by Julie Turner | Jun 4, 2012 | What's Happening
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrates 60 years of her reign, diamond being the jewel chosen to represent 60 years. Wedding anniversaries are remembered with different items each year: the first wedding anniversary being paper, the tenth tin and so on. The...
by Julie Turner | Jun 4, 2012 | What's Happening
Last night the family service rather unoriginally took the theme of the Jubilee!We had a variety of Jubilee prizes on offer:We had a game called ‘Pin the Crown on the Queen’, using amazing resources painstakingly produced by a friend of mine (thanks,...
by Julie Turner | Jun 3, 2012 | What's Happening
Garry preached from Romans 12:1-2 this morning, focussing on the ‘renewing of our minds’. God wants all of us, every part of our live, and that obviously includes our minds – that faculty of perceiving and understanding, our capacity for reasoning...
by Julie Turner | Jun 1, 2012 | What's Happening
Last night in our study on James, we looked at the way that the rich and the poor were treating Communion (see 1 Corinthians 11:17-22). Paul found nothing to commend in the selfishness of the rich who brought plenty to the love feast, but equally took...
by Julie Turner | Jun 1, 2012 | What's Happening
I am currently reading a book by Eugene Peterson (no surprise there, huh?!) called ‘Subversive Spirituality’. I read it a little bit at a time (unlike my normal method of reading, which is to devour a book hungrily in one sitting, aiming for the world...