by Julie Turner | Mar 25, 2019 | What's Happening
Speaking in tongues (or other languages, formally known as ‘glossolalia’) is a gift given by the Holy Spirit enabling people to speak in languages not learned academically. It is one of the characteristics of Pentecostal churches. It is not essential to...
by Julie Turner | Mar 25, 2019 | What's Happening
Garry continued his series on the characteristics of a Pentecostal church, looking further at the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Many dispute that this is needed nowadays, saying that this only happened in the early church to ‘get it started’ and that we now...
by Julie Turner | Mar 24, 2019 | What's Happening
The blessing of good relationships is something God wants us all to enjoy. He sets us in families; He gives us friends; He knows we live in a world full of people and wants us to be a blessing and to be blessed in our relationships with all these people. Learning to...
by Julie Turner | Mar 24, 2019 | What's Happening
This morning we continued our series on ‘Battles and Blessings’, looking at the blessing of good relationships (Eph 5:21-6:9). Paul mentions three specific relationships in these verses (marriage, parent/ child relationships and master/ slave...
by Julie Turner | Mar 21, 2019 | What's Happening
The story of Little Red Riding Hood is another classic fairytale which uses repetition with variants (‘all the better to hear you with… see you…’ etc.) to reinforce its point. The basic moral of the story reminds us that it’s dangerous to...