by Julie Turner | Jul 8, 2016 | What's Happening
Eugene Peterson makes the wise comment ‘all the water in the ocean cannot sink a ship unless it gets inside; and all the trouble in the world cannot harm us unless it gains entrance to our hearts.’ (‘Praying With the Psalms’) A wooden ship had...
by Julie Turner | Jul 8, 2016 | What's Happening
The Bible describes a war that goes on within our hearts, a war vividly described by Paul in Romans 7:7-24 between the ‘old nature’ (dominated by sinful desires which are at odds with God’s ways) and the ‘new nature’ (which delights in...
by Julie Turner | Jul 7, 2016 | What's Happening
A busy weekend lies ahead! Don’t forget tonight’s prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m. We are too busy not to pray! Prayer is the foundation of all our outreach and we need to seek God and ask for His help in everything we do: ‘May the favour of the Lord our...
by Julie Turner | Jul 7, 2016 | What's Happening
To live life well, we have to have wholeness of personality; we have to be single-minded people who are not at war with ourselves (let alone other people.) Jesus reminded us that we cannot serve two masters (Matt 6:24) and James tells us that where doubt digs its...
by Julie Turner | Jul 6, 2016 | What's Happening
C. S. Lewis once wrote ‘faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.’ I know all about moods; some would say that the definition of being a woman is being moody! But all of us experience different...
