by Julie Turner | Aug 8, 2016 | What's Happening
The theme of our family service last night was ‘a place in the Son.’ Most people look forward to an annual holiday in the sun: Suntans and fine weather are often seen as prerequisites to a good holiday, and certainly, the sun is essential to life, though...
by Julie Turner | Aug 8, 2016 | What's Happening
Ps 133 closes with the promise that where unity is present, ‘there the Lord bestows His blessing, even life evermore.’ (Ps 133:3) Orchestras have to tune up before a concert, a sound that’s rarely pleasant! Once the instruments are in tune with each...
by Julie Turner | Aug 8, 2016 | What's Happening
Ps 133, the classic psalm on unity, uses two images to describe unity. One is the image of priestly oil (Ps 133:2), reminding us of the consecration of the priests in the Old Testament (Ex 29:7, 9). Oil is a symbol of God’s presence and His Spirit and rmeinds us...
by Julie Turner | Aug 8, 2016 | What's Happening
One of the problems we have in striving for unity (Eph 4:1-4) is that we often equate unity with uniformity. It’s not. Just as every family member is different (with physical resemblances no guarantee of membership!), every church member is uniquely different....
by Julie Turner | Aug 8, 2016 | What's Happening
I am an only child; my husband is an only child and we have one son. Family size varies enormously, but as children, we have no choice in whether we have siblings or not. (Sometimes, even as parents, we have little choice in how many children we have!) For many,...
