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,...
by Julie Turner | Aug 1, 2016 | What's Happening
The most important – and indeed revolutionary – God-fact we have in the Bible is that God is love. (1 Jn 4:8) God is not just loving; He does not just act in loving ways; He is, we are reliably informed, love Himself. God’s love means that He eternally gives of...
by Julie Turner | Aug 1, 2016 | What's Happening
It’s clear from the Bible that God is far higher and vastly different to people, even though we are made in His image. God possesses life in Himself. He gives life and breath to everything (Acts 17:25) but does not need anything to give life and breath to Him, whereas...
