by Julie Turner | Mar 31, 2024 | What's Happening
Today is Easter Sunday, the high point of the Christian calendar, the moment when light bursts forth from the empty tomb and we see that not even death could defeat our Saviour. Easter Sunday is the day when God’s plan of salvation is revealed more fully to people,...
by Julie Turner | Mar 30, 2024 | What's Happening
Today’s household object is the bed and our Bible passage is Matthew 27:62-66. Most of us nowadays have a bed on which we can sleep. This has not historically always been the case, and even now, on camping holidays, we do not have a comfortable bed but a mat and...
by Julie Turner | Mar 30, 2024 | What's Happening
Servanthood, suffering, sacrifice – these are the things we see magnified in this last week of Jesus’s life. They were things prophesied by Isaiah many years beforehand: Isaiah said of the Suffering Servant, ‘He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of...
by Julie Turner | Mar 30, 2024 | What's Happening
Yesterday we celebrated Good Friday with a fellowship meal (and it was lovely to be able to chat together as we ate, eating together being one of the great ways to get to know people) and a service of reflection and remembrance. Sadly I was so busy that I didn’t...
by Julie Turner | Mar 30, 2024 | What's Happening
Apologies for the delay in posting this. Today’s household object is a crucifix and the Bible passage is 1 Corinthians 1:17-25. The cross has become the symbol of Christianity, because our Saviour died the horrific death by crucifixion which was the Roman means of...
