by Julie Turner | Mar 27, 2021 | What's Happening
“Lord, how can we tell people of Your love during a pandemic when we are in lockdown and have to stay at home?” That question weighed heavily on my heart at the end of last year and the beginning of this one as the news seemed so very bleak and church...
by Julie Turner | Mar 25, 2021 | What's Happening
Paul’s arrest, imprisonment and trials (which take up a large part of the latter stages of Acts) arise primarily because of the fact that he consistently preached about the resurrection of Jesus and how in Jesus all the prophecies of the Old Testament about God’s...
by Julie Turner | Mar 25, 2021 | What's Happening
The Bible calls people to obey civil authorities as God’s representatives on earth (see Romans 13), but also makes it clear that God’s laws supersede civil laws. The line between the two can cause clashes, for God’s kingdom is very different from the world’s ways of...
by Julie Turner | Mar 25, 2021 | What's Happening
Both Paul and Festus (the successor to Felix as the Roman procurator in charge of Paul’s imprisonment) found themselves on the horns of a dilemma. Strictly speaking, Paul should have already been acquitted now, because he had not been found guilty of any crime, either...
by Julie Turner | Mar 21, 2021 | What's Happening
Yan Hadley quoted a famous poem tonight by John Greenleaf Whittier: When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care...
