by Julie Turner | Oct 26, 2013 | What's Happening
I don’t know how the division between ‘sacred’ and ‘secular’ originally came about, but I know that by the Reformation period (16th century), there was a clear demarcation between the two. Priesthood was not just a vocation or calling, it was a job and everyone else...
by Julie Turner | Oct 25, 2013 | What's Happening
This is a favourite phrase of Dave’s, quoted in many of his sermons. The enthusiasm of the phrase overcomes my irritation at the double negative (allowed in other languages to emphasise a point, but not in standard English!) I understand the sentiment behind the...
by Julie Turner | Oct 24, 2013 | What's Happening
We started looking at the first letter of John tonight, studying 1 John 1:1-4 TNIV. Here, we see John firmly establishing Christian doctrine about God. ‘That which was from the beginning’ refers not to the beginning of the world or the beginning of...
by Julie Turner | Oct 24, 2013 | What's Happening
I became a Christian when I was a teenager (and statistically it remains true that the majority of people become Christians before the age of 21, something to bear in mind when we plan our outreaches, perhaps.) Teenagers find it hard to take the ‘long view’ on...
by Julie Turner | Oct 23, 2013 | What's Happening
One of my favourite films is ‘Galaxy Quest’, a comedy which parodies sci-fi films (and the television series ‘Star Trek’ in particular) about a troupe of actors who end up inadvertently defending a group of real aliens against an alien warlord. One of my favourite...
