by Julie Turner | Jul 28, 2022 | What's Happening
Tonight’s Bible study looked at the letters to the churches in Smyrna and Pergamum (Revelation 2) and saw that Christ speaks to churches in ways that are intensely relevant to their particular situations. To Smyrna, a city which had been literally destroyed and...
by Julie Turner | Jul 28, 2022 | What's Happening
I have been re-reading one of my favourite books, Eugene Peterson’s “Five Smooth Stones For Pastoral Work”, and looking again at the book of Lamentations, a book written during a period of enormous suffering following the siege of Jerusalem and...
by Julie Turner | Jul 28, 2022 | What's Happening
Psalm 89:15 in the Message version says, ‘blessed are people who know the passwords of praise’, but this can make it sound as though praising God requires great feats of memory which will be beyond most people. The NIV says, ‘blessed are those who...
by Julie Turner | Jul 25, 2022 | What's Happening
Dave spoke last night from Luke 15:11-32, the passage commonly known as the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Yet we have to note the context of this parable, spoken to the teachers of the law and the Pharisees. So often, we focus on the younger son (his defiance,...
by Julie Turner | Jul 24, 2022 | What's Happening
This morning we looked at Genesis 22:1-19, at a test of faith as Abraham was called by God to sacrifice his promised son, Isaac. It’s in this incident that we see how much Abraham has matured and grown in faith, as he responds to God without procrastination and...
