by Julie Turner | Jan 25, 2021 | What's Happening
Resilience is defined as ‘the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness’ and in scientific terms as ‘the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.’ It’s a word not found in the Bible, but its...
by Julie Turner | Jan 24, 2021 | What's Happening
There is a saying ‘familiarity breeds contempt’, and in church circles, this can mean that we become so used to Biblical truth that we fail to appreciate the radical nature of the gospel and can lose focus and become distracted. Our goal as Christians...
by Julie Turner | Jan 24, 2021 | What's Happening
God rarely seems to answer our ‘When?’ questions with a date or timescales. It is often necessary to wait for Him (Ps 130, Ps 27:14), and waiting and hoping are inextricably bound together in Scripture. We might wonder why God works this way: is it just...
by Julie Turner | Jan 24, 2021 | What's Happening
In our series exploring the big questions of life using the big question words Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?’, we reached the question ‘When?’ this morning. Questions concerning God’s timing can dominate our thoughts (When is God going to do all that He has...
by Julie Turner | Jan 22, 2021 | Uncategorized, What's Happening
The idiom ‘same old, same old’ is used to refer to a situation or someone’s behaviour that remains the same, especially when it is boring or annoying. Life seems to consist of familiar problems which recur over a period of years without any real...
