by Julie Turner | Mar 14, 2021 | What's Happening
We traditionally think of God as our Father, and rightly so, but there are many Scriptures which remind us that God is Spirit and is also described as being like a mother. Jesus himself said, ‘how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen...
by Julie Turner | Mar 14, 2021 | What's Happening
On this Mothering Sunday, Stephen looked at Mary, the mother of Jesus, focussing especially on Luke 2:19 which tells us that Mary treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart. We usually look at that passage – following the birth announcements and...
by Julie Turner | Mar 14, 2021 | What's Happening
Mothering Sunday is a day honouring mothers and mother churches, celebrated in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the fourth Sunday in Lent since the Middle Ages. On Mothering Sunday, Christians have historically visited their mother church and in the Middle Ages, this...
by Julie Turner | Mar 11, 2021 | What's Happening
One of the things that is very difficult in formal situations is how a florid way of speaking is encouraged which is not necessarily honest but is deemed to be necessary. The Parliamentary system and judicial system in this country still encourage ways of addressing...
by Julie Turner | Mar 11, 2021 | What's Happening
It’s clear from Acts 24:22-27 that the governor Felix had some experience of the ways of Judaism (his third wife, Drusilla, was of the Jewish faith) and that he heard Paul speak on several occasions. He was no doubt interested and even perhaps intrigued by Paul and...
