by Julie Turner | Mar 18, 2022 | What's Happening
Grief is a strange emotion. It manifests itself in many ways, ranging from numbed shock and disbelief to resigned acceptance, from sobs that shake the whole body to a dull ache which can’t easily be identified, from the bittersweet memories that have us laughing...
by Julie Turner | Mar 17, 2022 | What's Happening
In 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, we see Paul writing about the importance of love. Hang on a minute, isn’t this week’s Lent theme ‘hoping’? Why, then, are we talking about love today? Well, in this chapter, Paul speaks primarily about love but also reminds us that there are...
by Julie Turner | Mar 16, 2022 | What's Happening
Ps 33:18-22 reminds us that the Lord’s eyes are on those who fear Him and hope in His steadfast love. The whole psalm is a powerful reminder of all that God has done for us and acts as a spur to praise (going back to basics, so to speak, in looking at God’s hand in...
by Julie Turner | Mar 15, 2022 | What's Happening
Sally Welch says, ‘Hope is not always easy – it challenges us, bidding us to move out of our comfortable zone of despair, that grey sludge which covers the brightest thing with its mess of apathy and inertia.’ She goes on to say, ‘Hope encourages us to look beyond our...
by Julie Turner | Mar 14, 2022 | What's Happening
Jeremiah 29 is probably the most well-known chapter in that book; it’s the chapter when Jeremiah writes to the exiles banished from Israel and tells them that this exile isn’t going to be over quickly, but that this difficult period of Israel’s history should not be...
