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...
by Julie Turner | Mar 13, 2022 | What's Happening
In our series looking at questions, we looked at Luke 2:41-52 where the first words of Jesus are recorded in the form of two questions. The incident is one of the few aspects of Jesus’s childhood we see in the Gospels and narrates how He is found at the temple...
by Julie Turner | Mar 13, 2022 | What's Happening
Garry spoke this morning from Genesis 41:1, 9, 14-16, reminding us of how Joseph interpreted Pharaoh’s dreams by God’s help. Finally, after all the ups and downs of his life, Joseph stands before the most powerful man in Egypt and is given the opportunity...
by Julie Turner | Mar 13, 2022 | What's Happening
The Sound of Music counsels us to ‘start at the very beginning’, but it’s not always easy to know where a story begins! It’s very easy when looking at the Easter story to focus on the last week of Jesus’s life, to concentrate on His crucifixion and resurrection, and...
