by Julie Turner | Apr 22, 2018 | What's Happening
In our series on ‘Battles and Blessings’, we looked this morning at the blessings God has for us revealed in Eph 2:1-10. The picture looks bleak initially as Paul reminds us we were once ‘dead in transgressions and sins’ (Eph 2:1), but if we...
by Julie Turner | Apr 22, 2018 | What's Happening
May looks set to be a busy month for local churches. Fredrick & Reeba are with us from India on Sunday 6th May at both the morning and evening services. We are looking forward to hearing more about what has been happening there over the past year and to discussing...
by Julie Turner | Apr 19, 2018 | What's Happening
Stephen Fry said of his involvement in the BBC’s ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ programme that he received more mail and feedback from one programme on the Holocaust than from anything else he had ever done. One viewer even said, ‘I never knew what the Holocaust meant...
by Julie Turner | Apr 19, 2018 | What's Happening
Each of the historical psalms looks at different aspects of Israel’s history, with fuller accounts being fleshed out in the historical books of the Bible, such as Exodus or Numbers. Ps 78 remembers the wilderness rebellions (Ex 17:1-17) and how disobedience led to the...
by Julie Turner | Apr 19, 2018 | What's Happening
Tonight’s Bible study began looking at the historical psalms (Ps 78, Ps 105, Ps 106, Ps 114, Ps 135, Ps 136), psalms which specifically draw on aspects of Israel’s history in order to encourage us to remember all that God has done, learn from the mistakes of the past,...