by Julie Turner | Feb 1, 2012 | What's Happening
How can we then summarise what we have learned throughout January as we’ve journeyed through the book of Proverbs? We started by learning that it aimed to give us ‘a manual for living’ so that we might have a ‘grasp on reality’ (Prov 1) . We’ve seen that wisdom is the...
by Julie Turner | Jan 31, 2012 | What's Happening
So we’ve arrived at the end of January and at the end of Proverbs. This final chapter starts with warnings for leaders (kings) to avoid the excesses of drink and to speak up for those who cannot speak up for themselves (Prov 31:4, 8-9). Leadership is a sacred calling....
by Julie Turner | Jan 30, 2012 | What's Happening
Much of the Bible is written down for us by unnamed people, but a good deal of it is written down by named authors, some of whom we know quite a lot about. Many of the New Testament books are written by familiar names: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Peter, James –...
by Julie Turner | Jan 30, 2012 | What's Happening
Stephen continued his journey through Genesis last night, looking at the calling of Abram to walk with God (Gen 11: 27-12:9). We read of the journeys of Abram’s family from Ur of the Chaldeans to Haran and then onwards, a journey into the unknown, heading for...
by Julie Turner | Jan 30, 2012 | What's Happening
This week we looked at the statement in the Apostles’ Creed ‘I believe in the holy catholic church, the communion of saints’. The statement doesn’t involve any denominational doctrine; ‘catholic’ simply means ‘universal’...
