by Julie Turner | Nov 19, 2023 | What's Happening
This morning we continued looking at God’s miraculous interventions in the book of Acts and considered Peter’s deliverance from prison (Acts 12:1-19). Like any good story, there is dramatic tension here as we find our hero in difficulties, this time in prison because...
by Julie Turner | Nov 16, 2023 | What's Happening
Envy is listed as one of the seven deadly sins and was certainly a major problem for Saul, as 1 Samuel 18 makes plain. Envy divides people. It destroys relationships, sows discord, and creates a spirit of bitterness and evil. It causes people to act and speak in toxic...
by Julie Turner | Nov 16, 2023 | What's Happening
1 Samuel 18 shows us the importance of relationships and how these affect us in our everyday lives. We see two very different relationships in this chapter: the loyalty and selflessness of true friendship in how Jonathan (son of the king, Saul) deals with David, and...
by Julie Turner | Nov 16, 2023 | What's Happening
Every day we talk to ourselves. We have an internal dialogue perfectly captured by J. R. R. Tolkin in his depiction of the character Gollum in ‘The Lord Of The Rings’. Originally known as Smeagol, he is a hobbie corrupted by the ring who is later known as...
by Julie Turner | Nov 12, 2023 | What's Happening
This evening in our series ‘The Miraculous & The Mundane’, we looked at Acts 10, where Cornelius and Peter both receive miraculous visions and dreams which lead to Cornelius and his household coming to a living faith in Jesus Christ. Not only does this show us how...
