by Julie Turner | Oct 12, 2016 | What's Happening
In my daily readings, I have reached Psalm 119, read alongside Jeremiah, both parts of the Bible which are not necessarily easy to read but which I find, perhaps because of my temperament, reassuringly honest and without platitudes. Ps 119 talks a lot about suffering...
by Julie Turner | Oct 10, 2016 | What's Happening
On 4 October, Haiti was struck by the most powerful storm to hit the Caribbean in a decade, leaving large parts of the country devastated. High winds, floods and landslides have destroyed tens of thousands of homes and caused an estimated £8 million worth of damage to...
by Julie Turner | Oct 9, 2016 | What's Happening
Garry continued his series on spiritual maintenance tonight, looking at 2 Tim 1:13, which urges us to keep as the pattern of sound teaching that which we have heard. A pattern or example (see 1 Tim 1:16) comes from two Greek words meaning ‘under the seal’,...
by Julie Turner | Oct 9, 2016 | What's Happening
Stephen’s message this morning at Cherry Tree Court looked at 1 Jn 2:3-6 and asked the question, ‘Do you know God?’ Nowadays on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, we can have lots of ‘friends’, but many of these are little more...
by Julie Turner | Oct 9, 2016 | What's Happening
These voices that whisper in the night Can sound so amazingly reasonable, So utterly sane, So temptingly pragmatic. They don’t sound crazy; They don’t sound bizarre. They are the voice of reason, Of sense, Of normality. They are proactive, persuasive, Offering...
