by Julie Turner | Apr 20, 2012 | What's Happening
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Eph 2:10)The word translated ‘handiwork’ or ‘workmanship’ in Ephesians 2:10 in Greek is ‘poiema’, from...
by Julie Turner | Apr 16, 2012 | What's Happening
Dave preached from John 20:19-29 last night, looking particularly at Thomas’s responses to the Resurrection. We are privileged to know the ending of the Easter story every day, but the disciples on that first Easter Sunday were broken-hearted and confused,...
by Julie Turner | Apr 16, 2012 | What's Happening
Garry preached on confirming your calling from 2 Peter 1:3-11 yesterday morning. There, Peter tells us ‘be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure.’ The word ‘confirm’ or ‘make sure’ has the idea of a firm...
by Julie Turner | Apr 15, 2012 | What's Happening
We have kept fish as pets for about eighteen years now, since our son first won a goldfish at a fair (which died two days later, just as he was excitedly writing about ‘my first pet’ at school.) I had never had a pet fish myself as a child, and was...
by Julie Turner | Apr 14, 2012 | What's Happening
Following on from the song ‘One Thing Remains’, I was reminded of a passage in Lamentations 3, very familiar to most Christians, but given a slightly different twist in the Message version. The first time I read this was when a friend of mine was going...