by Julie Turner | Dec 29, 2013 | What's Happening
Dave spoke from Phil 2:5-ll TNIV this morning on the most basic of Christian creeds: ‘Jesus Christ is Lord.’ Jesus asked Peter ‘Who do you say I am?’ (Luke 9:20 TNIV), and this question is one every disciple needs to answer. Jesus is God, but...
by Julie Turner | Dec 29, 2013 | What's Happening
As any follower of this blog will know, painting is not one of my pleasures. When we first decorated the building, I was happy to resolutely stay in the kitchen cooking food for all the troops who were much more adept than I with a paintbrush or roller. However, in...
by Julie Turner | Dec 26, 2013 | What's Happening
To the non-Christian, the Nativity story must seem frankly bizarre: a historical narrative of a baby’s birth which was largely unnoticed by historians at the time but which prompted special stars, angelic visits and the slaughter of many male infants. All this...
by Julie Turner | Dec 23, 2013 | What's Happening
We like celebrating birthdays at church, and since Christmas is the celebration of Jesus’s birthday, we were happy to give out party bags to everyone who attended last night’s carol service. The bags contained a cracker, a bow for presents, a straw, a...
by Julie Turner | Dec 23, 2013 | What's Happening
The Michael Card song ‘We Will Find Him’ looks at the search for Jesus by the wise men. I love his ability to capture truth in lyrics, often using paradox (‘a wordless one who is the word’, ‘in the silence of the stable there was wisdom...