by Julie Turner | Feb 7, 2016 | What's Happening
Tonight’s family service took the theme ‘God’s Not Deaf!’ and featured a game which needed careful attention to instructions, since the participants were blindfolded. Stephen spoke about the importance of prayer, emphasising: our position (Is...
by Julie Turner | Feb 7, 2016 | What's Happening
William Barclay said, “Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.” Ps 129 reminds us that though oppression and suffering come into our lives, God is able to make all grace abound to us at all times: ‘And God is able...
by Julie Turner | Feb 7, 2016 | What's Happening
Psalm 129 is a psalm which talks of tough times and tough faith (mentioning oppression, persecution and difficulties), but which also reminds us of God’s righteousness and the way He develops perseverance in us. Christians are not exempt from life’s...
by Julie Turner | Feb 3, 2016 | What's Happening
‘God is light; in Him, there is no darkness at all,’ we read in 1 John 1:5, but for many people, darkness is a very present reality. The ‘dark night of the soul’ is not something we like to talk about, but I have been reading through the book...
by Julie Turner | Feb 1, 2016 | What's Happening
Those of us of a certain age may well remember the Cadbury’s Caramel advert which featured a rather seductive female bunny who urged the vigorous, hard-working beaver to ‘take it easy with Cadbury’s Caramel.’ I don’t think God looks...
