by Julie Turner | Jan 28, 2021 | What's Happening
A disproportionate reaction is a reaction to an event or occurrence which seems out of proportion to the event itself. People’s reactions to spiders, for example, can be disproportionate to the actual threat posed; people with a real phobia of spiders may scream and...
by Julie Turner | Jan 25, 2021 | What's Happening
For three years I lived in the beautiful city of Oxford as a student, where the vast majority of students travel around on bicycles. Unlike where I live in Yorkshire, Oxford is relatively flat and caters for its many cyclists with cycle lanes; the cycling rate in...
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...
