by Julie Turner | Sep 9, 2019 | What's Happening
I was a very young Christian when I first heard the Michael Card album ‘Scandalon’ (still one of my all-time favourites) which introduced me to the Biblical notion that Jesus is ‘a stone that makes men stumble and a rock that makes them fall.’...
by Julie Turner | Sep 9, 2019 | What's Happening
There has been talk recently of Christian leaders renouncing the faith and in the midst of all this is a common theme: how do we respond to the tough questions of life? Christianity is simple, but not easy. We don’t have satisfactory answers to many of...
by Julie Turner | Sep 8, 2019 | What's Happening
Dave spoke from Matt 20:1-16 tonight, a parable about a farmer who owned a vineyard and employed labourers to pick the grapes in the harvest. This is a parable which offends us deeply, for the workers who were employed late in the day ended up earning the same as...
by Julie Turner | Sep 8, 2019 | What's Happening
John spoke this morning at Cherry Tree Court about the greatest picnic ever, the feeding of the five thousand (recorded in all four gospels.) We know from John’s Gospel that a young boy offered his own food to Jesus when the disciples were debating where they...
by Julie Turner | Sep 8, 2019 | What's Happening
I’m reading a book called ‘He Loves Me’ by Wayne Jacobsen, kindly loaned to me by another Christian, and in the book, the author comments that many Christians seem to have a view of God like that of a child pulling petals off a daisy: ‘He loves...
