by Julie Turner | Aug 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
At the Bible study on Thursday (our last midweek meeting in August), we looked at Joel 1 & 2. There, we see how Joel paints a vivid picture of desperation and destruction (in part from the famine caused by the locust invasion, but also from drought and loss of...
by Julie Turner | Aug 8, 2021 | What's Happening
J-P spoke tonight from Acts 2:1-4 about the need for us to receive the fire of the Holy Spirit, as the disciples did on the day of Pentecost. Fire can be seen as an instrument of hell or a tool of heaven; it can be destructive or constructive. Even in the Bible, fire...
by Julie Turner | Aug 8, 2021 | What's Happening
Dave spoke this morning from John 8:2-11. The narrative deals with a woman caught in adultery – which is, of course, a sin with devastating effects – but the passage deals with the far more prevalent sin of hypcrisy. Jesus was confronted by leaders who...
by Julie Turner | Aug 5, 2021 | What's Happening
Elmer the Elephant is a character in a children’s book by David McKee and the subject of an exhibition at the Cooper Gallery in Barnsley. He’s a multi-coloured patchwork elephant whose individuality is celebrated and who reminds us all that we are...
by Julie Turner | Aug 4, 2021 | What's Happening
There is a line in the Rend Collective song ‘Build Your Kingdom Here’ which I would love to see painted large on the streets in Goldthorpe: ‘Come, set our hearts ablaze with hope like wild fire in our very souls.’ Hope seems to me to be the...
