by Julie Turner | Apr 6, 2022 | What's Happening
Romans 8:31-39 reminds us that nothing at all can separate us from God’s love. Paul lists plenty of adverse things in these verses (including trouble, hardship, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, sword and even death), but God’s love triumphs over every...
by Julie Turner | Apr 5, 2022 | What's Happening
Today’s reading (Mark 10:17-22) looks at a rich man who came to Jesus wanting the answer to the question ‘What must I do to inherit eternal life?’ Once more, we see someone viewing a relationship with God on a transactional level and when Jesus challenges that view by...
by Julie Turner | Apr 4, 2022 | What's Happening
This week’s Lent theme is ‘Loving’, right at the heart of the Christian message, but possibly the hardest thing we find to do! God’s love is perfect, and we are to love as He loves: to extend our love beyond our families to those who may be unworthy in our eyes, to...
by Julie Turner | Apr 4, 2022 | What's Happening
The proverb tells us ‘you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.’ I’ve spent a lot of time this week baking cakes and quiches, and it struck me that you can’t really make anything with eggs without breaking them! Even boiled eggs,...
by Julie Turner | Apr 4, 2022 | What's Happening
One of the things we are reminded of in the Bible is that it’s always time to choose God’s ways. 2 Cor 6:2 tells us ‘now is the time of God’s favour, now is the day of salvation.’ We are so grateful that we have the opportunity still to choose...
