by Julie Turner | Mar 21, 2022 | What's Happening
This week’s Lent theme is ‘trusting’. We start with quite an unusual passage, the story of Naaman’s healing. (2 Kings 5:1-3, 9-15). Naaman was a commander of the army of the king of Aram, a person with high social standing, but his life was blighted by a skin disease....
by Julie Turner | Mar 19, 2022 | What's Happening
Hebrews 6:13-20 talks of hope being an anchor for our soul. The reason we can have this solid anchor is because of the faithfulness of God. The God who makes promises to us is not fickle or fallible, frail or futile. We can look back at the many promises He has made...
by Julie Turner | Mar 19, 2022 | What's Happening
What are you hoping for? Have your hopes been dashed? ‘Hope deferred makes the heart sick’, we are told in Proverbs 13:12, and most of us have had many of our hopes, plans and dreams crushed in the past two years. Weddings have been postponed or taken place with only...
by Julie Turner | Mar 18, 2022 | What's Happening
In Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians, he speaks of ‘your work produced by faith, your labour prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.’ (1 Thess 1:3) Endurance doesn’t always get a good press these days; it has a dour,...
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...
