by Julie Turner | Feb 24, 2019 | What's Happening
Paul wants us to be wise and not unwise (Eph 5:15). He names areas where wisdom needs to be seen: in our attitudes to time and to what we actually spend our time doing. He urges us to ‘make the most of every opportunity’ (Eph 5:17), which older translations translate...
by Julie Turner | Feb 24, 2019 | What's Happening
This morning we continued the series ‘Battles & Blessings’, looking at Eph 5:1-20 and the blessing of the Holy Spirit, God’s precious gift to us. In this chapter, Paul reminds the Ephesians that the new life they have received in Jesus Christ...
by Julie Turner | Feb 21, 2019 | What's Happening
When we study the Bible, the living Word of God, we do so in the expectation that God will speak to us today. We may learn much of history, geography, sociology and theology from the Bible, but its primary purpose is to shape us into the image of Christ as it reveals...
by Julie Turner | Feb 21, 2019 | What's Happening
The last chapters of Acts (Acts 21:27-28:31) deal with Paul’s arrest, imprisonment and journey to Rome. We see how Paul’s arrival in Jerusalem leads to trouble (as prophesied by Agabus in Acts 21:11) and how his arrest leads to him appealing to Caesar, for he was a...
by Julie Turner | Feb 21, 2019 | What's Happening
When I was at school, I studied A level history. One of the topics of study was the Renaissance explorers, names like Raleigh and Drake and Columbus and Vasco da Garma, who ‘sailed the ocean blue’, discovered whole new continents and greatly increased our...
