by Julie Turner | Apr 8, 2017 | What's Happening
The eight who are off to India are busy making preparations… packing suitcases and sorting out last-minute arrangements. It seems surreal that after so many months of planning, we are soon to be off on the mission trip! Don’t forget you can follow...
by Julie Turner | Apr 8, 2017 | What's Happening
Compassion is defined as ‘sympathetic pity and concerns for the sufferings or misfortunes of others’ and is derived from two words literally meaning to ‘suffer with.’ Jesus was moved with compassion when he saw crowds of people because he saw they were ‘harassed and...
by Julie Turner | Apr 7, 2017 | What's Happening
Listening is a skill that has to be developed; James reminds us that we should be slow to speak and quick to listen (Js 1:17), and someone has commented that we have two ears but only one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak! Listening well means that...
by Julie Turner | Apr 6, 2017 | What's Happening
The easiest way to pray the psalms is to read them meditatively and allow them to shape our prayers, rather than trying to fit our prayers into the psalms. Traditionally, the psalms have been read daily; in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, it is possible to read...
by Julie Turner | Apr 6, 2017 | What's Happening
As we move on from considering the Psalms as poetry and song to thinking about them as tools for prayer, we spent the evening praying using the Psalms and the Lord’s Prayer (Matt 6:9-13) as the model for our prayers. Timothy Keller calls the Psalms ‘uncensored prayer’...
