by Julie Turner | Dec 9, 2018 | What's Happening
Thiis morning is the carol service at Cherry Tree Court (10.30 a.m.), looking at the Advent theme of hope. Do join us if you can. Our evening service on the same theme is at 6 p.m. at Market Street and will feature a children’s story. On Friday 14th December we...
by Julie Turner | Dec 7, 2018 | What's Happening
Ps 149 reminds us also that praise is part of our spiritual warfare: equipped with God’s praises in our mouths and a double-edged sword in our hands (see Heb 4:12, Eph 6:17), we can take part in carrying out God’s plans in the earth. Although this psalm has been taken...
by Julie Turner | Dec 7, 2018 | What's Happening
Many may feel we have spent too long in recent weeks and months looking at reasons to praise God. I make no apology for returning to this theme, however – not simply because as we study the Bible, we have to look at what it actually says (and these final psalms say a...
by Julie Turner | Dec 7, 2018 | What's Happening
In our Bible study on Thursday night, we looked at Psalm 149, another of the five ‘Hallelujah’ psalms which conclude the Psalter. In Ps 148 we saw that all of creation (including angels and the natural creation as well as mankind, from the highest to the lowest) is...
by Julie Turner | Dec 3, 2018 | What's Happening
Today, we are all still waiting in hope for the Lord. (Ps 33:20) We all have longings and dreams still to be fulfilled. In some ways, that’s the definition of hope: waiting for something to be fulfilled. Paul says to the Romans, ‘hope that is seen is no hope at all.’...
