by Julie Turner | Dec 11, 2017 | What's Happening
Mary spent much of her pregnancy with her cousin, Elizabeth, who was also pregnant. (Luke 1:5-25, 39) God’s miraculous intervention in enabling Elizabeth and Zechariah to conceive is an echo of many other miraculous births in the Bible (e.g. Gen 21, 1 Sam 1) and a...
by Julie Turner | Dec 10, 2017 | Uncategorized, What's Happening
We are now two weeks away from Christmas, and preparations in most homes are ongoing – putting up decorations, buying gifts and writing cards are all ways we use physical symbols to remind us of the time of year. Shops clearly start their preparations early...
by Julie Turner | Dec 10, 2017 | What's Happening
Stephen spoke this morning at the Cherry Tree Carol Service on three gifts which God has given to us connected with this season of Advent. A recent TV programme has looked at different gifts given at Christmas to different ages and at different times and commented...
by Julie Turner | Dec 10, 2017 | What's Happening
Pregnancy is a journey that lasts 9 months. We can be grateful we’re not elephants (whose gestation period is 95 weeks, more than double ours!) Most of us don’t like journeys that take more than a few hours, but this journey involves many ups and downs. A human...
by Julie Turner | Dec 9, 2017 | What's Happening
Despite a very cold evening, the ‘Churches Together’ community carol service took place tonight at the parish church in Goldthorpe. It was lovely to be able to sing of the hope we have in Christ through the many carols and to hear traditional readings...
