great big window revealing the workings of your inmost self?
Check it out here:
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Word for the Week - The Big Fat 'Free Speech' Fallacy - James 4 vv 1-12
YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett
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November 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Left-overs dinner, and a great deal of help with my final sermon prep from Lazar Berman and Franz Liszt.
And if you haven't tried @idagio_official yet, give it a spin ... a better class of online classical music streaming platform!
(All views my own, of course.)
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Verse for the Day: This is a good thing ... the stairs can be dangerous.
(Sound on?)
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Verse for the Day: Search and (be) Rescue(d)
November 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The Word for the Week 'Who among you IS wise' has launched.
It tackles James 3 looking at 'The Shunning of Cunning for the Wisdom that Works' ... and there may be a few surprises.
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Word for the Week - Who Among you is Wise?
YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett
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November 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Verse for the Day: so there IS justice in this world. The historic judgement has been delivered. Which side of the verdict would you choose to be on?
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Verse for the Day: 'Nothing lasts forever ...'
(Or does it?)
#security #reliability #trust
October 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Verse for the Day: real Christian faith is never an empty vessel making sounds but mighty power
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The Word for the Week?
I'm back, and it's back ... hatched (and in part filmed) on the streets of Mostar, formed during an airtraffic control glitch and finalised by the fire in my kitchen:
'Where do you Run?'
Twenty six minutes on security.
Check it here:
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Word for the Week - Where do you run? Proverbs 18:10-11
YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett
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October 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Verse for the Day: which Way, Wales? (Spoiler alert: Jesus is the answer for the world today).
Sound on.
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Verse for the Day: Who wants to be a dark-hearted limp lettuce?
(Thought not. Time to start asking?)
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Verse for the Day:Salvation is not like 'self-help' ... 'self' is what we often need saving from!
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
On wet days in February, remind me what a privilege it is to run cattle on a hill?
October 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Word for the Week has landed.
'It can't be 'Just a Tweet' if it's words'.
Check it out here:
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It's a serious look at James 3:1-12.
Because words will always and for ever have consequences.
Word for the Week: It can't be 'just a Tweet if it's words' - James 3 vv 1-12
YouTube video by Rev Simon Bowkett
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October 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Verse for the Day: words will always have consequences.
It's what they're for.
Load them carefully.
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Amazing how many 'proper men' in the @NockDeightonAg livestock mart are VERY reluctant to touch a woman to save her life even if she's only plastic!
#BraOfDefibOn
Come on boys!
We're on the landing outside the Chaplaincy. Come and get your skills up
@ResusCouncilUK #restartaheart
October 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM