by Julie Turner | Mar 28, 2024 | What's Happening
Today’s household object is the alarm clock, and the Bible passages are John 13:36-38 and John 16:25-27. Alarm clocks are useful in waking us each morning; nature’s alarm clock is the cockerel! The cockerel (or rooster) features in the Easter story as a warning to us:...
by Julie Turner | Mar 28, 2024 | What's Happening
Today as we approach Maundy Thursday, our household object is the humble towel, and our Bible passage is John 13:2-15. Towels are found in the bathroom, kitchen and toilets, places where we wash ourselves. They can be relatively small (the hand towel) or luxuriously...
by Julie Turner | Mar 24, 2024 | What's Happening
Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, is recorded in different gospels, including John 12:12-16. Paul, in writing to the Corinthians about the gospel, stresses the importance of the death and resurrection of Jesus and tells us that these things happened...
by Julie Turner | Mar 24, 2024 | What's Happening
Dave spoke this morning about Palm Sunday, speaking from Matthew 21:1-11. The journey to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover festival was always a time of excitement and anticipation, with Jews coming from far and wide (Josephus says 250,000 lambs would be sacrificed...
by Julie Turner | Mar 24, 2024 | What's Happening
We were at the Big Local Thurnscoe community event yesterday ‘Building the Future’ at Thurnscoe Plaza, though unfortunately the weather was not conducive to our building crafts and activities! In the space of a few hours we had sunshine, wind (which blew...