by Julie Turner | Dec 21, 2014 | What's Happening
Mark spoke this morning from 1 Samuel 7:1-17, highlighting 7 points from this narrative about how the Israelites responded to Philistine threats. This passage also goes some way to explaining the hymn ‘Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing’ with its line...
by Julie Turner | Dec 21, 2014 | What's Happening
Today we have two songs, one from Mary’s perspective and one from Joseph’s. I have travelled many moonless nights Cold and weary with a babe inside And I wonder what I’ve done. Holy Father, You have come And chosen me now to carry Your Son I am...
by Julie Turner | Dec 20, 2014 | What's Happening
Most of you who read this regularly know that my favourite Christmas album is Michael Card’s ‘The Final Word’, which strictly speaking is not a ‘Christmas’ album at all, but a masterly exposition of the Incarnation of Christ....
by Julie Turner | Dec 19, 2014 | What's Happening
Rend Collective’s version of this traditional carol ‘Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee’ is delicate and reflective, reminding us that God is the giver of immortal gladness and that we can rejoice because He is with us. ‘Joyful, joyful, we adore...
by Julie Turner | Dec 19, 2014 | What's Happening
Hopefully this is not a weather forecast! Today’s song (delayed from yesterday, alas) looks at the fact that Christmas is the time when we remember specifically how God chose to come to us. We would have expected Christ to come in majesty, pomp and splendour,...
