by Julie Turner | Aug 20, 2014 | What's Happening
Bleary-eyed and with blurry vision from a day spent inputting data into various tables and charts, I am acutely aware of how our lives are made up of numbers. Pupils in a school are identified by a candidate number, a UCI (unique candidate indicator, which is not so...
by Julie Turner | Aug 17, 2014 | What's Happening
Mark spoke tonight on the word ‘Amen’, a word we use frequently in prayer or to affirm something someone has said. Apart from being an encouragement to preachers (or at least an affirmation that people are listening!), the word is defined as meaning to...
by Julie Turner | Aug 17, 2014 | What's Happening
Garry spoke about penitence in prayer this morning, looking at Psalm 51. Though we are continually striving not to sin, we have to know that when we do sin, God forgives us and cleanses us (1 John 1:9) We live in a fallen world where we are are engaged in an ongoing...
by Julie Turner | Aug 13, 2014 | What's Happening
Isaiah’s prophecy in Isaiah 61 looks ahead to the coming of the Messiah whose purpose is ‘to bind up the brokenhearted,to proclaim freedom for the captivesand release from darkness for the prisoners,to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favourand the day of...
by Julie Turner | Aug 13, 2014 | What's Happening
This week I have been puzzling over questions whose answers are not as clear-cut as I would like them to be. I feel desensitised in many respects when I watch the news or read what is happening in the world. The horrors reported from Israel, from Iraq, from other...
