by Julie Turner | Nov 18, 2016 | What's Happening
Today has been a day for celebrating the diversity and variety of people’s creative talents. At the Furlong Road Methodist Church’s day of prayer, the focus was on Advent, looking at different Biblical passages and meditating on these at different...
by Julie Turner | Nov 17, 2016 | What's Happening
In 1 Cor 16:5-12, Paul discusses his plans with the Corinthians, plans which included overseeing the administration of the collection they were making for the church in Jerusalem. It’s clear from 2 Corinthians that these plans didn’t work out exactly as he...
by Julie Turner | Nov 17, 2016 | What's Happening
Giving to help the poor and needy is one of the many ways God’s love can be seen in action. Both John and James make the point that an invisible God only becomes visible to the world when it sees love in action (see James 2:15-16, 1 Jn 3:17-18). Some people, however,...
by Julie Turner | Nov 17, 2016 | What's Happening
Jesus talked a lot about money (see Matt 6:1-4, Luke 18:18-30, Luke 12:13-21). Money is not evil in itself, but a love of money can easily breed greed, which causes people to act in their own self-interest and distracts Christians from helping others. We have to...
by Julie Turner | Nov 17, 2016 | What's Happening
In 1 Cor 16:1-4, Paul lays out some basic principles for giving money to the poor. The topic of giving to charity or to help the poor is rarely discussed; it is simply assumed that ‘good’ people will do this, but as always, the Bible gives us reasons to give as well...
