by Julie Turner | Apr 8, 2020 | What's Happening
Jesus summed up all the commandments with the command to love God and to love our neighbour. When we embrace love, we embrace the very nature of God, for God is love. (1 John 4:8) We often have a very romanticised view of love in the Western world, immediately...
by Julie Turner | Apr 7, 2020 | What's Happening
In the book of Deuteronomy, we have Moses’s sermon before he died and his reminders to the Israelites of all God’s commands. In Deut 7:17-18, he says, ‘You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?”...
by Julie Turner | Apr 7, 2020 | What's Happening
Easter reminds us of the price of forgiveness. For us to be forgiven meant Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins. Yet as we see the injustice, scheming and hatred which led to His death, His response reminds us that God’s way involves the narrow path of...
by Julie Turner | Apr 6, 2020 | What's Happening
The Star Trek series introduced us to the Vulcans, living on another planet and the epitome of logic and reason, whose mantra (accompanied by a hand greeting I never managed to master!) is ‘Live long and prosper!’ Interestingly, the Bible has much to say...
by Julie Turner | Apr 6, 2020 | What's Happening
The English used to be famed for their ‘stiff upper lip’; self-control was probably the virtue of which the nation was most proud. Whilst this may have led to repression and suppression, there is much to be said for learning self-control, which is listed as one of the...
