by Julie Turner | Jan 25, 2018 | What's Happening
Psalm 22 tackles the question of the mystery of suffering as the psalmist cries out, ‘My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?’ (Ps 22:1) Constant crying out initially seems to produce no answer (Ps 22:2); the psalm tackles that sense of abandonment and alienation...
by Julie Turner | Jan 25, 2018 | What's Happening
The Messianic psalms, written hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus Christ, foretell many aspects of His birth, life, ministry, death and resurrection with startling clarity. As with most prophecy, there may well be different layers of meaning (some applicable...
by Julie Turner | Jan 21, 2018 | What's Happening
In the 1960s, the pop group ‘the Batchelors’ had more top ten hits than the Beatles, one of which was the song ‘I Believe’. The lyrics of that song show how people can believe all kinds of different things; in the Karni Mata temple in...
by Julie Turner | Jan 21, 2018 | What's Happening
The proverb says ‘you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs’, and Mark spoke this morning on how God sometimes has to break us in order to re-shape us and make us useful and relevant to His purposes. In Jer 18:1-6, the prophet is sent to the...
by Julie Turner | Jan 18, 2018 | What's Happening
Psalms 42 and 43 are closely linked and deals with the question ‘Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?’ (Ps 42:5,11, Ps 43:5) Often, this is our experience: feelings of disquiet and disturbance, a lack of peace, a restlessness or...
