by Julie Turner | Dec 13, 2020 | What's Happening
Dave spoke this morning from Matt 1:18-25, focussing on Joseph, the often forgotten character in the Christmas story. Joseph was an honourable and righteous man who found himself in an impossible situation. He was pledged to be married to Mary, but had found out she...
by Julie Turner | Dec 13, 2020 | What's Happening
Advent hope: Anticipating. Waiting. Looking. Searching. He’s coming. Advent peace: Soothing troubled hearts, Relaxing furrowed brows, Calming anxious frowns. Wholeness. Well-being. He’s coming. Advent joy: Bubbling from within, Tremulous at first, Just the occasional...
by Julie Turner | Dec 11, 2020 | What's Happening
Once more, we looked at different decorations for our Jesse Tree, which help us to understand better the significance of Jesus’s birth and how this fits into the bigger picture of God’s story. The first decoration this week was a scroll, symbolising the...
by Julie Turner | Dec 10, 2020 | What's Happening
Acts 21:17-36 demonstrates to us once again the ongoing opposition which the presentation of the gospel aroused. Jewish opposition had been evident from the beginning of the book of Acts and has been a constant theme throughout: The Sanhedrin imprisoned Peter and John...
by Julie Turner | Dec 10, 2020 | What's Happening
Paul’s arrival in Jerusalem (Acts 21:17-36) provided him with an opportunity to tell the believers there about all God had done on his missionary journeys; he reported ‘in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.’ (Acts 21:19), reports which...
