by Julie Turner | Aug 28, 2016 | What's Happening
This morning we reached the end of our ‘Songs of Ascent’ series, a series looking at Psalms 120-134. Ps 134 is only a short psalm of 3 verses, but it’s a psalm of praise and blessing. Every year, Jews would travel to Jerusalem to worship God for the three main...
by Julie Turner | Aug 28, 2016 | What's Happening
Matt Redman once said, ‘Worship is the ultimate reality check.’ (see here) So often, we view worship as escapism or something that’s a required but rather boring part of a Sunday service. We may even feel, as C. S. Lewis once did, that the repeated...
by Julie Turner | Aug 26, 2016 | What's Happening
I’m the kind of person who likes to plan ahead (rather obsessively so, I’m afraid…!), but even I found it rather strange to be making tomato and apple chutney for the Christmas Market on a rather hot day in August! What is perhaps even more...
by Julie Turner | Aug 26, 2016 | What's Happening
Sadly, the summer holidays are drawing to a close and the new term will be starting shortly. Before then, we are having a cleaning day at church (tidying the stage area and cleaning the toys, ready for the re-start of the Monday Night Youth Club on 5th September and...
by Julie Turner | Aug 23, 2016 | What's Happening
Forgive me for hating statistics. I know they are useful at times, but as someone who struggles with numbers and who faces a week of staring at these numbers representing the sum total of people’s work over at least two years (GCSE results come out on Thursday),...
