by Julie Turner | May 29, 2020 | What's Happening
Today’s thoughts were prompted by Nicky Gumbel’s commentary in the BIble In One Year daily reading scheme. 1. Anxiety At the moment, most of us are feeling more anxiety than usual, partly because our routines and lifestyles have had to change so rapidly....
by Julie Turner | May 28, 2020 | What's Happening
One of the tremendous truths of the gospel is that we are brought into a relationship with God only through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. Paul says to the Ephesians, ‘For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is...
by Julie Turner | May 28, 2020 | What's Happening
One of the most amazing mysteries of life is that God chooses to work through us, through ordinary people who regularly sin and fall. There is a balance here, that it is God working, but we are involved in partnership as well! (Phil 2:12-13, Gal 2:20) We can only...
by Julie Turner | May 28, 2020 | What's Happening
Paul and Barnabas’s report to the church in Antioch on their return from their first missionary journey included the news that God ‘had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.’ (Acts 14:27) This news was one which caused many to rejoice and which ultimately causes all...
by Julie Turner | May 28, 2020 | What's Happening
Acts 14:21-28 shows us the end of the first missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas as the two men returned to Antioch in Syria via the churches they had founded on their journeying. At Derbe, Lystra, Iconium and Pisidian Antioch, we are told they spent time...
